What Crosses My Mind

  • While We Wait We Witness

    A firestorm of controversy, life turned upside down, dangling in the clouds are the idealists, the true companions of our forgiveness.   On earth here in damp soil trodden upon by the masses there are children screaming parents crying siblings a wonder of just where it all belongs.   In the news today there’s noise…

  • When Obama Cries

    I would ask you this, when your criticism mounts, do you remember your own tears? When President Obama shows real tears, is there a moment when we wonder about ourselves, when human nature responds with emotion, we enjoy, we love, we relish the opportunity to point out our weak society. When the Newtown tragedy was…

  • Haven’t Heard

    I listened only long enough to fear, the easiest emotion, that moment when suddenly confusion, our lives, becomes less about being in control, far more about wanting to run away. I want that, more than anything else in the world, I don’t want to be there when it happens. I don’t desire definition. Whether we…

  • 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…

  • In A Word

    I look around the room, and see many lives, all with private notions in a public display, some busy developing futures, others, well, just visiting expecting nothing less, nothing that might upset their routine. Way back then, there was the occasional gunslinger, came to town and everyone feared, the local sheriff would earn their badge,…

  • The Shooter

    I’m the guy that made the news I shot your baby girl I took out your track star I killed your favorite teacher I did slay the demons that are me and I am so damn cool, can’t you see? I’m all over the news I made CBS, NBC & ABC all at the same…