A Forest of Rawness

  Today marks one year since my friend’s highly-gifted adult child passed.   What can I do What can I say What can lift her to make any sense of this tragedy   Nothing Nothing? Nothing.   I go before God  the God  of my understanding for strength and peace and calmness   for her.  […]

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It’s Easy to be a Cynic

  Observations While Waiting for my Beloved Car A 2006 Subaru Legacy (8th visit in ten weeks):   While visiting with Mr. Ronald in Management at a stunningly organized Subaru dealership, we discover what I call “angry humans” and he calls the same humans “cynics”. He is delightful to converse with and is a huge […]

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Miracles & Soul-Shatterings

Note: The initials ABD, are widely recognized in the world of Education: “all but dissertation”; this is the final paper in pursuing one’s doctoral degree and is needed to officially complete one’s Ph.D. degree.   (Spoken)   So. What did I do? How did I do it? Where did it take me?   Did the […]

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One Dream

(Spoken)   Money will not matter. At all.   Politics will not matter.   All religions will be respected by all humans.    Young Japanese women will cease taking their own lives.   Men will find peace-filled goals  for their energies and creative arts.    First Nation women will stop ending the very breath upon […]

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Heal Now

It seems the entire world is filled with free-floating and rampant anger mixed with a sick and disgusting sense of raucously demeaning hearts presenting frozen meanings.   How? Why? What do we do? Where do we go? How do we handle this? May we escape this fiasco?    Or Is there something we might do […]

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Bruno & GreyBaby

(Spoken) I have boyfriends. I do! One lives next door.  He is an Italian Waterdog and is astute, inquisitive, and loving.  He is the color of the sky in the above photograph and is named Bruno.    One of my Rescue Kitties is named GreyBaby ~   He is the color of the smoke in […]

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Broken Dreams Shredded Hearts

(Spoken) Speaking ceases due to A ban from social media and  Because of artwork  Supporting Earth’s care    Friends expose frustrations Family coping harbor mental issues   No connection to me I am a sitting wasted piece of motherhood    No connection to you  Or the world  Or nature Or the seas  Or … love […]

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Possible Alignment

    (Spoken) Is there any way to align my heart with yours?   No. No. No. Maybe…   No, It hurts and is depressing and despairing and full of unscripted pain.   Yet has no reasoning for my sore and stomped brain upon which to latch.   So, can I believe that humans can […]

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Heal

  I know It hurts Yet Instead of attention Promises Ego Devastating ridicule  It is a reminder that we must  Begin again Let go Be steeped in Presence  What is important? Begin again And again And make no assumptions  We were not there  In their shoes  with their emotions in their past Take NOTHING personally  […]

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Not About Me

(Spoken Word)   No. Not one. Ever. It is a fairytale. Or a joke. Or a bedtime story from a lover. And yet, why? Why have I spent my life believing someone would save me?   This is not about me.   Yet I know not why I hold this belief. And why the thematic […]

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