Loss: Picking Up the Pieces When Life Wrecks You
The dream is shattered The path hazy The end uncertain. And I am wrecked. How to go forward when retreat seems the balm, How to take one step when I’m laid [Read more...]
The dream is shattered The path hazy The end uncertain. And I am wrecked. How to go forward when retreat seems the balm, How to take one step when I’m laid [Read more...]
I sit on the lush creek bank listening to the roaring mountain stream. The mountain cabin with smoke thinly trailing from the chimney, is backlit by the rising sun which chases away the chill. Taking [Read more...]
The terror was real. My heart raced as I lay frozen in a semi-aware state of consciousness. Unable to stop them, the night terrors of my West Texas childhood were infrequent, but seared into my [Read more...]
All morning I had it. That unsettled feeling. The one that is a cross between anxiety and worry. I couldn’t put my finger on it. It was just there, hovering and squeezing. I threw myself [Read more...]
As you let them go… The last one is the hardest. Tiny shoes, tiny backpacks, Eyes that shine with excitement or eyes that shy with fear It matters not. The hard is in the parting, [Read more...]
It was a beauty, Sleek and shiny, Polished to perfection, Not a scratch or a blemish to be seen. Yet in it’s state of perfect preservation, it never got to really be a car. It had become a [Read more...]
I hadn’t been this way in years. All I remembered was the barren desolation. I’d forgotten the stark beauty. Flat, straight and smooth Lonely and alone. A road that seems to [Read more...]
I could see it in her eyes, large, brown and wide with fear. Chai Latte in hand, blueberry muffin devoured, I was enjoying a relaxing morning on the breezy rooftop in T-Town (Tulsa). The summer [Read more...]
I learned when I was about 10. My Daddy taught me. We taught those boys when they were even younger. I remember now...the secret is in the stone. The fun in the search and the importance of [Read more...]
The view is spectacular, thirty-thousand feet above home. The sun creates the illusion of pristine snowfields Abruptly ending in a dark abyss below. As we fly over the darkness, [Read more...]