Tag: random musings
member name: Sandy (Site Psychic™) Knauer
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December 29, 2005 03:49 PM EST --
It was warm, so I sat outside, to eat my lunch in the sun
I met a man who'd lost his way, and didn't know any one
He swallowed his pride, avoided my eyes,
and in a tiny voice, shared with . . .
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May 11, 2006 02:49 AM EDT --
I saw your dreams falling
and caught them with my heart
heard your fears calling
watched you come apart
Let me hold your dreams for you
while you rebuild your strength
Tomorrow you can start anew . . .
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December 19, 2005 03:22 PM EST --
I was cold as hell, frozen in place with a racing heart,
keenly indifferent, and aching to be well.
I was a losing winner.
Or maybe a winning loser.
A monstrous little building ambushed . . .
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April 14, 2006 02:27 AM EDT --
Dancing served many purposes in my life. There. I said it in past tense and I'm still breathing. It was great exercise, a stress reliever, an expression of emotions and music, always fun, and sensual . . .
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April 17, 2006 02:37 PM EDT --
Macy stood beside the door to blow her nose on the remnants of her tissue. There was no stopping the tears but she could at least save herself a bit of humiliation by not sniffing at her guest. Timing . . .
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April 17, 2006 04:45 PM EDT --
Carefully tend the garden,
protect her from the weather.
She's only out of season,
not gone away forever.
She amazed us with her beauty,
bloomed in vivid colors,
graced us the summer long,
standing . . .
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April 20, 2006 08:21 PM EDT --
Dazed preoccupation, glowing skin, picture in hand to remind her he wasn't a dream, giggles and visible jitters. She showed all the classic signs of a girl who had lost her heart and mind . . .
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April 22, 2006 08:18 PM EDT --
For those of us sentenced to Catholic school, back-to-school shopping promised few thrills beyond walking to Kresges with all the neighborhood . . .
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April 28, 2006 02:37 AM EDT --
My big mistake was in expecting a twenty-mile drive to erase the thirty years I had been away. I set myself up for the unwarranted sense of betrayal that came when I saw a flat lot with a beer garden . . .
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June 11, 2006 12:16 AM EDT --
My granddaughters, ages three and four, spot and pluck insects and worms from the grass with the precision of a starving-bird. . . .
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November 14, 2006 04:32 AM EST --
And since you were kind enough to give your permission, here it is:
I stopped carrying a handbag almost twenty years ago when I was mugged while waiting at a red light in Miami. The driver-side window . . .
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November 28, 2006 04:14 PM EST --
I suspended my loathing of ruffles and frills long enough to let Mom explain the saccharine blouses.
"We were Christmas shopping." She spread the hideous garments on the bed, forcing me to look . . .
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December 30, 2005 12:20 AM EST --
I spent one of my fifty-one years in a meager apartment on Strawberry Lane, in a rundown business district of a fading neighborhood. The bathtub didn't hold water and my bedroom window was at ground . . .
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March 28, 2006 05:25 PM EST --
I live in this body and know it well. I know how far I can push it, when it needs a tune-up, and when I need to park it for a few days. . . .
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May 15, 2006 01:52 AM EDT --
Karen has a room on York,
a far cry from the mansion she lost on Winter.
Maybe it isn't far.
Three miles, give or take,
seen differently by car, bus, or foot.
It's far enough she . . .
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December 19, 2005 02:15 PM EST --
I am an ungraced enigma. People waive their preferences for sons and daughters to pray God will not curse them with something like me.
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March 20, 2006 01:54 PM EST --
After my quick click to accept the invitation to join the nonconformist group, I questioned my qualifications. Would the television remote, . . .
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April 02, 2006 04:42 AM EDT --
There I was with fifty years of love and admiration invested when I discovered his love meant nothing at all. What do you do when that happens?
This man had shown up on every holiday, picked me up when . . .
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April 18, 2006 07:31 PM EDT --
In addition to the traditional offerings most generous, doting parents lavish on a child, mine infused a lifeline to their unrestricted generosity. They gave me the world, by allowing me to see . . .
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December 31, 2005 11:26 AM EST --
"God love her," echoed throughout the office as an emaciated woman dodged traffic and stopped to converse with the paper bag she recovered from the gutter on the other side of the street.
"She's . . .
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