twilight {haiku}

beautiful lover
soft eyes glitter and twinkle
in the twilight -

rainy day {haiku}

sprinkles on my face
I forgot my umbrella
quickly, don't get wet

freedom {haiku}

my inner nisus
drives me to push past the pain
toward my freedom

thunderstorm {haiku}

thunderstorm rages
outside my broken window
fills my heart with peace

my laden heart {haiku}

my laden heart rues
the Way is my undergird
seek it utterly

intimate {haiku}

lambent flickering

of the candles, sets the mood

time for connection 

beach party {haiku}

fire on the beach
bare toes digging in the sand
celebrating life

I Won Alice Cooper!

Winner winner tofu dinner. Look what I won today! Looks like I'm getting the Alice Cooper experience tomorrow evening. It will be a Happening. ☠

Dodger can't go... too much work. Dancer can't go... she has to work, too. So, I asked my mom. She loves Alice Cooper. So, we're leaving work a little early tomorrow and heading south to watch the legend rock out.

purple shadows {haiku}

purple shadows cool
under the hot autumn sky
down the mountainside

Quote: Democracy or Wealth

"We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." - Justice Louis D. Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court

triggered {haiku}

emotions popple

rising, out of control -

who shall I turn to

illness {haiku}

without prayer, my

struggle roars back to life -

losing sight of god

Dancer is 23

We celebrated Dancer's 23rd birthday today. We gathered most of the extended family at Sports Zone for dinner, then went back to mom's for cake, ice cream, and games.

Her actual birthday is just a few days away... it will be her Golden Birthday.

A Rare Sight

I just caught this rarity on video... Buddy responding to Bobby's bid for affection, though it didn't last long. It was sweet while it lasted.

rest {haiku}

little sleep, long week
tired and weary, I be
rest calling my name

Illinois country {haiku}

stalks reaching skyward

golden whispers through the breeze 

this will forever be home 

bored at work {haiku}

staring at a screen
all my work is done right now
wasting time for pay

orotund {haiku}

sesquipedalian
florid orotund haiku
paradoxical

emoji {haiku}

emoji, sweet love
pictures worth a thousand words
sweet ideogram

Back to Blogging

For the past 3 or 4 days, I've been getting things cleaned up here on the blog.  As my final stop in the blog-o-sphere, Circa 1975 has been awhile in the making.  I've blogged here there and everywhere since August 2005 (before that, I was building personal websites and playing around with HTML).  I've had this blog set up for awhile now (at least a few years) but had only processed about half of the posts I imported from all of my other blog archives.  I've been busy... finishing up undergrad and starting graduate school.  Now nearing the end of my last summer semester in the counseling program and getting a daily reprieve from the symptoms (compulsive food and exercise behaviors, anxiety, and procrastination) of my illness, I felt a spark to start creating again.  So, I had to get my blog posts cleaned up and processed.

It's been an amazing process to go back through all of these old posts.  There are so many memories, both good and bad, here.  I kept them all.  There were a few things that I lost, like a few handfuls of Keek videos, which can't be recovered in any way.  That's a little sad.  That's what happens with new social media start-ups though.  Here one day, gone the next.  It's a reminder that I should back up everything.

Now, to fill in the spaces where I wasn't heavily blogging, I'm going back through my Facebook memories and pulling information from there to post here.  Once moved, I'm deleting my old Facebook memories.  I really want this to be the one place that I keep a journal of everything.  One day, I hope to share this with my daughter and husband.  But for now, it's just me and anyone who stops by to read.

I'm also starting to clean up and organize all of my digital photos.  I've been able to add some photos to old blog posts.  As I process the photos, I will add more.  I may backdate some just for posterity's sake.  If a photo is from 2000, I think it's a little odd to post it in 2019.  I wouldn't do that in a physical journal.  So, why do it here.

Now, I must pull myself away from this very fun project and finish up an assignment due tomorrow.

false president {haiku}

Barmecidal man
you pretend you have the world
you show your true self

dark rain {haiku}

wet morning drizzle 

somber way to greet the day 

darkness fills the air 

morning travel {haiku}

early morning rise
highway leads to my passion
two more semesters

reprieve {haiku}

I greet the morning

full of grace and forgiveness

my daily reprieve

celebration {haiku}

a birthday party

a beautiful sunny day

Jamie's 40th

long beautiful day {haiku}

long beautiful day
the totality of it
ended with a kiss