Tag: memoir
group name: singlelife4all2c
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May 06, 2008 02:44 PM EDT --
Sitting with Chaka alone, watching teevee last night
I started unconsciously doing some math.
I am almost fifty-five, Chaka is almost six,
The cats are one and eight-ish...
Somehow . . . more
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June 22, 2008 06:56 PM EDT --
What are you??? A PLANT???
"It's the way I was raised…" she said.
"every Saturday we'd scrub the whole house,...
walls, pictures down and all". . . . more
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June 27, 2008 02:22 PM EDT --
A Sadness at lunch.
Several days a week I take my lunch at the local coffeeshop.
By 'local' I mean five miles away. I fed Mom there the last months of her life. She . . . more
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April 13, 2008 07:07 PM EDT --
An hour can go so fast.
Listening to Thistle & Shamrock on NPR.
Even the baby Squeak becomes immersed in the music.
more
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April 15, 2008 09:56 PM EDT --
for small kindnesses...
Chaka got out of the yard alone while I was gone yesterday for the FIRST TIME in her LIFE!
I left the damn gate open I think.. I was gone a little less than . . . more
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April 20, 2008 06:55 PM EDT --
No lies on the wind tonight,
as the Celtic music wafts
thru the old empty house,
loud as it wants to be.
No excuses, no "evaluations",
no edging away, no temper tantrums. . . . more
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April 18, 2008 12:06 PM EDT --
WHEN A FRIEND NEEDS HELP!
We don't worry how much email she sends,
We WORRY about HER.
We don't care if she isn't
up to her usual happy standards . . . more
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April 29, 2008 11:43 AM EDT --
Apalachicola, Florida, USA!
From the MOMENT I opened the door to my van five years ago and stood on Bay Avenue I have loved Apalachicola Florida.
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May 16, 2008 03:37 PM EDT --
Couple weeks back I got to the APALACHICOLA ANTIQUE & CLASSIC BOAT SHOW .
I've written a couple piece about it already, here is another link highlighting a huge old canoe, probably older . . . more
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May 19, 2008 07:04 PM EDT --
Snakes…
Lot of snakes in my life lately.
The timber rattler I killed this morning
That Trampus and Sadie had cornered.
Then 'my' big black snake that they . . . more
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May 29, 2008 03:34 PM EDT --
Inspirational Thought
Forgiveness is the gift we give to ourselves. We cannot open our hearts to others if we have not opened our heart to us.
Love and light, . . . more
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June 12, 2008 01:05 PM EDT --
Inspirational Thought
I have been blessed with moments of such great
clarity that, in this body, I have merged with the part
of me that is forever and then . . . more
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July 18, 2008 08:11 PM EDT --
Inspirational Thought
It took me a long time to understand that I
could be what I choose to be, that I am, indeed,
that which has the capacity to look fear . . . more
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May 08, 2008 11:16 PM EDT --
Inspirational Thought
It is not what happens to us in life that is the greatest challenge, but what we decide to do with it. Despite all the emotional evidence to the contrary, today . . . more
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May 12, 2008 06:03 PM EDT --
Inspirational Thought
As I reached for the Light within me, an amazing thing happened. It felt that this Force had been hanging around for some time because it wasn't . . . more
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May 26, 2008 09:18 AM EDT --
Inspirational Thought
Life, as it is practiced, is mostly a mirror, because life, as it is frequently lived, is mostly about attachment. To be attached is to need a mirror--an . . . more
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June 05, 2008 03:18 PM EDT --
Inspirational Thought
Lack.
It is the four-letter word or judgment and doubt.
Love is the four-letter word of creation.
Which will it be today?
Love and . . . more
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June 26, 2008 02:30 PM EDT --
Inspirational Thought
A wood sculpture of a laughing Buddha sits
on the desk in my office. During the long years of
recovery from the guilt and loss of an innocent . . . more
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September 25, 2008 05:56 PM EDT --
Inspirational Thought
If we want tomorrow to be different than
yesterday, we must be willing to respond to a given
set of circumstances in a new way today. . . . more
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April 11, 2008 02:20 PM EDT --
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