A Portrait and a Moment With Its Subject You know those moments when you unexpectedly find yourself experiencing something rather marvelous, and you want very much to have someone next to you, to nudge a bit, and share your wow? Well last year, while in Tallahassee, touring Florida’s Historical Capital Museum, I...
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Tying Up Loose Ends I save too much stuff; but oddly I am rarely sorry that I have held on to something. Many years ago, in fact, last century, when my older sister was moving from a house, she had lived in for quite a while, I saw a huge mound of mostly...
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My First Autograph How I wish my Father Had Lived to See Our Countrymen Making History “Cruz is one of three Latinos in the Senate; the others—also Americans of Cuban ancestry—are fellow Republican Marco Rubio of Florida and Democrat Bob Menendez of New Jersey.” ~ Wikipedia ~ After I said my goodnight prayers, I...
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Miss Hannah Living Life On Her Own Terms “This actually encapsulates me really well…a mug commemorating my signature character, Little Miss Sunshine in hand, and a biography about Oscar Wilde in arm, and a cat scarf around my neck. Me, in a nutshell.” ~ Miss Hannah ~ This morning, as I got off...
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Are We Present? “Too much of our living is done in the past or in the future while we neglect the present. But yesterday is a canceled check and tomorrow is a promissory note. Only today is cash at hand for us to spend.” ~ Sidney Greenberg~ Words to Live By When I read...
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Consistency and Change Walking down a street where I once knew every homeowner by name, I realize that there is only one house left, whose occupants I know, and then only because they bought their mother’s house. I used to walk this neighborhood, before I owned a cellphone, confident that if something happened during...
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A Call for Civility Equates to “big fat Clown Cristina” “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will...
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An Open Letter To All Who Cannot Forgive Common Core, Immigration, Gay Marriage . . . We Need A War Time Consiglieri “. . . He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.” ~ John 8:7 KJV Bible Gateway ~ I watch the evening news, and I...
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Five Little Children One Big World In going through several files of papers, I came upon this calendar, which had been ripped from an appointment book, on January 28, 2003. Initially, I turned it around where there are notes scribbled in three different pens, and tried to figure out who the person, whose...
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Are We Savoring Life? “Thank you for posting this (I have removed the person’s name to whom this was posted) gbu always I read the above comment, in response to the person’s post, at whom the comment was directed and paused for a moment, to figure out what gbu meant. The only...
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