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An unsettling number of high-profile individuals passed away in 2016. Among a seemingly endless array of icons, David Bowie, Nancy Reagan, Prince, Gene Wilder, Carrie Fisher, Gordie Howe, Arnold Palmer and Muhammad Ali died last year. In a Newsweek article titled “The Great Celebrity Death Epidemic Of 2016,” the renowned periodical tried to identify why …
Treasure your best friends – after all, they are the ‘best’ for a reason There are ‘good’ friends who stay with us always and then there are ‘best’ friends who are with us forever. Between these good and best friends are several miles of separation- marked with love, affection, care, concern and honesty. As we …
Lavender Last night I dreamt I was a Frenchwoman whose eyes were fixed on you on a sofabed, lying flat on your back that continued to pain. Still, I wanted to keep you nice and well-fed with chai, kisses, and my tender, loving hands. We both suggested the TV remain dark as you looked away …
….Because You And I Can Make A Difference Too Hurricane, floods, forest fires, storms, drought, heat waves, rains… and many such happenings in the world around us. Switch on any news channel and chances are these words will greet you more often than expected. Pick any newspaper and disturbing environmental disasters will pop right in …
8 College Stars Who Failed In The NBA And 7 Unknowns Who Became Stars Basketball scouts scrutinize collegiate prospects and provide extensive reports and evaluations on these players. Despite scouts’ extreme due diligence, executives and knowledgeable fans realize that pinpointing the next superstar is an inexact science. For every Shaquille O’Neal, Tim Duncan and LeBron …
For M, With The Irish Eyes A long Sunday Monon trail I’m passing through, and suddenly I have these dreams of you. I taste them in my love-glazed lips and in my chai— —I’m once again enshrouded in your lovely Irish eyes. I hope the next time that you eat fish you’ll be reminded of …
Too powerful to be met with indifference, laziness and coldness To passionate be held prisoner inside myself without release or response To original to be treated as something ordinary or mediocre To lasting to be given to a short-term, part-time recipient To faithful to be trusted with a double-mind and low character To present to …
He was standing on the pavement, looking at people walking around him. There were those who were walking in a hurry, running away from the rain and, others who were just observing the wet weather from their seats at the nearby cafés. Everything looked normal around him; except that there was a bus full of …
Congress can’t fix the homelessness and hunger problems of our US Vets but can spend 20 Billion dollars on new jets There is always money for new toys for those Pentagon boys Only 6% of the F-35’s can even fly but, I don’t see Trump asking why? He is too busy tweeting about #takeaknee and …
The man singing the song is dead. The needle brings his voice back to life and animates his fingers, but his body is embalmed and buried. The record plays all day and night because we’re in denial. The voice is Heaven. The needle is God. His fingers are the Holy Spirit. We recite the lyrics …