Tag Archives: Feeling

TO BE HEARD

Posted on November 19, 2015 by elainedanforth

If your wish is to be heard, choose carefully to find a good direction, intonation… and, if you’d take pride more to be heard, quite clear and well, and far and wide, then, find the aptest room or corner, perhaps … Continue reading →

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JUST LIKE THE OLD DAYS. . .

Posted on November 17, 2015 by elainedanforth

Just like the old days. . . something in that particular phrase brings my eyes to tears– Sentimental? And depressed?. . . Well, yes. . . but, in life, this often paradoxical big mess, it also washes me quite clear … Continue reading →

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HEALING

Posted on November 10, 2015 by elainedanforth

Healing sometimes takes you by surprise. . . It throws you from your act of balancing that you’ve done long, yourself, your life to compromise. . . and, though that gig was in its own way challenging, the newfound sense … Continue reading →

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NO RAIN, NO GAIN

Posted on November 9, 2015 by elainedanforth

No rain. No gain. Yes, there is the strength that comes from the test when so much moisture from our mountains, fields and pastures has been wrest, and there’s the confidence to know that we can live a year or … Continue reading →

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THE CHILLY WINTER CHALLENGE

Posted on November 4, 2015 by elainedanforth

When the weather veers toward winter and you’ve trouble feeling centered, though distractions do not melt nor freeze, nor fail to move from underfoot, and might trip up your ankles or your knees, It gets all that much more essential … Continue reading →

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DID NO ONE EVER ASK A BUTTERFLY?

Posted on October 15, 2015 by elainedanforth

Did no one ever ask a butterfly, and talk with with them quite long enough to have them speak just how it felt to die? Or how hard the labor, as a caterpillar, was the task to spin a coat … Continue reading →

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MY FLAG STILL FLIES

Posted on October 9, 2015 by elainedanforth

It’s great to know my blood still flows, and flag still flies, proudly smiling to both Earth and skies, even here– at half-mast– and I can still have such a blast, my heart beats so, and, at last, where once … Continue reading →

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HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF– ALMOST!

Posted on October 1, 2015 by elainedanforth

History repeats itself: the phrase is almost right– for nothing is identical, though cycles rule the realms of happy order and of pain and strife. . . sometimes a circle’s vicious tendency makes for vile dependency– and, at others, spins … Continue reading →

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THE BEGINNING DATE

Posted on September 16, 2015 by elainedanforth

I choose to walk by faith and not by fear though the fear is great and walks with me at any rate, and even though I may have to walk alone and hold onto my own small hand, myself to … Continue reading →

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REFRESHING FLESH AND BLOOD

Posted on September 2, 2015 by elainedanforth

Perhaps it’s just as well that we’ve no button to refresh when it seems our energy’s gone stuck or stale. . . we’ll have to do some looking and some guessing about what has steered us a bit ill and … Continue reading →

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