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Arpeggio
I used to have two blogs. My other blog was strictly a poetry blog: all poetry, all the time. About 5-6 years ago, I was actively participating in weekly poetry prompt link-ups and another creative writing type of prompt website. Each week (or multiple days a week), a...
About Friendship and a Prayer
I had a best friend once, when I was in 6th grade. Since then, I really can't say, "such-and-such was (or is) my best friend." I would like to know how it feels to have that kind of special status... someone who knows you and loves you anyway and actually calls...
Iron Ore
I spent the past 5 days in a rural part of Illinois at a speech and debate tournament. The location of the tournament was a church in the middle of farmland and windmills. It seemed out of place, as if its location was a mistake, a building dropped right in the middle...
Last Week
Last week, something struck me and hit me a bit hard, and I was just working through some things- and of course social media looked empty, dismal, and unimportant (and much of it is), but I was not interested in any of it. And of course, other things...
Piano Music
I heard a song the other day at my son's piano recital called "River Flows in You", and fell in love with it. Apparently, the song has been around since 2001, but I just noticed it. (Where have I been? I think I did hear it on one of the Pandora stations I listen to,...
Spring’s Broken Wings
Spring’s Broken Wings homeless, broken-winged birds forgotten ones of spring sing sweetest, endless song the one I speak of (I wonder if you know her— she has no nest no place to rest her head) a beautiful melody rings through...
More Helpful Verses (“Apart From You, I Have No Good Thing….”)
1 Keep me safe, my God, for in you I take refuge. 2 I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing.” Psalm 16:1-2 But You, O Lord, be merciful to me.... Psalm 41:10 All my longings lie open before you, Lord; my sighing is...
“Saudade”
So there are these voices in your head, there are these unfulfilled longings, and other secret pains and not-so-secret pains each day. And you feel it, you see it: such a beautiful world, such a beautiful but fallen, broken world that you live in, and...
Little Free Library
I pass by this little free library when I take walks. Someone did a really nice job making this one. Occasionally, I open the cabinet doors to peek inside. It is usually full of books of all kinds. I haven't taken anything to read, but I like to see what folks...
Some Verses from Psalms
Here are some verses that I've read and prayed in times of uncertainty, pain, and difficulty... the plight of the human condition has been the same... our sinful natures, our hearts and minds needing God... and the Psalms have some words that resonate with our...
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