The First Year Without Emilee On The Holidays
I guess between the elves and fairies and some help from the angels, the star is now lit I guess between the elves and fairies and some help from the angels, the star is now lit. So, some words about the struggle whether to put up a tree or not, and whether or not to…
A Poem By Gwen Flowers Entitled Grief
A Poem By Gwen Flowers Entitled Grief Grief leaves you changed. It changes, but it never leaves you. I like this poem. I retyped it below in case you have difficulty reading it in the picture. I like it because I feel this. Grief is not something that you “get over”. Yes, it morphs and…
Quotes, Sayings, Words To Live By, And An Opinion On Resolutions
I could probably put these things on my wall… Some of them I really really love, and some of them just make me cry. Now, maybe it has to do with my state of emotionally fatigued mind at the moment but, a lot of these could be part of my Ten Commandments of how to…
The Lure Of A Chance To Win
I must discuss why it is, that I can be just like a little psychology lab rat, you know, the ones that are in an enclosure, and they will push a lever to get a pellet of food, and depending on how you reward them with the pellet schedule (every lever push, or every 5…
My Anniversary – Dear Emilee Letter And Poem
Dear Emilee, You will be happy to know that I got you a balloon, and something else too but I will tell you in private. I am just seeing Maryann’s note and that is bringing on tears. Okay…focus….lol…not exactly my forte all the time, but I have gotten better since you are gone. I had…
Thoughts About My Anniversary Without Emilee
I know this is long… takes more than 10 seconds to read … it Rambles it roams … Welcome to my thoughts … It is my stream of consciousness as I look to the sky and take in the wondrous image of the splashing wake and the gentle rise and fall of the prominent prow,…
The Anniversary Card – Emilee Left Me One For This Year
This is the kind of thoughtful, caring, kind wife that Emilee was. Emilee left me a card for our anniversary for this year for 2017. And, yes, I cheated, I have read it several times, probably more than several, I think I read it for the first time the week after she died, and I…
A Million Tiny Kisses – In Memory Of Sandy Hook Families
This is sadly beautiful…and beautifully sad…written and performed by a friend, Liz McNicholl, the anniversary of Sandy Hook is December 17. A Million Tiny Kisses — In memory of the SandyHook Families Written by Liz McNicholl 12/17/2012 There are no words to…
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…
A 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…