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Monthly Archives: December 2014
PINK
I’m 87 and have never had my fingernails painted. When she asked me: ” What color?” I said “pink” . She turned 4 this summer and became a beautician on Christmas day. The polish will fade away but … Continue reading
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PERHAPS A LITTLE THEOLOGY
As the days are now beginning to lengthen old folks need to be strengthened for they know their time on earth is diminishing and will find no increase — at least on this earth.. They won’t share the world’s … Continue reading
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THE SHORTEST DAY
Have no fear my dear — don’t shed a tear. The light won’t disappear but it was reappear a little more each day as God steers our sphere through all the atmosphere that abounds in space.
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HOT CHOCOLATE
The day was dark and dismal. It tried hard to get inside me and it almost did. But then I remembered: Hot Chocolate! Fortunately, its possibility was close by. I had the ingenuity and ingredients to create a mug of … Continue reading
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NOT READY YET
Sometimes when I awaken I think of those who won’t — of those who planned tomorrow and tomorrow never came. They won’t have to worry and they won’t have to fret. Some day I’ll be one of those but I’m … Continue reading
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A NEW FRIEND’S RECOLLECTION
She was not a prostitute nor was she a substitute for one. Nor was she destitute. A man thought she was — not destitute, but a prostitute. She was a tall blonde — the type preferred where she … Continue reading
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SPACES
Knowing there is someone somewhere whose eyes will scan my words rewards me and increases the possibilities that I will try again to share some modest offering that fingertips will lay before some waiting eyes. I search an old … Continue reading
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DEALING WITH THE END
The U-Haul trailer hitched to a hearse — surely this demands some verse: Maybe you can “take it with you” after all although you often thought you couldn’t — or if you could you wouldn’t. Many of us … Continue reading
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Some folks are pretty good at worrying — others are not. It is a gift which if considerably employed can demolish a human spirit. Other folks have been given less of that kind of DNA and worry only … Continue reading
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PILLOW CONVERSATIONS
I told my pillow last night shortly after I went to bed that in the past three years 10,000 children have been killed — 10,000 victims of Syria’s civil war. Children! My pillow only listened. I had … Continue reading
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