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May 2018

May 14, 2018
I am tired of those who swill their head in a bucket and claim there...
May 07, 2018
The train slammed into the station, injuring hundreds. The engineer was critically hurt. People toppled...

April 2018

April 30, 2018
Where do all the forgotten promises land? “I would never hurt you.” “I will love...
April 23, 2018
For example, the toaster needs to be cleaned, and taking it apart, the last screw...
April 16, 2018
You can, despite the innocence you were born with, feel that something is missing, and...
April 09, 2018
If you can’t sleep or look away from all that’s going on, then you haven’t...
April 02, 2018
As you pour milk on your cereal, I am grateful for the sound of milk...

March 2018

March 26, 2018
Delayed by storms, I’m having latkes in a hotel and you all come flooding back...
March 19, 2018
The tops of clouds that no one sees illuminated by the sun.   The inside...
March 12, 2018
The proper function of memory is to re-member, to put the members or parts of...
March 05, 2018
When I decide I love you just as you’ve left town, when you muster the...

February 2018

February 26, 2018
When you feel you have no more to give, keep your heart open just a...
February 05, 2018
Bartering for affection has come to an end.   I love you with no hope...

January 2018

January 29, 2018
Now, in her seventies, Ruth remembers being a girl, the daughter of a sharecropper in...
January 22, 2018
It isn’t long after we arrive that everyone starts pointing and telling us where we...
January 15, 2018
All things reveal the Whole. Through one rounded shell, the depth of the ocean. Through...
January 08, 2018
I’m watching the sun rise over the Rockies. The foothills are rounded and closer to...
January 02, 2018
Sometimes, though I’m not supposed to know, I feel such a deep and timeless ache...

December 2017

December 26, 2017
The sun doesn’t stop shining because some of us are blind.   The birds don’t...
December 18, 2017
I was dreaming of the one who doesn’t see me and the one I’m afraid...
December 11, 2017
Funny how we love in the way we want to be loved, how we think...
December 04, 2017
You may have expected that enlightenment would come like zap! Instantaneous and permanent. This is...

November 2017

November 27, 2017
When I saw the wheelchair man with spindly limbs twist his neck to the sun,...
November 20, 2017
If I rise out of being her child, if I rise out of being a...
November 13, 2017
A bird hits a window in a tower in Dallas, startling a man at his...
November 06, 2017
The Chinese poet Po Chü-I (772-846) recounts in a poem how he’d traveled so long...

October 2017

October 30, 2017
As a man in his last breath drops all he is carrying   each breath...
October 24, 2017
I’ve been poked and prodded for years: to explain, to defend, to leave another piece...
October 16, 2017
I wake this morning thirty years to the day that the tumor vanished from my...
October 09, 2017
I met Ernie and Cathy several years ago, two sensitive souls who live on the...
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