Tag: living
member name: Linda Douglas
|
September 29, 2006 06:59 AM EDT --
It is a rainy fall morning here in the beautiful state of New Hampshire and the weather is fitting my mood. It has been the end of a long work week and I am looking forward to the weekend. . . .
more
|
|
January 06, 2007 10:36 PM EST --
What happened to the youthful days
when bedtime meant falling onto the sheets
in the wee hours of the morning,
mascara streaks across the pillowcase,
too tired to wash face
after dancing and . . .
more
|
|
November 06, 2006 04:28 PM EST --
A slow waltz,
A turn here, a slide there,
A wish for the music to never end.
more
|
|
June 04, 2006 01:05 PM EDT --
I don't usually do this type of thing, but this reading touched me today as I sat down to do my morning chanting/meditation. I just wanted to share.
"Death will come to each of . . .
more
|
|
June 04, 2006 07:29 PM EDT --
My divorce had only been final for about a month when I received a phone call from my ex-husband. I knew this was not going to be pleasant. We rarely agreed on anything and he still wanted . . .
more
|
|
June 08, 2006 08:46 AM EDT --
Where do skinny women put their children?
I mean, how do you carry a child when you have
no hips on which to rest his sweet bum?
How . . .
more
|
|
June 25, 2006 02:47 PM EDT --
Yesterday afternoon I called my son. I didn't get an answer and I didn't leave a message. I knew that I wasn't going to be home for him to call me back. He has caller ID, . . .
more
|
|
August 23, 2006 05:16 PM EDT --
I just got done spending three days with my mother. I hadn't seen her since Christmas and seeing her again brought home how quickly our parents can age.
My father passed away in . . .
more
|
|
September 06, 2006 04:14 PM EDT --
Slow Down
My baby boy will be twenty nine in eleven more days.
I am not old enough to have a son that old.
His baby boy started pre-school today, following
behind his older sisters, the baby . . .
more
|
|
September 10, 2006 01:25 PM EDT --
If you have never been hiking with a four year old you are missing out on one of the great joys of life.
Let me take you with me back to yesterday afternoon. I arrived at my son's . . .
more
|
|
October 22, 2006 03:26 PM EDT --
Getting Lost
I have been many places and taken many turns
on highways leading to open spaces or dirt roads
under canopies of trees that would lead others to
fear they are lost and hopelessly turned . . .
more
|
|
June 05, 2006 07:16 PM EDT --
Last week I admitted that I was addicted to television and that my life had become unmanageable. I am not making light of the 12 Step Program here. I am honest. I had become a slave to . . .
more
|
|
July 23, 2006 08:48 AM EDT --
Ode to Morning
Unrushed Sunday mornings,
Moving slowly . . .
more
|
|
August 19, 2006 05:50 AM EDT --
You may ask me very seriously,
"Why are you up at such an early hour?"
"You have no cows to milk, chickens to feed,
nor a dog to walk? The sun has not even
started its . . .
more
|
|
September 17, 2006 07:16 AM EDT --
Sun Salutation
I lay in wait for the chirps of the
first morning birds,
a sense of anticipation and hope
in the dawn of a new day
draws me out of bed to the
fog of an early Fall morning. . . .
more
|
|
September 22, 2006 07:01 AM EDT --
Back to Work
Now I lay me down to sleep
a bag of chamomile left to seep.
Two days abed with cold and ache
tomorrow the alarm will awake.
Back to work I shall go
even if the nose need blow. . . .
more
|
|
January 21, 2007 01:24 PM EST --
Grief is such a tricky emotion. It shows up in a variety of ways.
My mother is gone. I am now an orphan. I tell myself that I knew this was coming. It was only a . . .
more
|
|
May 14, 2006 11:20 AM EDT --
The Bathrobe
I knew it was inevitable.
Genetics are the strongest force in the world
And there is a point when acceptance is the only answer.
I had seen her face in my grandmother
But still . . .
more
|
|
June 06, 2006 08:03 PM EDT --
A life lived alone
Becomes a shelter from hurt
My own dark tower.
more
|
|
June 16, 2006 09:09 AM EDT --
I am at work and I just got back from my morning walk. I found a great route that is basically a right hand turn out of the building and down Washington Street for a little less than a mile . . .
more
|
|
|
|
