Connection Connection   I was talking to the cat outside my window, wondering which one of us was in jail. He or she just looked at me indifferently and casually went up the stairs of the neighboring apartment.....

Connection
The beauty of small child and the love and patience of a Grandmother.
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#Connection #NeverUnderestimate #Beauty #Youth #Gentleness

Have A Nice Day Recent Child's Drawing from Ukraine   Chewing on my gummies is a sweet little treat after popping, breaking, and mixing all the other medici...

Have a Nice Day
Just a few lines about what I see in the world and around my back door.
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#Observations #Justice #Fairness #TakeCareOfYouOwn #Moocher

Lingering It’s a little overcast outside, deep within my chest I have a dry congested cough I’ve carrying since the day before. I stayed up until around 3 o’clock in the morning, reading or I should say,...

Lingering
Writing words for the sake of writing, clearing my head and telling secrets out loud.
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#Lamenting #Storytelling #DeepInside #Poetry #Life

Take Care Of Yourself Well let’s see how this mornings going to turn out. Woke up about normal time, I slept through the night, did my normal morning business, ...

Take Care Of Yourself
Just a simple reminder to pay attention to what your body tells you. You attitude towards you body reflects your attitude towards life.
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#Diabetes #GoodHealth #Awareness #TakeCareOfYourself #Zen

Lost Potential Still half-asleep, the new candle burns brightly. But my medicine’s been taken and my blood sugar checked and it’s already 12:16 in the afternoon. I stayed up doom scrolling till about five in...

Lost Potential
Just an observation about how we seem to shelter our children more and more, not out of love, but out of fear.
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#LostPotential #LearnOnTheirOwn #FreedomToMakeMistakes #BubbleWrap

Lose Your Footing With the taste of my two gummy vitamins fresh in my mouth, I notice how the temperature this morning is creeping up. So with a cup of deca...

Lost Your Footing
Just a simple little story about balance what we can control and letting go.
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#Mindfulness #Balance #ThichHnatHanh #Grace #Zen

Sleep Alone In a pool of warm wax my candle burns its last breath, while outside the scattered tenants of the other building head to work and school. As I sit in my apartment, the rest of the disabled and...

Sleep Alone
Life is hard and in this modern world we are still slaves to our masters. Given a taste of freedom like a carrot hanging it front of a plowing mule.
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#freedom #smartphones #connected #alone

Going To Do About It Finally Got A Haircut   Going To Do About It At 63 years old, nothing really surprises me anymore. Which in a way makes life kinda dull, b...

Going To Do About It
Just a quick little story about taking your overall health seriously. And finding something worth living for, like yourself and those you love.
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#Awareness #YourHealth #WhatToLiveFor #Try #FindYourJoy

Focus On Now Sometimes in the middle of the night I ask myself, where is your vision? I mean I follow so many that seem to have it all mapped out. Yet here I am aimlessly wondering in the wilderness, accepting...

Focus On Now
Sometimes old habits keep me awake at night. Like comparing myself to others and envying their perceived successes. Yet all we really have is the here and now.
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#HereAndNow #FiveYearPlan #InTheMoment #Fear #Zen

Funny Staring once again at the blinking cursor gives me a momentary frill cause I never know what the next words are going to be. Staring out i...

Funny
Just thinking of the irony of my own neighborhood where families are reduced to profit margins and RII, while everyday people compromise and struggle.
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#ProfitMargins #ReturnInInvestment #Sacrifice #Compromise #TheGreaterGood

Sidelines
Don’t stand on the sidelines of your own life, be an active participant. Don’t let failure or disability decide the outcome of your own life.
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#Sidelines #Participant #Active #Aware #ProjectManager

Good Morning George the Duck   Had another hard night sleeping till I woke up around 4:30 this morning. Then around 6:00 the phone kept pinging repeatedl...

Good Morning
A bit of tongue-in-cheek about the unnecessary fear and worry we put on things that haven’t happened yet.
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#Anxiety #HereAndNow #Fear #Breathe #Zen

Sort Things Out I just got through publishing a story to one of my two webpages, and while I’m feeling a little better. Earlier I was a snot blowing, throat clearing mess of a man. The tree pollen is high...

Sort Things Out
Just some thoughts on the everyday problems we all have to deal.
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#Sinuses #EverydayProblems #CommonSense #Breathe #Patience

Stories - FD Thornton Simple Stories of Life, Love & Pain

Compromise
Just a little tongue-in-cheek story of the give and take between generations and how we can all just get along.
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#NextGeneration #Stubbornness #Compromise #LettingGo #Sacrifice

Stories I showered and shaved like a good little boy this morning. Then I talked my head off with my father-in-law about baseball, grand youngins, and whatever else we could fuss about. It’s nice to have a...

Can Never Stop
Some things just flow, like a good conversation or the marching of time. This is just a little piece about things never staying the same and that’s okay.
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#Nature #Time #Attitude #Acceptance #Zen

Stories - FD Thornton Simple Stories of Life, Love & Pain

Too Busy
Part cynical, part troubling, part advice this story covers the hard won lessons of maturity.
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#Innocents #Maturity #Cynical #LessonLearned #Awareness

Possibilities It’s another hazy morning outside my window as the world wakes up to do whatever it has to do. As for me I’m just a watcher. Who after a surprisingly good night’s sleep, find myself not shaking...

Possibilities
Just a small does of reality to the so-called discipline of the world.
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#PlantingSeeds #PassItOn #Surviving #Reality #Living

The Lights Stay On! Adobe Stock   Nothing can kill your inspiration quite like trying to pay bills while “robbing Peter to pay Paul”. All day today I’ve found m...

The Lights Stay On!
Just a little peek into the everyday struggles of many in this big old world.
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#Budgets #RealLife #Fear #Stress #TheStruggleIsReal

Do The Hustle! After a good hot shower I open the curtains to my new cityscape view of the world. With mothers and fathers hustling to get the kids off to school down the busy sidewalks of the street. Now, who am I....

Do The Hustle
Just thinking modern technology and the absences of the human connection.
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#Busy #Dependent #Alone #Loneliness #AwakeUp

We Both Know
#PaintedPoetry

Umbilical Cord For us it’s a Red Flag Day, which for us has nothing to do with the coast. But has everything to do with low humidity, high winds, and fir...

Umbilical Cord
Being an adult is one thing, being a parent is something else. Just a little story about both.
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#UmilicalCord #AdultChildren #MovingBack #Sacrifice #ItsWhatWeDo

Just a little Painted Poetry to remind you love wants what it wants.
#PaintPoetry #Love #Hope

Clearing The Cobwebs I didn’t want to wake up in a foul mood. In fact I went to sleep after watching the only show my wife and I watch together. But around 3:3...

Clearing The Cobwebs
Just another story about the routines many of us remain silent about way too much.
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#Reality #Caregiving #BeingSeen #Understand #RightThereWithYou

How They Are? Chewing on my B12 vitamin, I’ve already finished taking the rest of my morning brew. That will hopefully cast a spell upon my heart and stop these damn tremors I’m having in my fingers and upper...

How Are They?
Just my thoughts on the loss of true communication, empathy, and frankly selflessness.
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#Time #Compassion #Communication #Respect #Love

Background Noise I watch the wind twist the branches of a young sapling embedded in the pecan tree, while the sun brightens to the golden hue of dawn. I he...

Background Noice
Just some thoughts on the beauty of reality and the ugliness of prejudice.
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#Hypocrisy #BelievingALie #ZeroSumGame #ShineALight

Nevertheless After a long conversation with my father-in-law, about baseball, the governors race, and great-grand youngins. We signed off with a sincere “I love you” and “Goodbye”.  It’s never nothing...

Nevertheless
My morning confessional about different generations and the loss of conversation.
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#Confessional #Truth #TheArtOfConversation #SinsOfTheFather #LettingGo

Contradictions For whatever reason, I’ve gotten into the habit of taking selfies of myself. I know I’m about thirty years too late to jump on the bandwag...

Contradictions
Just looking at my flaws and figuring out how to live with them.
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#Contradictions #Fear #Improvement #WhoYouAre #Awareness

Painted Poetry Archive Painted Poetry Archive ​ ​From the time we were teenagers poetry has always been a part of our lives. Here is a collection of some of the poetry Sandra or I have created over the years.  ​...

Invitation to check out my Painted Poetry
Here’s the link to my Painted Poetry Archive on my website. Over the years I’ve combined my love of photography and poetry into something I call Painted Poetry click the link and enjoy.
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Little Incentive It took me a while to gather myself this morning. I mean after an intense night of realistic dreams, it took me a minute to shake them off and begin my day. But now that I’m dressed, the bed is...

Little Incentive
Just a few questions I often ask myself about life, purpose, and standing by my beliefs.
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#Questions #Answers #Zen #PeaceOfMind #CompassionateListening

Time & Again Google Gemini Here we are again in the middle of the night. Buried beneath the covers of the bed, with my bride gently snoring by my side. A...

Time & Again
Just some passing thoughts on how we hang on the fear without really addressing it with the love and compassion it deserves.
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#MentalAbuse #Fear #EmbraceYourFear #ListenCompassionately #Forgive