Tag Archives: Beginnings

Life after Trump

Posted on December 22, 2020 by ends and beginnings blog

When we wake-up on Thursday, January 21st we will have a new President. The reign of Trump the clown prince will have ended the day before but the reign of Trump the liar, the schemer, the conman, the white martyr, … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year

Posted on December 30, 2019 by ends and beginnings blog

“It always comes back to us – why are we here? Well, we just happened to be here, we couldn’t choose it. The chance of us being born – that sperm hitting that egg – is 400 trillion to 1. … Continue reading →

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Don’t skip to the end

Posted on May 25, 2018 by ends and beginnings blog

My wife and I communicate very differently. For example I will say I talked to daughter # 1 about X and my wife will say Did you ask her about Y and Z? No, I will reply I only called to ask … Continue reading →

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A poem: The Doctor’s Office

Posted on April 30, 2018 by ends and beginnings blog

I sit grey and cold, years soaked beyond a black and white photograph of tight skin, dark hair on a straight and ridged frame waiting my turn in an ocean of Muzak. Days in mass, wasted in a wheeled chair … Continue reading →

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Suck out all the marrow of life

Posted on February 13, 2018 by ends and beginnings blog

“I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to … Continue reading →

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Holding it together

Posted on August 16, 2017 by ends and beginnings blog

My wife and I discovered this little corner of the world Sunday. Look at it. Look at everything that is going on, life, death, old, new, birth, life, ends and beginnings. This is just one little spot, one little space, … Continue reading →

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A Poem: From the beginning to the end

Posted on September 16, 2016 by ends and beginnings blog

I expected more from this short expanse of time Time seemed liked all I had once to fill this space Space that I had reserved for endeavors of the heart Heart that I offered too many only accepted by some Some … Continue reading →

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A Poem: These roads

Posted on August 4, 2016 by ends and beginnings blog

I travel a road paved with moments Sheltered with shades of tomorrows and yesterday A journey smoothed with rocky edges and rough beginnings I have passed through light only to end in darkness Decisions of moving forward or traveling back through past … Continue reading →

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Dropping like flies

Posted on April 26, 2016 by ends and beginnings blog

“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it … Continue reading →

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The Heartbreak of Experience

Posted on April 22, 2016 by ends and beginnings blog

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” -Dr. Seuss  Recently two members of my family had their heartbroken over a business transaction that didn’t materialize. They unfortunately, as I told them, had “counted their chickens before they hatched”. The deal … Continue reading →

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