When I do it my way, I walk. I briskly charge forward, heels pounding out a determined beat, straight into the thick of it. I can just hear you yelling at me from downstairs…Paula, stop pounding your heels, you sound like a herd of Elephants, you’re going to come right through the ceiling. Once I get started. I am inclined to otherwise be a bit … Continue reading I Am Like The Remnants Of Patricia
I do not go the careful way; the concrete paths, through the manicured parks. For what I seek, my true desire, can not be found… carefully. In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Careful.” Continue reading I ♥ Beauty
You know Mom, sometimes I wonder where I came from. If I didn’t look so much like Dad, I swear, you’d think you found me in a trashcan in upper state New York on your way back to North Carolina from Canada, after a visit with Grandma & Grandpa. Really. You remember that argument we all had in the kitchen that night? About Sikhs in … Continue reading Arguing With Your Parents Over Politics
I heard the bells of St. Peters Basilica, and something inside me, something welled up, and spilt the banks of my eyes. Walking down the sidewalk, tears streaming down my face and I have not one single clue why. Oh, sure, lovely thing the chiming of church bells, and weddings are happy occasions (as that’s why they were chiming). Minute by minute, the first … Continue reading Damn October
“I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don’t try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordinary”. Andy Warhol In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “(Extra)ordinary.” Continue reading My Ordinary Life
I have read some of these trails are said to be over a thousand years old. When John Graves Simcoe first came to this fork in the Thames, this area is where they camped. Once an apple orchard, now left to go wild, it is easy to forget all ones cares and roam amongst the Staghorn Sumac and Asters, the grasses rustling in the autumn … Continue reading An Orchard Becoming A Forest
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