Category: Growing Older
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MANIC DEPRESSION
It isn’t typically very easy for a depressed person to explain said depression. This, I believe, is one reason the illness continues to be so misunderstood. Certainly, the sadness involved in learning about depressing things keeps a good bulk of people away from the subject entirely. Why wouldn’t one avoid this if they had the […]
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CONVERSATION PIECE
There are times I wonder if I’m neglecting this site. I will freely admit to a slight pattern of dilly-dally… really with all things on earth, if I’m […]
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SLEEPWALKERS
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. — William Wordsworth How alone do you feel on the island you live? How often do […]
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HARTWOLD
We turn not older with years, but newer every day. – Emily Dickinson Prayer makes me a bit uncomfortable, which I’m quite sure isn’t entirely atypical of a person not practiced in such things. There are many reasons for this, and I suspect there are many answers, but one wonder I’ve […]
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REFLECTION OF AN OLD SOUL
It ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones -Tom Waits In light of current events (COVID-19, Black Lives Matter, 2020 Presidential “election season”), I asked my mom what her first memory of a world event was. She said, “Probably a person that was a purple-ette”, stumbling over her […]
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SWEETNESS AND LIGHT
“Sometimes what we are witnessing is simply a massive exercise in missing the point” — Rob Bell I decided to take some time away. A lot of times in the past, when it came to artistic endeavors, I’d just drop the ball; let myself get discouraged, usually blame someone else, and just quit. I knew […]
Turning Gem 
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