image link I’m retiring from my current place of employment in June 2018, after having served 25 years. Yes, served as in a sentence. It hasn’t been all bad. Every year we do an office Secret Santa. It is a week of gifts that you give and receive, each gift in the $2-$5 range. So…
Month: December 2017
Chris Hedges from Rise Up Times
Those who speak in the language of truth and fact are attacked as liars, traitors and purveyors of “fake news.” via Chris Hedges | The Permanent Lie, Our Deadliest Threat — Rise Up Times
A Prayer
image link Across the skies Across the land A pall Grey above and below With patches of white above and below Not enough to allow Spirits more than a millimeter Away from zero. — Souls across the planet Of warm-blooded, plants, Stones, and water, and the Rest of the 10,000 things, In earnest, heart-beaming to…
If Love was Enough
image link If love was enough, I’d overlook your unwavering putdowns of others whose faces you smile into, million small cuts, relentless putdowns of me, non-dissuadable gaslighting, insistence for appeasement, unsatiable abyss of need and want for any and everything. If love was enough, I’d allow only your smile, laugh, kindness to animals, knowledge…
The Ballad of Yukon Cornelius
image link Keele Peak in Mackenzie Mountain range Breeds snow 12 months a year To get to the top takes grit and mean And untold hours of prayer Refrain: Yukon Cornelius Born with a pickaxe in his hand Yukon Cornelius Find Santa’s gold if you can A man named Ringo traveled there…
Christmas Character Origin Story Flash Challenge
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? First of all allow me to apologize if you have been looking for this post for nearly a week. I wrongly assumed I could return from my bi-annual international mission trip with my head collected and ready to resume my regular activities. Even after my fourth trip I found…
Merman
image link I’m reclining on an air chaise that has soft arms with an attached table with drink holder and small cooler, in the middle of the pool. In the holder sits a chilled globed glass with orange pineapple juice with grapefruit Stoli over cranberry juice rocks. It is Summer, with a clear sky overhead,…
Tao Talk 