There "r" no short cuts
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness are the fruits of compassion and engagement
Respectable communities
Where ethnicity, gender, age and status are never givens
Tenebrous,tainted, toxic, ******,
Tyrannical, taut, tackless, tumultutous,
Thoughtless,titulary, tempermental, trivial, troubled
No Donald,
America will not be *******

House gone
Spouse broken
Son searching
I watch, listening thru years of seasoned namaste
Memories dismembered, then undone
Let it go
Being must draw from today's agenda
Ladies nite upcoming
....Wait...the camp bus has arrived
Eyes twinkling, *** bellied, picking at my brown bagged lunch
Tasting an easy win at tetherball
Sometimes we choose winning
Later, greet the passerby or not
Opt to live or die

What joy when the rain returns
Dancing so artfully about
Cooling the fire within
Extinguishing our drought ridden trance
Endless beach days, blinding sunsets
5 star vacations in paradise
Cannot rival the long awaited downpour
Quenching
Baptismal
Ashes to seeds
PLEASE... Rain on my parade anytime
See me grow

60...Sixty
Neat little lives
Positioning their perfect wares
Pairings of prime breeds
Ever hopeful of certain outcomes
The grand nuptials and vibrant careers
Offspring to count and coddle
Only a spec home will do
With vehicles that glisten and guzzle
All's well, for now is eternal
Clouds come and go as we stake claim again and once more
Grandchildren flow
As economies wane
Tidy hearths now taut and burdened
A dear one passes
A job erased
A goal undone
Some targets missed
The years set in
Im 60
Have a great day