Category Archives: Stories from the Mind
In a Prison of, Silence…
In a prison of, silence, you lived, there was, NO sky roof, no light that comes in, you’re, in the, utter darkness, surrounded by, silence… In a prison of, silence, you will, DIE, and, nobody’s, gonna, give a flying FUCK … Continue reading →
Posted in Cost of Living, Experiences of Life, Lessons of Life, Loneliness vs. Solitude, Loss, Losses & Gains, Philosophies of Life, Properties of Life, Stories from the Mind, the Consequences of Life, The Trials of Life, Values of Life
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Tagged Living in the Dark, Raised in the Silence, Undersocialized
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Becoming, a Gentler, Caretaker
From the perspectives, of a bystander, who may NOT know the whole story, translated… “Didn’t you cry of aches and pains a lot at home? How come the moment we’re in the hospital, it’s, all gone away?”, in the waiting … Continue reading →
Posted in Adult Children, Cost of Living, Experiences of Life, Interactions of Parents & Childlren, Memories Shared, Opinions, Properties of Life, Real Stories from All Around, Socialization, Stories from the Mind, the Ins & Outs of the World, the Process of Aging, the Process of Life, the Vicious Cycle, Values of Life
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Tagged Basing the Interpretations Off of the Moment, Not Knowing the Whole Story, Observations, Role Reversals
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Left Her Glass Slipper, Inside that Pumpkin Carriage…
As Cinderella run like hell, out of the ball, as the clock struck twelve, she’d, barely, made it, and, as the pumpkin carriage took her away, it started, metamorphosing, BACK to that pumpkin again… To escape, from being, “swallowed whole” … Continue reading →
Manmade Clouds, a Poem
Air pollution, smog, slowly, taking over, our living space, suffocating us slowly, translated… As the Weather Became So Heated The Dogs Stuck Out Their Tongues The Clouds Also, Started, Baking Up The White, Fluffy Clouds, Looking Like Broccoli or Cauliflower … Continue reading →
As the Weather Turned Cooler & Autumn Closes in
How retired elderly service persons are still, quite active, sharing their lives, in a nursing home, translated… That day, as I received a call from, He, a female friend, the who’d served on the entertainment committee, she invited me to … Continue reading →
Posted in Aging Well, Beliefs, Connections, Experiences of Life, Facts, Philosophies of Life, Positives of Life, Social Awareness, Social Welfare, Socialization, Staying Active During the Elderly Years, Stories from the Mind, the Ins & Outs of the World, the Process of Aging, Trending Now, Values of Life
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Come, Sit on My Knees…
Come, sit on my knees, he’d told her as a child, and, she’d, hopped toward him, and, climbed, into his lap… Come, sit on my knees, became this, ritual they’d, come to share, and, as she got older, whenever he’d … Continue reading →
Posted in Adults Misbehaving, Bad News, Childhood Innocence, Cost of Living, Lessons of Life, Lies You Told, Raping One's Own Offspring, Stories from the Mind, Taking Advantage of Others, the Consequences of Life, Things Left Behind, Things that Came Too Late in Life, Tips of the Icebergs, Traumas of the Younger Years, Unsafe in the World, Wayward Values, Welfare of Children
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Tagged Escalation of Bad Behaviors, the Sexual Molestation of a Young Child
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Someone Who Held Out an Umbrella for Me
An experience that’s, touched this woman, because nobody who’d come before this man, had ever been, so very, thoughtful, or considerate, translated… As I was going somewhere one day, there was a building that was getting its outer walls cleaned. … Continue reading →
We Danced
You held me, in your arms, and I started, hearing music sounding off, and we danced, that slow dance… We danced, but that was, as far as it get, because I will, always keep you outside of these doors of … Continue reading →
Posted in A Wrong Kind of Love, Connections, Cost of Living, Experiences of Life, Lessons of Life, Loss, Love Became an Excuse, Properties of Life, Stories from the Mind, the Consequences of Life, the Process of Life, The Trials of Life, Things Left Behind
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Tagged Damaged by Love, Falling into the Wrong Love, Getting Trouble with My Head, Leapt Before Looking
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The Pressures of Life from After the Retirement
As empty nest H-I-T-S, retirement makes you even busier, translated… People told me, that after they retired, they got to sleep until they wake in the morn, so, how come, I’d had a ton of things troubling me regularly, and, … Continue reading →
Posted in After Retirement...Work Some More, Alternative Perspectives, Beliefs, Cost of Living, Empty Nest, Experiences of Life, Facts, Lessons of Life, Opinions, Philosophies of Life, Retirement, Socialization, Stories from the Mind, the Consequences of Life, The Passages in Life, the Process of Life, Values of Life
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Tagged Life Gets Busier After Retirement
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Never Ending Nights…
This is, what will be, falling before YOU in life from here on out, never ending nights, and, you KNOW how all those monsters only comes out from the closets at night, right??? Yeah, uh-huh. Never ending nights, that is, … Continue reading →
Posted in Cost of Living, Experiences of Life, Lessons of Life, Murder, Murders that Stemmed from Abuse, Murders that Went Unpunished, Nightmares & Memories, Ranting About Life, Recollections, Stories from the Mind, the Consequences of Life, The Trials of Life, the Vicious Cycle, Tortured by One's Conscience
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Life, the Obstacle Course 