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Phantom Dolphins on an Icy Lake
Cloudless morn in the park as the sun rises into the sky makes for a strange phenomenon on the lake that is covered with a thick layer of ice. Contracting and expanding creates a chorus of cracking,...
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Play It Again
I think I’m at that point in my exasperating life were if I were someone else’s pet, I would already have been put out of my misery; you know, what vets like to call quality of life issues, or more...
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Mr. PurrPot
At the edge of the world and a bit dizzy, I’m reminded how fragile it all really is. Our lives are bare basic essentials…birth, life, death; all the other stuff depends on family, friends…but mostly...
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When life hurts
My heart's in a thousand pieces...I keep waiting for him to come into viewfrom the hallway,yowling, with that worn out felt mouse clutched between his teeth;dropping it onto the flooras he makes his...
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Optical Illusion
What to write...Thinking...Thinking...Nothing.If what is, is what it is...my blog's dead wood being tossed into the fire pit one excruciating piece at a time toasting to a cinder whosoever happens by...
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A Winter Day in Spring
Waiting for the light to turn green, it’s impossible to ignore the prophesy written on those back doors of the semi-rig blocking the view in front of me. The left door sports an enormous arrow...
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Hi! My name is Lacey...
...and I'm a recovering kleptomaniac.Huuhuhuhuhuh.Okay, mommy.Hi! My name is Lacey, and I'm trying to be a recovering kleptomaniac.I'm sorry mommy's eye shadow brush was too hard to find...ya, right....
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Trowel and Error
ticksticksandmoreticks!!!Growing up were the days of bare feet tickled by the grass between our toes as we sat in the middle of a sea of green in our front yard. Our fears were of fire ants,...
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Diary of a Weekend Gardener
There are times in the early rush of spring plant growth when the thought of apartment life with no yard for miles around puts a wistful smile on my soil splattered and sweat drippy face. I dream of...
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The Comings and Goings of a Ditzy Gardener
If...if...if...... If I could spend a dayany dayhalf a daythreetwojust one simple little hourof a dayand pretendI never had to work for my room and boardever, ever againand everything in my life was...
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This isn't what I had in mind, when I fussed about life becoming as dull as...
Of course, the above isn't true. Day one, dead mouse lay on the back deck. Day two, the inedible part of a dead mouse lay upchucked on the back deck. Day three, dead squirrel lay on the garage floor...
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Head in the Clouds, Feet in the Mud
Rethinking paradise...that's right...my hell's the cat's paradise, my paradise the cat's hell. The perfection of it all, I guess, is that we're both right and we're both wrong.Some observations are a...
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Just breathe...
She sighed as she finished offthat small slice of juicy steakAnd pushed her baked potatoto the left side uneatenNibbled on her ten piecesof broccoli andantePassed up the dessert menuand sipped instead...
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Iraq - Balancing on the Razor's Edge
He tells me to not believe everything I see on the news, but things are happening there that are difficult to leave on the doorstep. His 'To Go' bag is ready, has been since he arrived, and he's next...
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Ms. Butterfinger Trippytoes - Mistress of the Gardens
I wish,I wish,I wish,no rain would fall on my garden grounduntil all the grass was mown downandweeds heaped in a dreadfully high mound andevery plant was pronounced fit and...
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A Million Little Thoughts
What if…What if the last time I saw my brother I hadn’t heard his wife’s telephone conversation saying they didn’t tell me they both were sick before I flew in to visit, because the money they paid for...
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Flashback
I've always thought adversity and heartache, burdens and misfortunes; mingled with gladness and comfort, good fortune and self-indulgence were the abstracts in life that made it all so darn super...
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The Jamie Files - Tale 1 Conversations with a Cat
"Independence…while cats grasp the notion head-on with some of them erupting into flaming beacons of obstinacy; doltish dogs gaze upon it simply as a weak-minded choice between sitting to the left or...
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Popped Bubbles
There’s a garden out my front door. It's right under my nose, but it seems far away over the next horizon of wishful thinking. Dog days of summer have slowed the chaos to a stop and maybe in a month...
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