Now & Then & Etc

My place to narrate happenings and thoughts now, or to post from my writing archives experiences then. By nature this site’s writing is rough and exploratory.

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  • We Dance

    We dance—we live, learn, and loveplay and cry Life is a dance—a swirling of people and eventscolors and feelingscreating beautiful togetherness We fall, we risesometimes rough, sometimes flairlife’s lessons learned The beat carries laughter and tearsthe rhythm flows on, a river to the seawe spill into eternity. Be on the floor when the band playsas…

  • Do You Know Your Unifying Principles?

    Do you know who you are and what you want to do in life? If not, or if you only vaguely know, it would benefit you lots in the years to come, especially if you’re young, for you to determine now what is most important to you: your Unifying Principles. Knowing them early, reviewing them…

  • Words of Affirmation

    My sister and I spoke on the phone. It was a routine “how are you doing?” call, and during it she told me she loves me, and I replied I love her. She related how, when we were children, I’d asked her to draw designs on my cassette-tape cases. I lauded the drawings, which made…

  • Write Down Your Dones. . . and Smile.

    Days roll by—for that is life—and each night before I go to bed I think, “What worthwhile did I do today?” I do my day using a to-do list, but what I’ve added to that habit, and which brightens my being, is to write my dones into a calendar notebook at the end of the…