I looked down at my foot and reviewed what I knew upon it Toes that helped me run racing in the wind around a cinder track Toes that helped me jump far across the sand Toes that wiggled at my command toes are complex things... I thought about a knee seniors often do how [...]
Hands unseen preparing the soil planting the seeds cultivating the crop harvesting ...and placing the fruits in boxes Hands unseen along the way some will bear some blisters some a cut or bruise But, be assured someone bled for you to have that fruit or veggie They bless our bodies help us grow help us [...]
She Knows This place... From ceiling color to spider web from every crack or scratch on every floor From every wall where pictures hang Every window Every door She knows this place... These people From parents who begat her Held her, marveled at her birth and loved her ever more deeply through the years [...]
Pictures snap a moment in time to remind us again and again of special people and special times My office walls are graced with many I remember and some I contemplate A group of twenty hard working souls who chose our president becoming friends along the way A sign in India about a well and [...]
A family gathers round a bed with crisp white sheets the patient lies quietly, eyes closed simply breathing Someone holds her hand warmth passes between them The hand that has touched since our life began now squeezes ours "I'm here", the message sings Our hand caresses her brow smooths the gray hairs back the moments [...]
Dreams come in flowers of differing shapes and sizes colors and textures, to become paintings and murals that speak to us all Room settings at Jan's found out of doors speak imaginations worked into being While God created flowers Jan puts them together in most pleasing ways to 'talk' to us with pleasure to color [...]
Birth and death are linked just so often it seems, as an older family member passes a new one is born I've been touched by death along the way Grandpa Warfel, on a hospital bed my sister and I had been brought so his final wishes could be spoken In my mind's eye, still at [...]
Tools of the trade are varied and many Sculpted by hands shiny from use Favorite tools have a special place for those who use them often Some are passed down through generations gaining in honor steadily Oh, the memories that go along with them! Priceless, the tools become as they wear the marks of [...]
An office sits quietly the desk chair empty for 74 years the door would close and confidential matters passed between client and counselor Documents streamed from typewriters and then from word processors putting down in black and white lives coming, passing deeds and contracts and taxes forms filled out and witnessed to wit Ah, it [...]
Time was, sometime ago, when my vision had a problem Mom, of course, knew the fix I got my first pair of glasses! I learned what I had been missing Time was, sometime ago, when my vision had another problem a retinologist laid me down a nurse held me down and a lazer fixed my [...]