It’s just a Wednesday December grey and white clouds asking forgiveness. everyone’s shopping christmas music in the mall completing the list to the mall we go looking for closer parking and then for the gifts.
another friday started gently; finished with senseless tragedy. small school children met insanity’s dark intent outside all reason Our tears together our brief sobs won’t change the world or right the dreadful. Meet anger softly Smooth fear with small kindnesses … Continue reading →
Once the ‘what’ is decided, the ‘how’ always follows. We must not make the ‘how’ an excuse for not facing and accepting the ‘what.’ Pearl S. Buck
Like everyone else, I’ve been trying to answer the big question: why. The only thing I came up with is this. If you’ve spent your whole life being anxious and uncomfortable, feeling not in control, when the moment of breaking … Continue reading →
I stopped on the way home to look at what I knew couldn’t be snow. A little further down the road I saw more white stuff that was different. Frost being squeezed out of the ground.
The heights by great men reached and kept / Were not attained by sudden flight, / But they, while their companions slept, / Were toiling upward in the night.
