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7 Hs in Him

7 Hs in Him

It's  hard to be humble when you live in the Milky Way, part of a universe commanded into being. "Because I said so," God would say if you asked, using every parent's fallback refrain. It's important to be humane as well as human in our place in the uneasy...

The Power of Intention

It's 5:34 a.m. when we spontaneously awaken, aware of each other as the covers rustle with movement. We've beaten the clock alarm. Again. Our dear friend had a chemo therapy session - his 5th one, staring down the barrel of wellness to hit a bulls eye. My husband was...

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday

  Today would have been my dad's 83rd birthday. I think. It's difficult to know one's father's age, when one doesn't even acknowledge one's own... Yesterday would have been Larry's mother's birthday, a woman that I never got to meet. She died when he was 21. What...

It’s about Time

It’s about Time

You know the holiday gift season is approaching when...your mailbox is stuffed with catalogues and the papers are filled with ads. Let me be the first to say: Merry Charge Card Season to you! Yesterday's papers - three are delivered before dawn to our door  -...

Not once or twice

Not once or twice

It’s said that lightning never strikes twice in the same place, but let this post be the amendment. Lightning most definitely struck and someone recorded the event on film; lightning almost struck another time, when I lost my head and agreed to ride the cable car to...

by assignment, 200 self-revelatory words

Persistent Ardent Thoughtful Risk-taking Integrity-true Content Interested and interesting Artful   Loving Out-going Understanding Intelligent Singer of harmony Empathetic   Justice-seeking Action-oriented Colorful Kind Sense of humor aloud (allowed)...

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