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Mar.17.2010
Happy spring! It’s been a beautiful week where I live; the sun is out and I’ve been trying to walk every day. It feels like everyone is letting out a sigh of relief. Yes, there are layoff notices, bad news all around, but cherry blossoms are blooming in the trees. Spring is the promise of renewal,...
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Mar.17.2010
I yesterday bestowed upon a truly great man an insight that nearly moved him to tears.
He’s Keith. Like me, he’s a regular at the corner tavern where we go for giggles and boredom-bashing inebriations.
Other than that, we have little in common. He’s on my Mt. Rushmore of great personal friends...
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Mar.17.2010
Oriole
A white cotton sheet luffing like a loose mainsailfloats willingly on soft air, not going anywhere. Just being itself, it is peacefully, quietly there. In a sudden change of mood, though, it fiercely rolls into a tight little ball and hurls itself into a mist, then just as quickly swirls...
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Mar.17.2010
Is that the alarm clock??
Spring is not the best of seasons. Cold and flu are two good reasons; wind and rain and other sorrow, warm today and cold tomorrow.
But I'm hoping to be more optimistic...
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Mar.17.2010
"May She Find Joy"
She stopped and dropped her bag to the ground, then herself. She studied the stone.
Ada Ryan Spencer
March 21, 1931 - April 4, 2004
"May She Find Joy"
She rooted in her bag for a camera, snapped a pic. Then...
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Mar.17.2010
On roaring rain-drenched winds sweeping worn out Winter away, scouring shingle shores & mulching underbrush readying for Spring fever.
Now Bald Eagles fly in & settle on budding Alders around headlands along the only road to the end of the earth. Here they await the feast of Anadramous...
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Mar.17.2010
Long before the cycle of life was something I ever thought about, spring worried me. It was too aggressive, too violent. It held too much promise, and it was a promise that could be taken away by a freak storm in April or fog in early June. Spring was so beautiful and then it went away. Spring...
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Mar.17.2010
Sprintime plays an important role in the new history book at Brown Fedora Books (brownfedorabooks.com) called THE MULES OF MONTE CASSINO. After the brutal winter of 1943-1944, as American and Allied forces tried to drive the stubborn German paratroopers out of the Monte Cassino Valley in order to...
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Mar.17.2010
The things you crave.. The things you cannot control from wanting, desiring.. Let them out of your system.. Yet do it fast.. Do it as fast as that desire lasts.. For these things obstruct the peace that is inside..
Once you are cleared you will magically find yourself doing nothing.. Doing nothing...
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