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September 30, 2007 03:03 PM EDT --
I haven't written much since my mother died last November. I just haven't felt the urge. Grief shows up in funny ways. However, since my mother died fairly young at the . . .
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March 23, 2007 08:42 PM EDT --
There is such a place as heaven on earth and I have found it for me.
For twenty six years I lived in Norfolk, Virginia. I did not live in the nicest of neighborhoods. I drove in high . . .
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February 22, 2007 03:58 PM EST --
I never guessed that watching a movie based on a book I have read three or four times would affect me so much, but it did. I am sitting here crying my eyes out over the death of a cowboy that never . . .
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January 26, 2007 04:08 PM EST --
I woke up at 4 a.m. having a panic attack because it suddenly hit me that I am moving to a great new apartment the first weekend of March and have booked myself for every weekend in February. When . . .
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January 25, 2007 07:39 AM EST --
Yesterday morning was typically cold and windy for a January day in New England. The light layer of snow was crunchy and slick. The cars were camoflaged in sand and salt. Most faces . . .
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January 21, 2007 01:24 PM EST --
Grief is such a tricky emotion. It shows up in a variety of ways.
My mother is gone. I am now an orphan. I tell myself that I knew this was coming. It was only a . . .
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January 20, 2007 09:01 PM EST --
I can’t seem to put two words together
as the writer’s block stands in the doorway
haunting every moment and chuckling
as I stare at an empty computer screen.
I try to stay two steps . . .
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January 06, 2007 10:36 PM EST --
What happened to the youthful days
when bedtime meant falling onto the sheets
in the wee hours of the morning,
mascara streaks across the pillowcase,
too tired to wash face
after dancing and . . .
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January 03, 2007 12:50 PM EST --
Or - Be Careful What You Ask For:
On November 22 I was riding in my son’s truck and thinking back on the past few days. We had just returned from northern Wisconsin . . .
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January 03, 2007 10:38 AM EST --
Encountering the Dharma by Richard Hughes Seager
In 1943, Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, a controversial educator who, through his study of American philosophy was seeking to reform the Japanese educational . . .
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November 17, 2006 01:56 PM EST --
I woke up this morning feeling better than I have in weeks. I was finally able to get a good night of sleep and the aura of anxiety that has been following me around since my mother was diagnosed . . .
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November 12, 2006 12:53 PM EST --
I want to thank you for all of the prayers and offerings of love and light. My mother passed away early this morning at the hospice center in Hartford, CT. My sister and brother had spent . . .
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November 06, 2006 04:28 PM EST --
A slow waltz,
A turn here, a slide there,
A wish for the music to never end.
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November 06, 2006 09:57 AM EST --
The Drive
It was a long drive after a long weekend. The trees had shed their leaves and reminded her that all things eventually come to an end. The winter ahead was going to be difficult. . . .
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November 06, 2006 09:25 AM EST --
Quiet Time
Some days call for quiet time
in order to boost the spirits after
facing the facts of life and death
and needing to find diversions
to end the racing mind and focus
on something that can . . .
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October 29, 2006 09:33 PM EST --
Change of Seasons
Leaves dance to earth
while the wind plays
a tune through the trees.
White caps rise and fall
on Dublin Pond while
clouds scatter over head.
I smile as snow flakes
melt . . .
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October 27, 2006 11:07 PM EDT --
In The Best Way to Ease Your Troubled Life, (/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976825514) , Bill Allin brings out the point that by helping others we can forget our own troubles. . . .
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October 23, 2006 07:54 PM EDT --
I have lost about 65 pounds in the past four months. One of the best things about this is that I now fit comfortably in the old fashioned claw foot tub I have in my apartment. I am in heaven. . . .
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October 22, 2006 08:49 PM EDT --
I have to admit it, at fifty years of age I am probably John Ondrasik's oldest fan. I don't mind, however. I don't know whether I am touched more by his lyrics or the music. . . .
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October 22, 2006 03:26 PM EDT --
Getting Lost
I have been many places and taken many turns
on highways leading to open spaces or dirt roads
under canopies of trees that would lead others to
fear they are lost and hopelessly turned . . .
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