Answers are easier to come by than chances but after one by one they close and drop carpeting the ground with faded color and you’ve pushed ...

It's not a glorious way to enter the final years of one's life but so it goes and I'm grateful for it. Because my cancer is so w...

 "You, who only know love when in love, do not ask what it is, nor do you look for it. But when a woman once asked you if you were in l...

I'm not surprised. Republicans started pounding the abortion wedge into people's minds 50 years ago, after the Roe vs. Wade Supreme ...

Just by way of observing it, welcome to beginning of summer in earth's northern hemisphere and the official beginning of winter in the s...

Some say we must protect putin's "pride" so he doesn't feel ashamed over his genocidal war in Ukraine. HA! He's alrea...

Behold the Good Vibe Solar Collector. Even in the worst of times, there is always something to be grateful for. If I can do it so can you, a...

Strange days have found us. Strange days have tracked us down. They're going to destroy our casual joys. (The Doors)

One of my friend Lawrence's favorite stories was how his martial arts teacher could shout TEST COMING and always manage to rattle the c...

Today, in honor of National Squirrel Appreciation Day 2022, Barney the Beast has prepared this lovely tribute. YAY SQUIRRELS EVERYWHERE! Tr...

I'm here to learn, not teach. If I want it to be the way it was, I will never understand the way it is.

 The price of gas is the life of the planet.

For now, this is my/our last day in Portugal. Tomorrow at 03h I will go to the airport for my flight to the US. "Valeu a pena? Tudo val...

They say "the pen is mightier than the sword". True, but not true enough. The pen is a sword, the sword which is sharpened only w...

  讼 Hexagram 6 Sung - Conflict Changing lines /Line Three He stands on his integrity, no matter what ill winds may blast him. Stand or fall,...

Phase One” from Bring Now the Angels by Dilruba Ahmed , 2020 For leaving the fridge open last night, I forgive you. For conjuring white curt...

Note to self There is a bird here on Portugal's Atlantic coast I only hear sing as midnight approaches. I love the song. I picked the so...

Industrial farming corporations battle nature but it is Nature who taught the Kung Fo masters.

"Knives cut. Buckets hold. Sometimes—the only thing you can do is get out of the way." - I Ching

"Poems? There are stacks of poems lying here. When I began to write them I wanted to prepare myself a palette of words, as if I were d...

I just rediscovered this collection of quotes my daughter-in-law sent earlier on of things my grandsons have said and am posting them here s...

Amateur or Amator "The very classification 'amateur' has an apologetic ring but that word, from the Latin amator, 'lov...

Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying the longest day of year 2021 north of the equator was two days late. I am late writing about it, ...