Perhaps age is just youth
— old and improved!
Poem of the April Palo Verde
Yellow.
Freaking.
Everywhere.

Timekeeper
Grief is historian of the heart.
Connections
Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.
Wrought
Grief is processing what’s been taken from you, what’s still within you, and all the blessings and memories left behind by the one you’re grieving.
Remains
Healing from grief is allowing the courage and purpose within you and the love someone else left you, to merge and create a new sense of being.
Tempest
If your storm has lightning and rainbows —
Be glad, be glad.
Imperceptible
Under the giving snow blossoms a daring spring.
Victorious
This smile isn’t a lack of pain. It’s a victory gesture of not letting pain defeat me.
Lion’s outlook
“I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.”
—Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World, 1968
Nerve-inferno
Fear is advance panic of unexpected life.
Assault
help please police help
everywhere i go
chocolate’s being a’salted!
But seriously. Knock it off. Leave some of it plain for those of us who prefer our chocolate without condiments!
Welcome, Winter
Welcome, Winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but
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