How

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How these times test our faith, our core of restraint, decency, and sense of continuity …

Life is Unrelated: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

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Darwinism, knowledge, the moon and who we are – what’s it all about?

Bob Dylan Meets Adam and Eve on a Whirling Sunday: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

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Imagine a whirling Sunday of serious humor and religious quackery, a parody and an oxymoron, in which Bob Dylan hooks up with Adam and Eve to decipher God’s Word out on a Highway 61 in the town of Eden while … Continue reading →

dVerse ~ Poets Pub: A Higher Magic

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A challenge to write a poem about magic and a prompt of a poem by Shel Silverstein, that was deliciously magical in and of itself, and I couldn’t resist the magic temptation…

Third Poem Accepted

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While I am awaiting notification of the publication of my second accepted poem, I’ve received notification that a third poem has been accepted

The Course of History: Friday Fictioneers

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Things can end up being more significant than intended…

A Scarred Prophet: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

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We look for inspiration, but when we get it we often cannot get passed the presentation of it. The packaging mars the revelation.

Oh, Panama!

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What a wonderful discovery that was made this week. A magical land that wasn’t supposed to be discovered. Where the rich can become richer and deny that they are. Wow.

A Contrarian Spirit of Levity: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

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We can waste a lot of time seeking God, becoming bitter when He doesn’t reveal Himself – or we can just…

Lesson for Today’s Type A’s: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

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The words in the Book of Job hold as much truth today as ever, and always will….

Sacred Secret: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

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Look closely. deep within, or maybe without, the sacred secret lies…

Sin Creek: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

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What we live with, we end with…

The Purity of Sea: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

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This man set sail, as many a man has, to purge an inner demon, an acquired curse, maybe an original sin, and finds salvation at sea…

Lord’s Plea (A Psalm) : The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

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a prayer for the oppressed …

Two for the price of one: Friday Fictioneers

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This week you have a choice of two stories. You don’t have to vote. You don’t even have to choose between the two. And there won’t even be a test afterwards. It doesn’t get any better than this…

The Garden of Exxon: Friday Fictioneers

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We all have to answer to a higher authority. Some of us, though, are a little misguided about who that Higher Authority is…

Walk the Earth on the Wild Side: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

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A fond nod to Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side”…

Perspective: Cee’s Black and White Photography

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Our Father who art in heaven… Check out this week’s photo blog from Cee’s Photography for black and white photography. Below is my entry for the week.   Perspective   I shot this yesterday. The skies were unbelievably beautiful. An … Continue reading →

Secularity: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

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By whose judgment, by whose values, by whose god?

A Drunk Was Once Fed Some Grub: Limerick Off Monday

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Be careful who you drink with, but be more careful of the hand that feeds you.

In the Scheme of Things: The Sunday Whirl

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Is a rose by any other name, the same? Does a name matter?

The Problem with Prayer

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Do you pray? Don’t have the time? Don’t believe in it? Don’t think it’ll work…

The Man Who Lives on the Rock Strewn Lane: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

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The Sunday Whirl invites writers to write a poem or short prose using some or all of the “wordle’s” 12 words. This week it is:

What’s Wrong With Our Times: God Told Amos

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A few words to the greedy, the wealthiest, the corporate deserters, the ones who say that those in need are only cheaters and don’t deserve it, the ones who don’t want to look out after their brothers, and feel it’s … Continue reading →

Today: The Sunday Whirl “Wordle”

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The Sunday Whirl invites writers to write a poem or short prose using some or all of the “wordle’s” 12 words. This week it is:

Shibboleths: The Sunday Whirl “Wordle”

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The Sunday Whirl invites writers to write a poem or short prose using some or all of the “wordle’s” 12 words. This week it is:

The Player: The Sunday Whirl “Wordle”

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The Sunday Whirl invites writers to write a poem or short prose using some or all of the “wordle’s” 12 word. This week it is:                         The Player   … Continue reading →

Heavenly Helen: Friday Heaven or Hel-eneers

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Helen in heaven? Read on…

Leonard Pitts’ Latest Column – A Discussion With God

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I love reading Pitts’ column in the Sunday Herald. I had to share this one, in case you hadn’t read it. I think it’s terrific…

Scattered Hope: The Sunday Whirl “Wordle” on Monday

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There were graven images, idols and statues, monoliths and icons, and now drones…

Another slice of pie, said I (A Serving Song) The Sunday Whirl on Wednesday

I couldn’t resist a second helping of this week’s Sunday Whirl. So this is my version: the Wednesday Whirl. Please indulge me in a moment of silent regurgitation

The Bush

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You just got to take this for what it is…

Listen, It’s a Thin Line – The Sunday Whirl “Wordle”

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It’s a thin line between heartbreak and laughter…

Ex Friends: Five Sentence Fiction

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Sometimes a friend is not really a friend – or is a friend to the end… Mu-wa-ha-ha-ha

The View from the Bridge: VisDare and Sarah Ann Hall

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Okay, so I got all fla-blund-ged (confused) again (which is not that unusual for me). I saw Sara Ann Hall’s blog about a bridge which was in response to what I thought was this week’s VisDare, which it was and … Continue reading →

Out on a Limb 2 – Or, God Takes His New Children on a Field Trip to His First Tree: Friday Non-Fictioneers

Come visit the Garden Museum on a field trip with God….

Out on a Limb: Friday Afflictioneers

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Who could love a gnarly tree? If you did – would it be called treeson? Would you go out on a limb for a gnarly tree? Important questions to ponder. We think we have some answers…

One Resurrection Day: The Sunday Whirl “Wordle”

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Rise and shine. A new day. A new promise…

Phlower Power II

Continuing on with a phew more phlower power photos…

of Thee i sing: 100WCGU

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What is it that will stop this madness? This quick slide into extinction…

Sometimes Sonnets Alight at Night

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Haiku’s will thread their way like ivy spreading o’er the day… but sometimes sonnets will alight at night.

Kisses: continued

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To be read aloud, slowly, endured, and with hot breath…

Stealing: Wordle 97

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Life is a pick pocket you better watch out for…

Where is this Road that Leads Me Home?

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When ya need forgiveness, when ya need your sins washed away, ya just can’t get home fast enough to Him…

Jesus at a Doorway II

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If Jesus came to your door, would you be ready?

Jesus at a Doorway: Wordle 96

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The Sunday Whirl invites writers to write a poem or short prose using some or all of the “wordle’s” 12 words. This week’s words are: Jesus at a Doorway A door: to Adore some surly light. A door that leads … Continue reading →

Karma Kartoons and Cosmic Comics Presents: Back to the Drawing Board – Picture it and Write

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Sometimes we’re just not in a position to negotiate…

Stanley Sees the Light: VisDare 7

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There are keys, and then there are keys… then, there are doors, too.

Invictus by William Ernest Henley

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My mother likes to say that all good things come in three’s. I’ve posted Rudyard Kipling’s If and Max Ehrmann’s Desiderata – and I think William Ernest Henley’s Invictus is a great third piece in this collection. By the way… … Continue reading →

Desiderata by Max Ehrmann

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Many people know the prose poem entitled Desiderata – which means “desired things” in Latin. But if you don’t, please take a moment to read it through.