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Autumn Whispers

original date 09/11/2015 There is truly something special about this time of year........I can almost touch it, that beckoning sensation called Autumn.  Each day, it gets closer and closer.  Like a hot and sticky day running crazily from a rain, Autumn seems to wait just outside these last few hot and sticky days of summer, and with patience, the reward will be a cool rush of relief. ****** Like so many other beginnings, this small tidbit from 2.5 years ago has sat in draft mode, uncompleted, waiting to be shared.  I don't even remember writing it, the context for its creation long since gone like the 2 Autumns since it's beginning. A constant is my love for Autumn and the waited anticipation of its arrival each Summer's end.  As Winter begins to fade slowly into Spring now, I know that in a few months, Autumn will once again beckon beyond the hot sticky days, and I will have another chance to enjoy the cool breezes and slower days. *** Sep 2019 and the s...

Lots of Thoughts - Dec 3, 2017

It's been forever since I've had time to blog...............I want to, but I rarely have the extra time to actually put my thoughts on paper.  That creative writer in me cries, and the angry advocate rages at all the missed opportunities to vocalize concerns.  Sometimes, I try to placate these two, but emotions are so often impossible to quell with sentiment. American society is in a state of flux - it's horrible.  Even now, as I have chili in the crockpot and pumpkin roasting in the oven to make some pumpkin butter tomorrow, my mind wants desperately to take some time and process out all the thoughts jumbled in there. First..........I am utterly disappointed in the NFL and the players for their spoiled sense of superiority and entitlement.  If the non-white players feel exploited, then stop taking the millions of dollars in pay and instead turn that money over to causes.  It is the greed of the franchise and the owners that has created the situation, not th...