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Reinvention?Renewal?Rebirth?Overrated.Or.Highly overrated.Underrated.Or.Highly underrated.Whatever happened to loving someone, “Just the way you are?”Warts and all.Faults, too.Well. If only life were so simple.Loyalty comes too late for some.After the ego has been puffed beyond believable measures.Some folks see it sooner.Some folks see it later.But.Sooner or l...
Looking through the eyes of love.Gets downright dicey at times.Slicey, too.But.When done properly.Is the gift that keeps on giving.The reward of a gagillion rewards times a gagillion.It is not that I do not like you.It is, that I look at the safety of another as:A fight that never ends.An Act of Grace.And Fortitude.And until and when I close my eyes for the last time.My inner pit bull walks alon...
My head exploded🫥.After this.Life took on new meaning.Things were, shall we say “re-ordered.”Priorities became crystal clear.And the fight was just begun.To some extent.We are all held hostage.To selves.To others.Worst of all.The expectation of the selves.The expectations of the others.We foolishly and fool heartedly place a price on the life of another.No one person is more “valuable” than any other.Oh...
Hello.How are you.I am fine.How were you.Yesterday.Finer than today.Worser than before.About the same.A little “greener.”A little “yellower.”Wish you knew now what you didn’t know then.This end of-the-year-time-of-year does that kind thing.Force us.To reflect.On what we did good.What we did bad.Why we did this.Why we did that.By God’s grace.The patterns will change…..<...
“A feeling of excitement and mystery associated with love.”Love.Daring deeds.Celebration of nature.Focus on the individual.Celebration of isolation and melancholy.Interest in the common man.Idealization of women.Personification and pathetic fallacy. (ThoCo)Not always a love interest.A spiritual journey.Looking inward.“Self-reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson. An essay of looking inward in order to look outward. Determining your own path ...
“Home” for the holidays.The hustle.The bustle.This time of year finds us wanting to forget or forgetting to want.To remember.The good.The bad.The ugly.The fugly.We dress ourselves up. In shiny new this, or shiny new that.Hoping to remember and hoping to forget.At this time of year, the sugar plum fairy is surely tired of the”dance.”But.We do it anyway.For some.It is healing.For others....
Once you get past the colorful fruity, chewy, gooey, stiffness of the loaf.Life gets better.However.It seems to turn up every year at this time.It is as if someone decided to empty the nooks and crannies of their fridge and cabinets and with the help of kitchen utensils, whip up a loaf of “cake” that sits atop a holiday table and stares back at you as if to say”Go ahead. I dare you.”To take a piece. Of me.You wanna piece of me?Go on....
Who turned the lights off?Why is it so dark in here?Shuffle. Shuffle…..to check the light switch😵💫Exactly.We foolish humans.Always thinking that we must defer control of all things bright and light toSomebody else.We forget to yield.We forget to stop.We forget to look.We forget to lend a helping hand.We forget to remember.To pull up our boot straps and start lighting up the lives of others.Ofte...
“I forgot.”Two of the most disconcerting words in the English language. So much at stake in the muck and the rake…….Frozen.In the midst of the competition. Any which way and loose.Competition makes strange bedfellows.Provided one stays out of another’sBed.Bedroom.That is.A pre-requisite.Otherwise feelings, nothing more than feelings eek their way,”In.”Insidious really.But not for the alert. The awakened.At thi...
Sugar highs.Sugar lows.Artificially.Pure cane.The Diabolical Sweet Tooth.Throw caution to the wind.Just dig in.This time of year, especially, can be a time of great indulgence. Great indulgences.Great highs.Great lows.And through it all.Sugar is there.To make it all better…Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.Present and unaccounted for.Sugar can wreak a h...
Have you ever wondered what goes on in the back, or in some cases, side of your local “drug” store?What goes on in that cordoned off room with persons in white coats hustling and bustling around. Counting pills. Measuring potions. The room in the back behind the other potions, lotions, and pads. Way in the back, neatly sits the higher power. The higher powered “stuff.” The powerful stuff designed throughout the years of experience and under the table deals. Shelved as the higher power. Stuff.Functional ...
Some days seem like they will never end.New possibilities.Old hurts.Cling.Clingons.ClingClingons.Shake it off.Deep breaths.Do not work.The same old picture, pictures return to the mind’s eye in the blink of an eye. Stopping us in our tracks. Snow capped tracks. Leaving behind ragged footsteps of dis array leading no body anywhere good. Or helpful.Knee capped.Again. By our own thoughts, words and actions.Of...
There is an old fashioned saying.”Everything old is new again.”Could the saying also mean,”Everything new is old again”, too🙂A heart that stays awake, alert.(pf)One of the prerequisites of a servant’s heart.Another prerequisite:To know: Who the boss is🙂🙏🏻.As young children, when we become frustrated with authority, we stop and stomp and say to our parents, guardians, the elders,”You are not the boss of me.”😠😤😡😭Even as adults, ...
O.k.Let’s first admit.We, at this beautiful, snow capped time of year.Don’t want to be cold.Don’t care to be cold.Cold and clammy……..The brrrrrrrrrr….kind of existence that does not alone come from the atmospheric temperature. The days are shorter. The light is, too.We slumber either quickly or slower into slumberland depending upon who holds the keys.Caughtcha.Diving over to your new ikea age night stand just to make certain your light was still on…🎲💡💡⌛️...
Unbridled.Blunt.Direct.Un sugar coated.Un blanketed.De brided.Cats beware.Of.Other cats.(Disclaimer: Thus author is a true lover. Of all furry and not so furry animals.)Even turtles, the animals who breathe out of their butts.Really. It is true. They do. I love them nonetheless.If you doubt, do not believe, look it up!My source of the yummy (albeit gross) information is completely trustworthy. (AWA)...
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