Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Let’s Wrap It Up….
Current mood: artistic
Category: Writing and Poetry
“How can someone go from being so important in your life to this in a matter of days? You’re just going to let the phone ring? I thought you guys were close?” he poked at the fire with the fireplace shovel as [...]
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Friday, November 14, 2008
Hmm, What am I thinking….
Current mood: contemplative
Category: Life
I have been spinning Mary Chapin Carpenter’s cd The Calling. (I am also reading a book by Robert Coles, more L’Engle stuff, and Dostoevsky so not all pressure for my ranting here falls on MC2) I really am provoked by her cd. Maybe it’s one of those [...]
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Monday, October 27, 2008
Oh, Great! Expectations…
Current mood: curious
Category: Life
Because you’re not what I would have you be
I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.
Seeking mirage where desert blooms, I mar
Your you. Love, I would like to see
Past all delusion to reality.
Then would I see God’s image in your face
His hand in yours, and [...]
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008
For my autistic, down syndrome friend
Current mood: blessed
Emily, I wonder what goes through that pretty head
You look up at me and won’t say a word
Emily, big brown eyes and coal black hair
Just to feel my skin you take my hands in yours
Bang the table, hands flap, pages fly,
Watching you just freezes [...]
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Monday, September 01, 2008
In Memorium 09-06-07
Category: Life
I can’t remember the first time that I read anything by Madeleine L’Engle. But I would imagine that it was A Wrinkle in Time like most people. I do however remember vividly when I fell in love with Madeleine L’Engle’s writing. I read that same book aloud [...]
Filed under: Christianity, art, hobby, life, nature, poetry, purpose, relating well, relationships, wonder, writing on September 1st, 2008 | No Comments »
“Where did Pollyanna go?”
She asked me.
“Not always a laugh a minute it seems.”
I smiled slowly, sadly
And shrugged a shoulder
And I watched her and replied,
“Where’s your big dreams?
Seems to me we’re both a little jaded.
Seems to me we’re neither one that tough.”
Cynically she laughed and she nodded adding,
“But whoever would have guessed
It could be so rough.”
Just [...]
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But That’s What I Hear
You call me first instead of waiting
For me to reach out to you
You never think much about it
But I do.
You act as if I know things
As if I have a contribution to your world
even in the little things
You don’t do it to remind me of my value
But [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized, life, poetry, purpose, relating well, relationships, wonder on July 30th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Ken Gire records some dialogue from the courtroom scene from the 1994 movie “Nell” in the opening of his book, The Reflective Life: Becoming more Spiritually Sensitive to the Everyday Moments of Life. (In the translated version of Nell’s speech) Mr. Guire writes,
You have big [...]
Filed under: Christianity, Uncategorized, kids, life, relating well, relationships, wonder, writing on July 12th, 2008 | No Comments »
My children are already suffering from the “all good things must end” malady that I often grieve from. It’s amazing how we can as Thoreau said, “launch (ourselves) on every wave, find your eternity in each moment” if it comes to beginnings, but endings always leave us grieving and breathless. We see it coming. [...]
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In the book, by Antoine De Saint-Exup`ery, the fox begs the little prince to “tame” him. The fox says,
“One only understands the things that one tames… Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at shops. But there is not shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and [...]
Filed under: life, poetry, relating well, relationships, wonder, writing on June 4th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
