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Just a rabbit in a garden
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Just a rabbit in a garden

This post is for Six Word Saturday Challenge, at Debbie Smyth’s Travel with Intent. # I am fascinated with the…

Ragtag Daily Prompt: Eventually
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Ragtag Daily Prompt: Eventually

Eventually, everything comes full circle, life a continuum, raging or gentle, a circumference of promise, sweeping moments that cloud or…

Wonder Friends
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Wonder Friends

I have a friend who knows the stars who speaks to ravens, chucks otters under chins, owns boots that walk…

Poem: Threading Spring
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Poem: Threading Spring

Can you feel it coming, spring? threading life into soft winds, swirling seeds you cannot see. Do you hear the…

Music walk
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Music walk

Here once more, still walking, decades later, alone by my request, to move along the water, difference now with music…

Word Challenges – Until you leave
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Word Challenges – Until you leave

  You can needle me about it but I won’t reverse. I will ignore the jibe, refuse to cede, no…

Watching for Trouble (FOWC)
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Watching for Trouble (FOWC)

My mother instilled in us a way of approaching life that requires a pre-step, a stalling of your forward movement, just to make sure everything is really OK, before you bound ahead with the vigor and joy you’re entitled to.

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