Diet’s didn’t work, the weight lurked, ruled, oppressed.Overeaters Anonymous?You’ve got to be kidding.People sitting in a circle,reading, talking, chanting rituals.No diets, no reporting, no plans to follow.Just talk about insanity,some higher power,resentments, fear,face people harmed.What changes is life!Weight loss is […]
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Aim First
A phone call, my stranger,his friend, a questionin my field. But my friend,his stranger would berebuffed. His wrong,not his friend’s.My reciprocation makesmy wrong. Phone callanswer given. Contrastconveyed to him.A wrong is a wrongeven for a wrong.Conveying truth,kindly and directly,is a […]
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You can’t reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday’s junk. ~ Louise Smith There’s comfort even in misery.When you’ve done it long enough,it’s what you know, natural,even when odious. Hope springsand chiseling drops dig deeper, deeper,trenching. […]
Continue reading »What if I Don’t?
Believe in God? Then you’re like lots of us when we came into the rooms. It says “God as you understand him.” But you could say, “God as I don’t understand him. Or her.” What’s comfortable for you? Nature? The universe? […]
Continue reading »Pushing the Boundaries
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. ~ T.S. Eliot I’m here. See my work.Read my books. Examine me to depthsof my soul. I’ve been here.I’ve done good work.Some read my […]
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