Category Archives: life’s purpose

RACIAL ISSUES AND ME – BACKGROUND

Those who know me at all, know I was rocked in the cradle in Sunday School and Church.  From as early as I can remember we sang Jesus Loves the Little Children.  We had missionaries visit us regularly – with … Continue reading

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WHAT PRICE – LIFE?

Lucinda shivered in anxious expectation as she came home again.  She was thirteen years away from the 21-year-old who sat out to find life.  She had loved and lost, lived in lack and luxury, and learned a lot, but had … Continue reading

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OCCUPY TIL I COME

The “Fizzled Enchantment” and other stories of ruin tell stories of The Eye who disguised itself as a spider and silently clung to the top right corner of the 14-foot-wall in the old Imperial Inn, Hattenville, TX.   It was a picture … Continue reading

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I FOUND LIFE

Why would one go to a cemetery where she knows no one?  Ask me. That’s what I did.  I am 350 miles from where most of my family members are buried.  I wanted to honor those who might at least … Continue reading

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SEVENTY – OKAY SO FAR, BUT EIGHTY?

WILL I STILL FEEL LIKE THIS WHEN I’M EIGHTY? I’ve been reading a journal  in which I wrote in 1998.  So at that time I would have been 73-74, ten years ago. January 8th that year I read a selection … Continue reading

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LIFE’S PURPOSE

Person inhabiting a body; birth bringing forth a newborn soul, submitting to dependence, crying for liberty. At last, his own man, finds freedom in submission to God. Life. +++++++++++++++ For more information about nonet poetry:  http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/nonet.html  

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