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The Last Post
I have not given up on you yet, but this is my last general post. For the week. Not my usual last post, but the last one until next week sometime. There won’t be a Recipe Sunday coming up and you will not get your stream of inspirational quotes, poetry, and whatever else I feel… Continue reading
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Before
Before they ever thwarted us… Beat down tortured us… Slave ship boarded us… Rounded up and horded us… Before they ever sent the natives round to go and capture ya… Before they gave us crack and put them crooked laws on us… Before they water hosed us and sent them dogs on us…. Before the… Continue reading
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One Reason to Never Ask Someone To Follow Your Blog
• It’s like asking someone to love you. As many are polishing and re-polishing their blogs for what 2015 has in store, there are people on the internet contemplating starting a blog. They may be tying up the loose ends and deciding on a template this very moment; or categorizing a host of topics to… Continue reading
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These Women
Insolent like heavy shoulders hard to bear weight refusing to be comforted contemptuous a rubbed off gentleness like candy wore off the sugar like sugar wore off the sweet when they pass by us on the street an invisible burden hangs from the creases of their jeans like expectation scratching it’s nails against the concrete… Continue reading
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Goodnight 2014
The wind has released itself from its chambers and spreads its body over the earth. A blanket of hammers slamming low temperatures into the atmosphere, it carries the clouds; full and dark with storms they are coddled into position. The sun has set and is nestled inside the crook of fire in the west wing… Continue reading
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Mail
“Here’s the mail that never fails, it makes me wanna wag my tail, when it comes I wanna yell, MAIL!” Yea yea, I’m quoting Blues Clues. I know were supposed to all be grown and boring and stiff, but I still love getting packages in the mail. It’s a building anticipation of something good. A… Continue reading
