You stand tall Wide girth Big stance Yet, you are small Small-minded Petty and a footling You may not even know what that means But it is you in a nutshell You turn on a dime You laugh a wicked belly You flop and flail If only […]
Every week I fall in love with a new song or five. And by fall in love, I mean, I discover and then listen to on repeat ad nauseam. I listen to a song for thirty minutes straight thinking that I will never tire of it. Of course, […]
It had been a long day. An emotional one where they had come to pay tribute and say goodbye. Her heart was still swollen. She had needed to decompress. She was deep into her nightime netflix binge when she automatically flicked something off her chest and sat up. […]
To inspire or be inspired To motivate or be motivated To lead or be led To drive or be driven Is it not all one and the same? To be alert or alerted That is a different bit To sing or be serenaded Only if the ears will […]
Sometimes I am shocked at human behavior. And, then I am shocked at myself for being so shocked. I know better. People are fairly predictable. And the fact that some people at times act against their own best interests isn’t shocking either. I have seen time and […]
A few years ago, well a decade or more ago, I learned of the word “inured.” It is what me referred to as a GRE word. You know those fancy test score words. Regardless of when it came into my life, it is an awesome word to know. […]
Perhaps I am extremely tired. No, I am extremely tired. There is no perhaps to it. I am working on a book chapter that is due in two weeks and I barely have an outline together. I am a very fast writer, however. But there just may not […]
They were exhausted from all their pacing during the past 24 hours. They had smoked up a storm and even prayed to the tiki gods, sort of speak. They sat cross-legged and rocked their bodies. Not in unison, however. They were too keyed up in their own minds. […]
A guilty conscience doesn’t go away overnight No matter how much you whisper to your pillow No matter how much you tear at the feathers No matter how much you clench your fists A guilty conscience will still gnaw at you Even in a happy, random moment Even […]
Of course you are Upset Frustrated Angry Tired Annoyed Incredulous Frightened Weary Worried Unsure Beaten-down Enraged Aggrieved Disappointed Anxious Conflicted Alarmed Antagonized In need of a real answer Waiting for the other shoe to drop Sickened by it all But what are you going to do about it?