MY FAVORITE QUOTES
My Current WoW
My Loaf of Bread
In the quiet hours of night, when the world softens…
When You’re Really Poor
When you grow up poor everything in your world seems just out of reach…
Laughing Out Loud
As a young boy, I grew up being told by my mother that…
Look for What You Do Not See!
Life has taught me the importance of searching beyond what is visible…
Living Time Capsule
Time, relentless in its passage, has etched its mark on this old soul
Vision of an Angel
As a boy, I used to look up at the quiet ceiling of my room and wonder if, one day…
My Ever-Evolving Bucket List
For much of my journey on this spinning blue marble…
Ten-Year Plan
In the spring of 1980, confidence ran through my veins as I sat across from the manager who would later select me as Payroll Supervisor at Newport News Shipbuilding. His…
Guest Missives
My Close Call… by Jane Strebel
Snake in the Grass… by Jane Strebel
Guilty as Charged… by Jane Strebel
Sick Duck… by JoAnn
Setting The Alarm… by JoAnn
Something Odd… by JoAnn
Car Shopping… by JoAnn
The Bike… by JoAnn
Mama Boo… by Jane Strebel
High-Times on the 4th Floor… by Larry Fields
AS MY WORLD TURNS
At the Acme
I picked up a grocery list someone left in their cart. The last item was, "Don't forget the love", next to a drawn heart. ❤️
Reading that line, a feeling unfolded in me that love's red threat runs through all things.
So, I watched to see it in action, and there it was, a father, arms heavy with groceries, stopping to make funny faces to soothe his crying child.
A man, hands shaking with age being helped by a young woman to bag his peaches. And, a voice in my head said
that love was a doing a moment shared, not based on schemes or profit or discourse. Love has its own discourse in the heart.
Oh, I know the risks, how love can explode in our face like gunpowder. How its quixotic riptides push us to make hurried declarations.
Or like a crowbar, it can pry our heart open against our will. But now, here at the checkout line, I want to add it as a major food group -
tuck it in my bag along with the paper towels, carrots, and peas.
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