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Liberty or Madness

It takes courage to be shadow; to go mad in a world bent from being brave. I drank. Like Alice used drugs to shrink myself to fit into the tiny box marked good. I trusted when doctors said the blue...

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Spring Bee Haiku

~ blackberry blossoms bear boodle bird feeders black fly bites ~ Filed under: Poetry Tagged: Bee, BlackBerry, Haiku, Honey Bee, poetry, Spring

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You’re so pretty. When you smile.

For the last few years I’ve been focused on listening to what my body is telling me about how I am feeling.  Recovering from ruptured disks I made a point to slow my body and my mind way down.  In …...

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Missing, but in Action.

Hi Everyone! So anyone who’s been reading my blog for the last four months knows that my husband [Al] and I have been building our own house [a cabin actually], for the last few years. This last week...

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From Baby Dolls to Barbie Brawls

My father’s aunt made a living sewing Barbie clothes. When my parents took us to visit her daughter Kelly and I used to spend hours role-playing with her Barbie dolls. She had several, including Tutti,...

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Boyfriends and Foster Families

For years I begged my mother to let me go live in a foster home. Defeated by her determination that my emotional reactions to the alcoholic insanity, the life threatening violence in our house was a...

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Rainy Haiku

~ sky crying sunshine solar lamps dull growing gardens gulp ~ Filed under: Poetry Tagged: Arts, Garden, Haiku, Home and Garden, Meditation, Music, poetry, Rain

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The Body the Soul and a Snowflake

I recently read The Hidden Messages in Water by Masaru Emoto. This is the second book of his I’ve absorbed into my heartmind. Believing water to be sentient, he and other researchers have spent over a...

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__picture it & write

Reblogged from ermiliablog: I urge people to join in, comment with your paragraph of fiction to accompany the image. It doesn’t have to follow my story or reflect the same themes. It can be a poem or...

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A Faerie is Born

This airy faerie piece was inspired by picture it & write prompt #29.  ~ Pregnant moon belly lifts dancing orbs whisper remember your wings. Warm star fingers raise awareness urge inspiring birth...

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Remembering Warmth and Norway

While we lived in California Julaften [Christmas Eve] was spent at my dad’s parent’s house. Everyone got dressed up. Us girls wore dresses and patent leather shoes mom bought just for the occasion. I...

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Holy Shit it’s Christmas Eve

After we moved to Utah when I was nine Christmas Eve was never the same. Our family went to my father’s aunt Edna and Uncle Pete’s house but we didn’t dress up. There was nothing special about being...

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No Nostalgia November

School was out for Thanksgiving. Most the kids in the neighborhood were playing outside. Many of them riding their bikes up and down the sidewalks. I liked playing by myself most of the time and much...

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Lightning Bug Love Haiku

~ Firefly seduction Amorous light Ushers summertime in. ~ Filed under: Poetry Tagged: Fireflies, Haiku, Love, Mating, Owl City, Sex, Summertime

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Reincarnation

This video was to interesting to pass up. Filed under: Random Tagged: Arts, Body Mind Spirit, Hosting, Reincarnation, Religion & Spirituality, Soul, Television

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Inspiration with Beautiful Flower Photographs! ~a new collection offered by...

Reblogged from Linda Willows: I had a wonderful time putting together this beautiful collection of Flower Photographs for you. Most photos are by the gifted Photographer, Ken Oshawa. I get all dreamy...

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Ass-squared [assuming assumptions are true].

Assumption: The act of taking for granted or supposing. The act of taking to or upon oneself. The act of taking possession of something: the assumption of power. Arrogance; presumption. Today I’m...

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Love and Marriage Reunites our Family

I’m  happy you are all here to witness, read, share with me, and comment on my thoughts, feelings and experiences. I didn’t want to disappear for a couple of weeks without an explanation, so todays...

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The Beauty of Being Present

Anna and I Time to get the oars rowing through the fog of unprocessed experiences. Search for the light that’s trying to break through. Listen for the music that inspires the images waiting to emerge....

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Dancing with a Dragonfly Mystic

Luminous dragons fly. Mystic dancer skitters across water; taps, her wand tickles, Sentient mirror transforming into stars. Filed under: Poetry Tagged: art, Dance, dance with dragons, Dragon, Dragon...

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