What colleges have you attended?
Having enjoyed college and grad school, as a mid-westerner, this is the time of year I instead need to recollect Spring Break.
Were I to die there
In my head
I know I’d rise there
Featherbed
White sand and sunshine
Surround me
Fine days and warm nights
By the sea
Steal away the only way
Is what to do
Muscle car and sixth gear
The dream comes true
If you started a sports team, what would the colors and mascot be?
I once co-organized a sports team and our colors were iridescent — shifting from rosé to blue. Our mascot was a mystery.
“What time is it?” I dared not ask — for, the shadow was skulking in fit
“How much will this cost?” the shadow’d demand — never once seeing all that I’d lost
Across the horizons of vintage floorboards, the Sun still shines, happily
Time over there and Loss over here, each our own cheerleader, sadly
Who are the biggest influences in your life?
The biggest influencers in my life are calculated risk-takers. I admire them because I know that under the right circumstances, they’d be courageous enough to take an unreasonable risk, and it’d still turn out well. Epic, even.
Cupid cannot fly
But connecting you and I
Is Hope with Feathers
Inspiration credit: Emily Dickinson;
“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all….”
What are your two favorite things to wear?
My two favorite things to wear are irreverence for worldly convention and hospitality (Johnny Cash singing, “I’ll Fly Away,” comes to mind)….
“We know that the whole creation has been groaning together…inwardly as we wait eagerly for…the redemption of our bodies.”
— Romans 8:22-23
“Hospitality: A Haiku”
Set aside, The Path
So graciously not shrouded,
Takes me thither, home
What book are you reading right now?
Right now, and for the last far-too-many years, I am reading an always-closed book. A tragedy.
The world
At one time
At once
Crashed
The past, the future
The then-present, then became
A thousand-mile debris field
The Colorado mountains to the Great Lakes
A stretch all afire
Nebraska knows why
Name the most expensive personal item you’ve ever purchased (not your home or car).
The most expensive personal item(s) I’ve ever purchased was my own principles. Once we allow our core values and self-worth to be trampled, redeeming them will always come at a great cost.
Yeah, no one lit a candle, nor did their heart yearn
No one went to war to bring your safe return
Love was tears at story’s end, turned on for show
Honor never crossed their mind — they sieged you, now you know
To cherish meant your vacancy by their decree
It still snows in summertime as you look back and see
Word were things they shopped for in society’s store
Legless stumblings daily dropped to the editing room floor
The pool of water calls them as a siren song
If you are a spring to it, that’s abjectly wrong
What’s something most people don’t know about you?
Something that most people don’t know about me is that I — 100% — hoard books, virtue, and Receipts.
What references, then
Were ever more rosier
Than Faith, Hope, and Love
What would you do if you lost all your possessions?
If I lost all my possessions, then I hope I’d respond by embracing my freedoms.
I hope….
‘neath twilight,
Now gone, night
Breezeless, that we’d hear
Sun thinking
Debating
Not coming too near
Earth rustles
We wrestle
Then, loose unchecked fear!
The stars freeze
Hark! Claim these!
Freedoms, conscience clear
In what ways does hard work make you feel fulfilled?
Soul searching is hard work. Does it not usually cause a sense of alone-ness that might make us press pause on that search? May it be we each see it through and fire fear.
I learned you’ve always been near
I never needed to fear
Earth’s spinning had me confused
Fodder for Satan to use
Told to think as I ought to
It left me treading water
And pulled me far from you
Pulled me far from you
If this magic will be mine
Will it mean the end of time
‘cause I thought you never, never, never, would arrive
Spirit, you have arrived
What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?
The best piece of advice I’ve ever received:
“There is no white knight.”
It is no surprise
Cinderella walks alone
What did she expect
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