Why is it that we don’t appreciate the people in our lives until they’re gone? Or maybe it’s just me who doesn’t. Recently my life changed when someone I loved walked out of my life. It took this happening for me to really understand how good this person was to me and how good this [...]
…Then there is poetry.
(Thank you to Amy for sharing this poem with me).
TECTONICS
Ted Kooser, Delights and Shadows
In only a few months
there begin to be fissures
in what we remember,
and within a year or two,
the facts break apart
one from another
and slowly begin to shift
and turn, grinding,
pushing up over each other
until their shapes
have been changed
and the past has [...]
I have begun to wonder if men and women can be platonic friends – without sexual tension of some nature being a part of it. I can list on perhaps one hand the number of men who have not left things uncomfortable with a sexual proposition of some kind by the end of an evening [...]