Sleeping Memories by W.A.Adams
When I was the king of Araby
And you were the Queen of Cathay
In a silvered ship with gossamer sails
I came and stole you away
To an unknown shore in an uncharted sea
And there at the top of my tower
I carried you up and laid you down
And I showed you all of my powers
We loved till the moon grew pale with envy
And you had no thought but to stay
Till the walls had crumbled to ruin
And the wind blew the dust all away
When I was the King of Araby
And you,
You were the Queen of Cathay
Waiting by W.A.Adams
I heard the wild bird sing last night
and he called for me to follow
But I could not make the choice
tired of waiting
He flew off down the hollow.
And I knew the path he flew
over wild stream and hill
But I could not make the choice
and I am waiting still
Dec 29
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On the wall above my desk hangs a photograph. A picture of a woman I have never met, and probably never will. After many attempts, over several years, I’ve been unable to gain any more information about her, or the circumstances of the photo, than is given in the caption of the picture. So, I deduce what I can […]
I was cooking up the three hundredth bowl of oatmeal for my eighty-four year old mother, when I decided to add the new product that I had discovered in the grocery store.
I took the jar out of the cabinet and scanned the label with increasing satisfaction; folic acid 20%, vitamin E 20%, magnesium 10%, thiamine 15%, phosphorus 10%, zinc 10%.
_________ Wheat Germ-toasted. Boy, she’ll be running laps around the block with this stuff, I thought.
Dishing out a portion of oatmeal, I sprinkled two tbsp. of the miraculous powder over the top and proudly set the bowl on the table.I stepped back in order to better see the look of struck dumb amazement and delight certain to appear on her face.
” Whats this?” I whipped out the jar and set it in front of her.
She tilted her head back to peer through the bottom of her bifocals, slowly mouthed the label ,and said;
“Oh yes, daddy used to buy hundred pound bags of this to feed the hogs and cows.”
Dec 28
About seven or eight miles from my home in Texas, is Interstate 45. It’s unique among the nations interstates in that it is the only highway, with the designation of a Federal Highway System Interstate. that is completely contained within one state. To the north of Dallas I-45 merges into I-75 . Traveling south from Dallas […]
Dec 25
In the twenty some odd years of working in construction, with and for my father, I heard him asked by at least two dozen different customers ” How do you fix a bad foundation?” They usually would enumerate the various methods ” foundation repair ” companies advertised; mud jacking, I-beams driven down to bedrock, wrapping tension […]
I think it’s instructive to remember that when Christ was born in Bethlehem, Judea, the official announcement by Heaven that the greatest event in human history, up to that time, had occurred, was given in a dark field, outside of the cities and towns, to a handful of anonymous shepherds.
While emperors planned, and powerful men and women spun designs for conquest and acquisition; the event that would shape the destiny of all mankind, that would change the face of the entire earth; that would establish forever the point from which time itself would be measured, had played itself out in a forgotten corner of a minor province. And no-one knew except a handful of shepherds.
I’m not certain where shepherds stood on the social scale of Judea, I suspect they were closer to the bottom than the top. But for one glorious night, in an empty field, while all the world slept, they alone knew.
Dec 20
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No one knows what angels look like. There are a wealth of popular images, in movies ,books, and on television. There are songs, plays and paintings, but no one really knows. Why? Because angels usually come in the dark. Why? Because that’s where the people who need them the most usually are. In the dark. In December […]
Dec 18
It seems that the young people in our world have lost the wisdom , or never acquired it , that their mothers and fathers were blessed to have received from their elders , or by bouncing their face off of a brick wall untill the light turned on. I’m thinking in particular of the complex and perilous task of communicating […]
Dec 10
Democrats believe that you should give a man a fish and thereby feed him for a day. This is an all together good and virtuous thing to do. Republicans believe that if you teach a man to fish, it won’t be long before he needs a Bass Boat and motor, and a trailer […]
Dec 9
The most jarring, visceral, scene in a movie I have ever seen, is the first fifteen minutes of the film “Vertical Limit”. A father, son, and daughter are climbing guides leading two customers up one of the tall spires in Monument Valley. The clients are in front, the father next followed by the son then the […]
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