Missing You

Most people like Christmas and being with their families. Well, Steve is not most people and neither am I. We’ll do fine without the Christmas part today, but we would prefer to be together. Here’s a little bit of remedy for the distance between Florida and Texas.
There’s not much I can add to [...]

The World as We See It

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It took me a long time but it was worth the wait. I finally found a movie to rent that I could relate to, laugh out loud to and learn something from:
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
It makes me open my eyes to the fact that we are strangers in a strange [...]

No Pie in the Sky

I made this pie today: Mystery Pecan Pie
I wanted to say it is very good, but, well, it’s a mystery.
I didn’t quite follow the recipe, since I had only dark corn syrup and no light syrup. I also added just a touch of lime to the cream cheese part and a small dollop of [...]

Rolling Thunder Through an Open Window

With window open rain fell as if the night sky was playing a piece from its most loved composer, a master piece. The percussionist was at her best. I don’t believe I have ever heard thunder roll for so long and so magnificently. The long last ending seemed to rattle the window one last [...]

Today’s Lyrics

To make your own lyrics is to put your life to music. Every day is just a song. What do we add to it?

Today is the day I have waited for
I have time to live, though it be brief
Each day is as life; how could we want more
And time takes it too soon [...]

What if Mark Twain had Gone Deeper?

Mark Twain is a Mentor, Inspiration to me.
I was in a dream as my place on the Earth, again, found the Sun. Glory be for that. If it was up to me we would all be spinning off into Oblivion, hopeless.
I was with people new to me (in my dream). A women of my [...]

Face to Face

 

‘Face to Face’
(photography by V. Thrasher)
And I am listening to bombs exploding in the distance
As Midnight rolls around
I’m thinking of ‘Seeing Past and Into’
Magical diversity abound
Are we seeing past?:
Color, Gender, Age, Youth
Religion, Handicap, Nationality
Beauty, Uglyness
Children, Old People
Strangers, Familuarity
And Different Creatures to boot!
How short sighted we can be when we are ‘Face to ‘Face