What Crosses My Mind

  • When My Father Cried

    It was the changing season, a tragedy, we were all crying, dumbfounded and surreal the moments ahead forever. He was heart-broken no place to stand or sit or feel, just simple pain, always and forever, misty eyed and helpless to the reality of the human condition. He’d been tested, he’d been traumatized, together ships passing…

  • Fallen Shadows Still Rise

    We might think of them as a memory, the pain of losing them, the loss of heartfelt passions and laughs, we might imagine them a memory.   Yet, their shadows can still rise, it is where we left them, forced to say good-bye, we remembered how they stood against the wall.   Oh to have…

  • Recognizing Who We Are Today! (a draft)

    We experienced a tragedy in (our community) last week. We lost a young man as the result of a traffic accident. He touched many hearts. The city, the district, the students were all impacted by the loss of (student), a student known by many for his affectionate and charming persona, an infectious personality. I listened…

  • Sitting In My Personal Space

    Getting ready for the school year, planning lessons, rearranging books and files, adjusting to a new physical classroom.   I wanted to complain tonight, my room still needs desk, 35 kids coming in a week, no ac, the temp was 110 F.   I sat out in the hall, parent and student open house, lots…

  • Why “13 Reasons Why” Is Important

    In the fine arts we are encouraged to go big with our ideas, to allow emphasis on the issue, the illusion, the piece of art being presented on the stage. The purpose is designed to get the point across to the audience, or keep them engaged. The true compliment to an artwork, no matter the…

  • Check Your Need

    Check your nails, primp your hair, fix your tie, pull that food out of your teeth, people die ~ Meet the boss, play the silly fool, smile to your strangers walking by, be sure we all can see your eyes, people die ~ plan your life, hug your animal frolic in the springtime air, plant…

  • Vestige Relived

    If when you recall, a sandstone walk, bohemian ways would you ignite the fire, the sensation of love, that current, so rampant in motion, that any recollection could only satisfy. Two people share a life together, brief travels inside the mind of each other, yet years later, after layers rife with nostalgia, we might try…

  • Kids Don’t Get It

    I was twelve, I didn’t know that it hurt too much shock, confusion, no one understood, as much as I retold the story, oh, there were the hugs, the sorry, but then at twelve it was time to play again, if it didn’t happen to you, it didn’t happen to anyone. I was twelve.

  • Piano Keys

    That summer I listened, you heard the keys of his piano swept my life to a dream, perhaps I was only in a wish a hope to find peace with you to discover how we as two might find our one. ~ That summer I listened, you heard voices that beckoned a state of mind,…

  • Yesterday

    We read about it on the news, that they would tell us, back then in the wired age, we didn’t really have to wonder otherwise, we knew they were dying, we saw the pictures of the massacre of innocent lives with the bombs dropping, little kids watching with eyes wide open, unable to see their…