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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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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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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