“How do you know you’ve made a friend?” he asked. She smiled as they walked musing airily on the question. “Behave as if you have,” she answered. “Give. Share. Show. Be vulnerable. Be open. Express what it is you want known and to say. Offer. Give,” she said again. “If you’ve made […]
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WHAT I OUGHT
I know what I ought to do. That doesn’t mean I will or that, doing, I’ll succeed. I ought to sign off. I ought to sign out—be done and away with the distractions. The attention isn’t real. It’s just others killing idle time—no different than my own spend of what cannot be […]
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MORNING GREET
She loved his way of morning greet, hold of her body from behind; wrap of his arms and hands over sides and widen-slope of hips from waist’s narrow, sweep of arms, sense and feel and center of her front; the smile on her face he felt but couldn’t see, not then, not yet, but […]
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IN PATIENCE
“…on the good ground, are they who in a good and perfect heart, hearing the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit in patience. Now no man lighting a candle covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it upon a candlestick, that they who come in may […]
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GIFT TO BE
It was gift and blessing to bear witness—the pleasure-view of her in immersion-interest, her losing of self, absorbed in an else that spoke and touched, resonant, to a something of her. He watched her then, legs and feet folded beneath her body in upright rest, soles of her bare feet upturned and the […]