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Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them
They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store,
After the Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet
It was stupid of Walt not to show it to Joan before they got married but he was too shy. He had no idea
A reporter asked Wilbur once if there were any advantages to being deaf and Wilbur used sign language to say not that he could think of
Someone smart told me yesterday you never really know the meaning of a word until
There are pockets of them everywhere, quiet and discreet. Usually they meet once a week
Departures from the norm we are. Not just you and me but
I take my wife to dinner at a fancy place for us to talk about money because stocks have a virus and we should move
A friend in England rings me up and we talk about this and that. He asks if my president’s in touch with all that’s going on and I say he should be in touch, going to
The soup kitchen opens an hour late. The rain finally stops and the hungry file in. They’ve had a long wait.
Were she here with me now, by the waist I would raise her, a chalice of wonder. I’d bellow hosannas and whirl her around,
Jack, age 6, loves the iPad he uses in kindergarten. He already navigates the net to some degree. But when he accompanied his father to the Post Office, he sat quietly on a bench and re...
Fuzzy wasn’t my cat although I fed him every morning at four o’clock for 10 years. He was my wife’s cat, loved to sit on her lap, be petted, jump down and rub his head against her feet....
Fred brought his old comic books and some hard candy to a food pant… and didn’t think much about it. Just a different kind of donation. Maybe somebody would want them.