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Tag Archives: acceptance
Just family – June 28
6.28 Joe was a surprise. My tall handsome son explained to me that this was his love. And I had to step back, say no no, are you sure, then OK. We sit around their dinner table now, family, … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance, adjustments, attitudes, changes, everyday, expectations, familiarity, family, gay, grace, LGBT, love, marriage, surprises
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friends pass – June 9
6.9.2014 friends pass sometimes because the cancer caught up to them some because they stuck a needle into their arm one too many times and the heroin got ‘em some simply dropped one day in the library stacks … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance, care, connections, death, faith, friends, grace, grieving, loss, memory, persistence
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Lent Prayer 40 – April 13
Lent Prayer 40 we cheered you on especially when we thought it would go our way but when it didn’t follow our script we turned and still do. forgive us our stupidity, cupidity, rapidity, done-deedity. we don’t … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance, Christianity, expectations, forgiveness, growth, Jesus, Lent, Palm Sunday, Prayer, reversals
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friends come by – December 9
12.9 friends come by and we talk. about bodies and tests and pains. big words go unspoken, like cancer and chance and statistical odds. we play cards instead and eat and joke like everyday people. because life … Continue reading
maturity – September 13
9.13 my eyes are aging, the slow falling apart disturbing when the answer is you can’t fix it. accepting the disintegration is an affront I am not ready to let go or give in to. they say that … Continue reading
white tail limitations – August 9
8.9 white tailed hind quarters disappear into the late dusk shrubbery across the street a pale fawn cocks its rear leg in statue form. the dog notices none of it, or all, large animals being beyond his ken … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance, animal knowledge, dogs, limitations, White-tailed deer
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we do what we need to do – May 14
5.14 Weathered hands, mid calf deep in the water. Placerville, panning, keening at stream silt edges for a glimpse of gold. A flake, a niggly pebble that might show a flash. Day after day, all day, screening through ones fingers … Continue reading
purebred prancing – May 12
5.12 A white and black spaniel type on her owner’s leash, prances down the hill from the big houses neighborhood toward Tobey and I. Is your dog friendly… should we cross over to say hello. He’s had a couple … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance, distance, dogs, mongrels, patterns, purebred, rejection, separation
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