Oh, Yeah! I recognize you. You are fear. You have been part of me as long as I can remember. Fear in my first love, fear of my last love. Fear you were, fear you are, fear you will be! Scared of the dark are you wee one? Scared to make a change are you … Continue reading My Companion-Fear →

Where in the Hell was I? I was lost in the mountains. I was lost near the sea. I was lost in the cities. What the hell? Smartphones are used for everything in our lives, including guiding one around a strange city in a strange country.  Generally, these devices work in many parts of the … Continue reading Italian Devils Commandeerd my GPS →

Leave me now my heart, Lighten the load that keeps me bound Let me fly out on my own, Let me leave the ground   All love is behind me, Nothing more to yearn My growing years in a dull mirror, Nothing more to learn Tomorrow just a wisp of things I wanted, Forever out … Continue reading Let my Soul Leave the Ground →

All the neighborhood gang stood around on the field choosing sides, while the summer sun eased our pores open and sweat rivered down mixing with the dirt on our necks. Passing clouds were lazy as the wind was slow, and the insects were so present and loud. A few ball bats lay on the ground, … Continue reading I Just Want to Play – Baseball Field →

The sun ignores the leaves, while I tuck in the bough far above the ground. The old limb moves gently, slowly in the breeze. While I think of my life and how fresh I am. I see the grass below in lazy gaze, with my hands tucked neath my chin, and those fluffy clouds, move … Continue reading My Branch, My Piece of Heaven →

The mind so heavy with thoughts one's eyes cannot look up, the heart so burdened with worries it sinks like stone. But the soul, ah that soul, will be freed from heart and mind and flesh, think all that is life, love all that is right, leaving the heart and mind under. See my sunrise … Continue reading Soul, in a mind so Heavy →

I spent the day, wishing I was somewhere else, someone else, only to realize, I am exactly where and whom I was meant to be. The sound of my life, just like your song, sounds so good to me. Hear me. Remember me, as I hear and remember you. And, we smile.

Bare bulb, hanging on a couple of twisted wires. Harsh light bouncing on Green walls lighting up the rickety ironing board below, Cheap furniture no one would steal or burn. Worn clothes with patches, stains and history and abuse. Jaw set like forever, pushing wrinkles through loving clothes Momma had a mission, no hope, Big … Continue reading The Core of Life, Momma →

My wife just had her last radiation treatment, yesterday.  This has been a journey of some six months of bad news, Xrays, blood tests, chemo, and radiation therapy.  The medical personnel was great. When my wife left yesterday morning she was jubilant knowing this was an end and that there was a planned celebration with … Continue reading What to Bring to a Cancer Fight →

Circa the 60's and 70's, in the U.S. there were certain facts a young man had to face. One of these was the U.S. Military draft, whose purpose was to take a young man, enlist him into one of the Military Services, and prepare him to fight a war in Vietnam. A Draft had been … Continue reading Draft number 33; Why I love Concrete Walls and Cold Air →