by PJColando | May 1, 2013 | In the Pink, Purpose
Remember that holiday rite where you left a bouquet at a the front door of a friend, rang the doorbell, and ran away? Me neither. May be it was a florists’ dream from the 1950s. Established as the first of May and entitled May Day! Which, of course, is a...
by PJColando | Apr 24, 2013 | Purpose
Conversation is an essential social endeavor, at the heart of being human. Conversation is dialogue, not monologue, though some people seem not to know it. It is also not diatribe, for anger just isn’t that interesting. It does not create ties that bind....
by PJColando | Apr 22, 2013 | blog post, Purpose
The bulbs were easy to slid into the damp earth early last December, the month of persistent mist and drizzle. They’d spent the obligatory six weeks in the refrig to emulate frost. Direct from Holland, their purchase was commemoration of my seventh year of...
by PJColando | Apr 15, 2013 | Purpose
Here it is! The full translation of the famous quote by America’s venerated self-made man, Benjamin Franklin, written to a friend in France in November 1789: “Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promise it will be durable; but, in this...
by PJColando | Apr 9, 2013 | Blonde, Purpose
It was the 60’s in northwestern Indiana. Though our small town was proximate to the trials of the Chicago 7 and pre-election riots televised for all to see, we were worlds apart. We lived the idyllic, self-contained, ritualistic life of those close to the land....
by PJColando | Mar 19, 2013 | In the Pink, Purpose
This post was written in late February as I awaited a scheduled surgery date. I acted on my faithful friend’s wisdom, that, what the mind doesn’t know, it invents…I sidetracked worry into its own dead end, not allowing it to blight my day or night. I...
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