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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Pools of Angry Humans

(Spoken Word)   COVID lends itself to the world as a good-enough reason to become angry, be angry, and stay angry   No matter who it emperils. Although sometimes it can become farcical  it most of all hurts  the actor playing the role of “angry human”.   Suicides, mental illnesses, murder rates, and WHAT ELSE […]

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One Reflection

(Spoken word)   Over two years of isolation so far   Will it crest will it will it ever be over or   Will we live as we did after World War I   and then World War II   and why Why Oh, why, dearest Higher Power of my understanding   Please Can you […]

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Surrender

  Why is it so very difficult to lift our own hearts to the God of our understanding for healing? For my shredded heart is ill-equipped to understand the nefarious hatred and anger of humans at times. There are screaming humans who believe I am scraping and servile in my demeanor. They scream very quietly […]

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Fawn is Rising

Fawn Rising, 11 years of age, Grade 6   Fawn walks out of the end of Ninth Grade. She is pregnant. The year is 1966. Fawn is fully-trained in classical ballet which wards off the lifelong-from-birth pain of scoliosis. Breaking competitive swim records also helps her back. Fawn’s parents spend their lives promoting peace through […]

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Pools of Angry Humans

  Greetings to all the world. I send warm blessings of peace during this week of giving thanks for our existing earth from the United States of America. Questions to query:  Is it possible that world-wide COVID carries with it an assumed intent toward uncontrollable anger? Are humans using this as a reason to become […]

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At Long Last

  Sleep eludes me.  I go down to the water’s edge Only to find my heart  Is reflecting upon my beloved ones Having transitioned  Into another world of existence.  Those who had stood by me Those who did not  Those who stood for me And those who stood close enough for me  To lean against… […]

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The Hand of God

The year is 1966. My brilliantly-gifted father who speaks seven languages is raising me. I am completing the ninth grade. My life is filled with breaking competitive swim records, musical composition and performance, and perfect grades. My life is good. I must drop out of school. At this time, my body is protecting a wee […]

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I AM AN AMERICAN

  I am an American. At the age of 60, while applying to begin work on a doctoral degree (courtesy of my fearless brother Timothy M. Murphey, Ph.D., professor of linguistics in Japan), I am told by the University of Florida that I am considered “non-white”. This was never before said to me. I, and […]

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Come for Tea!

Patterns, context, surprises, broken hearts, abandonment, addictions, and children of mercy are all things we sometimes cope with as humans. This said the human brain is constantly seeking three things: meaning, patterns, and an absence of threat.  Imagine: I approach you in the forest and invite you into my cottage. I then ask you to […]

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Earth For Sale

What if climate changes all began with thinking “Do we have too many humans on our planet?”   What if it became an issue of deleting the huge senior division of our elderly?   And then… progressed to a huge blame game of a rampant virus, source(s) unknown? Blame begins to take over all hearts. […]

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I Know Heaven

(Spoken) It seems that in light of times of victory and blessed positive experiences,  we can be swallowed up by uselessness and failure in God’s eyes.  I present the following for consideration:   Bludgeoning burning running crashing colliding tears going deeper into my heart’s castle of magical wonderment and ache to allow my silently screaming […]

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I Know Her When

  When the family pets lick her stuck out tongue   When her face lights up at the sound of my lullaby    When her father enters the room and she squeals relentlessly, seemingly without breath    When she pulls her cloth diaper off and crawls down the sandhill lake property to the clear water’s […]

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