Toxic

There is anger in the air,poisoning all the tired souls,tired of being good and getting nowhere.While all the haters breathe easySpewing toxins into the atmospherekilling us, killing them,But they laugh while they diedigging their own graveswe die, too, at peace without actions.

The Wrong Road

There were not two roads in a yellow wood, but a highway that stretched for ages beyond the horizon with exits and options for adventures and misadventures on and on it went risking and losing more than gained hoping to find just the right one the road looped back again home again Wrong Road, Right Road …

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My New Challenge

Thirty days without soda and so far I haven't retreated to the comforts of carbonation.  I feel better and today, my jeans glided on instead of being pulled and tugged while I contort myself into them.  I have been trying to think of what to work on for my next thirty day challenge. I want …

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Flying Free

They thought your trips and stumbles were the sign, the end was near, and whispered as you walked that the angel of Death had given you a fright. No one saw how the angels held your arm and let you stand, Walking straight and true with dignity and grace. Or how they whisper that everyone …

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Expressing Gratitude

Expressing Gratitude. The day that I interviewed for my first teaching job, I meet a red haired goddess who welcomed me to the school as if I already had the job. She probably had some inside information, but still I remember thinking after talking to her that I wanted this job more than anything in …

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Day follows Day

Day follows day Night becomes An endless series Of tosses And love untended Still grows Among the weeds and trash Forgotten but not In the heart that held it close Always There Always there.

Life Does Not Stop

It does not slow because we are having a bad day or just can't deal.  Forward, always forward. That is the way we have to go. We can not look back to the good old days.  They really weren't that good for everyone other than those at the very top. We need to stop lying …

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Lessons the Hard Way…

Four in the morning and I can't sleep. A plan to pay rent is in the works and tomorrow or today I will begin implementing it.  I have changed all of my passwords,  backed up the laptop files so I can clean it and cancelled all of my scheduled payments. The last step really wasn't …

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Can I Have the Lemons, Now?

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Simply enough, but recently life has been giving me anything as nice a lemons.  My sunny disposition has been rained on constantly on by never ending to-do list, bills and unexpected expenses.  The new job that I hoped would relieve some of the financial stress hasn't started, yet.   So if life would literally give …

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