what makes you happy
is rarely the same as what
makes them think you are.

photo: Tracy O

here, we have no need for mirrors;
we are not the introspectors -
only those with fault need bother.
we change the rules, make others follow.

photo: Chuckumentary

we just ask for fish,
but You’d prefer us to learn
how to catch our own.

(Written after reading Heather’s post “Getting What You Ask For“)

photo: Mari’s Photographic Adventure

no tender mercy;
the angel who can’t see me
can’t be moved to care.

photo: kchbrown

Agnes Lucia,
7 pounds, 15 ounces,
born this past wednesday.

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we love homecomings
even more than we hated
to send you away.

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“That’s the trouble with you and me,
we always hit the bottom ‘fore we get set free
- I’m so far down, I’m beginning to breathe.”
- Over the Rhine