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Day 19  It's all forgivable    so forgivable      forgivable AJ, Forgiveness is a gift which can free two people, but sometimes we simply can't give it, even if we want, and sometimes the other party just can't receive for the same human reason. Gyppo Gyppo. That is so true. My ex-husband, who I ha...

Day 19 The Fly Within the Cup The fly within the cup circles endlessly looking out, not up. I watch in a fascination that hovers on cruelty. I could so easily upend the cup, set the drunken creature free. But the metaphor of its busy circling-- the futility of its searching-- stuns me. Is this how w...

Graveyard Many have gone to the grave carrying the same ignorant notions they lived by: Segregated by race and class, “You can’t eat here. It ain’t allowed.”  Back then, people normally separated by skin color, nationality, economic class,  gender, age, religion, or profession, would not have mingl...

I have a previous commitment which substantially prevents me from visiting the site for the balance of the month.  It kills me that I have to cut short my NaPo adventure with all of you.  I can't tell you how pleased, awed, astonished, and gratified I am by how well this year's NaPo is unfolding.  ...

Gyppo, this one is for you. Cupid He sat at one end of the pew; I on the other. We glanced now and then shyly at each other. And Cupid in the guise of a teenage boy, with ear and eyebrow pinned, sat on the pew behind us and grinned. Many years ago we met on a pew; our eyes locked, and time stopped— ...

A work in progress.     Embers Finished constructing another meal, she hands her husband a corrugated lunchpail and thermos as he returns dutifully to work. With a goodbye kiss, the opened door announces today's weather. Morning chores accomplished; she sits for intermission. Window filtered rays o...

NAPO 17  - 2019 50 Years and Counting Over fifty years ago we said goodbye. In your street clothes instead of your apron, stood by the head baker's car waiting for your lift home, you looked far more grown up, not the girl who teased me at work,  and made the world a better place just by your prese...

Cell Phones There is always a cell phone next to your ear, but I want to talk with you face-to-face, my dear. Put that thing away when I am near, for I wasn't born with one attached to my ear. Let's sit down as we did when visits were dear and meeting friends at the pub brought all of us cheer. Frie...

Oh my goodness, so much goodness! Thank you Gyppo, Von, AJ, Marcel - very kind of all of you. Meaningful, insightful, precious offerings from everyone. I wish I had time to address each one and I could, for they all speak to me in one way or another but time is short.  Von, I've been thinking about...

Day 16 Irony DNA results are back. I am one-percent Black. If my mother were not dead, she would just shake her hed and say, "We are NOT Black!"-- denying what I learned today. If my mother were not dead, she would curl her lip, take another sip of her iced Mint Julep, and exclaim, "Oh, YOU'RE Black...