Tag: reflection
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5,4,3,2,1…Weekly Reflection – Day 8 SOLSC
So it is Friday which means time for my weekly reflection. I do this each week so it can be my slice this Friday. 5 Smiles 🙂 1. Wrote for the first 8 days of the challenge . 2. Two sunny, 70 degree days in the beginning of March (uncommon for Upstate NY) 3. Surprising…
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Found Joy in Walking Backwards
Watching the young students in my school walk down the hall this morning, I noticed that many of them like to walk backwards. They are taking backwards steps with their heads cranked sideways so they won’t bump into things. ” Why?” I wondered. Walking backwards is not something we often do as adults. So I asked…
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Why Do You Write Poetry….
Why Do You Write Poems When Your Mind is Battered By The World? Why do you write poems when your mind is battered by the world? It is an escape into my thoughts pushing the cacophony of life away for a mere hour or so allowing me to hear my inner whisper giving it space…
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Something You Should Know…
Something you should know, is that as a child I would hide under coffee tables at the ringing of the doorbell to terrified to greet who had arrived I would cower under there minute after minute, even if it was just my grandparents weekly Saturday stop. Tears would be streaking down my cheeks as I…
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Death, Pain, and LOVE
When we were 18, I told you I wanted to die first. I didn’t want to endure the heart-wrenching pain my mom walked through each and every day at the loss of her dear love of over 25 years. In your youth, you gave the innocent promise to out live me. When we were 24,…
Doodads and Doodles 