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Tag Archives: Death
Happy New Year
“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
Posted in Life, Thoughts, Writing
Tagged Beginnings, Birthday, Death, ends, Family, Generations, John Rock, Living, New Year, Paleo-Indian, Pisgah National Forest
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The journey
What I saw; My wife wanted to head-up to the mountains to buy her Dad a Christmas gift, something that we saw in a shop this summer. There wasn’t any guarantee that it would still be there but given the … Continue reading
Posted in Discover, discover wp, Thoughts, Writing
Tagged blink of an eye, Chance, Change, Death, Family, Friends, Journey, Life, Living, Love
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A Dogs Life-#4 update- A Eulogy
Way back in June of 2016 I wrote a post I titled A Dogs Life-#4 about the two current dogs in my life. In this post I wrote about my 100 + pound regal Rhodesian Ridgeback and my special girl, that I … Continue reading
“I love you grandpa”
I have been struggling some lately. My last job contract ended in December and though I have had a few interviews I haven’t found a job yet. What I do, what I know, is specialized in terms of knowledge and … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Thoughts
Tagged Blessings, Death, Ed Bledsoe, Family, Future, Grace, Loss, Love, Past, Present, tragedy, wild fires
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The death of a young bird
We had just finished eating dinner. The dishes were clean, the kitchen was straightened up and now my wife could settle down on the sofa and catch-up on all the celebrity news on E! Entertainment. I put the dogs up and … Continue reading
A poem: Synonyms
I search for synonyms, Little words, Of bold expression, To define my existence Manufactured phrases, Simple tales or fables, To justify my presence, Or being at this moment An antonym maybe, A mirror of opposites, To defend what I am … Continue reading
A poem: The Doctor’s Office
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
Suck out all the marrow of life
“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
Posted in Life, Thoughts, Writing
Tagged Beginnings, Death, ends, Henry David Thoreau, Journey, Living, Suck out all the marrow of life, Terry Ward
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Feeding our fears
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” – Nelson Mandela Each Sunday morning the Pastor … Continue reading
Posted in Thoughts
Tagged Death, disappointment, Failure, Fear, freedom, Help, Hope, loneliness, misery, Pain, rejection, ridicule, the unknown
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