Taking a break as I head off for a long weekend without a laptop in my bag.
Be back next week sometime.
Best to all.
Month: March 2018
Downes Syndrome Day.
from the blog Willowdot21
Please watch and pass on . Sending my love out to all Mums with extra special children. Sorry it is late I didn’t know it was Downes Syndrome Day.
rewatching Stairway to Heaven before taking off on a flight of my own with second, even third, chances in mind
when mistakes are made
in heaven
love blooms
on earth
and even the dead
get a second chance
at life
“What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.”
from Douglas Moore’s blog Art of Quotation: the perfect quote for the first day of spring
“What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.”
Detail – 100 Views of Edo, #35, by Hiroshige (image from 100 Views of Edo )
blood of their blood
as I contemplate changes
here today
I hear
my grandfather say
as he lay dying
from Parkinson’s
Sweet Jesus
this is some penance
you gave me
and see
my father’s eyes
when no one else
was looking
the weariness
the sorrow
of the unforgiven
and here I am
far from the home
they tried making
older than either
ever were
and blood
of their blood
with penance
still left
to pay
an old favorite by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
See
. .it was like this when
. . . . . . . . . . .we waltz into this place
a couple of Papish cats
. . . . . . . . .is doing an Aztec two-step
And I says
. . . . . .Dad let’s cut
but then this dame
. . . . . . . .comes up behind me see
. . . . . . . . . . . .and says
. . . . . . . .You and me could really exist
Wow I says
. . . . . .Only the next day
. . . . . . .she has bad teeth
. . . . . . . . . .and really hates
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .poetry
“Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
“Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
– Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American, poet, painter, activist
It Seemed Like Things Were Getting Worse for this Homeless Family, Until…..
from the blog Anything Is Possible
Ebony Rhodes was arrested and the car her family had been living in was impounded. But the officer asked questions and reported the situation to his deputy police chief setting in motion big changes for the family.
This good news story is full of compassion and wisdom.
Got good news? Please feel free to share!
life’s lessons
life teaches
that you can’t
do what you can’t
do only what you can
do as long as you can
do it
a dialogue never heard
there
in dreams
we speak
a dialogue
never heard
out loud
Leonard Durso 