Poems About Life Love Friendship
Posted in Observations on Life on Jun 22nd, 2008
Who was it that said, “Parting is such sweet sorrow.” I sometimes turn to the bard to express feelings that could otherwise be mixed and misunderstood. In a couple of week friends are moving overseas for a couple of years. The wife is a senior partner in a large, international accounting firm and is going [...]
Posted in Poems on Apr 27th, 2008
It’s funny how much so many of us exaggerate when we tell a story or anecdote. I have often wondered why it is we have to make the event so much grander, or dramatic or tragic. Don’t we have enough drama in our lives? Is our existence so insignificant that we must grasp at every [...]
Posted in Poems on Feb 11th, 2008
It’s funny how the most disparate incidents can trigger emotion. Some years ago the Salvation Army had a TV ad running that depicted an old man in a torn singlet looking into a dirty, cracked mirror. He was looking at himself as a young man, wasting his life on alcohol and drugs. It touched me [...]
Posted in Observations on Life on Jun 18th, 2007
I just wanted to share something with you. We see doom and gloom news all the time and it sometimes makes you wonder where all the good guys have gone. I had this happen just yesterday and it warmed my heart. I was standing in a queue waiting to pick up a pair of shoes [...]
