Silence. No traffic in the streets. Stores and restaurants are closed. Businesses shut down so employees can spend time with those they love, whether family or friends. Homes are open. Families are reminiscing. Friends are laughing. Joy is present. Sadness and sorrow are distant, dying embers of faint, color-faded memories. We stop and look aroundContinue reading “The Day After”
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The Treasure Hunters
A few years ago, we bought a used chair, the wooden kind with worn-out tie-on burgundy cushions. It’s more of a glider than a rocker. It came with a burgundy cushioned footstool that glided, too. A while back, my heavyset self broke it. What is it with me and the chairs recently? One of theContinue reading “The Treasure Hunters”
Making the Bed
I wouldn’t consider myself a failure, but I do fail. I think the key is always to get back up and keep moving forward. Take the other day, for example. My wife had washed the bed sheets, and they were in the dryer. I wanted to do something to help her out because of allContinue reading “Making the Bed”
The Footprints
I enjoy reading poetry. For a long time, that’s all I ever read. I have a first-edition book called The Ballad of the Brand written by Robert William Service. It’s exceptional. My favorite poem that he wrote is Carry On. I would peruse poemhunter.com and read the poems of Langston Hughes, John Keats, Walt Whitman,Continue reading “The Footprints”
The Creek Bed
In the woods next to our childhood home, there is a creek bed. It’s dry during the summer as there is little rainfall, but it flows wide open during the fall and winter months because of more rain and the occasional snow. As mentioned in my previous post, I rescinded my membership in the “playingContinue reading “The Creek Bed”
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