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The Four Seasons Of Nature In Louisiana
Winter A Louisiana winter is like the distant cousin you only see at funerals. Some brief pleasantries but no sense a long conversation because they’re here today and gone tomorrow. I had a snow
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Change
I used to play with those little Matchbox toys, cars and dump trucks that I kept stored in a shoebox. There was a patch of yard beneath a big oak, near the swing we
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Short Thoughts On “Long”
Handshakes and hugs should be like smiles and chuckles; anything longer turns a nice thing wronger. Long explanations tend to be short on truth. Same goes for apologies: after a few sentences apologies have
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Things I’m Up To Here With
How did music go from That to This in two generations? Grandpa could play a guitar, but the grandson can only play video games? Is that what happened? Two hundred years from now people
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Editing The Definition Of Birthday
Years ago, seafood joint, somebody’s somebody having an 18th birthday. The person of honor, with that school stage need to be popular, needle on E from the not-being, soaking up the once a year
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Sixty Is A Serious Number
…where we find the author contemplating aging… _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Middle Age Doesn’t Last Forever When I was a kid old people were beat-up old.
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2016 Did No Favors To 2017
I was one of those, speaking of 2016 with woe and lamentations. Celebrity deaths, police shooting and being shot, terrorism, mass shootings, and, as it has been for every single year of my life,
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The Beatitudes Of Christmas
Blessed are they who get underwear for Christmas. Our family trees have been around since around was around, but only since WWII have we had the affluence to get so many, for so cheap.
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The War of 2016
What a fatigue of a year. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ It Began With A Clean Slate In January of 2016 I wrote a Bedtime Story
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God Grant Me
…the ability to look at a jumble of things that matter and know which matters the most. …the common sense to appreciate the common. …the do-it to do good when no one is looking…and
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