Tag: expectations
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August 29, 2006 02:15 AM EDT --
It happens.
The people you thought as pillars of your life
Dissolve like columns of salt with the first gush.
Those you loved with a passion nearly insane
Turn away to cracks between . . .
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September 07, 2007 10:13 AM EDT --
Searing
soaring
silent sentry stirring
as a red tailed hawk
scouring the landscape
for its next meal
I wait
In the deep beginnings of gratitude
an ancient architect arrives approaching wild
like octopus . . .
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September 22, 2007 03:28 PM EDT --
Earlier today I changed the title of an article I'd written from: I Looked It Up and It Was Leon Trotsky to Don't look now, but you might be getting old.
I'm not expecting you to read it. . . .
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November 27, 2009 09:51 PM EST --
It occurred to me the other day that the most obvious difference in the two financial declines is in the look of people in general. I was 10 in 1932 so I remember a little about how people looked. . . .
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February 13, 2009 04:08 AM EST --
Playing the devils advocate is a role I am more likely to assume than not. Unless something truly strokes my passion I may never reveal my true feelings on a . . .
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July 03, 2006 08:17 AM EDT --
The Norwalk Citizen News reports the Norwalk Board of Education is lowering its standards in order to allow students with lower GPAs to play high school sports:
Under the Athletic Eligibility Pilot Program . . .
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January 02, 2010 07:24 AM EST --
Happy Saturday everyone! The first Saturday of the new year and while we are still at the start of the year lets focus a little on reflection of the past year and what we would like to change . . .
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July 04, 2007 08:58 PM EDT --
We Live in Different Worlds
I have wanted to write this article for a while but had trouble grasping where I should start. Recent events in my life let me know I needed to address it and say to those . . .
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September 05, 2007 12:45 AM EDT --
Stale as week old bread
The story tried to be told
For the fifteenth time
Using words of color
First, I think I died
It is so difficult to remember these things
When what should be warm blue
Turns to . . .
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May 18, 2007 07:16 PM EDT --
Well, I am frustrated and tired, so this may seem worse than it really is, but here goes. I have a dear family friend that is an adult with serious special needs. She and her parents wanted her to go to . . .
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September 29, 2007 01:11 AM EDT --
start with the very latest
now, don't practice, mind you
give us the real thing
flood us like the Colorado
don't wear the gauze suit
definitely not the gauze
you know with the wind and all
it looks . . .
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August 06, 2006 08:26 PM EDT --
When you think of rating an article, what do you think of?
I have been inclined once or twice to rate an article very low because I disagree with the premise, but I don't think this is fair.
At one . . .
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February 17, 2008 08:26 AM EST --
When my step-father was first diagnosed with prostate cancer in the mid 90s, it was scary but treatable. He beat it that time. Then seven years later, he had a cancerous tumor in his kidney. It was very . . .
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November 21, 2006 08:40 AM EST --
Thanksgiving will soon be here. Only two days from now, the family will all come over and we will celebrate and eat and drink. Thanksgiving has become my favorite holiday. There is less stress . . .
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January 04, 2007 12:17 PM EST --
i crossed seven hearts
and a wilderness of
ugly ducklings to find you
and all i found was
a shadow in my light.
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January 27, 2007 01:43 AM EST --
My son has presented me many challenges. I was asked by the behavior specialist to provide a list of rules. I prepared a list of house rules. These are rules that everyone must obey in . . .
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March 09, 2007 10:28 AM EST --
I know it has happened.
I just cannot seem to recall exactly when it happened.
At least once a week, I am called to the side, usually by an adult my age or older, and complemented on my 12 year-old son's . . .
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September 24, 2007 01:19 AM EDT --
One of my dogs, Gleason, seems to like to sniff flowers. He's done this before, but I notice sometimes when I water them he either comes over to see what I'm doing or likes the smell of whatever . . .
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September 27, 2007 09:08 AM EDT --
I hate going to the dentist.
I'm not especially fond of brushing my teeth either, although I do it, but not as often as I should.
I also hate getting shots or going to the lab to have a needle stuck . . .
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October 10, 2007 02:08 AM EDT --
You are born into this world an innocent.
Cold
Shivering
Alone
Then the reality of it all begins, life begins; there are so many things to . . .
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