Monthly Archives: December 2012
December Mall #haiku
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.
Sad, Still #haiku
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
Making things happen: what and how
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
The big why.
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
Also on Friday
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.
