Just asking.

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I know I should not write on politics, but this hits me where I live. I was talking with a friend about his affair with a married woman whose husband is assigned away from the US. It is a sad story, and it is one I have heard mirrored many times. It is one with all the other stories that, like mad cats drawn from the same sack, scratch and claw at us. So forgive me being weak, and writing on a topic that should be forbidden to anyone who must by profession be faceless, blank and without core or surface soul. Forgive me for saying this.

Come home America, come home.  Read more 

Here’s a little Red, White and Blue for you, courtesy of Mother Nature: Nothing is as sweet as fruit of the earth, risen unlooked for, gracing the small spaces between sun and shadow, a gift of life that cannot help but remind us of the small joys that come and go heedless of our greater travails.  Read more