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This is another title that I am starting after having an idea while lying in the tub, you know what they say, always listen to your inner soul. In "My Friend From Space," young Billy's life takes an otherworldly turn when he befriends Apollo, an alien who crashes into his… Read More

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February 26, 2025

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Games people play – love – hate – envy – greed -- where winner takes all – hopes, dreams, dignity. Read
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My roots lured me back to a valley along the Rio Grande -- where my heart began to beat and where the outline of my soul was stitched. Read
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I remember Valentine Days -- they were the days once shared . . . Read
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February 10, 2025

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My mind keeps awake the sounds of war -- the cries of pain -- the gasps of letting go. And of faces that haunt me in the middle of night -- trying to say their last goodbye --- and trying unsuccessfully to explain why . . . Read
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February 06, 2025

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Words but bit, pieces and shards of discarded emotion -- until resurrected and brought to life by imagination and inspiration. Read
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February 05, 2025

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When family become strangers . . . Read
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February 04, 2025

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Decisions of the mind -- of the heart -- that determine the destiny of man . . . Read
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January 29, 2025

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We consider time -- superfluous – redundant. For tomorrow always comes. Another day. Another chance. Another opportunity -- until we realize the arrogance of our assumption -- but too late . . . Read
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January 28, 2025

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Writer's thoughts -- like wildfires in the mind -- setting the mind ablaze with inspiration and imagination -- seeking to come alive -- if only for a moment. Read
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January 19, 2025

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A map to what likes beyond the stars . . . Read
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Humanity but a momentary reflection and sensation of delusional thought that thinks itself indestructible, invinsible. Read
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January 17, 2025

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We hear the voices of choice that no one else can hear -- until the voices dissolve into one -- our own. Read
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January 06, 2025

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Passion creates -- emotion commands -- and the changing seasons control . . . and then we are no more. Read
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Thoughts and words like butterflies in flight when freed from the confides of the mind . . . Read
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January 02, 2025

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The New Year brings thoughts of time -- and its power and potency -- and of how emotion sustains the memories of time. Read
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Welcoming in 2025 -- a silent prayer -- a heartfelt declaration -- a wistful affirmation. Read
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December 31, 2024

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New Year's Eve reflection of the days to come . . . Read
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December 19, 2024

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Man creates the devils and the angels that haunt the human mind and rip apart the human soul. Read
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December 12, 2024

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Time consumes and devours memories and dreams -- leaving an emptiness surrounded by the sound of silence. Read
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This post might be called, Karen Post #3, for a complain again, not about my neighbors this time, but about my rotten power company that left me freezing and without any way to cook my food. I am not a survivalist kind of gal and the use of generators and… Read
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November 30, 2024

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November 28, 2024

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I have been "mentally away" since the election -- No TV. No newspapers. No radio. Just reading. Just thinking. Just trying to make sense of it all. But always in the back of my mind -- the great American Eagle -- the symbol and beauty of American strength, resolve, vision.… Read
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November 2nd is my Mom''s birthday (November 2, 1929 - January 5, 2014) -- I write her a birthday card every year. Sharing it with you this year. Read
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October 15, 2024

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I am descendant of native Americans -- Indians, Spaniards, Mexicans -- the first pioneers, pilgrims, explores of the Americas -- and now poisoners of the blood of a nation -- enemies of the state -- human imposters -- animals -- or so I am told. Had I been a white… Read
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The power -- the glory -- the kingdom. That which lures the worst of human inclination to lie, cheat, and deceive. Read
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We all come at some point in our lives -- to that moment of clarify -- when re realize how much love has clouded our thoughts and our judgments --- and how time reveals what was concealed. Read
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October 03, 2024

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This is what happens when I let my mind wonder -- without restrictions, without boundaries -- and the end result -- a view into the depth of me that reveals the scars and wounds that never healed. Read
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September 29, 2024

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A very personal thought on returning to my familial roots along the Rio Grande Valley -- a hard and powerful realization of growing old, being alone, and living with memories. Read
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September 27, 2024

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An introspective essay exploring the ephemeral beauty of life, meaning and the lasting significance of shared moments. Read
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September 27, 2024

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Why do I still have to defend the color of my skin? Why do I still have to see myself as inferior, unwelcomed, defective? Read
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September 25, 2024

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Even Family Trees wither and die -- time and human arrogance has a tendency of destroying families and family ties that once seemed invincible and untouchable. Live long enough, and one will feel the hurt, the pain, the loneliness of seeing the Family Tree dwindle, wither and die. Read
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September 21, 2024

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I look around me and wonder why so many have sold their very souls for wealth, power, recognition, adoration -- or am I just envious because no one offered to buy my soul? Read
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September 17, 2024

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genau wie Yoda sagte, nur eben Luke Read
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September 15, 2024

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My thought writing that i had done some years ago. Read
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September 06, 2024

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Just my mind thinking about the most recent school shooting -- about war -- about aging and dying -- all moments that lead to forever . . . Read
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August 26, 2024

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August 26, 2024

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Courage is not a part of war -- courage is what comes in the middle of the night and fills a young boy's body and mind with fear and terror, and takes away the dream that was. Read
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Many like me, came home from war -- listening to the melody of hope. Waiting for the sound to resonate and drown out the sounds of war. But it never came to be. Read
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Couldn't sleep -- my imagination unable to stop. And so, I wrote these words . . . nothing more . . . Read
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July 20, 2024

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A writer exposed . . . Read

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