life and death | life and death
Nov.27.2012
I was walking in the park into the stiff north easterly wind that could, as the wise ones are prone to remark, take the skin off your nose. In other words it was bitterly cold. A bunch of school kids were out on the playing field kicking a ball. I felt sorry for them especially for the ones who...
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Aug.22.2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjHvJE1XU7E
The rain came in angry downpours all morning long. So much rain that the windshield wipers were ineffective when H and I ventured out on some errands. We were driving from the shopping centre to the slip road that connects us to the city when I saw a woman...
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May.31.2012
While visiting at the hospital, Dad gives M2 $20 and tells her, “buy a dress for your first day of class.”
We turn to each other with a puzzled look.
Thinking out loud, “gee, did he mean buy a Sunday dress to wear to class?”
M1 is out spending the day at Manila Ocean Park with...
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Dec.02.2011
When I die everything will be calm. My mind will finally be at ease, no longer straining between multiple realities. My heart will no longer ache at night and my hands will no longer tremble. I find that when I die, everything will be how it was supposed to be.
I'll die in my bed, my...
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May.30.2011
I shouldn’t have been surprised, but I was. Shocked, actually, and then heartbroken. The two magnificent redwoods in the area just outside our condo’s kitchen window were slated to be removed.
Thirty-five years or so ago someone thought planting little redwoods throughout the grounds was a...
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Jan.03.2011
Watch the clock fade
as the time wears thin,
I'm on my last leg
like a gash on skin.
My heart sinks
as my mind starts
to blurr, pick up
the handle and watch
the barrel turn, sharp
as the trigger
is pulled, shot
through the brain,
lead bullet
spinning, about
to stain every
white wall
that my...
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Dec.31.2010
We were surprised this past week to hear the familiar chirping of a Titmouse on the patio. After all, it has been very wintery with blustery rains and bitterly cold temperatures. Could this be one of a pair that has inhabited the same birdhouse in CiCi’s Garden for the past five years?...
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Dec.24.2010
The week before Christmas and I’ve been sick. The past two days have been a complete wash. My husband brought me chicken soup yesterday, and my sweet little cat has provided a warm log of comfort as I’ve drifted in and out of sleep, never getting completely through any one of the Hallmark...
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Dec.05.2010
A coyote is raised up with one paw on my arm, snapping at CiCi who I hold tightly to my chest, dodging as best I can to avoid her being bitten or taken. I wake up with my heart pounding and nearly knock CiCi from her place on the bed next to me as I lunge into an upright position.
The following...
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Nov.27.2010
Just-in-time reality rescues my heart again –for Thanksgiving!
A dear friend sent me an email this past week with the following story.
The Law of the Wild says kill only when you are hungry!
Photographer Michel Denis-Huot, who captured these amazing pictures on safari in Kenya’s Masai Mara in...
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