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i ran my errands in he rain today… i searched for work in the rain today… i sat and watched the rain today… i watched the sun set behind orange, grey and yellow clouds today… i watched the street light come on today… i felt her coming home today… i knew she was coming home today.…
How long has it been?
It’s been 6 months since I written on here. It’s been 6 years since Mike passed, I still think about him and still wonder about his girl, yes I still stalk his sister social. My name sake graduates at the end of the month, her prom is either this weekend or next. I will be checking his siste…
Knowing what will come part 9 Noticing the Fake Reality
Knowing what will come part 9 Noticing the Fake Reality https://youtu.be/kwQ6GBkGcNg Link to poem https://youtu.be/pRTNN8TIFmw?si=wlwJ3upb2SXdFMBE
Someone passed yesterday….
Someone I’ve known my entire life passed away yesterday, we weren’t close he was a much older man. my niece’s friend’s dad. I wrote our governor and rep for our state of Texas. These small town’s have no help. WE have to drive 20 plus minutes to the nearest hospital or wait 30 minutes for an…
Thursday 5/9/24
7:19a.m. I had the weirdest dream last night. I was grocery store shopping. I was wearing a dress. I had this huge order. I needed two carts. I had enough groceries to feed sn army. Then I had to go outside the store to pay for my order. It came to over two hundred dollars. 10:07a.m. I had …
Wednesday 5/8/24
10:10a.m. I had a weird dream last night. In this dream I had a dog. He jumped in this lake or rivet. The dog was under water but he tried to swim to the other shore. I was on there shore wanting to save him. But I couldn’t swim myself. My dad was standing on a dock yelling at me not to jump…
It’s been a while . . .
😂It’s been a while since I’ve written, but wanted to let my journal know that I haven’t vanished off the surface of the earth. I’m still with Melanie and coping better with my issues. We do have a close friend, who visits quite a bit and, of course, spends a lot of time here. It doesn’t p…
Lyme
Yesterday I posted about health concerns, specifically, body aches that have been going on for two months. My intention was to create a log of my illness because I didn’t have confidence that we would find out the problem. Went to the doctor and just got word that I have Lyme disease! The sy…
אם תלך (If You Leave)
I just love this song…. long before I googled up the lyrics and transliteration and translation…All music done by Idan Raichel just speaks to me. אם תלך מי יחבק אותי ככה מי ישמע אותי בסוף היום מי ינחם וירגיע רק אתה יודע Im telech mi yechabek oti kacha mi yishma oti besof hayom mi yenache…
and let me live again
the joyous rapture of anguish washes over me like a summer rain… great sorrow bubbles up from my depths again… the great poets of pain compose their sonnets… and lets me live again… another melodramatic Indiana sunset stirs my little friends… watching the poets and thespians strut …