Tag Archives: Risk

A VENTURE

Posted on April 29, 2024 by elainedanforth

A venture into new terrain– I must scout for my sure footing as circumstance expands my range.

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DO THE UNTHINKABLE

Posted on May 9, 2022 by elainedanforth

Do the unthinkable– And dive right in, though thou be rather far from guaranteed unsinkable. Switch course– return to what was rendered fearsome by the scores, and treat it like you spent no real time off of the horse. And … Continue reading →

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THE TRUSTY CARD PLUCKED FROM YOUR HAND

Posted on April 14, 2021 by elainedanforth

Your shoulders tenseyour cards held close. . . you quiverat that riskto raise your hand,but it’s what stands to payand get you what you want the most. . . If only you can loose and tensein proper patternthe muscles, tendons … Continue reading →

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GOD, PEACE!

Posted on April 5, 2018 by elainedanforth

God, peace!. . . Please, give me peace! The voices, the choices, the one who belittles, the Benzes, pliés, Rolls Royces. . . The people, the cries, and the chimes from the steeple, blown away the wrong way in the … Continue reading →

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HAND. LAND. MEANS OF SUPPORT.

Posted on March 1, 2018 by elainedanforth

Hand. Land. Such means, which range from well seen to unseen, of support, more vital than such thick walls as bar all possible admittal to the most fortified war fort. Having such strong underpinning often differentiates so much from not … Continue reading →

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IT’S IN YOU– YOU FEEL IT

Posted on April 26, 2017 by elainedanforth

It’s in you. You feel it. It wants to grow, to get right out, but somehow, you conceal it. It’s your special deck of cards dealt out to you, and, somehow, you must deal it. There’s part of you wants … Continue reading →

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ARE YOU IN?

Posted on March 11, 2017 by elainedanforth

Put in your chips. Get in the game. Go fast or slow, whichever way it works for you to go– even though though that may well mean you change your trip, or else you find the game can change its … Continue reading →

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THE MOMENT OF NAVIGATION

Posted on December 28, 2016 by elainedanforth

Observe and wait. Cheer and spectate. There’s much to learn and so much fun in all that stuff that you have done, in your time lived in that crate. But, what would follow if, for a change, you’d navigate around … Continue reading →

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MERRY. TO MOVE ON OR TO TARRY?

Posted on December 25, 2016 by elainedanforth

Merry– a reason good to tarry. . . feel the presence and the love of blood, and of people whom and into whom you or they have married. But is the road to love them, nudge them not to stay … Continue reading →

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THE INVITATION

Posted on December 23, 2016 by elainedanforth

It’s enow to make you fit and start as if hit by cupid’s dart, when someone begs you from the heart, “Please stay.” You don’t yet know exactly how or understand the way. But it’s a game that sights the … Continue reading →

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