Understanding

A Trail to Destiny (Creative Writing Exercise #2)

I could not look down for fear of seeing where I was heading. I could not look up because, well, “up” had rejected me. All I knew was at this moment I was married to this piece of glass, and if that glass wouldn’t accept me all I could do is try to accept it and hang on for fear of falling into the abyss.

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Our Love Heals

I am unsure and like a child again searching for her arms, her breast, her soothing voice. The tears I cry are hidden by the salty remains of the wave I let loose on the world, but they are there. Sometimes best cried in solitude, other times best hidden from even the parts of me that want to let them flow.

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The Unkempt Man

A man walked into church one day. He looked haggard, tired, unkempt and his clothes were unwashed and wrinkled as if he had slept in them for days. He could not help but notice the stares of the congregation as he moved to a pew near the back of the building.

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Is Feeding Kids Fast “Food” Child Abuse?

One must wonder what action would be taken if a parent gave their child a glass of water spiked with sodium phosphates, sodium aluminum phosphate, and tertiary butylhydroquinone. Who would intervene? By the looks at the drive through line at a local fast food restaurant, not many.

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Broken – A Conversation Between the Saint and the Sinner

The mind does not perceive what it does not know.  What it does not know appears “broken” to it, it disagrees with the notion that others can experience things differently, see things differently or know […]

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A Father’s Father’s Day Message

My dear Children, I stand here as just your father.  A man whom you may see much differently than I see myself in a way only a perfect child can.  A man who would pay […]

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