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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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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We Shall Persevere

Patterns. No matter the age or condition of your human brain, it is constantly seeking three things. One of these seemingly forever searches is the identification of patterns.   How do you know this is a tree? It is the pattern of each leaf hanging from a limb, a stalk, a stem. Their edges are […]

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In the Company of Rats

  Rats are highly intelligent. To opine that they are bad is like saying sharks are bad. In sustainable circumstances, neither are bad and each has special gifts and uses. If my Higher Power made rats, then my preference is to discourage their presence ~ not kill them. It is looking as though I may […]

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Fearless & Free

 April 29, 2017 Prompt: My friend is turning 65 on May 1st. This is how I see my friend, Shelley Carroll ~ fearless and free. She is amazing and I learn from her every time I am around her. 

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A Time of War

Photograph of Fawn Rising (Nahnee) by Erin Liberty Dunn, age 6 Everything I ever lost Was during a time of war ~ Relationship war. And, you will hear me say, smilingly Oh, yes! I lost that in a time of war when conjugal visions Came unraveled. I, considered everyone’s favorite former girlfriend former partner former wife […]

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