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MY RECENT POSTS
- After The Gun Shot
April 01, 2012 07:08PM - That Song Told The Story
February 13, 2012 10:51PM - Etta James Dies
January 20, 2012 12:29PM - To Healing
January 13, 2012 04:58PM - A Buddhist Christmas
December 22, 2011 11:52AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Exactly as you say---it
is the realness!”
February 02, 2012 07:58PM - “Hey JP! Thanks for
stopping by!”
January 21, 2012 04:23PM - “Clay--Amen to that. She
sang like a woman who didn't
have a
lot of
peace.
Bob---Ye…
;”
January 20, 2012 03:35PM - “If ever there was a time
to listen to Etta James. . .
Thanks
Bob tl32/ChgoGuy”
January 20, 2012 01:37PM - “For Ann. . . .”
January 13, 2012 05:05PM
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After The Gun Shot
Little brother strolls
North from shimmering sun kissed palms
To a new Jerusalem of icy prairie winds.
Anchored by a tower built tall
From the dusty bricks of time.
Little brother strolls inside.
Starts to climb
Then stops fast.
His… Read full post »
That Song Told The Story
Back then, without a word
Across a smoky Harlem jazz gin joint
Our eyes have never seen
You looked at me
We danced
And the… Read full post »
Her life was the… Read full post »
To Healing
Just for a moment be the one on the left again
Let everything practical and sensible and logical
Vanish like smoke.
Till there are no decades of anybody’s life.
There is only healing.
Rolling in like a billowy white cloud wave
Of healing
And… Read full post »
A Buddhist Christmas
“Give oranges,” said the voice.
I looked up from doing Christmas cards on our dining room table. No one else in the room. It was a grey, cold Sunday afternoon. Maria was lost in a frenzy of baking. She bakes the way Michelangelo painted the ceiling… Read full post »
Thanksgiving Alone
I could do Thanksgiving alone. Lots of people do that.
Hanging up the phone, I could barely remember why she cancelled. Something about “needing space.” But I was already getting ready to be a frozen turkey dinner tough guy. Remembering, from experience, tha… Read full post »
Holiday Road
She was walking out of the back room of his jewelry store buttoning up the burnt orange cashmere sweater I had bought her on my last trip to her little town outside Kansas City. Harry the Jeweler was right behind her.
My first job out of school was as a counselor on the adolescent psychiatric ward of a major Chicago hospital. We took care of the kids during the 23 hours a day when they weren’t seeing their shrinks.
Located on the 23th floor of a building overlooking Lake… Read full post »
Cops and Chaos
The other day I saw a cop car parked in my alley. I walked about 50 feet and inside a garage, a cop was dusting the handle of the splintered door. Where the car thief had busted in and stolen the new SUV. The homeowner was standing… Read full post »
Afghanistan Sidewalks
Across the st… Read full post »
Jack Goeken: Inventor Early in the Morning
Jack Goeken, inventor, who died at 80 this week in Joliet IL after a battle with cancer, had the idea, “What if anybody could talk to… Read full post »
Olivia's Magic Whistling Parrot
Circling up into the rain. Not scared of the thunder at all. Gliding swooping lazy circles of orange and blue Caribbean sun swirls above the streetlights and into… Read full post »
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