1 Songbird
“Please welcome nineteen-year old Marie Parris to the stage” Earlier, Marie walked along a dirt road lined with shades of green forest, a smoldering, humid, summer day on her way to the Plymouth, New Hampshire Fair grounds. Holding the hands of her two little girls on either side, guiding them along. Her first born daughter,…
43 Candles
Family birthday parties were extraordinary! My dad’s family was excited, he had retired from the USAF at forty-one in 1979 and moved back to his native desert home in the Arizona. Once again, I was living with dad at the age of eighteen. Remember, six months before my eleventh birthday, my two brothers and I…
500 Words- Only Sliced Apples
Could being born by the Gulf of Mexico in Tampa Florida have a link to the effective healing powers within a human captivated by rivers, lakes and especially the ocean? I was about five years old, riding with my parents in our black Falcon, sitting in the back seat with no seat belt, windows rolled…
CLL Trisomy-12 -The Blood In My Veins
Shock and Denial It was the beginning of my 56th June summer 2017, in the desert. I arrived at my primary care physician’s office, for my annual summer physical. In walked the doctor, “Good to see you! How are you doing?” I began to tell her, “I have been feeling more tired than usual, loosing…
1 Compassionate Journey Begins
Welcome! Thank you for joining me! Here in this space is a riveting exploration, memoir, research, and synergy with a myriad of topical structures and forms within our 21st Century humankind and our planet Earth. For me, being alive each day is a new beginning of exploration through analyzing, learning, communicating, growing, creating and bridging…
Early Childhood Influences: Poets and Musicians
To laugh often, to win the affection of children…to know even one life breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. Ralph Waldo Emerson Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the less traveled by, and that made all the difference. Robert Frost To Be Continued….
Mindfulness Poetic Thoughts-
Bringing Peace, Natures Lesson Calmness of the water Stillness of the breeze In the sand, made of stone, Lays a cross Walking along the creek Changes are seen and heard Water flows over rocks, leaves and fallen brush Meandering this way and that Moving along the path Logs and sticks across the flow Change the…
Mindfulness-Wherever You Go, There You Are
From Wherever You Go There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn, ” Guess what ? When it comes right down to it, wherever you go, there you are. Whatever you wind up doing, that’s what you’ve wound up doing. Whatever you are thinking right now, that’s what’s on you mind. Whatever has happened to you, it…
23 and Me DNA- Genealogy Discoveries
Have you ever wondered about your unknown ancestors? How to research your ancestry to create an accurate family tree with stories aligned with family names, connecting family members through family knowledge and DNA? According to Ancestry, 23 and Me, we randomly inherit about fifty percent of our genes from each parent. In general, we as…
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