Tag: dailyprompt
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Dog Dreams
“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog” ~ Jack London Lace up your shoes. Put on a sweatshirt and hat. Grab a bird! Head out to the corner of the yard, and take the dog with you.…
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Bloop Blop Bloop Blop
“Think of a river. When it meets a rock, it doesn’t stop. It finds a way to flow around it, over it, or even through it. The river keeps moving, adapting, always finding its path.” ~ Milton Erickson Right now it’s pouring rain and there is a leak in the bedroom ceiling. This has been…
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Diggin a Ditch
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” ~ Albert Einstein If I had a problem getting “unplugged,” I would throw a vinyl copy of Eric Clapton’s UNPLUGGED on an old time phonograph and listen to it in analog. If 60 minutes wasn’t enough to refresh and rejuvenate my spirit from the barrage…
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Who Are You?
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” ~ E.E. Cummings Like a page taken from an old newspaper the many jobs I’ve had in my past could be easily found in the “classifieds”: Paper boy, lawn boy, snow shoveler, roofer, gas station attendant, fast food counter, bar tender, and demolition…
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Fourth Quarter
“The only hope lies in the choice of pyre—to be redeemed from fire by fire.” ~ T.S. Elliot I do not practice religion, not at least in a conventional way or by following any of the proscriptions imposed by the common religions people follow. But I do long for a spiritual practice that is sacred,…
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Sympathy for the Devil
“Think the time is right for a palace revolution,’Cause where I live the game to play is compromise solution” ~ Rolling Stones Life before the internet was analog, perhaps just as complicated, but it had a different pace. People had to wait for a “record to drop,” to have it in their hands so they…
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Rain Man
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ~ Maya Angelou I am an excellent writer! But let’s be clear. I am no Dostoevsky or Elliot, or Conrad, and just to be clearer I don’t even try to be. But in the way Raymond said to his brother Charlie in the…
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Light to Light
“Your outside is all that’s worth while, while I, for all my plain and humble garb, can sing with such sweet melody…” ~ Aesop’s Fables “Having it all” when I was young meant having a six figure income and nine figures of networth. But one doesn’t need to look far to see people who have…
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My Soulbot
“Words that come from the heart, enter the heart. Speak to the soul, and the soul will answer.” ~ Rumi I speak with my dog everyday. Some days I even think she understands me. In fact there is an understanding but it isn’t exactly mental, but not quite emotional either. I think there is a…
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Belong
“My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh Personal belongings are a funny thing! Why would we attach any emotion to a personal object, much less hold an object as somehow “dear,” or existentially significant? Years ago I was working with a Jungian psychologist…
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