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Archives — 2005
This is the archive of my publicly published writing from 2005 — the good, the bad, the active and the
Always remember lost, so that you don't take for granted found.
TITLE: Ever finding
DATE: 2005 Oct 19
Courage is tiny pieces of fear all glued together.
TITLE: Nerve us!
DATE: 2005 Jan 11
Follow your passion and success will follow you.
DATE: 2005 Jan 11
The past can't see you, but the future is listening.
TITLE: History & destiny
DATE: 2005 Feb 28
Experience is the thorn-lined road to success.
TITLE: Prickly & proverbial
DATE: 2005 Feb 11
Every once in a while, turn life over to see what it looks like from the other side.
DATE: 2005 Feb 25
Life. — Enjoy whatever flowers come with the manure.
TITLE: Stop to smell the goodness
DATE: 2005 Feb 26
If life is good, don't just sit there — dance!
If life's not so good — dance even more.
DATE: 2005 Dec 10
the universe isn't big
it fits inside each of us
DATE: 2005 Jul 2
Frustration is anger caged in impatience.
DATE: 2005 Oct 10
A school library is the brightest beacon of youthful hope.
A public library is the brightest beacon of community hope.
A local library is the brightest beacon of global hope.
TITLE: Well lit
DATE: 2005 Aug 1
Regrets —
those ghosts
of action
that haunt
our thoughts
DATE: 2005 Nov 5
Mothers are the vital warmth of sun — and they are the comforting coolness of shade.
DATE: 2005 Oct 22
Clutter smothers. Simplicity breathes.
DATE: 2005 Oct 8
I need to get over the hard times of my past. They've left scars, but scars are just memories.
TITLE: Stitches & seams
DATE: 2005 Jan 13
The clouds danced an orange-pink waltz with the sunrise.
TITLE: Dawn-waltz
DATE: 2005 Oct 9
I waltzed with the dawn,
she waltzed with me—
a pinkish-orange o'er
the clouds draped we.
TITLE: Dancing with Dawn
DATE: 2005 Oct 9
Even though your broken heart may never heal, bless those who help hold together the pieces.
DATE: 2005 Oct 9
NOTES: revised
Once tea has passed from hot to lukewarm, it's just limp water.
TITLE: Interruptions
DATE: 2005 Mar 3
Cell phones are the latest invention in rudeness.
DATE: 2005 Feb 6
The unknown is not a smothering blanket but an open field of wildflowers and rattlesnakes.
DATE: 2005 Aug 15
Once the lighthouse is seen, the rest of the sea is ignored.
DATE: 2005 Oct 12
Adversity enhances this tale we call life.
TITLE: Pain is a story
DATE: 2005 Dec 10
Other than actually putting pen to paper, I can't think of another more important duty of the writer than to stare wistfully out a window.
TITLE: A'musing
DATE: 2005 Nov 7
Some of the best conversations take place in silence, when only the heart speaks.
DATE: 2005 Oct 10
NOTES: revised
Don't cast a shadow on anyone unless you're providing shade.
DATE: 2005 Aug 10
If purring could be encapsulated, it would be the most powerful antidepressant on the market.
DATE: 2005 Oct 11
NOTES: revised
Life leaves its bootprints all over us — we just have to keep getting back up.
DATE: 2005 Oct 15
This year's book, at midnight
turns to footnote in the next.
DATE: 2005 Dec 31
Old books are leather-bound ghosts.
DATE: 2005 Aug 10
Book ink is blood-drops of author-heart.
DATE: 2005 Aug 10
It's like the craziest patient at the insane asylum running the place because he's the most "qualified."
DATE: 2005 Sep 19
Dawn is the glow of opportunity, the light of a fresh start, the aurora of hope breaking open a new day.
TITLE: Every dawn
DATE: 2005 Oct 1
NOTES: revised
Those humble, quiet, behind-the-scenes people are the reason anything ever gets done.
DATE: 2005 Oct 9
When everything doesn't go perfectly as hoped, it isn't tragedy — it's life.
TITLE: Perspective
DATE: 2005 Nov 18
Each good deed strengthens our angel wings.
DATE: 2005 Dec 10
Icicles: fossilized raindrops.
DATE: 2005 Nov 27
Ideas that escape are fast and slippery and not likely to be hunted down.
DATE: 2005 Jul 2
Say what! You mean
That's not why they call it an
Em dash? — those Dickinson
Hyphens between?
TITLE: Emily's dash
DATE: 2005 Aug 12
Poets yawn at business,
balk at politics, and believe
words the only currency.
TITLE: Sir Real Life
DATE: 2005 Sep 11
Having too many things is a burden to the mind, an insult to the earth, and an obstacle to our spiritual
TITLE: At home
DATE: 2005 Dec 5
Wine, she serenades me
with her first fragrant glass
purring plush purple poetry
Tra la la la la, tra lee!
She dances in vinous metre
in a second fermented flute
trilling tipsy-turvy tunes
Tra la la la la, tra leee!
Sip slosh, now she mumbles
bottle buzzing on pour three
a faint intoxicated harmony
Tra la la la la, tra leeee!
DATE: 2005 Dec 3
When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no "I'll start tomorrow." Tomorrow is disease.
TITLE: Get on it
DATE: 2005 Oct 16
Freedom is hiding under the clutter.
TITLE: At home
DATE: 2005 Dec 5
Replace clutter with freedom.
TITLE: At home
DATE: 2005 Dec 5
When a cat speaks it's because it has something to say, unlike humans who are the great refuse containers of speech.
DATE: 2005 Dec 5
My morning cutoff for coffee is when my hands turn earthquake and my eyes go
TITLE: Coffee at the office is only 25¢!
DATE: 2005 Feb 25
Monday — Meh-day.
TITLE: But, Ralph!
DATE: 2005 Feb 25
I translate stars into daydreams
I make rain and rainbows into
freshly squeezed joy
I breathe the air of possibility
I swim deep in rivers of passion
I use my loneliness as
stepping stones to love
I am on the march to freedom
I tend to my blossoming soul
TITLE: Transforming
DATE: 2005 May 15
Mamas everywhere — don't worry so much about being a hot mom. A child needs a role model, not a supermodel. You will always shine by simply being your best, doing your best, and radiating the magical love that only a mama can.
DATE: 2005 May 14
NOTES: revised
Cats are sleeping art.
TITLE: Silent morning perfectly unarranged
DATE: 2005 Oct 30
daydreamers
breathe dreams
exhaling rings of reverie
wisps of fantasied smoke
TITLE: Infj oxygen
DATE: 2005 May 12
NOTES: revised
Glitter needs light to shine. We all do.
DATE: 2005 Aug 26
So much light,
along with the darkness,
it's life —
just scary and
joyous life!
DATE: 2005 Oct 29
Did you ever stop to think that maybe the weed killers and the pest killers and the germ killers are also killing you?
TITLE: Omnicide
DATE: 2005 Dec 10
NOTES: revised
...a beating heart and an angel's soul, covered in fur...
DATE: 2005 Oct 9
It's so hot even my fake plants are wilting.
DATE: 2005 Jul 17
I try to stop drinking coffee each morning before the earth starts quaking beneath my feet — or, before my body starts quaking on my feet. Before I become a human coffeequake. Mmm,
TITLE: Perhaps an extra cup too much
DATE: 2005 Feb 25
Life: that narrow space between a rock and a hard place.
DATE: 2005 Feb 25
Nature befriends those who befriend her.
DATE: 2005 Oct 4
If wine were a lecturer
I would attend her classes
And duly roll-call "here"
With a couple of full glasses.
TITLE: Present at supper
DATE: 2005 Nov 7
NOTES: Whoa. Someone had a little.
Books are the watering cans of our minds.
DATE: 2005 Aug 10
Autumn may lose her colours,
But memory is a rainbow.
Spring a distant grandchild, reborn—
Greens, yellow, pinks, we sow.
Winter, in her belly white and gray
Nurtures many-coloured seeds,
For if Summer was her lover
He planted his future deeds.
Earth's seasons are a family,
A wheel and spinning prism,
Rotating by subtle degree—
Sometimes we think about only
The bland colours we can see,
Forgetting—rather sadly—
About the vibrant ones to be.
TITLE: Autumn's Sister, Winter
DATE: 2005 Aug 19
when i tell myself bedtime stories
you're always my happily ever after
DATE: 2005 Dec 30
Let the credit card companies market as they will, the only thing that's priceless is Now.
DATE: 2005 Oct 1
An uncontrollable love for cats is like a hairball in the heart.
DATE: 2005 Oct 5
Cockroaches really put my "all creatures great and small" creed to the test.
DATE: 2005 Oct 2
Dreams go past surreal right back into reason.
DATE: 2005 Nov 14
Nature inspires my everything — my being, my solitude, my writing and art, my whole life. She lifts me upon her wings and soars me through the sky of possibilities. She colors my day, brightens my soul, and calms my nights. She is fierce and beautiful, strong and delicate — an untiring queen so generous of advice and never weary of new beginnings. In spring a colorful maiden, in winter a wise old lady, in autumn a looking-glass to my falling-leaf self, and in summer a warm-blossomed benefactor, comrade of the sun. She is indifferent and sometimes harsh but often nuzzles me with genial breezes, sharing a vast serenity, or lavishing vital gifts. To close my windows and shut her out would be error and melancholy.
DATE: 2005 Dec 9
NOTES: revised
Even as an adult I find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve. Yuletide excitement is a potent caffeine, no matter your age.
TITLE: G-ma & candy canes
DATE: 2005 Dec 24
There are those who try to bottle the old year for safekeeping but at midnight the cork always pops.
TITLE: Memories old & new
DATE: 2005 Dec 31
Taxes —
wealth and waste
laws and loopholes
dollars and deficits
rights and wrongs
security and wars
ceilings and floors
DATE: 2005 Dec 10
The jeweler allows me to wear the sapphire blue lake on my finger, emerald green leaves around my neck, and take the citrine sunset with me wherever I go. Jewelry has become my daytime link to nature in an office with no windows. And if I have to work late, there's nothing like diamond stars and a pearl full moon against an onyx night sky.
DATE: 2005 May 18
sapphire lake
emerald leaves
ruby blossoms
amethyst hummingbird
citrine sunset
diamond stars
pearl moon
onyx sky
DATE: 2005 May 18
When you use a manual push reel mower, you're "cutting" down on pollution and the only thing in danger of running out of gas is you!
TITLE: Today's labor
DATE: 2005 May 3
NOTES: revised
COMMENT: Better yet, plant a vegetable garden instead of a lawn! —tg, 2014
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