Category: Auto-biographical
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Freedom is a conquered state of mind
It’s finally happened. I’ve come to the place in my life where I just have to be me for me. Before, I had responsibilities – obligations – things that had to be done. I put ‘me’ on the shelf – and only came out briefly to recharge my batteries. Early in my life, I made…
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Learn to be Still
I wonder now if she was ever referred to as Katie? Kate was her name…Kate Doherty and she was my grandmother. I only knew her for seventeen years, while I was a child mostly, but even then I knew she was invincible. If you looked at her, you might deceptively think her frail or weak.…
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Summertime
One summer, while I was visiting at my grandmother’s farm, I got it into my head that I wanted to go out into the fields and pick cotton. No matter that for years – decades even – cotton had been picked by machine and only ‘gleaners’ went into the fields to pick what was left…
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Sometimes life is like a tango . . .
This is not a story about true and lasting love. Make no mistake….just because it is played on a large screen and has beautiful scenes staged for the delight of the players and now for you, dear reader…well, that does not make it love. It was lovely all right – take- your-breath-away beautiful, but it…
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Diary (14) “Alienation “
Diary (14): Alienation May 31st 2009 (NOTE: there was a photo here of somebody kissing the TV presenter goodnight. Apparently, a known phenomenon where extreme loneliness affects people. The link was broken, and I can’t find a copy) When I first saw this photo, I was actually looking for something totally different. I was trying…
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Wait for me . . .
“After all The dead ends and the lessons learned After all The stars have turned to stone There’ll be peace Across the great unbroken void All benign In your time You’ll be fine In your time” . . . . . “Bob Seeger Why is it whenever I think of Chris now I hear Bob…
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That New York Minute
Let’s see. I said there was another story – did I not? Not ever being one to disappoint, I think I’ll tell it now. This is not a story for everyone. If you are too sensitive – or if you think bad things can’t happen to you – or if you wonder why women put…
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The Way of the Samurai
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Diary (13) “Wayward Flamingoes on the Wing “
photo by Suneko Diary (13) “WAYWARD FLAMINGOES ON THE WING “ May 17, 2009 I don’t normally buy local papers. But this headline caught my eye. “Wayward Flamingoes return to parish “. Flamingoes? Louisiana has Flamingoes? You gotta be kidding. I bought the paper. And there, on May 7, 2009, I read an absolutely charming…
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Diary (12) “DWI, killed a kid, but Police say “driver wasn’t in the wrong in crash “!??
Diary (12) Sunday, May 17, 2009 DWI, KILLED A KID, BUT POLICE SAY DRIVER “WASN’T IN THE WRONG IN THE CRASH “!?? Occasionally you read something in the newspaper, and it makes you despair. Human life is worth less and less each day. Sometimes you feel you could weep for the future of compassion amongst…