There are days And times. There are words And signs. There are tears And smiles To make it worth Your while. There are hopes And dreams And nothing's as It seems. What you lost Is found In perfect silence Sound. In the darkness Light In your blindness Sight In your joy Is pain In every... Continue Reading →

The Curse of the Zombies

Have you seen them?  Have you seen the soulless ones that go about their daily routines with focused footsteps and empty eyes?  For all that they walk and talk and eat and sleep and take their young to little league games, they are, for all intents and purposes, nothing more than functional zombies.  Reverse zombies... Continue Reading →

HALFWAY TO DEAD

“Most people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.”  -Benjamin Franklin It was the damndest thing.  I was at the mall, eeling my way through a school of teenagers when I heard a snatch of conversation between two boys that stopped me dead in the water: “Dude, she’s like 40 years old!  That’s like... Continue Reading →

Tectonically Divergent

Suddenly thrown together; violently torn apart; slow and steady buildup of grown and strength or a steady movement away from each other; a study of planetary plate tectonics is like viewing the development and decline of personal relationships only on a global scale. Most people are introduced to the concept of tectonic plates in grade... Continue Reading →

How to Heal a Broken Heart

"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." ~Alexander Graham Bell My heart was broken long ago.  The details don't matter.  What matters is that instead of admitting that my heart was... Continue Reading →

All Beginnings Are Hard

“All Beginnings are hard. . . . Especially a beginning that you make for yourself. That's the hardest beginning of all.” ~Chiam Potok   It is not unusual at this time of the year to see dozens of posts touting an individual’s New Year’s Resolutions; posts about losing weight, finding love, getting their dream job. ... Continue Reading →

One Hand

I was drowning in darkness. Unable to move Unable to breathe So deep that nothing could penetrate. And then, alone in the dark I felt a hand slip into mine And felt another heart beating in the dakness. One hand. One heart. And a whisper in the dark; A voice my soul recognized. Two words... Continue Reading →

Excuse Me, My Life is Waiting

“Surround yourself only with people who are going to lift you higher.” ~ Oprah Winfrey   Does purposefully surrounding yourself with people who will lift you higher; people who encourage you and strengthen you sound like a selfish thing to do?  Can you imagine the alternative? No, most of us don’t have to imagine the... Continue Reading →

The Dark Demon of Despair

"Have you ever dealt with the dark demon of despair? Have you ever invited him to walk with you as you wend your way through life? Has he ever held your hand as you balanced on the razor’s edge of sanity and seduced you with his promises of oblivion?" ~ SSHenry Sometimes the demon of despair doesn’t... Continue Reading →

All it Takes is Gratitude

 “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.” ~Melody Beattie It has been said that gratitude is the real... Continue Reading →

The Dyslexic Mayan

  You know, the first thing that popped into my head when I saw today’s date on my calendar was that maybe the Mayan’s got it wrong.  You know, maybe whoever was creating that great count calendar had a case of dyslexia and wrote down 12/21/12 instead of 12/12/12. Hey, stranger things have happened!  Translation... Continue Reading →

Boiling Frogs

"A Miracle is a highly improbably or extraordinary event, development or accomplishment (usually welcome and highly valued) which is not entirely explicable by natural laws. Some people attribute these to divine intervention. Others simply say that they are the result of natural laws which we simply don't understand yet. One thing is for certain -... Continue Reading →

Always In Joy

Do you remember when you were a teenager; when there was a guy (or girl) that you really liked and who you wanted to notice you. Do you remember how you reacted?  Do you remember what you did?  Do you remember finding out everything you could about them and then getting interested in it yourself?... Continue Reading →

I Surrender to Me

"The concept of surrender is foreign to me.  The idea of giving up control, of ceasing to be myself; of turning my autonomy over to someone else - regardless of how wise or powerful is anathema.  It is only when I remember who and what I really am that I realize that there is only... Continue Reading →

One Perfect Life

"There is no ‘one perfect life’ out there waiting to be lived.  What there is are a series of moments, each one complete and perfect in and of itself no matter if it contains joy and wonder or sadness and sorrow; each one lived fully and completely and in total awareness.  That is the definition... Continue Reading →

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