One computer gasping, hijacked by service provider wanting to help but without functional links or phone number. Another, brand new, trying to go to the same page and freezing the app. Poem due. I resort to telephone texting through fears […]
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A Christmas Poem
Why write a Christmas poem? After two thousand years the subject’s saturated, glorious songs by Handel, Wesley, the bigs. Besides, why me? I’ve decked no tree these last few years. Writing checks passes for giving and keeps me out of […]
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Immanuel or Emmanuel or Imanu’el (Hebrew עִמָּנוּאֵל “God [is] with us” consists of two Hebrew words: אֵל (’El, meaning ‘God’) and עִמָּנוּ (ʻImmānū, meaning ‘with us’) God with us, the god of our understanding, the god inside of us, all around us, maker and creator and sustainer of all things, […]
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Sam R. Breedlove, June 22, 1915 – December 24, 2008 Honor, integrity, work ethic. “Very good supper, Mrs. B.” Grace before every meal. I cried that my younger sister was about to marry and at 23 it seemed I never […]
Continue reading »“Where Everybody Knows Your Name”
The esprit de corps we sought in addiction, in all-you-can-eat buffets, in bars, in casinos, claimed to be there, masqueraded as staying there, but lied. It was a farce, a bait-and-switch, a mockery laughing at us from the depths of our […]
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