“Foggy Park” by Leonid Afremov WITHIN A SILENT MIST Alone within the evening, a silent mist ever so gently drawing me in; alone within my thoughts as I ponder many things. Flickering flames of autumn igniting an otherwise misty grey, glistening magic carpeting the way beneath my feet, rainbowed crimson and gold warming my heart […]
“Drawing Hands” by M.C. Escher TREASURED Holding back the tears of sadness mixed with joy, I close the lid and carefully slip the ribbon back on, placing the treasured box of words collected there back where they came from, somewhere deep within a gentle heart words flowing to each page from her soul through her […]
Josephine Wall’s “Seasons of Life” A CHILD OF ALL THE SEASONS I am a child of all the seasons, delighting in each one as they pause only briefly and just long enough to infuse my heart and my imagination in their yearly revolution one by one; each year a bit shorter, it seems, than the […]
“WINTER SONG” by SHARONLEE — 2012 BEYOND MAGICAL Blanketing the forest in crystalline white, snow silently falls and envelops the night, ice coating each branch, sparkling within the glow of a winter’s moon so very silent and still, my heart and soul transfixed and mesmerized by the sight, for just a moment at one with […]
My sole sibling, my older sister Deidre, is in town this week with her husband and my nephews, doing the summer vacation thing here in the great Northwest with friends of theirs. I had sort of vaguely heard that King Tut was in town, but had family not come to do the tourist thing, I […]
“Maryblue” by RC ACROSS THE MILES Lifting us up when we fall and picking us up when we’re down, always sharing a smile and never a frown, every so often an angel comes my way. And I can’t help but notice when that happens to me, my eyes open wide, so delighted in what I […]
BEYOND IMAGINATION’S DOOR Beneath a midnight canopy of sparkling moonbeams and twinkling stars, celestial lights stretching beyond the night, pathways toward tomorrow and eternity’s brilliant light. And as far as my journey takes me through threatening storms and the heat of summer sun, I try to focus on that place that’s somewhere deep within, searching […]
SPUN OUT I remember well a time, and not so very long ago, when the world I knew seemed so nicely wrapped in cute little boxes and bright-colored bows. I remember that time when everything seemed to make so much sense to me and anything out of the ordinary simply left me scratching my head […]
Okay, I must be really starving for blog topics if I am posting my school papers as blogs. Just finished this little ditty below… Points of interest not included in the paper: The highest correlation between mental illness and high creativity was found in poets. The article I reference in footnote #4 was utter bullshit. […]
