reflections | reflections
May.19.2013
Hi Jim,
Hope all is going well. Wonder where you're at and if there's somewhere to be? You and I never talked about things like that. I wonder what your last thoughts were, your last words. Hard to reconcile that you've been gone almost 22 years. Some things don't ever...
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May.06.2013
L called me. She'd been fired.
I met her when she was working for my wife in 2000. Those two were 'laid off' in February, 2001. They asked if I could find a position for L with my employer. I discussed it with HR. L joined my team as a full time temp working a 90 day...
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Mar.26.2013
I searched for a daily mantra yesterday but didn't find one.
I knew where my thoughts and I were going. I knew what I wanted.
No word or thought resonated.
I tossed bait out. Ideas nibbled. Freedom. Contracts. Direction.
Each stayed slippery and...
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Mar.22.2013
The sound from the breaking waves, the rich smell of the salted breeze, and the hot sand beneath my unsteady feet touch gently and hold me upright. My spirit is broken, but I manage to take one trembling step at a time through the shifting sand. I am alone with hundreds of people around me;...
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May.02.2012
A new intruder on the site, I find it hard to know what to comment on and how. I am a secret writer with a solitary heart which finds warmth in sharing but not self promotion. I just commented on a the pulitzer prize and lo the comment vanished alongside my momentum...odd
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Oct.27.2011
I thought I might have lost it, the control that I've strived to gain over the years. Sitting on the train staring at blank faces, arguing voices battling inside my head. I stared out the window and watched the tracks fly by, tree tops growing smaller and smaller with each passing...
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Oct.17.2011
A Timely Source of Grace - Imprint of The Cross
Sometimes we get messages that we almost can’t believe, and often it’s when we need encouragement most. I believe these signs and symbols come to us from God, and something like this happened to me when my husband was dying. I had been at the...
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May.09.2011
Busted – Again: An Introduction
When the police arrived I didn’t wait for them to come into the house. I gave Dick a five- minute head start while I smoked a cigarette and finished my drink. Then I walked outside barefoot with my cell phone and introduced myself to the four police officers standing...
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Apr.15.2011
My father loved the ocean. He grew up a stone's throw from it and spend his childhood years on it. During his six years in the British Royal Navy during WW2, he sailed all over Europe, North Africa and along the coasts of Canada and the U.S. I could probably write for days about his participation...
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