In The Shadows

I am resting in the shadows of life
I can see the light from here
But it can not blind me
With its hope
I can feel the warmth from here
But it can not burn me
with its passion
I can cry here
No one hears
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Life renews

Peonies in back yard are starting to open... as hearts that are closed eventually with warmth and care will do as well. eventually.

Suicide and Silence

stiletto heels strike an assured cadence.

stairway spiraling skyward....

a sigh...

a last single step...

Screams spinning a downward symphony ...

slash stillness.

sirens...

silence....

sweet serene silence

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Outward Bound

Changes demand
They Command
I have no choice
Left with no voice
no say so
no where to go

Five of Ten

This is the first five of the Ten of us. Meaning I am one of ten kids... lots of sibs!

From Left to right back row. My older sister Georgette who passed away from Breast Cancer last year. Me with the bangs and My big Brother Mike. In the front row are two of my younger sisters Michelle and Suzanne whom even when they turn 80 we will still call "The Girls".

Memory Lane

Lately I have been connecting with my family and friends not that we don't stay in touch or connected, we do but on Facebook there is a sense of fun and community on a different level.

I had tried it a year or so ago but it didn't really seem like my kind of thing. And then all of my siblings and my TeTante (Aunt to those of you not from Louisiana) and Uncle and cousins and friends were all going on about how much fun they were having with each other. So I crept back over.

I have been having such a blast because they are all posting old pictures some going back to the late 1800's of family and friends and the running commentary on some of the pictures has been hilarious, poignant, bittersweet, heartbreaking, thought provoking and also causes introspection.

The pictures just brought back such good memories of times when life wasn't such a struggle. You know... Youth...

So I thought why not put some of them up here just for fun so that my friends that stop by here can have a chuckle or two or share a memory with me.

I suppose I am also trying to reconnect with ME as well. Trying to find that girl, young woman and woman that managed to manage so well at life.

This is from my Mothers 50th Birthday party. She passed away two years later but we had a blast at her party.

Time is Up

Another stall another delay
The clock stopped ticking

No more flights of fancy