What Crosses My Mind

  • Three Days Before Christmas

    I’m sitting alone in my apartment thinking about the days ahead. I don’t want to sound like I am feeling sorry for myself. Actually, I am in a good state of mind, as opposed to the last few years. I recently thought about my niece who is currently going through a round of chemotherapy having…

  • A Stirring Conversation

    So, I have been feeling poorly recently – what an exciting start right? A real grabber. My point is though I was feeling bad for myself because any type of illness I immediately imagine Covid, and I go through the motions of the test and it comes back negative – well that is my assumption…

  • Look Closely If You Can

    At a quick glance we might call sweet shelter the homes hold hope and prayer and a safety for everyone inside, security the temps suggest a different manner.   Across the city another enclave of soul seeker human condition airs indifference as a blizzard ensnares their grip on surviving a city cave.   Two worlds…

  • Life Is Not A Ploy

    Though there would be immediate disagreement in one, quiet satisfaction in another, in the final hour, one would realize if they did stop to glance, a world beyond their own device, would, might still exist, and in that social fabric ignored, a pain, a fighting soul whose rapture not found might emulate the sorrowful nature…

  • Sleep Little Children

    We are a fancy lot, our trends, our needs, our visual aids, yet we need to sleep, no matter the place or time … When you glance think of your comforts, imagine a day without your favorite linens, such hardships, such unfair realities, then recall, imagine … There are those we take for granted, we…

  • This Morning

    I woke up to find the door to my home is open, outside the temperature was below zero, I walked through my family room and stepped off the carpet to stand on my freshly polished wood floor, to shut the door. I suggested to a family member, ‘Would you please, shut the ‘front’ door?’ ~…

  • Society

    People tend to run when noticed by others They’d rather cry alone People tend to run Instead of recognizing sad truths People wish to be removed From serious interactions on a rainy day Beside a cloudy morning When eyes just begin to waken Sunlight’s heat draws energy Delightful to our skin Refreshing and thriving Well…

  • The Waiting

    Tonight While a fresh snow caresses Every opportunity of land around me I wonder in the quiet shelter About the breeze that for me offers arousal To my senses Like a beating sun on a hot summer’s day I recognize beauty in Nature’s Extremes ~ Alone My world is far different than yesterday When every…