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Tag Archives: life
Old friend tree
5.17.2020 [Old friend tree] Old friend tree laid down today in the middle of the night, in the middle of rain and dark and a quiet slip over when too much weight and soft soil combined to say it is … Continue reading
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Tagged appreciation, friendship, life, meanings, memory, mortality, nature, relationship, rythmns
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survivor guilt – February 26
2.26.2018 in wartime guns rattle, ied’s level the guys next to you, and some come home in pieces, while others in only guises and varieties of a whole. why me, why not me why them, and I’m still here … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance, aging, complexity, conundrums, death, faith, fear, guilt, hope, life, mortality, questions, regrets, remorse, self-awareness, survival
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the owl swoops – May 25
5.25.2017 the owl swoops a snake in its talons at the pond geese train their goslings to follow in line families felons predators prey all doing what they must to live another day. ===================
dig, lift and turn – May 14
5.14.2017 dig lift and turn, let the dirt fall from our shovels into the barrow. the garden emerges from our struggle. ————–
a visit with Mike – March 11
3.11.2017 out for the day with the prodigal son, damaged by birth, by life, by all the bad chances and changes that can harm and yet, he smiles and we try, because God made him and somewhere in … Continue reading
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Tagged caring, disability, distance, dysfunction, family, God, guilt, handicaps, humanity, journey, life, meaning, mental illness, pain, purpose, relationships
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in the morning – March 1
3.1.2017 in the morning after the last morning we will wake each other with a touch; soft hand to cheek that opened our eyes in the nights that we knew forever. ——————
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Tagged bond, caress, caring, experience, faith, heaven, hope, life, love, mortality, promise, relationship, touch
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taking a moment – February 16
2.16.2017 taking a moment to write stop pause and open to the day. to let flow out what entered in the cat walking by to sniff and sneeze the dog raising at his name footfalls careful along … Continue reading
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Tagged anticipation, anxiety, appreciation, life, longing, love, mortality, observation, perception, poetry, presence, relationship, value, writing
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questions and guesses – February 8
2.8.2017 did I do something good with my one life did I make a difference for anyone but me did I have fun, share love, care did I put myself at the service of the One. … Continue reading
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Tagged concern, destination, faith, hope, journey, life, perspective, query, service
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January thaw – January 30
1.30.2017 there’s something about a January thaw that does a body good. we walk to the waterfall where the flows pulsing behind a yellowing wall of ice feed into the widening maw of deep copper below and … Continue reading
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Tagged hope, inner life, life, melting, nature, perception, respite, vision
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