Well, I have awoken from my turkey coma and have a few quiet moments to purge some thoughts. This time of year always makes me reflective. I think about family and personal history and events, both joyous and traumatic, that I have been witness to and/or participant in. From now until, oh, about January 5th [...]
Archive for November, 2008
My First Best Friend
Posted in Memoir, tagged Change, heartbreak, Indianapolis, Memoir, moving, Saginaw, stability on November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Places Where I’ve Met God
Posted in Commentary, Observational Prose, Poetry, tagged dogs, God, Nature on November 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is day six in the Seven Solid Days of Smiling Salute To the Original Unsplit Atom for bursting forth into the Big Bang of Bounty that is this life.
Day 1 – Emily
Day 2 – Music
Day 3 – Magic
Day 4 – Cheese
Day 5 – Sleep
A late afternoon winter sky when the impending darkness could either [...]
(Yaaaawwwwwwnnnnnn)
Posted in Commentary, tagged gratitude, Sleep on November 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is day five in the Seven Solid Days of Smiling Salute To the Original Unsplit Atom for bursting forth into the Big Bang of Bounty that is this life.
Day 1 – Emily
Day 2 – Music
Day 3 – Magic
Day 4 – Cheese
My seven-day gratitude journal slipped a little bit. I have been posting the night [...]
Homage to Fromage
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cheese, Food on November 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is day four in the Seven Solid Days of Smiling Salute To the Original Unsplit Atom for bursting forth into the Big Bang of Bounty that is this life.
Day 1 – Emily
Day 2 – Music
Day 3 – Magic
I don’t want to live in a world without cheese.
I need to lose a few pounds and [...]
Small Magic
Posted in Commentary, Observational Prose, tagged belief, faith, four-wheeler, Magic, magic wand, prayer, spell, Spirituality on November 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This is day three in the Seven Solid Days of Smiling Salute To the Original Unsplit Atom for bursting forth into the Big Bang of Bounty that is this life.
Day 1 – Emily
Day 2 – Music
My grandson, Triston, is spending the night with us as I write this. Earlier this evening he pulled a funny [...]
Let The Band Play On
Posted in Commentary, tagged gratitude, music on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Of all the arts to burst forth from the creative spirit of humanity, there is none greater than music. A musician is a painter, architect and thespian. Without music, the world would be a soul-less place.
I’ve seen music silence a room of rowdy drunks, unite a quarreling mob, change apathy to action and anger to [...]
Oh, The Weather Outside is Grateful
Posted in Commentary, tagged gratitude, Love, niece, Thanksgiving on November 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It’s Gratitude Week here at the Until Zen World Headquarters. Yepper, for the next solid 1/52nd of the year this is a cynical-smartass-free zone. Just seven solid days of smiling salute to the Original Unsplit Atom for bursting forth with the Big Bang of Bounty that is this life. Keep your hands on the bar [...]
Poet At Work
Posted in Poetry, tagged chakras, color, Poet, Poetry, Shirley Maclaine on November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sunday morning sipping tea.
Different from past Sundays.
No newspaper. No black and white movie on t.v.
No coffee (too acidic, causes arthritis, gums up your joints).
Now I sit at the kitchen table
still in my robe at noon
laptop computer wirelessly surfing the net
from one website to the oddly connected next
like a cyber version of six degrees of Kevin [...]
The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me
Posted in Commentary, tagged gratitude, Love, Thanksgiving on November 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is day Seven in the Seven Solid Days of Smiling Salute To the Original Unsplit Atom for bursting forth into the Big Bang of Bounty that is this life.
Day 1 – Emily
Day 2 – Music
Day 3 – Magic
Day 4 – Cheese
Day 5 – Sleep
Day 6 – Nature
Whew! I made it. Seven full days of [...]
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