Which type of person are you? We are often forced to choose between being a glass half full, and a glass half empty person. I don’t know who came up with this exercise, but it’s a little strange isn’t it? We are presented with this scenario where we are hypothetically looking at this glass, which […]
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Levee
When “it’s” right, whatever that may be for you, The passion for it will churn inside of you like a raging whirlpool, It will foam and push itself from the jagged rocks, It will thunder down the banks, over boulders and down river, It will explode and surge from you over a great precipice, It […]
Catch and Release
Like a fish yearning for food, I kept swimming close to shore. I saw the shiny lure, and the morsel on the hook, and was fooled once more. The sharp pain of the hook didn’t hurt so badly, I took it willingly. When it sunk in it had the draw of connection, but the helpless […]
The Peace of a Forest in Winter
The hushed, slow exhalations of the god of clouds, and the rhythmic crunch of footfalls on the ground, were the only noises, around. Brown, bare, trunks, and remnants of leaves, branches, and things that used to be green, was all that could be seen. Breath escaped my mouth in ghostly bursts, as the sun pleaded […]
Contentment
This morning I sat in the grass in the shade. I sat in the grass, by a lake in a state which wasn’t my own. My legs were weary, my shoulders were sore, my feet were blistered and pained, the rest of my body was raw from exertion, and my mental state lethargic from a […]