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You Came To Me

The following is a writing (with accompanying artwork above) that I did in December 2018 and want to share on the 42nd anniversary of my father’s death. ​​ YOU CAME TO ME Daddy I saw you in a dream once. It was dark and there was a tree in the far distance that was illuminated. You were under the tree clutching your chest and I knew you were having your heart attack. I ran to you like I do every...

WHAT KIND OF MOTHER ARE YOU, ANYWAYS!!!!! (Part I?)

Disclaimer:  The names contained herein have been changed,​to protect the innocent, the very very very innocent! They will only be lovingly referred to as: OFFSPRING #1and OFFSPRING #2Please proceed…with tender caution! ​The room was half-darkened late that night as I sat dialoguing with my first-born male Offspring#1, and his female friend… She turned to my first-born male Offspring #1 and said:“What do you love the most about your mother?” I froze inside. From a 10-foot distance I locked my piercing blue...

Considering the Birds in One Thousand Words

This morning I began my daily routine of brewing coffee and looking out my patio door watching birds come and go from my feeder.  I remembered once again a written expression I had intended to form several months ago. I remembered making a brief comment online in January that I planned to write about birds that day – after Facebook brought up a memory from the previous January 2020 where I photographed my feet in black socks touching the floor...

Signs of Madness

I almost titled this “They Took Photographs of Their Food.” I had some thoughts tonight after starting to make my dinner around 9 pm after a long day.   I took leftover homemade bread from Easter, put spaghetti sauce on it, then while looking in frig for shredded cheese noticed some leftover Avocado Tomatillo sauce and I put that between the pasta sauce and cheese. And then, I did something very strange:   I took a photograph of it with the ingredients...

The Year We All Cried “UNCLE”

I imagine I was around six to eight years old when I had the satisfaction of beating my Daddy in arm wrestling. Fifty-some years later I can string a composite memory of various images in my mind, still…though all these moments may lack exact sequence. I think some of our memories – especially the mundane, everyday recollections from long ago – exist in a composite event – a very real and summary synopsis. _____ I remember winter nights after dinner at...

The Enthusiastic Election of the Embodiment of All Seven Deadly Sins

“The seven deadly sins, also known as the capital vices, or cardinal sins, is a grouping and classification of vices within Christian teachings,[1] although they are not explicitly listed in the Bible. Behaviours or habits are classified under this category if they directly give rise to other immoralities.[2] According to the standard list, they are pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth,[2] which are contrary to the seven heavenly virtues.” – Wikipedia ​​I recently read comments on a social media post by someone urging everyone to vote for Christian values by voting for Donald Trump.   One comment...