Tag: Commentary
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Anne – Part 15 – Grammy Dies – 1993
Anne – Part 15 – Grammy Dies 1993 About a year into my adventure in technical writing, my maternal grandmother died. She was 98. She had fallen and broken a hip. She had a hip replacement. I was told that she came out of the surgery fine. but after a few days in recovery, quit…
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Anne – Part 14 – Even More Complications – Memoir Continued
Our Life Got Even More Complicated It got complicated for everyone. These were the Reagan and Bush Sr. years, with their combinations of union busting and suppression (and corruption) and good jobs leaving the country in troves, and then even faster during the Clinton years, soon to follow. There were few teaching positions open anywhere…
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Steed
Steed At least I have my wheels, my vehicle,My shiny, faithful, always trusty, steed. When she treats me well, she’s My sweet machine, My cherry ride, My shiny sweet serene. But when she’s fickle or broken down, she’s My god damn, My rust bucket, My infernal, My death trap, My garbage scow. She’s the kind…
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Affirmations / Aspirations
Affirmations/Aspirations I amWe areLoveCompassionThankful I amWe areThe VoidThe TaoThe Source I amWe areThe quantum fieldThe unified fieldThe universe A wave ofUniverse energyA point of viewLooking at myselfThe universe As I recedes New wavesCome forth newIndividual pointsTo view the ONE –LE
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Winter’s In The Air
Winter’s In The Air now the leaves have fallenthey’re lying on the groundautumn’s many colored blankethas turned a brittle brown and now we wait for winterwearing his hoary crownhe steals our body’s heatand chills us to the bone his arrival brings the holidaysto warm our hearts againthe solstice and the new yearjoys to tide us…
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Anne – Part 13 – Caitlin and Dylan – Memoir Continued
Citlin and Dylan are Born During my last year at Hiram, Anne became pregnant. She had decided that Sean needed a playmate. Twins should not have been surprising. There were twins on both Anne’s and my sides of the family. Hers were cousins. Mine were an aunt and uncle. But it still caught us by…
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Anne – Part 12 – Full-time College
Full-time at Hiram College I started going to Hiram on the weekends prior to being sent to Chicago. Eaton was paying my tuition as long as I passed my courses. Of course, after they fired me, that stopped. So, I took my unemployment and what savings I had and started going to school at Hiram…
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Anne – Part 11 – Fired By Airflex – Memoir Continued
Fired By Airflex One of the inspectors I was training, Ron, wasn’t picking it up fast enough to suit John, who felt entitled to belittle him every time he walked by the CMM on his way to his office. He was constantly complaining that the work wasn’t getting done as fast as he’d hoped, based…
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Secret Dreams
Secret Dreams I had secret dreams But Called four-eyes and sissyI held the dreams insideI couldn’t let theName-callers see I’d rather play with wordsThan fight all dayWatching and laughingDancing and singing Careening and preeningOn the snowy plainsOf my journal –LE
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Seeking Its Level
Seeking Its Level As a stream windes downLooking for the seaSo life seeks outIts own conclave-ity Parallels between life and waterAre ancient and universalThey both seek their levelThey both reach for their source Existance cycles from sourceTo level to source – water is lifeNo water – we’re extinct – beliefeSystems – indulged irrelavance –LE
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