Scared About Your Job, Life Security? Me too.

I try not to listen to headlines, watch the market, listen to the news. But it is hard when all my friends talk about their fear. We are in a first-time-in-recorded-history economic scare. As one person, I tell myself that the only thing I can do is provide for myself as best I can. If i can do that, I’m one less problem the government has to worry about. And, if you are scared of losing your job, or if you’ve lost your job, please don’t despair and above all, don’t take it personally. I have. Let me explain:

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Seeking Fruit in the Wild

Now that gas prices have upped the price of food, especially exotic produce, we find ourselves realizing how much we’ve taken fresh fruits and veggies for granted. I learned this lesson all too well when I visited Alaska and realized how my health was affected by a simple change in diet. My verse is below.

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The Pain of Aging

Each morning I wake and try to move my bones. Each day is more painful and I cry inside as I realize…this is the burden, the pain of age. All the world’s doctors, all the world’s meds, can’t put me together again. How long will I live like this?

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Sick Celebrity Worship

The older I get, the more I realize my youthful dreams of being somebody were very dangerous.  American celebrities and the groupies they attract worry me.  If we’re always wishing we were someone else, can we ever find happiness?
Many of us desperately want our “15 minutes of fame.”  Trust me…you don’t.  I’ve been a celebrity, a [...]

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I Have a Right To Be Alive. I Have a Right to Enjoy my Life.

A funny sort of breakthrough took place in my life yesterday. I quite suddenly arrived at the conclusion that I have a right to be alive and a right to enjoy my life.

It sounds silly, but for some reason I thought just the opposite for nearly 57 years. Where did that come from?

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Stayvations, and Tour Bus Hell

Tour Bus Hell:
Vacations with lots of people around (that I don’t know) is highly risky for me. As I age, I love the silence of life. Best of all…it is free.

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Aging- Feeling Good in Your Skin. Letting the World Finally Accept You.

Sure, aging brings pain. It brings much comfort too. Society doesn’t expect you to look as good. You’re even allowed to get away with saying what you think…and they listen without offense…regarding your words as very wise.

A poem about feeling good in your skin when you age.

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Two Poems About Wisdom, Age and Change

Don’t Even Try 
You can’t fold a pile of laundry all at once.
Get mad if you must.
Each piece demands to be folded,
by itself.  In its own time.
 

Age Revelation
Two tiny holes in a dishwash rag.
My earlier mind would have thrown it out.
Replaced it with a costly designer piece.

My later mind likes the touch
of fabric supple from use.
This [...]

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We Are Our Own Worst Enemy

Years ago I found and bought a wire sculpture that said it all to me.  It was a bird cage.  Inside a man was peering desperately through the bars, and right behind him, the cage door…..was open!
 One Key
The jailer, he walks.
So cocky, he rings
the keys he holds dear.
And I, behind bars,
have such angry thirst,
I cannot [...]

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Men Have It Easy

So many guys have it easy.  No make-up to worry about, gut size doesn’t matter, clothes (and shopping for them) is very simple.  Men can be easily entertained for hours in front of a TV – God forbid you try to wrestle it out of their hands – and leave the house a total mess.  It just [...]

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