This morning
I sat down to write
not because I have anything
important to say
because I don’t
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Bad Advice
For some reason, this time of year
I am told to find joy in the snow
or “I will have less joy but still snow.”
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Have you ever thought – oh, dang!
When a word pops up everywhere
but how did it even get there?
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Chapter I: Elegant Elephant
I stood outside my grandma’s house and sighed. Thanksgiving at grandma’s was definitely not going to the same this year. This was something I had been dreading since I received the invitation from my mom last month. I tried desperately to come up with an excuse but it was made clear no excuse was acceptable. Thanksgiving at grandma’s was mandatory this year. While coercion is not usually an acceptable invitation, I decided I would go to the house one last time, suffer through the dinner, and pick up what was mine.
Continue readingConversation in the Yard
The blossom looked around at its surroundings and realized, “I’m a pretty flower.”
“No,” the old flower next to it said. “You are a weed.”
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Love language is the lingo of the day. Who hasn’t heard this term used once in the last month? We are all claiming and broadcasting our individual ways others prove they love us. So, to make it easy, here are a few of my literal love language gestures:
Continue readingLike Sister Mary Robert
I wish I had a hidden skill.
Something I could just whip out
at times when the chips are down
and give everyone a thrill
when they discover my skill.
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All it Took
One single time is all it took
someone said my writing was good stuff
that compliment was more than enough
I painstakingly undertook
to compile it all in a book.
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They say, what others think of you
is not really your business.
Here is my take and witness,
this well-known saying may be true
but I’d like to add something, too.
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