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Poderance by Charles Gene Bush

Today is a day of reflection ~ I was a very young yet mature boy who decided to fight the wars on the home front. I had lived through the entire “Cold War”. Additionally I had relatives engaged in battle during the Korean Conflict, as it is referred to today. Yet it was war. My […]

Adventures in Dementia

The following chapters detail a few little stories of some of my experiences while visiting Memory Care Centers with my Service Dog, a cross-bred Lab Retriever/Whippet. Chapter 1 You Are My Sunshine: Broken Hearts Introduce Themselves & We Weep Together Immaculately clothed, her makeup is in place with stunning jewelry. She sits in the morning light […]

The Gift I Have to Give

Reeking of guttural sensitivity for the moment I am in many times has induced others to call me “overly sensitive”. It used to cause a thrashing around within my heart. Then, at other times it is a debilitating process memory. Now, it seems to be my primary gift to the […]

An Absence of Threat

An Absence of Threat I am drawn, without being cognizant of it, to humans and places and animals who are non-threatening to themselves, and to others. Photography by KatrineDunnPhotography©2020 Poetry by FawnRising©2021 February 19, 2020 Le Lac du mon Père Crystal Lake Florida USA Earth

Perhaps It Is Time

And My memories of times when finding disgust and disappointment in friends lovers and family; when reactions and responses to difficulties wallowed in a sea of disregard, criticism, and judgment — What might I do with these? May I reflect, pray, and meditate to find a bit of glory in these events? Of course, […]

My Time of Grace

This is the story of losing my marriage, teaching exceptionally talented youth, having a stroke, struggling to walk again, then finding new love with the arrival of love-seeking Rescue animals and a remarkable human in my life. His name is Dave. Would you not love for the world to listen to the song “Hallelujah” […]

Thy Will Be Done

I can see along with His hand in everything that we shall persevere and rise in a sea of glory and reach with a longing to the skies of clear crystal longing for peace. Photography & Poetry by FawnRising©2021 January 2, 2021 Le Lac du mon Père Crystal Lake Florida United States Earth

A World Leader Named Joe

I love it. Who would ever have thought of the highest-ranking United States leader being named Joe? Maybe Clarke. Or Samuel. Or Wyatt. Yet, Joe, it is. And, Joe is who I feel deeply is a type of healing not only for this nation, he is a healing for the world. Thank you, whoever is […]

Diamonds

From, and to, my dear shining-as-a-diamond friend Jenny ~ “Yesterday, after the storm passed the sun came out I was sitting looking out the front door and it looked like diamonds shining in the trees… It was so beautiful!” As you are my dear friend… as you are. My friend is a diamond as nature […]

Comfort ‘Midst Mayhem

It is a rendering of wonderment and joy that Thy Will Be Done rules the day and all the humans said Amen and then my curled up service dog said, “I need a bit more sleep and could you make my breakfast when you get a moment and might you be open to mingling with nature […]

Yet More God Diamonds

Overwhelmed by The intensity and length Of the COVID-19 Virus she put her head down and took a very deep breath. Upon lifting her head the sky was filled with diamonds … God-diamonds ~ Clouds wishing her steady passage the healing of friends and family the awareness of our need ~ to listen really […]

One Lovely COVID-19 Story

I am driving through a small village with myriad off-shooting dirt roads. There are hugely gutted dips and valleys in which one’s car can languish. My goal is to deliver fresh long-stemmed roses, a home-made card, and a home-made chocolate apple-cinnamon cake I’d made. My friends are nursing COVID-19 for him, and a broken hip […]

You Are There

If I Stand among war, greed, and hate, You are there. If I Struggle with enough funds to feed my babies You are there. If I Stare down choke-filled family estrangements You are there. If I Hold my dead child while trying to breathe into him You are there. If I am beaten into […]

Who Is Lifting Whom?

It is my belief we rise by lifting others ~ I put on a pandemic mask early one clear Crystal Lake morning, drive to a flower shop and purchase live velvet-textured red roses. After texting my dear animal-lover friend from teaching years, who taught amazing children; Who, despite battling Parkinson’s Disease oversees the medical care […]

Dustyn Runs Freely

On the first day of the last quarter of a year filled with global trauma, massive unlistening, hatred, greed, and war, my small solid grey Rescue kitty runs away. Two times he escapes boldly with a cry and a dash then returns home, and begs for more freedom. This, after living with his Rescue […]