DO I NEED YOU? I wrote your value on my hand, But the soap washed it away. I wrote your value on paper. But the wind blew it away. I protected you in my bank, But my busy schedule kept you away. I toiled day…

Companion Life during our early retirement more often than not is busier than work, and so we create means and methods to be together, innocuous routines that bring us near to one another again. I make our coffee at the keurig in our room and…

I thought this Marathon was next week So I wasn’t prepared for 2day I was out of town taking care of my sister recuperating from surgery Can I really do this? Or is it 2 late?   I came back to Houston Saturday cuz one…

On Saturday mornings my son and I feed over two hundred hot meals to neighbors in need we plan and we prep and we count all the lunches we are truly the ones blessed      

I never measure the coffee just pour from bag into filter last act before bed steeling myself for the day ahead aroma from the bag soothing as warm milk who needs essential oils when you have necessity grounds Morning finds me staggering bed to bathroom…

Morning Ritual First thing every morning I pick up the first book and dive in. In the bathroom, it’s probably poetry – Peter Meinke, Maya Angelou, Billy Collins, Pat Parker. Music will substitute, if driving (Roseanne Cash, “Miss the Mississippi and You,” most recently) but…

surrounded by the carpet and the pillars and the Köts, cats, cauts, kittens. No cats. When- win, Wind- does, do’s, doe’s Windowes ,win those. Pains, window pains. Enclosed white walls, The kitchen, Re-frigerated ice box With the built in meat preserver.   Frozen watermelon chunks…

Blue skies suck out my eyes these summer days make me blind a late night heat hears my cries my painting come out undefined blobs of paint on a canvas dropped to the ground the concrete makes it sizzle the fumes rise up to hit…

Putting aside my ego, I Recognize that You Are. All-seeing, All-knowing, Always here. Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, on Earth, as it is in Heaven. I Rest and leave the rest to You.

And verily, it’s only in the remembrance of God do hearts find comfort.   الله أكبر The days would only break by your name. And peace be unto us and peace be upon Our mothers, May our brothers find the serenity In your name, May…