A couple of days ago Sara Hickman’s mom reached out to me on Facebook. We were neighbors when we were kids in Houston. Sara has recorded like 20 albums since the 1990s (I checked out her website www.sarahickman.com). I still just remember her as a kid across the street […] Read the rest
Just another ditty to fill up my day.
I’m tired of trying to see things clearly,
The mushroom clouds are in the way.
So I’ll sing another ditty to pass the day away.
Just another ditty to pass away the time.
I’m so tired of the […] Read the rest
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Look at me.
What do you see?
That isn’t me.
Look again.
You see the man.
You don’t see what’s within.
Listen to my words.
Their call for accord.
A mask of sorts.
Listen to my meaning.
Its call for healing.
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Shout for joy! Tap your toes!
A savior has come to end our woes.
From out of the sky for all to see,
He came today – it was on TV.
Those who hide deep in their dark souls
Fear the order our savior restores.
But rejoice? […] Read the rest
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“You’re stupid!” “I hate you!” That’s what they say, but I don’t think it’s true. I never had a sister, especially a smarty pants older sister, just three brothers. An older brother who was my rival.
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I had a could of songs I wanted to use in a new Playlist and they both had Blue in the title – Willie Nelson’s Blue Hotel and Alexi Murdoch’s Blue Mind. Thought it might be fun to do an entire list of songs with Blue in the title. Did […] Read the rest
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Uganda was part of the British Empire or independent member of the Commonwealth from shortly after the source of the Nile river was discovered by John Hanning Speke and Richard Burton (no, not the actor) in the
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Why is it that what you want is never what you get?
Why is it that what happens is always different than what you expect?
Can’t you tell I want to be with you more?
And if you can how come I keep getting the door?
It’s […] Read the rest
If I don’t ask how am I supposed to find out?
By osmosis?
If we don’t talk about it how can we come to an understanding?
Through telepathy?
We have fun.
We approach intimacy.
But somewhere there’s a barrier we’ll eventually have to storm.
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Three out of four people in Uganda are under the age of thirty. It is a nation of children. What will this nation be when these children are men and women? Will poverty have crushed hope? or will
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