Hope
August 9, 2009
- August 9 HAWAIIAN GRAFFITI White pebbles spell themselves across the black of lava grown cold. Personal announcements proclaim love, school pride, religious freedom. The care of placement and consideration of design make the roadside an ongoing mineral memo. What message would I care to share? What words would prompt me to bring a pail of crushed marble to the edge of the road? Is ...
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August 8, 2009
- August 8 PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS There is a penny in the bathtub. I wonder who stood in there with loose change. Possibly confusing it for a wishing well, the penny was tossed in. The stories I could tell, the hopes that tantalize my mind, elves and leprechauns, dreamers and optimists all trundle through my thinking. When I don’t know the answer, I can now at least look for the ...
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August 7, 2009
- Those that have been following this site know of my disgust at the growing level of bigotry, anger, hatred and racism within our nation. The below article was taken directly from the “Southern Poverty Law Center” http://www.splcenter.org/. I urge those of you that are unfamiliar with their stellar work to take a look at their site.Within this site is contained a vast wealth of ...
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August 7, 2009
- August 7 PRESTO! Just because I own pointy boots doesn’t mean I can corral the cows. I have in my possession many things of subtle intent, but they can’t just transform me. The wings from Halloween don’t make me an angel. The Big Book on the shelf won’t sober me up. Nothing holds the magic to change me. I can only change with help. Action, action and more action is the ...
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August 5, 2009
- Ever since I started writing my teenage-angst-filled-urban-fantasy, NIGHT ANGELS, as well as my essay series, TROUBLE IN PARADISE, I've been obsessed with listening in on teenage conversations. Fortunately, I don't have to go any further than my living room in order to do this. I have two teenage boys who have tested as "highly gifted" in the area of verbal skills. Needless to say, ...
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August 5, 2009
- It is difficult to know where to begin telling about this heartbreak and loss of a relationship. This relationship was extremely important in my life. You see, if I knew the reason for the loss, I doubt I would feel such devastation. (I am going to change the names of the folks involved for privacy sake)The relationship was with a young woman that was closer than a daughter was. There ...
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August 3, 2009
- August 3 SHARING Please take a bite of my PB&J. I made it myself. It is fine as it is. I slathered the bread and cut it so neatly; still I can’t help but want to offer some to you. I know that to stand and smile next to you, watch you lick the peanut butter from the roof of your mouth, have you dab the jelly from the corner of my lips, will make this sandwich even better. You ...
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August 2, 2009
- August 2 TOOTH FAIRY I slide my hand under the pillow and am disappointed not to find a quarter. I feel I deserve one though I didn’t leave a tooth; I did leave my bite. I’ve toned down my bark a bit too. It has not been easy; I have spent much of my life snapping and growling at the world around me. I have shortened the leash on these reactive behaviors, many I have put to bed ...
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August 1, 2009
- August 1 GAME PLAYING My Higher Power doesn’t play me like a board game, doesn’t monopolize my time or put me in jeopardy. My trouble is my own. I pursue trivia at my discretion. I take or reject risk at will. I scrabble my thoughts and am sorry when I make mistakes but don’t expect to live in a candyland. When I stick my hand in the mouse trap, or fall down the shoots and ...
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July 31, 2009
- July 31 MY BABIES Too often I have abandoned the infants of my creativity to doorways and charities. Having little patience I did not raise them to their intended station. Joyful parentage need not stop at the cutting of the cord. Downplaying the importance of each birth, I would leave beauty and art to be foundlings and the province of others. I can share the guardianship of these ...
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