Big Thought
Apr 21, 2025

Big Thought Most people who knew her, including me, thought that my mother was a very intelligent woman. The smarter the person was, the more extraordinary they thought my mother. She had touches of brilliance, a great, droll sense of…

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Dangerous not to think
Apr 21, 2025

Is it more dangerous not to think or to think? Probably more dangerous not to think than to sit down and think about it, as a first step toward tackling it. Here’s something: - “Should I keep writing a screenplay…

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the last box they sent was my mother’s
Apr 18, 2025

The heart of the matter Today when putting away some clothes I saw my mom’s clothes hanging there. When my mom died, I asked for her things to be sent to me. I had no idea what would be in…

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Guilt Came a-coming to Woo
Apr 18, 2025

Guilt came coming To see if he could woo “Begone,” Shame said I’ve had enough of you. Guilt slithered over to see if Hate would play “You have one minute, twerp To say what you would say” “Don’t you ever…

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Nemi’s Guilt
Apr 18, 2025

Was there something wrong with Nemesis Rassov because she felt no guilt ? In fact she felt glee when one of assignments was successful. And we’re talking about the taking of a human life here.

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Smoke
Apr 17, 2025

There is something burning, a fire. You can smell it sometimes in the early morning, in the late afternoon there is sometimes a tendril of something dark across the incarnadine sky. Something awful, an inferno, has been deliberately started and…

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The heart of the matter
Apr 17, 2025

The black and white photographs of Japanese “picture brides” show lovely young women in dressy kimonos, their thick, glossy dark hair curving up from their foreheads to the crowns of their heads then gathered into small bun at the top.…

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Nemi’s Heart
Apr 17, 2025

Nemi’s family was her entire heart. She knew no other. Surely she would one day have a family of her own - though to find a man who could even begin to measure up to her wonderful father and brothers…

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write beauty into being
Apr 17, 2025

write beauty into being read the tattoo in invisible ink she had it there to remind her on her skin given to her in this life our greatest and largest protection in our bodies skin we don't love enough our…

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Write Beauty into Being
Apr 16, 2025

Write Beauty into Being. It was May 10, 1940. Great Britain’s new prime minister, Winston Churchill was sworn in. For the last eight months, Great Britain and German traded bombs, destroying military targets. This day Great Britain gave the order…

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The Ah Machine
Apr 16, 2025

Every morning now, for the last several years, I go outside, to my backyard usually but elsewhere in we’re traveling, with my dog Boo and read a poem aloud. First I look at the garden, at how the two citrus…

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Nemi’s Illumination
Apr 16, 2025

Every Rassov mission throughout history was immortalized on parchment, complete with brilliantly colored panels of intricate storytelling. The blood-letting in each panel was particularly vibrant,incarnadine, as were the robes of each legendary Rassov commissioned to perform the cleansing. Interestingly, the…

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