Tag: Family
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Where did the year go?
Another year moving into history. Seems strange. I am still in January. Well, for Jan and I it has been an up and down year with moving away and then moving back when we discovered that “friends” weren’t friends and that the VA doesn’t have the medical facilities in Georgia that we thought they had.…
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CONTACTS 09.01.2017 A
More contacts. Harsh Reality wrote that like my comment on “Life.” And, I did and do like it. Harsh Reality is also known as Opinion Man. He is someone who really puts a lot of thought into what he is writing and has a huge following. Life ============================== MakeItUltra is another site worth visiting. The…
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Beer Cans on the Counter and Random Thoughts at 0436 08.03.17
Just woke and fixed a salad made up of cucumber, sweet onion, tomato, and Caesar dressing. Love it. Thinking of writing a play. Wish I had the talent. Don’t think that I do. In the meantime I look at my family history and think of all the rich material there and believe it is sad…
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Poem: Heartbeat at Night /// 8.1.17 A
Heartbeat at Night by Gordon Kuhn Copyright 8.1.2017 all rights reserved. I stand alone in the steamy dark Listening to the sound my heart beat makes all alone and the other voices there never reply no matter how I call out their names and I fight and try to hear a voice, a single voice, come to…
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New Car and Other Random Thoughts
Have a new used car. Jumped into a 2016 Honda Odyssey EX-L. White with light interior. Sliding doors on the side and a power rear door. It has all the bells and whistles. It has a camera on the right side for making turns and the first time it came on I thought I had lost…
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rabbit tears – run rabbit run
Chapter one: How do I love thee, let me count thy bruises. He stood in front of her rubbing the knuckles on his right hand staring down at her where she sat on a wooden chair in front of him. He growled as she reached up to where blood trickled from the bruised flesh below…
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Bacon and eggs and coffee, please.
So, there you have it. Breakfast in a world where many have nothing to eat and there are those who blame us for that tragedy and yet the “old world” was established for a very long time and mostly lives in pre-Christian terms. America became independent, went to work, used capitalism, not socialism or communism…
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Dinner With Diane Brinker
Jan and I were very fortunate to have as a dinner guest yesterday evening Diane Brinker who was one of the eight sisters of Kathleen Briles. There were 9 girls and 2 boys. Diane shared a lot of details with us and it was a pure blessing to simply be able to sit and talk…
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Poem from Standoff: Bare
STANDOFF is a book of poems that I will be publishing soon. This poem is one of them: BARE. I simply decided that I would post this one for the time being. I hold the copyright on this. BARE Flesh laid back, Bare! Raw, no cover to protect From salt thrown upon there where the…
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Yesterday Was My Birthday
Yesterday was my birthday. It was not a significant day for me. Nothing stood out. There was no “wow” factor. For me it was just another day. But for my wife, and my friends, it held a different meaning. Oddly no one actually asked me how old I am. Perhaps that was out of politeness.…
THOUGHTS OF A POET IN THE RAIN 