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Small Treasures – The Orange Fluffy Stuffed Cat – When She was Sitting Up in the Hospital Bed, with One Hand Resting Upon Her Cheek, She Would Just Stare in Peaceful Contemplation at the Orange Cat, that Sat in Quiet Repose Upon the Wooden Windowsill, Four Feet from My Mom’s Wondering Eyes
Small Treasures – The Orange Fluffy Stuffed Cat A fluffy orange stuffed cat, a source of comfort, though not the toy or comfort of a child, sits on the back of the sofa in my study, the only stuffed...
A Tale of Two Houses on the Road, Originally Dirt, That I Grew Up On
The street in the photo looking up towards the mountains is the present day view of the street that I grew up on. In my early years, until about when I was seven or eight, it was a dirt road. The...
Postcard Story – The Fortune Teller – Georges de La Tour – 1630s – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436838 (In Public Domain) Second Grandson– 12/01/20 …and he never understood all the words of advice, all the talk at the supper table, parents, older...
Last Visit to Richard & The Story I Was Not Able to Read to Him
Last Visit to Richard & The Story I Was Not Able to Read to Him *** For our 55th Year high school reunion, coming up within a week now, the Reunion Committee solicited written submissions from...
A Meditation Upon “The Book Smugglers – Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis – The True Story of the Paper Brigade of Vilna”
A Meditation Upon “The Book Smugglers – Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis – The True Story of the Paper Brigade of Vilna” This posting is not so much a formal...
Postcard Stories – Young Mother Sewing – Mary Cassatt – 1900 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10425 Second Granddaughter – 04/21/14 …and the young girl loved her mother who she thought was very pretty and sometimes she just wanted to be with...
Often Nights Turn into “Armageddon Scenes”. When Attacks with Missiles and Drones Begin, our Army Shoots them Down. Часто ночі перетворюються на «сцени Армагеддону». Коли починаються атаки ракетами і дронами, наша армія їх збиває.
Often Nights Turn into "Armageddon Scenes". When Attacks with Missiles and Drones Begin, our Army Shoots them Down. Часто ночі перетворюються на «сцени Армагеддону». Коли починаються...
The Broken Love Stone – If Love is Missing or Fractured, It is Then Like a Constellation Without Many of its Stars, and Those Stars Remaining Dimmed and Barely Visible.
The Broken Love Stone - If Love is Missing or Fractured, It is then Like a Constellation Without Many of its Stars, and Those Stars Remaining Dimmed and Barely Visible. I have walked by these...
Postcard Story – The Temple of Dendur – Egypt, Lower Nubia, Roman period, 15 B.C. – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/547802 The Temple of Dendur Fifth Sister – 03/08/21 …art is sometimes big, old, and monumental, and, sometimes, something that you are able to touch,...
Waiting to Fly from Charlotte to Kansas City – A Story from a Gentle Man Spanning Many, Many Years
A Story from a Gentle Man Spanning Many, Many Years He was a gentle man, a kind, soft-spoken, older, thoughtful man, with manners and a quiet grace. He was by himself. I had left the...