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Day 62: Salty

September 24, 2019

Follow along if you can... Has your "self" disappeared? Do you correlate your image by standing in line and receiving your instructions about what is...

Day 61: A Mess

September 23, 2019

Follow along if you can... I want to be nice. I want be calm and centered. I want to feel secure. It's nice work if you can get it. Are personal biases a bad...

Day 60: Counting Again

September 23, 2019

I'm back to this. It's been a long hiatus. I had lost the challenge to post something 100 straight days. But I'm still challenging myself to reach the goal...

Day 59: Embraced

August 17, 2019

I love the quiet mornings. The last couple of mornings have been that way. This morning in the stillness is the calm. I'm embracing it. There's a last...

Day 58: Better

August 16, 2019

Getting relief from sinus trouble. Slowly but surely. It's been a summer of being dragged down and dragged out. But it's getting better. Better yet, I wish I...

Day 57: Morning Portfolio

August 15, 2019

Been awhile. A few days at least. Have been puny. Weak. Fatigued. All those words. Have felt this way most of the summer. It just has gotten worse this last...

Day 56: Glut

August 11, 2019

Tired is as tired does. Finished mowing. Incredibly hot and humid. I remember a time when you never mowed on Sunday because it was truly the Lord's day, the...

Day 55: Finishing

August 10, 2019

The day was mowing. And more mowing. Mowing an acre and a tenth. Got about 3/4 done. With a self-propelled push mower. Will finish tomorrow. Ate tacos. Is it...

Day 54: Scattered

August 9, 2019

"By Midnight" I want to breathe and know it's me. I want to thrive because I decide. I want to expand and understand. I want to say this was the day I went...

Day 53: What?

August 8, 2019

What the heck did the title of yesterday's post have to do with anything? I don't know what I was thinking. But what I am thinking of tonight is...how many...

Day 52: Having A Chance

August 7, 2019

Looks like I'm barely going to get in Day 52. Nothing profound here. Never was. Watching something about aliens in Antarctica. Ice is up to three miles thick...

Day 51: Un-titled

August 6, 2019

Speak less to yourself and what you think you want to hear. You are speaking into a vacuum if you are not already doing what you are telling yourself to do....

Day 50: Halfway

August 5, 2019

Halfway to the 100 days of writing. There's no time to rest. Walked 10 miles today. Just like yesterday. It seems that today and yesterday should be the only...

Day 49: Myself

August 4, 2019

A walker will walk. The walker will walk. I walk. I love meditative music. Dreams are real. Hope is real. They are means to an end. This is a day of...

Day 48: Dream Ahead

August 3, 2019

Slept late again. Feels good. Refreshed. Brain fog diminished. Lots of dreaming. A good dream. Bad dream I do. Back at the home I grew up in. Weedeating....

Day 47: Climb

August 2, 2019

CLIMB Climb the black From the bottom Search for sky Practice reaching And forgetting The fall Always scream When dreaming And slipping Grasp the ledge To...

Day 46: Still still

August 1, 2019

Let's freestyle... Worst store-bought cole slaw. Walmart's. Had it with my chicken livers that I fried last night. Livers were great. More onion is the...

Day 45: Still

July 31, 2019

My world is lonely today. Lonely wrapped in a heartache. The decision was made yesterday and Snugglepuss agreed. With his old body of flesh and bones and his...

Day 44: Opening The Door

July 30, 2019

I'm afraid of opening the door to my deck this morning. No, not afraid, I don't know what the word would be. I'm hoping that Snugglepuss has given up the...

Day 43: Whimper

July 29, 2019

We're just waiting on death here. My best friend, my cat Snugglepuss, has been holding on. I'd like to think he doesn't want to leave me. Each day becomes a...