courage | courage
Jan.08.2011
January 8
Lathe
Turning into a spin, the edge cuts into my misconceptions, the point sharp and accurate to a fault digs into the excess I carry around, keeping me from my useful purpose. A good eye and steady hand are needed lest breakthrough ruin me. Not that...
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Nov.11.2010
From where does courage come? From the stomach-churned battle cry for Freedom, screamed in every language from the time humans first sought to enslave that most basic right? From the faces of the hungry and the war-torn, too ill themselves to fight and who must look to the strong for...
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Oct.26.2010
If the task is very tough
Please close your mouth
If someone is toward you rough
Forgive his being very uncouth
Patience has a miraculous stuff
Which you must learn from youth
Agitation will give only palpitation
Invitation to patience does restitution
Irritation affects one's constitution
A bold...
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Sep.29.2010
I will come Through this!
I will get through this moment in my life.
Whatever I am now experiencing I know I have the power to come through this.
If I feel held back in any way, I know that all is in divine time.
If I feel as if I don’t have enough, I will focus on plenty and be grateful for what I...
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Sep.19.2010
In the dry house
he opens boxes
slowly,
raising yesterday
into the evening sun.
His hands are very clean.
By nightfall,
his half-remembered
treasures perch
uncomfortably
in new places,
unused to exposure.
Dust appears.
The boxes stay open.
Small sounds
assume significance.
Far...
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Aug.22.2010
Your Course is Clear
1. "I am like all other men; like some other men; like no other man." Listen to Aeschylus. In life, express no-other-person qualities."
2. Separate your unique strengths from your "me-too" strengths and act on them.
3. We deny gifts as well as...
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Aug.03.2010
Contrary to popular belief, teen pregnancy has its perks.
There’s really nothing more life altering, thrilling and poignant than to be expecting a baby when one should be expecting a high school diploma.
The lucky ones with the right last name and or happenstance opportunity, are surrounded by...
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Jul.23.2010
July 23
Before Ophelia
Young women drown themselves before Shakespeare immortalized, memorialized Ophelia. But having a poster child changes us. Cautionary tale or rallying cry, Ophelia is a hand to hold on dark cold days when the light is hard to find and...
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Jul.10.2010
D G Rossetti
I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung.Rabindranath Tagore
One's real life is often the life one does not lead.Oscar Wilde
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time: it is regret for the things that...
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May.26.2010
In my first novel, The Devil's Redhead, one of my characters makes that pronouncement, equating life with luck, and being lucky with terror. It was my way of describing the anxiety I saw in so many of the nouveau riche clients my wife Terri and I saw in her law practice, well-to-do people with real...
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