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Bad Kitty: Chapter 4

(Bad Kitty continues) It wasn’t until she returned from almost three weeks of vacation that she heard anything about her check handiwork… Over dinner, she’d been going on to her friend Dolores about Japan and […]

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Concentration is a Gem II

  Gems: the value of hardness—something to bear in mind.   Also, having light inside There are people gems Cat gems and dog gems: It’s the light inside   One of my favorite aunts loved […]

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Concentration Is a Gem I

A pearl beyond price, and… mostly beyond reach too. The Chinese word yu means both “jade” and “precious stone.”  In ancient China, only the first wife could wear jade.  The second had to content herself […]

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Books

I love books and I see them everywhere I go, much more often than hawks. I also love gems and stones, but until I finish a little piece about them, I am borrowing like a […]

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Hawk III

Frosted over with power What is the weight of death What’s the weight of life Who knows, except that both get lighter— When a hawk circles over. Another close friend just died and hawks are […]

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Hawks II

Hawks’ meaty thighs, pantaloons, beaks, the sharp eyes indented so sharply under their hawk brows– and those talons: what an over-glory of perfection.   The ravishing yellow shagreen toes of Red-tailed Hawks boast bright black […]

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Hawk I

Pray not to Heaven For Heavenly bird Or Heaven may take you At your word. — Stevie Smith Hawks do not slink, cower, praise God, reminisce, forgive, pray, or worry. Hawks preen, determine, kill, dive, […]