Your Glorious Self

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"May there be peace within and without. May it begin with you and spread by your healing touch and laughter. May you know deep in your heart that you are exactly where you are meant to be right now as you receive my gratitude for all you mean to me. May you be reminded by each morning's light of the possibilities that grow out of love for yourself. May the natural gifts you were born with, and the skills and virtues you developed by your persistence, be seen by others so they are uplifted by … [Read more...]

Gay But Not Out To The Family

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I delight in the mystery of power, how it arises from seemingly nothing, is as invisible as gravity until it exerts influence upon something else, how it contains both the ability to build and destroy depending on the slightest increments of strength. Denial is maybe the most fascinating power to me because of its inherent nature to be the best of friends, or the worst enemy, depending on how it manifests. Since learning one of my sisters is in the throws of a mental impairment that has … [Read more...]

Poetry: “Cookies With Butter”

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I turned on my laptop and there was an email my mother had written that day She said I was special and wanted the whole world to know of her blessing this way So she'd clicked the send button less than half a few seconds a slew of those emails went out for this and that corner of all G-d's creation To read all her words left no doubt: I love you my daughter my pure dear sweet daughter in ways no one told me I could I'd bake cookies with butter knit you a warm … [Read more...]

The Right Light

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I woke up before 3 this morning, headed down to the kitchen and could see through the bay window the dusting of snow on the tree. Just part of the tree was illuminated by an outdoor light off the deck, but enough so that the tree had that Japanese painting quality to it, a black/white/gray/less-is-more paint brush stroke. Little dabs of snow clung in just a few spots on the trunk bark, and a thin line of snow lay across the narrowest of branches. Seeing, really seeing in that delicate … [Read more...]

See What Love Can Do

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see what love can do bridges the gap between me and you all the pains of the past they'll go by in a flash won't come back can't come back never again see what love can do see what love can do it's only you thinkin' dark fears you been makin' holdin' hurt tight like it was a rare gem you stirrin' up all these tears livin' dark days as though they were years when the boat 'naw it ain't ever been sinkin' it's only 2 inches deep not an ocean of grief with a bottom that's … [Read more...]