Poem, snippets and essays of my life

Category: Dont Worry Be Happy

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    And it’s summer  I have a white eyelet bathrobe lined in baby blue, which I wear on the lawn after supper, and I dance for my grandmother  who sits in the chaise lounge wearing dark  glasses that are blonde tortoise with green lenses. Her skin is dark: tanned from years of regret. I am knocking…

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  • Retirement

    Retirement

    Retirement There are some people who are content with the color of the sky and don’t long for a hurricane or a different season. They like the color white and are not tempted by cerulean blue or inky black or radically red. I see these people, and I am filled with green and bitter and…

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  • Take a Breath

    Take a Breath

    I’m trying very hard to do something that I never learned to do as a child and that is to control my emotions. There are a few programs in schools these days teaching kids how to modulate their emotions. If they feel angry or sad or frustrated they are taught how to take a breath…

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  • Meadowcroft

    Mothering in the 50’s I didn’t really have an example of what a mother should be doing. I didn’t have a good example and I didn’t have a bad example. I had an absent example.  This is what many of us had growing up in the 50s and 60s. Our mothers spent quite a bit of time in their bedrooms and I don’t understand what they were doing in there. Some of us had mothers who took us to school and some of us had mothers who picked us up from school, but many of us didn’t know where our mothers were most of the time and they didn’t know where we were. This was the…

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  • Highway 101

    Disturbingly, the sun has come up again, and people are taking showers, walking their dogs, eating Raisin Bran, and collecting their things to go to work. As the car departs from the driveway, the house echoes in pain. “Come back, come back inside, it’s not a good plan to go out.” Highway 101 is filled…

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  • Why has Trump stopped supporting…

    AI Overview While it’s difficult to pinpoint an exact percentage of the population that visits national parks, AAA’s survey shows that 85% of Americans have visited at least one national park, and most consider them a “must-see” vacation destination.  Here’s a more detailed look at national park visitation:

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  • Ocean Eyes

        Dear Billy Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell: When I first heard “Ocean Eyes” I couldn’t believe that someone finally understood how I’ve been feeling stuck in this house with my family. Your song made my heart vibrate and spread inside my chest and out my feet and I don’t even think I could walk…

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  • The Cyclone I’m confused about the difference between euphoria and euphorbia and I always have been. One of them is poisonous to humans and dogs, though it can be used for certain types of skin cancer. The other is a state of absolute joy which I tend to avoid at all costs as it makes…

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  • Dance

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  • What’s on the calendar for…

    I know there must be something. Most people tell me they have a list and go through it every day because they say they’re so busy. I don’t understand why they’re so busy because they’re not working. So then, I just think to myself, well, maybe the things they think are important enough to list…

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