THE BEST PART OF WAKING UP IS COFFEE IN YOUR FARMGIRL CUP

My dad's idea of joke

TURN THE KNOB TO A HAPPY NEW YEAR

What happened 

Where did it all begin to end

Do you remember when it wasn't

Can it be rescued, fixed, as good as it once was or better

Is it worth saving
Through the destruction and hurt

Will it feel comfortable again
Do you think of it as often as I do and wonder how to correct it

Or are we convinced that all the before was a lie and the now is the was

Are we doomed to be fallen and submitted to judgment of one another and at war

To hurt each other over and over again

One fairing better than the other

Just because we couldn't understand one another

Our brothers, sisters, friends, mothers, fathers forever lost and replaced by the grief of their deaths

Moving forward but with haunted dreams

One day not even remembering why we feel pain but always feeling

Stopping true friendships and forgiveness

Orson Scott Card's Ender claimed to be the Speaker for the Dead for his false enemies:

"Here are our failures, and here is our greatness; we did not mean to hurt you, and for our death. From their earliest awareness to the great wars that swept across their home world,...If only we could of talked,...But since it could not be, we ask only this: that you remember us, not as enemies but as tragic sisters, changed into a foul shape by fate or God or evolution. If we had kissed it would have been a miracle to make us human in each other's eyes. Instead we killed each other."

We have so much in common...the urgent want to be understood and the urgent feeling we are

Can't we speak for one another in life

Granting compassion instead of judgment

Be part of a greater good and purpose

Be each other's friend, brother, sister, mother, father again

I promise we once were

I am not evil and I don't believe that you are
Even if it at times the hurt felt as if you were destroying me
And I would ask but what did I do to you to deserve this
Don't you remember the things I helped you with and the compassion I shared

This is my wish for the New Year

I dedicate it to you

Hold my hand brother, sister, mother, father, friend and we will turn the knob together
Into a better New Year

ZOMBIE BOY

The product of single parenthood...the second parent is electronic...god forgive me

THE SOLITAIRE SINGLE LIFE

TOO SALTY ADD POTATOES

MERRY CHRISTMAS?

Wonderboy sleeps in the car

I wander around

the lit park

stopping at the Nativity scene

covered over with chicken wire

This is Christmas? This is it?

Where are the families, friends, trust, love, Who-ville Community?

The lights are pretty but not enough to evoke serenity

For me today Christmas is just a day like any other

Maybe it is asleep with Wonderboy in the the car

Only to be awaken on Christmas Morn

THIS TIME OF YEAR EVOKES DREAMS OF SUMMER ADVENTURE

hope 

of

most days

filled

family

friends

love
sharing

calm

happy

adventures

travel

purpose

MARLBORO MAN

YOU STOOD FOR YEARS THERE AS PEOPLE PASSED

JUST MONTHS AGO I SAW YOU

ONLY TO ONE DAY NOTICE YOU HAD DISAPPEARED

ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS A MIRACLE

I DON'T HAVE A LEG TO STAND ON
THAT ISN'T A JOKE OR A RETORT OF SARCASM

WORTHY WONDERBOY QUOTE

 

WB: "Mommy, I don't want to die and get a new body."

Me:"I don't think you need to worry about that for awhile."

WB: "But this body is sooo cute and I don't want it to get ruined."

BOYS BOYS BOYS

easy

confident

examples
frustrating
unholding

no other place

but

here

SMALL BOOT BIG POND

I HOPE AND PRAY THAT I WAKE ONE DAY BACK IN MY OWN WORLD

AND IT IS SERENE LIKE THIS

LIFE THROUGH THE RAIN

seeing

but not

clearly

EASY

"If I could party all night and sleep all day, life would be easy..."

DETOURS

BARNS OF TOBACCO

 Tobacco hang in barns

sunsets

memories of simplicity

when nothing was bad for you

BLACKBOARDS OF TEXAS