The Red Balloon
posted 6 months ago | 1 comment
It is a crystal clear, windy day. The sky is so blue, that it has a violet tinge, and hurts your eyes.
Standing in the backyard surveying the expected, when suddenly appears a red balloon - bouncing through the air to settle lightly on the grass...
Standing in the backyard surveying the expected, when suddenly appears a red balloon - bouncing through the air to settle lightly on the grass...
Mr Brown is out of town.
posted 10 months ago | 7 comments
I don't get poetry.
I know, admitting that in public makes me appear to be some sort of troglodyte. Insensitive, dense, perhaps lacking in refinement and appreciation of the finer things in life. But really, it just doesn't do a thing for me.
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I know, admitting that in public makes me appear to be some sort of troglodyte. Insensitive, dense, perhaps lacking in refinement and appreciation of the finer things in life. But really, it just doesn't do a thing for me.
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Words
posted 11 months ago | 2 comments
So many times, so many ways. Words are all you have.
Painting a miniature facet of your soul for others. The real, the imagined, hoped for or feared. Small or large thoughts...inadequate in some ways to express the full depth and breadth of what...
Painting a miniature facet of your soul for others. The real, the imagined, hoped for or feared. Small or large thoughts...inadequate in some ways to express the full depth and breadth of what...
A musing on the nature of nature.
posted about 1 year ago, updated 26 days later | 3 comments
I have no beginning, and no end. My power is vast, yet I am fluid and formless. I can crumble buildings and caress a baby's cheek. My presence is with you always, within and without.
I carry the key to unlock hidden memories in the blink of an e...
I carry the key to unlock hidden memories in the blink of an e...
The Memories You Keep
posted about 1 year ago, updated 3 days later | 3 comments
My sister is one of the most stressed out people I know. I used to wonder if she enjoyed a crisis, and arranged her circumstances, unconsciously, to provide just such events. Even when things are going smoothly, she is always worried about what is...
Witnessing from afar
posted about 1 year ago, updated about 1 hour later | 0 comments
And here it is, the destination realized. How is is that I can be so happy for them, and yet - sad that the goal was achieved and in a way I feel that I missed it.
I know that I was not meant to be a part of this adventure. I also know that with...
I know that I was not meant to be a part of this adventure. I also know that with...
Just because someone says it -
posted about 1 year ago, updated 24 days later | 1 comment
A rationalization is a reaction, but is every reaction necessarily a rationalization?
merriam-webster.com/dictionary says:
rationalize
transitive verb
1: to bring into accord with reason or cause something to seem reasonable: as a: to substitu...
merriam-webster.com/dictionary says:
rationalize
transitive verb
1: to bring into accord with reason or cause something to seem reasonable: as a: to substitu...
Abstraction vs Reality
posted about 1 year ago, updated 4 minutes later | 0 comments
Maybe it's the time of life. Suddenly you notice that people are starting to disappear. Friends, family even aquaintances you have occasionally run into through the years. Its like your life is distilling down to its essence, the core players in ...
Dreams
posted about 1 year ago, updated 1 day later | 4 comments
When my son was very young, my husband started
to talk about the trip they would take together
after he graduated from college.
They would buy motorcycles, and ride from Michigan to the Pacific Ocean taking back roads, and see all the sights alon...
to talk about the trip they would take together
after he graduated from college.
They would buy motorcycles, and ride from Michigan to the Pacific Ocean taking back roads, and see all the sights alon...
