Pitching pennies provides pinch per police

Street Corner Society Beckoned to Me

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Radio Plays to My No. 1 Heart’s Desire

     Music touched an emotional chord in me that may have been different from most folks.

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Abraham, Martin & John Live On Within

       Rain pours on me outside, while soft music warms me on the inside. “Abraham, Martin, and John,” the song, plays from this relatively new gadget called a portable, hand-held, transistor radio.

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Guest Post’s Embarrassing Announcement

     What’s the difference between Shame and Embarrassment? Are they joined at the hip? Like twins?

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The shame of it all starts an upward ascent

     Be careful what you wish for. You could get your heart’s desire and wish you had never asked for it in the first place.

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Love Streams in All Good Consciousness

     How do I explain the feelings that have come “over me?” They’re like ocean waves ebbing and flowing in each breath.         Continue reading

College Life Repeats Itself Each Generation

     Sat next to a long hair, skinny, “Hippie” guy at an orientation in a community college yesterday, and felt thrown back to a time years ago, sitting cross-legged on the floor across from a similar fellow wondering what the hell I was doing there.

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Attract Them to a Higher Calling in Life

Prostitute for God.

Is it heresy to suggest such a thing?

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St. Michael Strikes and Heals All at Once

     I felt like Alice falling in the hole after chasing a White Rabbit. But, falling “upwards” defying the laws of Gravity and Rational Sense.

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Act of Contrition Helps Regain My Purity

     Got Blanket Absolution yesterday. And, it felt so good, I became a 12-year-old again. Ready to face the world with a clear conscious and a pure heart.

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I See You for the Very First Time, Don’t I?

  •      I see You more and more each day. All I need do, is look for You. Kinda scrunch up my mind a bit, squint, and let my Self go. Continue reading

I ‘intend’ nothing but positive bestowals

     How do you explain “unexplainable” events?

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Willie, 20 Years Later, I Still Mourn You

      Although you “passed on” after your 17th birthday, you’ll remain alive for me forever. I see you in my dreams. I “feel” your presence as I walk with you, watch you, and hear the footsteps on the steps leading from the dining room to the bedroom upstairs.

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Suffocate? Let go of Control & Open up Self

        Grace suffocated and I retaliated by smashing my ego to help free up her passageway during group meditation this morning.

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Pain Endures from Struggles in a ‘Back’ Life

     The pain feels like someone thrust a spear in my back. That I was in battle. At the city of Troy. Fighting with fellow Greeks for the foolish prize of a minor King’s run-a-way, but lovely, wife, Helen. She with a face that will launch a thousand ships.

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Hawk carries HSPs to their highest ideals

     The hawk glides across the sky, soaring high above us as the first person to notice shouts, “there’s one.” Like children, we stare toward the heavens, at the beautiful blue sky. A normally humid August has graced us with a mild and glorious summer day, blending light breezes and the scent of flowers that drift our way from below the wooden platform we look out from.

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School Boss drives Vietnam Veteran Nuts

Felt I was back in war maneuvering through a mine field called the new educational system yesterday.

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Unexplained ‘Pull’ leading me back Home

     A gentle “pull” manifested in my Life recently. I noticed it last night while driving and wanted no more than to live in each passing moment.

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‘I confess!’ I cut school with Franny O

       I’m going to confess. I played hooky in seventh grade and refused to “squeal” on the kid I stayed out of class with that day.

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Nature Provides Bird’s Eye View of Living

     There’s a true “pecking order” that’s developing in my back yard. And all I have to do is be patient and watch it unfold moment by moment.

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Kabbalah ‘Receiving’ Helps Me in ‘Giving’

          How can I divert pleasure I “receive” into pleasure I can “give?”

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You can’t make Promotions Your Life’s Goal

     You can keep the promotion. Wouldn’t take it, even if offered. Not if I have to make “achievements” my aim, to set a new “goal” in Life.

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“Start Over’ the instant you feel a need to

     Start over. That’s all I gotta do . . . Say it to myself and simply “START OVER!”

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Angels Appear as Earthly Messengers

(This story was created in October 2009 but not published in its entirety until now.)

      It’s just like heaven . . . Being here with you . . . You’re like an Angel. Too good to be true. When You are near me.  My heart skips a beat.  I can hardly stand on. My own two feet.  Because I Love You; I Love You, I Do

     ‘Angel Baby‘. My ‘Angel Baby‘. Oh, Ooh, I Love You, Oh, Ooh, I Do . . .  No One Could Love You . . .  Like I Do!            

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Union Activity Draws This Reporter Away

(Originally Cont’d Oct. 3, 2009, Angels Part V, Angels Appear as Earthly Messengers)

     Career Paths Change Both Here and There

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Misunderstandings Guide Me thru School

(Originally Cont’d Oct. 3, 2009, as Angels Part IV, Angels Appear as Earthly Messengers)

College Major Guided By a Mistake 

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Shared My Music with a Younger Group

(Originally Cont’d from Oct. 3, 2009, as Angels Part III, Angels Appear as Earthly Messengers)

     ‘Oldies‘ Pave Way for My Singing Rock Group

     I got exposed to “Oldies but Goodies” in my late teenage years. That’s when I started to recruit guys my age, none of whom had been exposed to the Black neighborhoods where Jackie Toy and I met others to sing. I introduced them to “oldies” they had never heard of, particularly from their mostly Lilly White AM Radio Stations like WIBG or WIP.

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Plato’s Alegory Calls to Me in a War Zone

Opening to Philosophy in a Bombed-Out Bunker

(Originally Cont’d Oct. 3, 2009, as Angels Part VII, Angels Appear as Earthly Messengers)

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Criminal Attorney Practice Calls Out to Me

Originally Cont’d Oct. 3, 2009, as Angels Part VI, Angels Appear as Earthly Messengers)

   Experience Actually Starts in the Courtroom

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Angel Helps Me to Harmonize in a Group

Angels II (Originally continued on Oct.3, 2009, from Angels, Appear as Earthly Messengers)

   Being In the Moment is Healthy for Everyone

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Concealing & finding self –a life-long effort

     Hello! Anybody here? It sure is dark inside. Like a huge cavern with hardly any light.

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Falling in Love with the Love of Your Life

     Fell head over heels in love the past few weeks. Didn’t want to do it. Had always gotten “hurt” in relationships, knowing from the start they’d come to an end one day. Love seemed to change that way. To peter out. End not with a “bang,” but with a “whimper.”

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Nysiros holds Secrets of Life and Death

     I’ll never know what drove Anthoula to take her own life.

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Angels Re-enter when You’re Open to ‘Em

     I started seeing angels again. No, hold off on the straight jacket, don’t reserve a room at an asylum. I’m not totally crazy. Yet.

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‘Open Your Eyes’ to a Journey of a Lifetime

      The snake slithered along the bed of the forest, winding its way beneath a pine tree. Climbing upwards, it twirled around the trunk, moving ever so slowly, centimeter after centimeter, as it sought the “higher ground” where it could shimmy onto a tree branch and make its way closer to my eye level.

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