“My gift is my song, and this one is for you… And you can tell everybody that this is your song. It might be quite simple but now that it’s done. I hope you don’t mind. I hope you don’t mind That I put down in words…” Some souls strike you different. The world […]
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EYES, MINDS, AND WORLDS
I like believing what I share might add a positive to someone’s day, might show someone that they’re special, raise their spirit in some small way. I like beginning my mornings seeking to create something kind, a ray of light because I believe—a beginning like that—can illuminate the rest of a day. Maybe I’m […]
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VALUE
I don’t know how to impress people when I want. I don’t know how to attract attention when I seek it—not that I want it often or from many—but there are times when I do. I used to be able to walk onto a field and just take over. I could outrun, outhit, outhustle […]
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RIGHT TIME
I don’t know if there is ever a right time to say something. I’ve found that if I wait, hold something back I wished to give, the right time becomes past and words I wished to speak remain unsaid. When sharing, I’ve found words and acts offered unexpected, or unwanted, most often come out […]
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LIKE THE SUN
Your thought is like the sun Rising with its light; Where before held only dark, Suddenly—it’s bright.
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LITTLE BLACK BOOK
I had one for everywhere I went. I still do. I had it if I needed it, if I found a little time and needed, or wanted, to feel something. Somedays I’d return to an old entry, but mostly I would add another that was new. It was what I did when I was […]
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DESERVE TO BE
I want to make a good impression, Maybe raise your day With simple words, written out, That I wish to say: To show you that you are on one’s mind, Held in high esteem; Simply because you’re kind and nice And deserve to be. Because everyone deserves to feel special…
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AN ENERGY
It is trying to rain again, but it is a different front. It is not the steady fall of our winter—gray with only the sound of pour upon the earth. This front is different. The songs of birds, bugs, and frogs precede the storm. There is a flash of light, then crack and […]
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HOMEWORK
With Social Distancing and cancelled classes, my children were given packets of homework and projects to work on until classes resume. This morning, my daughter picked out the assignment: “write an acrostic poem with the word SPRING.” The first was a collaboration and the second, one I wrote from being part of the experience.