Sunday, August 30, 2009
Sunset in Camelot
Whether she struts the streets in designer shoes toting tiny exclusive pups in her purse doing nothing to save her doggone soul but shop and spend and sip mohitos in a classy club or she scrubs another woman's toilets picks up after her, sets silver things on a tray just so and scrubs the counters...
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Saturday, August 29, 2009
The poet's obligation
BEAUTY, HARMONY, PEACE AND LIGHT Such was the stuff of poetry, I thought. Appreciation of the glories of nature, the wonders of the world, love in all its permutations and complications. Then I read a warrior poet. Railing in fury against injustices, ranting about man's inhumanity to man, of corrupt...
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Friday, August 28, 2009
Treasures to trash -- deciding to downsize (or not)
The death of Sen. Edward Kennedy following so many other losses this year, makes me think the historical frame for 2009 will be draped in black. I can't remember a solid week without the loss of some familiar person, someone who used to bring me the news, entertained me, created something that had...
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
Free Pre-Paid Cremation! details inside
It looked like an invitation, that 4 x 6 envelope size, a nice creamy color. No return address, just one of those USA prepaid bulk mail stamps. So I knew it wasn't another wedding shower. But a free prepaid cremation? My bullshit detector began to blink. The back flap of the envelope held the return...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Did I ever tell you about Jeepers?
This was 60 years ago and then a couple. Somehow mom became the owner of a half-coyote pup, who was no doubt the cutest puppy that ever was. And someone said "Jeepers, you're the cutest puppy I ever saw," and so he had a name. By the time he was all grown up, Jeepers' wild side kept bubbling to the...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Have Gun, Will Travel
I used to love that show. Had a huge crush on Paladin, the good guy in a black hat. He was a gentleman, protected and respected women, had the fastest gun in the west, a beautiful black horse, quoted Shakespeare and the Greek philosophers. In fact, I refused to leave for the hospital when I was in...
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Monday, August 24, 2009
I wish now I had a picture.
There's so much more to people than you'd ever suspect. Amazing. I met Chris fifteen or twenty years ago at the college when I was on staff there. These days we're in the writing group together. She can put a story together, bring out the critical details that make it real. I never knew she'd had...
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Sunday, August 23, 2009
Surprise! Surprise! The mortgage guys sent me a refund!
It was almost $300! One of the perks of getting older, I guess. Around the first of the year I got a letter from Ye Olde Mortgage Bankers that my escrow payments hadn't quite covered the property taxes and homeowner's insurance, so they were bringing my automatic house payment deductions up by about...
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Saturday, August 22, 2009
claw of the dragon
To make you compliant, so you won't cringe from the flame of his breath, the dragon pricks your skin with one needle-sharp claw. And from that tiny wound spreads euphoria that fills your body and mind in a few heartbeats. You relax into a sense of all's right with the world, and you understand......
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Friday, August 21, 2009
phone call from a distant son...
In a busy schedule it helps sometimes if you can "kill two birds with one stone." So when J called me yesterday from Iowa, he was also walking the dog, Katie. Mild day for August, the last Thursday of break week. The fall semester starts Monday, he'll be back in the IT and code writing and advanced...
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