Life is woven with threads from many ancestors.
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Again
You are no different than asters that fall dead
in sleep, reemerge each year strong and new. [Read More]
The Stars Still Shine Bright
I just got back from a walk around the neighborhood that I took with Lilly over a thousand times in the almost exactly three years she was with us. I know the canine (even better than the human) residents of almost all the houses I passed. Amazingly, not one of them uttered a sound (that I could hear) on the half-hour walk. [Read more]
IF THE FOREST COULD SAY…
The Welsh people had a word for the feeling of love and belonging to the land — hiraeth. Families and clans that lived generation after generation in the same place experienced a deep knowing of the land that did not translate simply as “ownership.”
Exposed
Like a feather
the bulletproof vest
fell off
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Just Suppose
Just suppose all the small and not so small gestures we make toward each other in the course of a day were completely selfless. [Read More]
Show Me A Sign
I placed both of my hands on top of the engine and closed my eyes tightly and pretended to pray. I yelled “Heeeeal!” and I pulled my arms off the lawnmower as if a mysterious energy had pushed me back. [Read More]
Hollywood Dreams
I was sitting on my favorite barstool in my favorite café, reading a book and nursing my diet-coke when a heavyset man of about twenty-five walked in wearing brown baggy shorts, sloppy sneakers and a surplus army jacket at least two sizes too big. [Read More]
The Truth About Denying Your Truth
The truth about denying your truth is that it sucks. It’s detrimental and I believe the difference between life and death. [Read More]
Home/Less
Remember that poverty isn’t a crime, but denying people access to basic human needs should be. [Read More]
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