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Category Archives: REALITY
REALITY: Attitude
Geez, this post was going to be about the youthful exuberance and lack of fear among the confident youth facing the new semester, versus my own crawl-into-a-hole-where-I-can-just-reach-the-button-to-cancel-classes-via-computer-easy-way-out tendencies. But in my early morning weblog travels, I see many my age … Continue reading Continue reading
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REALITY: Placeholder
Yes, this post is serving as an “Old Folk’s List of Things To Do” that I admit I’ve needed many years now in the daily doings. So, without apology: 1. Youthful Confidence/Elderly Adamance? 2. Paternal Baggage 3. The Secret Value … Continue reading Continue reading
REALITY & WRITING: Promises
Keeping a promise made, not to write unless it’s something worth writing about and my writing is worthwhile. Right now, if I write it would be an essay of diatribe, poetry could not live long within my words. If I … Continue reading Continue reading
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REALITY: Saturday
Rainy day. Everything’s gray. Nothing to say. Anyone else out there ruled by the weather? Continue reading
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WRITING & REALITY: Nightlights
One last look into the moonless night from my darkened kitchen window; the snowball bush fluorescent with the sunlight gathered from the day. But look—one bloom has fallen to the ground it seems, separate from the others, and it is … Continue reading Continue reading
REALITY: Motivational Theory
Arms and legs not dangling, doing something, even if that something isn’t needing to be done gives a minor sigh of having done. Things that do need doing are just complicating things that can’t be faced with half a brain … Continue reading Continue reading
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REALITY: Food for Thought
Dinner out last night, pizza of the very best aroma, flavors, colors. Pepper living green and pungent hot; sausage wafting scents of garlic, fennel, sauce of cheery ripe tomatoes, anchovies instead of dreaded salt, and broccoli and mushrooms, well, they … Continue reading Continue reading
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WRITING & REALITY: Writing Reality
Sometimes I write in metaphor, and sometimes not. Reality needs dressing up for many reasons; often pain is either hidden or understood in words that make it more real in the seeing of the textual version of the scene. Joy … Continue reading Continue reading
REALITY & WRITING: Myopic Duskvision
Perimeter check of the backyard: A peach peeks from rain-dripping leaves! How did I miss it–I check it each day; for the late frost had killed all the blossoms, I thought. I take out binoculars, as the peach flies away; … Continue reading Continue reading
REALITY & WRITING: Feeling Stupid
I feel so unintelligent today. The words stick like Holy Hosts to the roof of my mouth, and no dislodging by a sacrilegious writhing tongue can set them free. Bowing head nor gazing at the heavens will release the thoughts … Continue reading Continue reading
REALITY: Insurance
Bills for pills and spills arrive, discounted by the gods as superfluous. Cut them in half, take one every three days, live just a little less longer. Health care, the American way. Continue reading
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REALITY & WRITING: A Different Morning
White quiet morning, left to the lords of the night. Like vampires they claim the sunless sky to fly freely, beaking at bugs unaware of the difference that dawned on this day. Treefrogs are peeping in coolness of night, ignoring … Continue reading Continue reading
REALITY: Eye to Eye
How can we not agree, on what seems so obvious; the line goes from wrong to right, bad to good, here to there. In facing each other, I see with my right eye—which is that on your left; maybe that … Continue reading Continue reading
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REALITY: Friends
Pat and I met as sophomores in high school, she being transferred from another local school. We were such opposites: She, tall, blonde, extroverted, funloving to the point of peeing her pants when she laughed hard; me, short, light brown … Continue reading
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REALITY: Language
Honest, I am trying not to get riled up, so I waited a bit with this one until I could laugh about it. this article in Slate (via Fafblog) describes the Dairy Queen dilemna of finding themselves being offensive in … Continue reading Continue reading
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The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology