New Years Thoughts

My holiday break has given time to read, reflect and write a little. I work outside mostly and when in my office access to social sites and blogs is blocked, texting is expensive, and I share a computer at home with three people; so being able to blog and comment these last few days [...]

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Love’s Standard

I wrote this around ten years ago when I was into free verse type poetry. I guess it is still my wish for the world.
There are moments when the intellect of one’s mind finds no way to express the emotions felt deep within our heart. Words eloquent enough nor other means do not [...]

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A Christmas Reflection

This Christmas finds me in a reflective mood.
My immediate family is safe, prosperous and healthy, a great blessing and comfort. Over the last years I have lost those who were parents to me, and have remained distant to my half siblings and birth parents whom I did not grow up around, a [...]

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My Oldest Son’s Writing

My oldest son, Jacob is on a free ride through college in part to his writing ability, the essay below got him into a select group of young scholars here in Arkansas.
“If there is sin against life, it consists in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.” – Albert [...]

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My Wife’s Writing

Speaking Joy Silently
Hold a newborn babe close to your heart
Wrap new hope around your life
Dance every step with hope from the start
Spin each second into a fresh memorable part
Let the finale be a single thrown dart
Hold love in your arms alway
Wrap yourself in your love’s arms
Dance on loves golden ray
Spin into loves strong rapturous [...]

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Living?

To Live is to allow moments to slip away,
as those you love grow, leave; and die.
To merely exist is to hold on to moments
that should be slipping into one’s past.
I fear that my dearest moments lie somewhere
in the past as I watch them recede from my grasp.
And I stumble desperately after them
wishing they would remain [...]

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Hello world!

Hello, everyone!  The world’s a long time a coming and life passes by in a flash.

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