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Cathy GF

Cathy GF
Location
Mt. Tam to Freel Peak, California,
Birthday
December 29
Title
Writer by desire. Poet by nature.
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FEBRUARY 3, 2012 10:08AM

SEEING RED

 
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Right from the start
I see the red heart.
Child of my own
points to his 'grand' entrance
that will forever be in my head.
 
A birth like no other;
A shot in the night,
Did give his new folks quite a fright.
A beautiful sight.
JANUARY 18, 2012 6:05PM

WAITING for WINTER (SNOW!)

 
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 Valhalla Pier in South Lake Tahoe today
 
 
The vibrating sound of my cell phone allerted me to a new text message a while ago.  The above photo brought me out of a restful state, after cleaning cupboards, dusting and completing some much needed domestic ch… Read full post »
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JANUARY 9, 2012 6:24PM

Point of "View"

 
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Photo taken late yesterday afternoon in an attempt to capture the layers of pink and blue in the sky behind the cabin, when another view 'into' the window appeared quite by chance. 
 
 
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The moon last night as it appeared through the living ro… Read full post »
DECEMBER 29, 2011 11:14PM

PUPPY WHOOPED! For Shiral (Love, Dylan)

 
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Our Grandson, Graydon (4.5)  with Dylan ( 10 months)
 
 
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Dylan, hanging on his special pillow, day dreaming of Shiral!
 
 
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Daughter, Michele with her Frenchie, "Cooper" (Dylan's BFF) 
 
 
 
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What constitutes a "sliver of cake?"
 
When spousal unit offers you a piece of cake and you say, "I'll just have a sliver," how do you accurately describe the size of cake you care to partake?
 
Without making a mistake?  
Can it be?
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MY SANTA
 
 
This may sound far-fetched, but when I was a little girl, I pretty much believed everything my parents told me.
 
"Your mother's a saint."
"I have to ask your father first."
"Children are to be seen and not heard."
"You need toRead full post »
NOVEMBER 29, 2011 8:51PM

"...Be sorry for nothing."

 
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An old movie watched long ago, comes back to visit on a cloudy, sleepy afternoon.
 
Its genre is as haunting as it is soothing.  Its recurrent message swaddles us in thoughts of life lived well or not well enough.
 
"Meet Joe Black" brings/… Read full post »
NOVEMBER 13, 2011 10:24AM

LESS IS STILL LESS

Simple math would dictate it.

Blonde math would masticate it.

Loss of income would dictate it.

Higher taxes illustrate it.

No eye or dental underscores it.

Gynormous deductibles highlight it.

Sleeping late ignores it. 

Unemployment lines can't fake it.

Bread lines predate it.

History repeats it.… Read full post »

NOVEMBER 11, 2011 1:13AM

PAPER CUT

 
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 When you tread lightly to the curb;
 
Turn back and look for the soft spot in the grass.
 
You have arrived. 
 
 
When you lay your head upon a perfect pillow;
 
Cradle your neck in firm recesses of comfort,
 
 
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Just for the ghoolish fun of it, let's post some of our spooky pumpkin designs; carving extraordinaire and all that ghostly gobbledygook!
 
I am a push over for Halloween and have all the cheesy Halloween decorations in my front yard complete with pumpkins inRead full post »
OCTOBER 25, 2011 10:30AM

Breakneck Speed

 

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knife, gun, pills, balcony, suffocation, jump, run, stop, hit,

split second.

which way to run or not to run at all.

stop, start, hesitate, return to position, aim, shoot,

never stall.

have a nice meal, don't hold back,

pick any stranger to get in theRead full post »

 
Having seen a highly recommended psychic some months ago, my head was swimming in "what ifs."
 
Had it been a terrible mistake to ask such questions; the answers which would haunt me and effect so many sleepless nights?  I regretted it.
 
She was so clear I would beRead full post »
OCTOBER 23, 2011 12:24AM

LAST SEEN (100 word flash fiction)

 
 For Susie Lindau's "flash fiction" OC
 

  ...nearly falling asleep at the wheel, it seemed the right thing to do.
 
pulling over onto a  small patch of off road space surrounded by large drooping pines weighted by the recent downpour, I listened as the engine sRead full post »
OCTOBER 17, 2011 9:54AM

The Power of Blue

 
Blue becomes you...part II
 
 
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Blue becomes your moody blues 
 
 
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"Bubbers" dripping in Tahoe blue 
 
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"Baker" Basking in blue NeRead full post »
OCTOBER 13, 2011 8:53AM

Becoming Blue Becomes You


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Purest blue of skies
Listening to the cries
Of many urgent whys
Softly uttered sighs.
 
Can you be so blue?
 
 
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In bushes so blue with bees
Troubling for few
Who love to be blue
Her blossoms reach to the sky
Blue neverRead full post »
 
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October 2011
 
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OCTOBER 2, 2011 5:15PM

"Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto You" OC

 
When the bully who harmed you was your best friend.
 
 
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A common biblical verse most of us have heard so often, especially in our youth, we were taught to strive to be kind to others, even while others were not so kind to us.… Read full post »
SEPTEMBER 29, 2011 11:58PM

PAN AM or TWA: "eenie meenie miney moe"

 
 
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Second largest US Airline in the world...and...let's just say...past tense. 
 
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Pan Am also the oldest airline in the world and the oldest airplanes/jets.    Back in the day...
 
 
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While soRead full post »

"Gramma!"  There was no pilot in the plane that crashed!"

Seeing, hearing and feeling the horror of this tragedy through the eyes of your grandchildren, is heart pounding, gut wrenching and the making of our most feared nightmares.

My four and a half year old grandson declared the above.  F… Read full post »

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011 1:20AM

September 12th - Not Just Another Day

I could barely get to sleep last night.  I felt hyper vigilent over the eve of September 11th and surely, all the New Yorkers who layed wide awake during the night and wee hours of the morning of...

 

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Finally, I turned off the TV in the early PST… Read full post »

AUGUST 7, 2011 2:12AM

TRUE FULFILLMENT IS...

Fulfillment is a very subjective term.   Not only a mouthful, it is a paradox of what ifs.  The mere thought of it is daunting to me, as it is a word that over-shadows everything in life that is supposed to be.  Or so I think, from time to random time.… Read full post »

You know when the bar tender's had a bad day when she walks behind the bar at the beginning of her shift and fixes herself two double shots, while staring at the customers in front of her, from one end to the other.

In this very moment, the piercing scan with… Read full post »

AUGUST 2, 2011 11:34PM

Gettin' Real with My Stock Portfolio

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Who'd have thought I'd get an email from my financial adviser two days before "The Crisis?!"
 
Sounds fancy, but until today, his services were "free."  Whole new ball game now.
 
Odly enough, I met with him at 3:30 PM this afternoon to discuss my IRA.… Read full post »
AUGUST 1, 2011 7:02AM

Quick Sand

I was twelve years old.

My mom told me I was being allowed to go on a ten day camping trip with our neighbors, to a well known national park.

I was confused.  Why and how did this come up?  I had to go with them in three days?

They had… Read full post »

It was 1969.

9 hours to Greece.

My first time going to Athens.

 

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It was my first working flight.

Fresh out of training.

Excited for the prospects.

 

Sat in the cockpit.

The views were intense and blue.

And then they turned white.

 

Everything so warm andRead full post »