The Liberty Bell
posted over 2 years ago, updated 6 months later | 5 comments
Friendship
posted over 2 years ago, updated 3 days later | 2 comments
It's been a rough week for me friendship-wise. I started off the week with what I feel was a betrayal. It hurt momentarily, but that quickly passed and I came to terms with it. Not really important, a blip on my radar, nothing more than that. Then...
The Bliss Of Solitude
posted over 2 years ago, updated 4 months later | 3 comments
War
posted over 2 years ago, updated about 1 year later | 2 comments
As a child, I was somewhat charmed by something my Father told me. When he was a child, he heard stories told by actual Civil War survivors. It amazed me that I knew someone who knew someone who fought in the Civil War. The span of generations. Wo...
Michael
posted over 2 years ago, updated about 1 hour later | 4 comments
On June 12, 1952 my brother Michael was born and my childhood ended. Mikey was born severely retarded. Actually, no one knew until he was around 2 and hadn't progressed as a "normal" child should. My parents, of course, needed to deal with him to ...
Vivien
posted over 2 years ago, updated 10 days later | 3 comments
This weekend I have had the pleasure of meeting Vivien at another website. She is a 19 year-old young lady from China. I don't know Vivien's actual name. I have the feeling that she picked Vivien because it sounded pretty to her.
For a long time ...
For a long time ...
Crossing The Bar
posted over 2 years ago, updated 3 months later | 0 comments
Desiderata
posted over 2 years ago, updated 7 minutes later | 3 comments
Desiderata
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull a...
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull a...




