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Dec.05.2012
Introductions and the addressing of absurdity: As my fellow travelers, I’m sure are aware, Alpha Centauri is a binary star system, since each star has a relative temperature of over 5,000 Kelvin, there is no tap water. As my friends know, my dislike of domestic travel makes my...
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Dec.05.2012
December 5
THE BOAT
On my ride home from work there is a boat stuck between two trees in the middle of a horse pasture next to a riverbed so dry it's filled with grass. I think the boat is me. I feel for the boat every time I see it. Turned on edge,...
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Dec.04.2012
December 4
PERSONAL DICTIONARY
Everyone keeps a dictionary in his or her head. All the words lay on platters each with its own flavor and meaning. There are favorite menus, phrases, which form warmly in the mouth and hang sweetly for the ear. Other...
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Dec.03.2012
December 3
MIRACULOUS
Sometimes the blind lead the deaf. The subtle signs are the bumping into trouble and inability to listen to reason. It is an expedition into disaster unfettered by common sense or boundaries. Tumbles and falls propel this pairing...
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Dec.02.2012
December 2
There are only 23 more shopping days left till my nervous break down
Shoppers beware: I have a careful plan! I can juggle these thirty things, keep these twenty people happy, dig around in the dirt at these three excavation sites and hold on to my sanity...
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Dec.01.2012
December 1
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT
Arrested development was bad enough; the living death sentence it imposes is completely unacceptable. My childhood ran down the hill away from the mountain of confusion that is life in this society. My ability to mature was...
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Nov.30.2012
November 30
FLAW IN SNOW
Waiting for snow. Waiting for cold fingers, slick roads, warm beds, reading by firelight. Waiting for the proof of lack of control. Waiting itself proves lack of control. I can dance the snow dance and refuse to buy...
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Nov.29.2012
November 29
ENDLESS PASTA
Having limits in a seemingly limitless universe makes me feel horribly inadequate. I am a sad little creature in the face of overwhelming tasks. Pressure and unwarranted ego compress my ability and eager disposition....
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Nov.28.2012
November 28
NAVY DUCK
When the postcard is hung upside down the plane flies away on its back. I know one of those irregular days with the disposition of a bee-stung mule is on its way to visit me. I have found diplomacy goes a long way and when it runs...
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Nov.27.2012
November 27
THE STORYTELLER
Funny stories I long to share with new friends have to be put aside while the core of this entity is built. Mutual memory is the siding on a house framed in integrity. Treading together through the past, we strengthen each...
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Nov.26.2012
November 26
ASSURANCES OF GULLIVER
Poor Lilliputians and my egg shaped conundrum! At least they have the strength of their convictions when I have only pondering to share the space between my ears. What sense could the world make if there is no one...
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Nov.25.2012
November 25
THE FLYING MIND
When my brain flies out my ear, destination unknown, I am left mentally bereft. I feel intellectual convolution and show no affliction other than my inability to fulfill my assignments. I stare out sure a ring of blue birds circle...
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Nov.24.2012
November 24
LIKE PEACE
Peace, like an elephant on my chest; I can’t breathe but at least we are not fighting. The rigid air hangs like sheets on the line, stiff but dry. Plastered smiles and short salutations get us through until bedtime, but what we can hold...
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Nov.23.2012
November 23
PRIDE GOETH BEFORE A FALL
In truth, pride goes wherever it wants, it’s pride. Pride wanders alone, for no one enjoys its company. Pride travels far but gets nowhere. Pride rises above reality and seeps beneath the surface. When pride...
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Nov.22.2012
November 22
JELLYFISH AND PEANUT BUTTER CARDS
Jellyfish and peanut butter cards make for busy days and cheerful nights, sunlit at the beach and lantern light filled with double-decker solitaire. Camping as a way of life suits some as they run from their...
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About Sherrie
Sherrie Theriault writer and outsider artist lives in northwest New Jersey where she writes villain-free fiction for children, creates coloring books for all ages, writes daily inspiration books for the recovery community and has other works of collected...
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