Do Protests Actually Nudge Us More To The Right? 

I think it is telling to see coverage of the NATO meeting in Chicago, or more precisely, to see the protesters outside of the meetings.It takes me back to the heady days of the 60s and 70s when internal protests… Read full post »

Courage isn't just standing tall when things are very very difficult, and winning.

Courage is standing tall when things are very very difficult, and losing everything....but you do it anyway.

Because doing right is more important that anything.

Always  

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“I’m just getting around and making sure that everybody here knows I’ll take a job; any job here. A demotion is fine if I can just find a way to stick.”

April tried to say this with a smile on her face, like it was a weather report and… Read full post »

Cool winds blow in and through and around the eaves,

and increase in intensity as oaken boards moan with delight.

Such winds rustle more than leaves,

pressing against hearts and minds;

the beginnings of “something.”  

In the fields of a morning sunrise he stands,… Read full post »

I looked around the gathering area in the back of the church, and spotted Donna looking back at me. It was a look I will never forget.

There was desperation in her eyes, and she was close to the kind of tears and breakdown in front of her family… Read full post »

Yeah yeah...the title makes about as much sense as the Republican platform.

But hey....I don't HAFTA make sense on this site, and nobody here is gonna make me!

(And the second choise for title was "A Mathematical Tutorial"...hot but possibly a bit misleading.)

"We" (being me and my… Read full post »

Touch

    Touch me

                     as I touch you

My lips to your lobes,

     My hands to your hips

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One very painful part of life is to be friends with someone...really really close friends...and then have the relationship break.

It happened with finality to me last Monday, although I could see it coming for literally 4 months. Heck, my trying to "save" the friendship is a big contributor to… Read full post »

      Who knows where the Big Guy will place the most extraordinary abilities???

      Like Jonathan below?

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With our backs to the prevailing winds,

each back spread wide to catch bursts that push us forward,

we sailed the wheaten field as adventurers,

with golden waves darting and dancing around us in gusty cadence.  

The wind howled in our ears, and the sun beat… Read full post »

Small fingers run deftly along the bark of the greying tree, 

                   seeking a hand grip and a foot-hold to a higher place;

     to a branch above their… Read full post »

Upon the top of the cyclops of a building,

a single eye casts light into the night sky,

spinning, spinning,

slowly and forever searching. 

Its constant search knows lonely in the heart of this city,

and I gaze upon it night and night again,

castin… Read full post »

Her voice whispers to me still,

          carried to my heart on prevailing winds,

                      and echos from a distant land… Read full post »

There’s a devil in the seas.

          Sure as there is a God of the seven seas, there is a devil!

He skirts the lands and the seas in evil-inspired journeys,

          &n… Read full post »

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an early view of the Mercantile Department Stores - circa 1898

The picture above speaks to beginnings. For a retailer, the Mercantile Department Stores, and for a couple of guys in the training program.

Sometimes beginnings have no answers. My friend sat in front of me, lost… Read full post »

Makes no sense to me, but it is all I see around me.

They get the jobs and the promotions and the girls...and everybody follows them like lemmings....

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The years pass by in whispered breeze,

     forgotten months and memories;

          and token kisses fill the days before me.

 There’s not so much left to enjoy,

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Yes....there is room. 

There is ALWAYS room for you!

Stand right here,....under this green stem hanging from the threashhold of my door. 

Know what that is?

Mistletoe!!!!!

Yep...we BOTH know what that means!!!!   Right???

You've been so amazing to me, m… Read full post »

We had spent the whole week last week trying to keep Lily alive!

Our sweet dog desperately needed to gain weight, as she has slipped from nearly 24 pounds two weeks ago to 15 pounds last week. The vet had made it clear that the weight loss had to stop,… Read full post »

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“Who am I?” 

You really asked me that, Joan?

Surely you anticipated that it is possible for me to write for 1000 pages, and send it to you, and tell you it is the abridged version of “ME,” and that the full version of “ME” required more memory an… Read full post »

Imagine a young woman, bright and intelligent and beautiful. She was brought up in the 60s and told by her parents that "one waits for true love and then gets married."

JD tells her the same thing,...that somewhere "out there" is absolutely the right man for her, and she simply has… Read full post »

I’m thinking about LunchLady2 right now.

I’m trying to imagine what it must be like…feel like… to bury another child. (Yes, if you were not aware, this is the second time she will have to do this.)

I’m trying to wrap my head around this most recent tragedy, and… Read full post »