The Things I Take For Granted

His eyes lit up like a child on Christmas morning. Better than any wrapped present under a tree, the rolling ocean, on a gray day, looked thirteen shades of green against a back drop of deep purple clouds full of rain. * He was not child, perhaps a man in middle age and his excitement […]

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On My Way to Oz

As I walk along this road I am reminded of Dorothy and how she met her perfect companions on her way to the Wonderful Land of Oz . I think of the people and the circumstances that appear in my life and there is a comfort in knowing that they all arrive exactly when they […]

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I Miss You My Friends

I miss you my friends once there…ubiquitous now gone barely existent It is not that I don’t want to see you Life has a way of getting in the way How I long for the comfort of knowing you are there for me as much as I long to give you the comfort that my […]

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