What Crosses My Mind

  • Words to Jacob

    I’ve waited for this day, with no eager anticipation, I remember the way, I first discovered you, realized the news would be all about you, I wondered what it would be like to lose someone, to not have any idea, and only be left with pain, the loss that seemed forever in a day, in…

  • Wanting Peace – Chronology of Hope

    I When I was a child I wondered about Vietnam, couldn’t wait to see the names scroll by the evening news, Walter Conkrite’s lovely sigh would ring in my mind until my later bedtime. ~ I saw the protestors, I lived by their side, I was the kid the one with dreams and hope, everyone…

  • Trying to Focus on Home

    There’s this thing happening, on the streets of my neighborhood, there isn’t a name really, just a lot of confusion. ~ Oh some like to call it inalienable rights, others refer to the strength of the NRA. ~ Whatever the cool language of the day, what matters more are the continued loss of life. ~…

  • Killing Our Selves

    Wake up to another morning in sunlight brilliance look about a world of passion, beauty, resilience. ~ The news, what we read; our beautiful children too, can we not forget the one hundred and thirty two, ~ kids, smiling faces with pure innocence abound, they knew childlike pain, seeing upheaval all around, ~ their villages, their…

  • Capital Punishment

    Wait … I’m not ready he’s not ready she’s not ready not worthy not right not exactly operating on all cylinders When we decide upon the finality of death, are we I mean is it our goal would we, could we, do we really want to have that burden in our mind? Every day, we…