The apartment stood empty. The furniture was all used up. The silence was deafening.We walked from room to room reflecting on what was and had been there. Parties, family gatherings, celebrations, life. Gone now. The last of the generation had exited the building. Now the clothes hung in the closet, the jewelry lay on the […]

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The stare was heartfelt. The bruises on the arms were still all stark shades of black, blue and red where the needles had gone. The eyes were searching for an answer where one just doesn't exist. The voice was struggling to make sense of it all. Clearly intelligent but intelligence doesn't help at moments like […]

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The leaf was pretty small as far as leafs go. It was green and pointed at one end. It had drifted down from the tree some time ago and sat there clustered among other fallen leaves. It got my attention as I walked by. Maybe it was the tiny hole in the center of it […]

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It is a finite period. A narrow window. A short glimpse into a longer story. Part of it but also apart from it. Yet we seem to get it backwards so often. There are no entitlements. There are no guarantees. No warranty comes with this product. It is a use at your own risk. It […]

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Yes, it is sad. A death of a family member or friend is especially sad. So much history. Or so much wished for history. Opportunities and opportunities lost. The living journal. Any oral history is silenced. I guess that is why I write and continue to write.Yet, It is not the death that haunts me […]

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The house was leaning to the south. I mean it was sloping sharply to one side. You felt like you were on a ship in rough waters. We walked up the stairs to the second story guest rooms and stepped down into the group of rooms that pulled you in since the rooms seemed to […]

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Some times it just makes no sense. Some times it feels like a lost cause. Some times you look around and sense it got away from us somehow. Oil spills and wars fill the mind and the airwaves. Hubris seems to have taken over.And then you see a glimmer of hope for us all. It […]

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What does authentic look like. There is a calmness to authentic.There is a quiet confidence to authentic. There is a wisdom to authentic. Authenticity. The real deal. The essence of truth. Without saying a word, without uttering a phrase you know authentic. I watched the exchange from the entrance to the conference room. There was […]

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12 minutes. Just give me 12 minutes this morning. Well, there was the warm up first. And then the 12 minutes. The experience at Crossfit today … 12 minutes of intense strain, sweat, struggle and beauty. Yes, beauty. .It just seems that so many have forgotten their body/mind/soul connection. The body is not some place […]

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What does it take to risk it all. What would you risk it all for. No next minute. No next hug, hello, touch or caress. The void, as far as we know for sure. What would it be. Or would you not risk it all for anything or anyone. Just slowly fade away without any […]

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