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Juncture

Here…

Between adolescence and womanhood

lies a bridge, a crossing over

an opaque, murky, slow moving river

cutting through tall rocks with striped

layers of dark rust and pale blush light

Whose banks are filled with [...]

Essence of Human Relationships

Ram Dass tells a story about a man rowing on a lake high in the mountains in fog so thick you can’t see your fingers unless you hold them right in front of your eyes. While he is rowing, he runs into something, probably another boat. He starts yelling loudly, “Watch where you’re going. Can’t [...]

A Library for Cracow

I belong to a Holocaust Survivors email list that travels around the globe online helping Survivors find other Survivors. More than six years ago I received an email about a young man who wanted to start a library in Cracow, Poland and needed help filling the shelves with Jewish books. Seems he was raised Christian to save his life. Finding out [...]

You Meet No Strangers

They arrive like dreams in the night

Or angels in a storm

When your car breaks down in knee deep snow

In the emergency lane along side the highway

They help answer prayers

The bartender, the Circle K clerk with the loan of a pen

With advertising on the side and phone numbers

In case you are desperate for [...]

Benny

Munich was always cold, especially in 1946. We lived in a “lager” – an American Displaced Person’s Camp. A four-story building with large rooms that housed multiple individuals and families – 60 or 70 people to a room; each group divided by hanging dark khaki green Army blankets. Our lack of privacy, with Army [...]

A Hero’s Secrets

*Another warm welcome and special story from guest author Ed Medeiros

SECRET USN DOCUMENT – Some of the details of the battle were learned from the then secret report of the Chevalier’s Executive officer Lt. J.R. Hanson.

From: J.R. Hanson Exc. Officer

To: The Commanding Officer

Subject: Action report of enemy engagement night of 6 October [...]

I Am Older Than I Should Be

*Happy 79th birthday…a warm welcome to guest author Ed Medeiros

Recently I celebrated my 79 th birthday. WOW!! Yes I entered this world on the 5th of February 1931. According to the story told in our family I am two weeks older then I should be. How can this be you ask. Let [...]

Gift From a Friend

I got polka-dotted today, at the park

Under the clouds

Next to the ducks eating bread

Next to the pale lavender brown egret

that came for a visit.

I’ve never been polka-dotted

Before this morning

Before Rachael showed me how.

What wonder what delight

these 26 letters bring me;

how they tumbleweed

through my brain

over my knuckles

and out my fingers.

What joy to receive [...]

Footprints on My Heart

The best girlfriend I ever had was a buyer named Ron. Ron was my dear friend, my soul mate for about 10 years. He was gay, I wasn’t. I sold ejection seat sensors for the F-16 ACES II ejection seats. Ron was the buyer for the company that made those seats. He got me a [...]

Nothing to Prove

You had nothing to prove

To me…

It was love at first sight

How could you not love that face

Blond hair, piercing blue eyes, wearing red

Be still my heart…

Wrote you a poem on your birthday

Which I left amongst the papers

On that big desk

“The biggest desk in the building,”

You reminded me smiling.

“Bigger than the President’s!”

Another story, another lunch

In a [...]

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