December Night - Hope and Loss
posted 8 days ago | 2 comments
December. In the northern hemiphere, nights are cool to cold. Frost tinges brown grass reflecting moonlight as ice. Skies are clear, stars brighter. Often the constellations shine even through city lights. Darkness comes early; then, with the wint...
Democrat or Republican
posted 4 months ago | 2 comments
I've been to a couple of class reunions this year - one school where I spent all but the last three semesters of my education and the other school from which I graduated. Lots of the old classmates are on Facebook. And, through the "surveys" they'...
Balance? Extremes? Gray? Neon colors?
posted 6 months ago | 1 comment
How far does the pendulum fall?
What is it like to always want balance but never achieve it?
Why are the thoughts, ideas, and hopes swinging from positive to negative in a matter of moments?
Where are the colors and lights when balance is sough...
What is it like to always want balance but never achieve it?
Why are the thoughts, ideas, and hopes swinging from positive to negative in a matter of moments?
Where are the colors and lights when balance is sough...
January 4, 2009
posted 11 months ago | 0 comments
Sunday - just another quiet day. However, it turned very cold over night. We went from 70s to 30s.
I wonder what it's like to be my son. For two weeks he's been out of school and on the computer. Tomorrow starts another semester. Last semester wa...
I wonder what it's like to be my son. For two weeks he's been out of school and on the computer. Tomorrow starts another semester. Last semester wa...
January 3, 2009
posted 11 months ago | 0 comments
Today was a gorgeous day. The weather was like spring. My husband and I stopped by a KFC and got some chicken. Then we went to a park overlooking the Arkansas River. We sat in silence as we ate chicken and potato wedges.
Usually I try to fill sil...
Usually I try to fill sil...
January 2, 2009
posted 11 months ago | 0 comments
Today is my sister's birthday. She was born at 4:19 am in 1953. That makes her 56 years old. Good grief! I can't have a sister who is 56!
My sister and I are two years, two months, twelve days, sixteen hours apart in age. That's been the family j...
My sister and I are two years, two months, twelve days, sixteen hours apart in age. That's been the family j...
January 1, 2009
posted 11 months ago | 0 comments
Usually on the 31st of December I look back at the "old year". The past has a way of reinventing itself into the future. Harping on what went wrong or right keeps the focus behind me rather than to the moment and to the future. However, if I don't...
Extraordianary Words
posted about 1 year ago | 0 comments
Five speeches, for me, should be read by every student of history and politics. I expect the sixth will be President Obama's inauguration speech. The five speeches are:
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
John F. Kennedy's inauguration speech
Martin Lut...
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
John F. Kennedy's inauguration speech
Martin Lut...
President-elect Obama
posted about 1 year ago | 1 comment
Ten o'clock pm, as I watched MSNBC, the words came "Barack Obama has been elected President of the United States."
I cried. My son asked me why I was crying. He equates tears with sadness. Sometimes they are. But these were tears of relief, happi...
I cried. My son asked me why I was crying. He equates tears with sadness. Sometimes they are. But these were tears of relief, happi...
