Ponder the word “percolate.” Is your first thought the sound as the percolator is plugged in (or placed on a burner) and coffee brews to the tune? Or do you envision a liquid finding its way molecule by droplet, purified […]
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Things I Knew
May 4, 2011. I knew on that day writing a poem each day, publishing it, and getting people to read it would be the ideal way to sell books! We had written three – Slender Steps to Sanity by OAStepper, […]
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We are people who normally would not mix. But there exists among us a fellowship, a friendliness, and an understanding which is indescribably wonderful. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous (Kindle Locations 390-391). We’re an odd lot, a group that would never exist […]
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A friend of mine from half a continent away stood at my kitchen window looking at the bird feeder I’d put up in her honor and named birds there, in my yard, I’d never heard of. I told her once […]
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He marched it off in bootcamp, sweated it off when told “drop and gimme 50.” Made weight each year by desperation. But retirement came with no commands, no requirements, no impediments to appetite. He left the commands but found a […]
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