Bring on the sweatshirts, I'm sooooo ready for fall! We got a huge downpour on Saturday morning, and this poem is what came out of it in my brain... The formatting is rather atrocious (darn the built-in formatting features I can't seem to get around!), but... well, here you go.
After the Rain
A ...
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Bubble-Wrap Magic
Bubble-Wrap Magic
(If you like subtitles, this one actually has one: Christmas in July. In case anyone’s wondering. Which you probably aren’t.)
I still get a thrill every time I check the mail, just like I did when I was a little girl. I walk down my long driveway to our black mailbox, standing ...
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Firefly Nights
Images courtesy of Pixabay.
There’s magic in a summer night.
Hearing Mom say, “Five minutes, now, I mean it!” And knowing she doesn’t mean it.
Staying up a little late every night, the whole family, the whole neighborhood, our whole world. Feeling like we’re all getting away with something, ...
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Up in the Air
You guessed it! I’m headed on vacation after a whirlwind speaking/hanging-out-with-oldest-and-dearest-friends trip.
Airports always bring out the philosopher in me. I guess it’s because they throw together such a random assortment of people—a sea of humanity from every imaginable culture, all ...
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