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“Sunset and evening star,And one clear call for me!And May there be no moaning of the bar,When I put out to sea,But such a tide as moving seems asleep,Too full for sound and foam,When that which drew from out the boundless deepTurns again home.Twilight and evening bell,And after that the dark!And May there be no sadness of farewell,When I embark;For though from out our bourne of Time and PlaceThe flood may bear me fa...
To swipe or not to swipe.That is the question.How do you take a swipe?At another.Without ‘em lookin’Tap.Tap.Tap.Send….What or WHO shows up in your “inbox”. The inbox of your life. Do you like it? Are you tempted to act upon it? Take a swipe at another, another’s family because it is too (fill in the blank) tempting, not to?Just to get ahead.Do you have a set of personally held and healed beliefs that may prevent the child in you from just actin...
Revolving doors.Turnstiles.Doggy doors.(🙂)Slammed doors.Knocked on doors.Open doors.On this day of Thanksgiving.🦃We should all take a minute and be thankful.For the food trucks!🙏🏻Life can be a dicey world, unfair world even. Take a moment to ponder life’s great difficulties. A wonder of its own. Why is it cats are allowed to roam free, hunting for another’s food supply. Any way possible. Any way “do able.”Flirtatiously leading on another...
Burning down the house =Burning a hole in someone’s pocket.Same difference.The difference is the same.Is it what you value?It is what you value?For creature comforts.Creature comforts pay top dollar?How comfortable are you.How comfortable would you like to cause another to be.And. Why? For what purpose.To be. Or. Not to be.That is the question.(Hopefully the kind folks who sit in the death panels of others have m...
Tidey-up.🙂Tidy up.Admit it. Who loves to do the laundry?Sorting.It all out.Lugging it here and there.Watching the sudsy circles go round and round.Dizzyingly so.Never ending.Lugging it further.To dry out.Without the wrinkles😊 The wrinkles that prove we are sometimes hiding behind ours, our lack of desire to take action. We tousle around.Our dirty laundry🙃.The same can be said for Ginger. Ginger the ...
Shout it from the mountain tops.Scream it from the other side.Modern day ear plugs are here to stay.Clogging the pathways along the way.Some voices are like nails on a chalk board.Rambling replaces indecision. Decisions are an incapable task of never ending do overs.Talking to one’s self become a daily ritual of habitual happenstance.What should I wear.What should I not wear.How do I look?How do I not look—(like haven’t slept in years…..)The...
Hot Potato.Hot Potatoes.Necromancer to the rescue.Although he cannot be trusted.One must start somewhere.And with the cacophony of spirits available.Give it a whirl.Give is a swirl.Necromancer waits in the wings.For you.To become more refined. More sophisticated.Necromancers have not only 20/20 vision. They are able to see at 360 degree angles too.😳Just try to put one over on them.They will eat you alive w...
O.k.Stop kidding ourselves.There has been a lot of talk as of late. About lights. About lighting.As a non-bonafide-shopper, I am the person wondering why Merry Christmas decorations are aligning the shelves along with the ghouls, ghosts and goblins of All Souls Day and Halloween.I spend my nights trying to understand.Trying to fit in.Trying to fit it all in.Have you ever walked smack dab into the wall? A wall. Any wall. Of self. Of another.In the ligh...
Gloriously quiet. Still.Few distractions. Few nuisances.Time to think. Reflect.On what is important. Before what is unimportant begins to clog the mind. Take up space. Too much space. The ultimate result becomes forgetfulness. Spreading oneself too thin. With not enough to go around. When important matters arise. We have very little energy leftover, complain of being too “tired.”Forgetfulness. “I forgot.” Nasty words. When intention behind them are simply to put someone “off.” Delay their lives to a ...
“I can’t sleep.”Makes for a crazed existence at times. Irritable. Short-tempered.Between the bad dreams, nightmares and other miscellaneous processing feats of mental strength and weakness. Strengths and weaknesses.It is a wonder a sleepless night allows one to stand up🙂.Still be standing.Semi standing anyway.Because if sitting down, was an option. One may fall asleep at the wrong time.Missing something important. Very important—between the blurriness.Caffeine gets a bad wrap....
Question.Question.Question some more.InterrogateInterrogateInterrogate some more.Rumors had been swirling for awhile.Around campus.Around the large university town.Word had spread that there was a person on the loose. Students avoided their night classes. Subsequently, a curfew put in place. Night classes would be suspended for a time. Until they could discover what was going on with the situation. What to do about the situation.Law Enforcement was...
Wow.Does it ever end.?Will is ever end?When caution is thrown out the window, with the baby and the bath water, what IS left?The Audacity of Hope?Well. Audacity is a sufficient enough word.Hope. Can be a four letter word.Please do not confuse the “stand up” podium as an opportunity to show toughness in the fight, the rat race. The Professor pondered as the lecture progressed. The times were tough. Very tough. With nary a leader to be found. The circus carried on, and i...
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”William ShakespeareLove all.Trust a few.Do wrong to none.Do. Wrong. To. None.Holiness.It is a Journey.Bonafide holiness.It is a Journey.We really all are gifts to one another.(pf)Can be. If we search our hearts. Then re-establish our souls.Our reasons for being.Our reasons for living.How we take care of these gifts says everything about,Who we are.Who we follow....
You’re fired!You’re tired!You’re hired!Now.We get to work.I just hired a new kid.A new kid on the block.To walk around with me through my days and nights.A new apprentice.We do not speak a verbal, vocal same language.There are many, many non verbal unspoken similarities.We are both, however, students of life.Lifelong learners.Of all things good.And.The scary things too.My apprentice is a newcomer...
Ouch.Let the wrestle fest begin.The push.The pull.The yes.The no.When was the last time you felt as if you shot yourself in the foot.Right in the foot.Actions speak louder than words.Words can mask a multitude of hidden meanings.Hi jinks.Low jinksAntics. Antically speaking. One man’s antics may be another man’s success.Or failure.See how insidiously webbed things can be?Can become.Hurtful, too.Boorish.Blunt. Coarse. Crude...
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