Sometimes so hard, just live, just live. Chores and tasks and obligations and duties and demands, All demand your time, your attention, your Right Now!, moments, hours, days, It feels so anyway, feels anyway, all the more to me, To my mind, mixed up in it all, mixed up by it all, all mixed up …
Category: Happy
Be At Peace
One of the simple lessons I take from this season, this Easter Season? I am loved. I am forgiven. I am forever one of God’s children, Our Father, Our Mother indeed. And as such, even as I struggle and search and strive and stumble, Even still, each day, sometimes each hour I need to remind …
Lyrics Post: “Freedom ‘90’”
Wow. Or is it “Wham!” So SO good. On several levels. Take a read. Take a listen. Decide for yourself. My toe was tapping pretty quick. And my hips were rocking. SHAKE IT. "Freedom '90" I won't let you downI will not give you upGotta have some faith in the soundIt's the one good thing …
Vigil to Resurrection: Love Wins
The Paschal Mystery, the Easter Miracle, have long been a wonder. A wonder to me, in any event. How did that happen? Over the years I’ve thought long and hard, and prayed in earnest, waiting, hoping for a revelation. After all these decades, for me the revelation is hope. For me the revelation is that …
What Does It Come Down To?
THIS. From @Pontifex. Francis. I have to say, he speaks for me. And I am grateful. “”From the cross God reigns with the disarmed and disarming power of love. He continues to amaze our minds and hearts. Let us allow ourselves to be filled with that amazement. Let us gaze upon the Crucified One and …
Sometimes It’s Weird
Sometimes it is, sometimes it’s weird. Like at work, new people, new duties, new systems; or old ones too... Like talking to people you feel sorta close to, most do, sometimes, don’t they? Like living in a situation you didn’t anticipate, expect, really desire...but there you are. Sometimes it’s weird.
Tribe
A few of the tribe come together, the warmth, the laughter, easy sharing, caring, catching up, so good, so good. What does the tribe do? Some how through some magic, a sense of belonging, knowing, acceptance, concern. It fortifies, reassures, comforts. My tribe? At least two. SCHS85, SCU89. When I’m with these people the thick …
Consider The Porch Stoop
How often do I sit there, and just consider the day? Not so often. How often do I sit there, on this stoop I’ve lived behind for half my life? No often enough. I’ve lived in this house, on this street, longer than I’ve lived anywhere else in my life. And how often have I …
Freestyle Love, G.M.D.
GMD, why do I think of him like that? My family, big on initials of names, for some reason. GMD, my maternal grandfather, George M. Downing, not frowning, just thrownin' words down, For him on his birthday, 107, not here anymore, still deep within me, spirit living on, as it should be. A doer, a …
Lyrics Post: “Sloop John B”
How often have I heard the song? How often have I tried to play it? Clearly not enough...so here we go again. "Sloop John B" “We come on the sloop John B My grandfather and me Around Nassau town we did roam Drinking all night Got into a fight Well I feel so broke up …
1/2_Full, All GOOD 