After Emilee’s Passing
Poem – What Color Suffering
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10211266067828086&set=a.10208902106450529.1073741827.1251156678&type=3 The link is for a Snoopy drawing I drew from an illustration with the caption, “you are always on my mind” WHAT COLOR? Once I had an idea, and thought what color is pain what color suffering, a common affliction of each human soul? is it blue for sad is it red for mad…
Read MoreA Couple Of His Poems
Just to give you a taste, the rest is up to you THE LIGHTEST TOUCH Good poetry begins with the lightest touch, a breeze arriving from nowhere, a whispered healing arrival, a word in your ear, a settling into things, then, like a hand in the dark, it arrests the whole body, steeling you for…
Read MoreA Poet I Have Long Enjoyed…A Word On Friendship
A Poet I Have Long Enjoyed…A Word On Friendship Just one example…..David Whyte, an excerpt on what he said about friendship…so many of his poems bring tears to my eyes…and no…my tears “filter” has never “reset” itself since Em died, and probably, never will (a good thing). …”Friendship transcends disappearance: an enduring friendship goes on…
Read MoreRoseanne Roseannadana Comments on Arms
Roseanne Roseannadana Comments On Arms Roseanne on the right to bear arms Editor’s Note: Listen….let’s get something straight here…this is no joking matter… BUT …if ROSEANNE ROSEANNADANA were still alive…she might say something like this: Newscaster: Roseanne, what is on your mind tonight? Roseanne: I need to talk about …..bear arms. ALL bears deserve…
Read MoreSerendipity and Some Levity
dear Emilee McDermott Klein after losing a poem to our son and daughter in law on their anniversary poem for the day….as I lost a post and had to rewrite , then lost my mind and ohhhh what a site, but it caused me to write this so allllllllllll is not really lost, helped me to…
Read MoreMusic for the Soul
November 4, 2017 Amazing Music….For The Soul These are all youtube links that will …I hope…. bring you incredible emotions….hope, love, tears, joy, ethereal smiles of wonder, enthrallment with music, and beauty of this moment, and whatever you wish to bring to it…I did this last night and had a computer glitch and lost all…
Read MorePlease Sample……Joe Sample
Please Sample …..Joe Sample I cannot leave out this artist who….as someone phrased, “continued” in 2014, and I absolutely love the term “continued”….he died in 2014 from mesothelioma….wonderful musician (keyboards), composer, and person, played with so many artists…a member of the Crusaders in the 1970’s and beyond….find a history of him on Wikipedia, and plenty…
Read MoreExperiencing Loss As A Process That Transforms
It is difficult to sum up grief in several paragraphs or one poem or one long saying or piece of prose. And, some of this I have said before and am reiterating it here. But, if you don’t like long statements you won’t read this anyway so you won’t remember that I said it before…
Read MoreEmilee’s Clothes
Emilee’s Clothes. Sounds like the title of a poem or a story. The Emperor’s clothes. It IS a story. It is always a story. For me, and for anyone else that has ever had to perform this task or will have to perform this task in the future. The dreaded “going through the clothes” experience.…
Read MoreSeven Attitudes For Mindfulness (Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn)
Seven Attitudes For Mindfulness (Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn) I think this is very important, and key to effective mindfulness based meditation practice. It may sound simple. Maybe it is simple. But realize that simple does not mean easy. Most life lessons, after all is said and done, are simple. But, I am not…
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