MY FAVORITE QUOTES
My Current WoW
🎵 The Magic of Music 🎵
Recently, I stumbled upon an article about the “Magic of Music”
🎋Embracing the Golden Years-A Humorous Reflection🎋
I haven’t worried about Monday mornings on Sunday evenings for eighteen glorious years…
🎋Cherishing The Little Things🎋
I have been guilty of ignoring “the little things” in life…
The Paradox of Positivity
I read recently that a new study found that people with sunny dispositions…
Just Go Outside, Please!
Well, summer is almost over. The hot weather has diminished some, and going outside has become more enjoyable.
🎋 Spiritual Integrity 🎋
“Spiritual secrecy is the protector of spiritual integrity.” That quote is from the Trappist monk Thomas Merton.
🎋 Third Circle of Hell 🎋
In the 14th century, Danter, in his Alighieri’s Inferno, condemned to the “Third Circle of Hell” those who fall prey to “the pernicious sin of gluttony.”
🎋 Retirement 🎋
My wife and I recently celebrated being in our new retirement community for two years…
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 card. 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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