Blackmail Bad!

Happy Tuesday afternoon...whoops, still morning, never mind!
Anyway.
One thing that i've been thinking about posting for the past week or so is this:
Don't Give In To Blackmail.
Why? probably because of veronica mars, in which one nasty man is able to blackmail another man into doing his dirty work because the second guy had a huge gambling debt to the nasty. and because of madeline l'engle's Dragons in the Water, in which one man makes a clean breast of his past gambling problems, because he is determined to Not be blackmailed by someone who would sully his reputation. yay! just be honest! it can't be worse than allowing someone to have that kind of control over you, right?!
you should read any madeline l'engle book you get your hands on (a possible exception being one of her earliest titled, if i remember correctly, "Small Rain". I just didn't enjoy it enough to finish or keep it.) she is amazing! i'm including a photo of the ones i have--note the cheesy covers? ignore them, learn to love them, whatever you do, DON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER! just read 'em! alot of them are about young children growing up, and learning about the 'darker side' of life--and how to process that.
in other news, my computer tried to off itself last week...erased All my pictures and documents...thankfully, christi's friend Bobby was able to do IT magic and they are all recovered/saved on an external source.
and, today's poem, about coming home after a long absence, prodigal-son style:

Hesitant
Heading
Home-
Shame
Prolonging
Loss-
Run
Prodigal!
Run
How could you think
He'd turn his back
Reject
Repentance?
He
Your Father
Loves.