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Heebie, Jeebies!Eleven days from today.The ghosts, goblins and ghouls come out to play.Seeking “treats.”At the expense of others.(Unfortunately seems like daily life right now.🫤)Not one to be considered a fun-hater. Will join in the spirit of the spirits, and of the spirit of the Hallowed holiday of stuffing candy into bags and into our 😁faces. And contacting the dead to say “hey”,Wassup?How’s it going down there…Side fact...
Once upon a time trust seemed so naive, so innocent.We knew one another before we could talk, before we could walk.The unspoken word became the glue, the bond that held our lives together in a bonded state of growth and friendship. Through our younger, through our formative years. Trust founded on trying to figure out a big world within the moldable and kind mind of a maturing body.Exactly.Then.One day.Trust is broken.Forever.There were sig...
I don’t know ‘bout you.But.I don’t know what to believe anymore.I look ahead.I look behind.It all looks the same.Vast.Endless.Dry.Cracked.A bit hard on the feet.I proceeded forward, anyway.With hope in my heart.More importantly.Reality in my head.Throughout my existence, I sought to handle reality with ease.Give me a stack of Bibles.And I will swear over them.About it.
Theories.Stories.Fact based.Wish based.Hoped based.Doomed based.The spirit of the up and coming European originated holiday called: Halloween.The holiday was “deferred.”To another.In the interest of “affordability.”Possibly due to lack of funding.Spun.Not good.Spinning out of control.Not good, too.Usually, consistently, Oftenly. In times of hardship, in times of life or death decisions.
Too many cooks in the kitchen?Or.Many hands make light work?Success and failure are our oftentimes our most valuable teachers.What the cost is, is the difference between freedom and self-hostage behavior.The loss of meaning may just be the worst evil there is. Without meaning, so much is lost. We blame others. We blames ourselves. We blame God. We go no where. We become lost.Lost.To self.To others.We become so lost in the battle we f...
Guess again.😜Decisions.DECISIONS. decisions.Possibilities. POSSIBILITIES. possibilities.Endless. Abruptly ending.Running around in circles.Heading in a straight and forward direction.No more back sliding.The down pour made it near to impossible to see anything. Up ahead. Behind. Peripherally. Anyway. Kinda preferred, that day at least, to not be an early Halloween casualty and get struck by lightning. The thunder was booming. I had to be somewhere. Anywhere ...
What happens in the dead of night.The images were stunning. The eyes could only track the misery from left to right, up and down. It was all too much. All there was to do was look. Watch. Images with a strong magnetic attraction. The inability to look away. Sticks in the mind forever.Worst of all.Not being able to make sense of the horror on the photographic loops broadcast on the screens. Stunning horror. Tears, screams. People running amok, smoke, murmurs and shouts. Gun shots. Looks of horrifi...
Actions speak louder than words.Words can become a marbled mouthful of verbal gymnastics.Violence.Only adds to the heart of the matter.That.And. Agendas. Leadership laden with lack of it.And.Please.Can we keep the grandkids out of it?In the interest of fairness.Equality for all.Haven’t we exhausted the playing field of “equity” to the point ofDeath.The shift.Is here.Where will you stand when the ground cracks beneath you...
True or false.Multiple choice.All of the above?Questions faced by persons, by families, persons, legal and illegal citizens.Walls up.Walls down.Prophetic either way.A new different.Let’s call it that.Death. And life.Life and death have a way of insidiously sorting through the remains of life.Sounds dreadfulAnd it can be.For example. One side suggests de-programming. Of a constitutional right. Of others. Es...
Opportunity knocks.Will you answer.Won’t you answer.How will you answer.How may you answer.The Call.His Call.His call about the accountability of your actions.For good.For evil.For benefit.For competitive benefit.For points.Disclaimer: I am not afraid to die.No.No.No.No need to call the de-funded police about my claim.I really am fine.And to boot: I do not plan to leave here any...
Well.At least there was light.To guide me out of the way of where I was currently headed.And where I was headed was a place I had already been.So familiar.So rote.So used to the situation.So used to the same old circumstances.Did not know I had options.Didn’t know I could say,”No.”That was generally reserved for others to say to me.When I got in their way.Which seemed to be a lot.Often even.Not knowing where to tu...
It is hard.Allow me.To indulge.Maybe, even toquote Pop Music.Thank you.For your patience.For your indulgence.Because, you see, I was born this way. ☺️😲.And.You were born that way.Depending upon your definition of “normal”.I throw it back to you and seriously toYOUR intentions.For the rest of today.Tomorrow.I have been told.It matters.Depending upon how your”look” at the future.What you ...
It doesn’t really bother me.That I have already been bumping into walls before any of you were even born.🫤Disclaimer: Not. A graceful swan.☺️My ‘noggin. Though. It is tough as nails.Your ‘noggin.Not so cut and dry.Perhaps you have been subscribing to the idea that,“It takes a village.”For far too to long.Helping your here to there, there to here path.Okay.Not my problem anymore?Right?Depends. Upon what it ...
The way I see it.There is never a zero star meal deserving of a zero star.If I do not have to cook it, I will like it🙂.Call me lazy.But let’s be honest.Sometimes the bag of chips is what feeds the pie hole just fine.TransparencySpontaneity.TransparencySpontaneityAll well and good.Good markers of commitment.Good markers of communication.When the meal ticket is cashed in on.Then what?What happe...
How desperate are you?I have my guesses.My opinions too.Most of all.Experiences.And many notable notables have extended the hand of generous wisdom in saying. The quiet part out loud:Experience IS the best teacher.You made your bed. And. Now. You must lie in it.Albeit.Alone.Without me.In itAt the foot.Or anywhere else for that matter.I cannot help you.In that way anymore.I “awarded” you the freed...
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