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A note to the kids
Not to get all sentimental on a Saturday morning but I had a thought I wanted to share. As you all are beginning to understand, time accelerates as you grow older. In the blink of an eye, you look back at an entire life and can’t believe it all happened so long ago. You wish…
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Bending Towards the Light
Growing to the sunBending towards the lightStrength and warmth combineWhen turned, the underside is exposedAnd light reaches where it didn’t for awhile Water beads shimmer in the sunDewey drops glisten, lit from withinGlobes of luminescence on the tip of a purple flowerDelicate and lightOpals cascading from the fringe Dappled light through the wicker chairOn the…
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Solomon’s Porch – A Beautiful Collision
Note – This was written in 2008 and originally published in the Monticello News. “The breaking makes a sound I never thought could be so beautiful and loud, fury filledand we collide.” I was listening to David Crowder on my ipod as Hector drove the van up and through the mountains as we left Panajachel…
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The Morning Yard
The little birds make their voices big and command attention as they go about their daily tasks. Hopping along the tree branches and onto the fence, they work their way around the yard. The squirrels scamper along from branch to branch, shaking the evening rain from the tree to the plants below. Somewhere under the…
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Stickers: It’s what they do
This week I worked in the backyard to reclaim my knockout roses from what had become the wilds of the back forty. Over the years, that portion of our yard has been a lot of things but much of the time, it has tended to be what gets a bit wild and out of control.…
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