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Aging Warrior

Normally I give a brief introduction the the posts I share on this blog. This one however is so captivating from the moment you start reading that an introduction would be a total waste This was first posted on April 14, 2015 by Author and Speaker Pamela Foster. pamelafosterspeakerwriter.wordpress.com Y esterday I checked Jack into a nursing home. For the first time in the twenty-five years, I cannot care for him and keep him safe. Through all of our adventures together – scuba diving, backpack travel around Asia, dragging a trailer the length of Mexico and parking it under a grass-roofed palapa on the beach, moving to the Republic of Panama with two giant service dogs strapped to our wrists, riding out a hurricane in a cement block room in the Yucatan – through it all, Jack has bulled and laughed and maneuvered his way through some damn tough spots. This time is different. He can no longer bull his way past the effects of the stroke he had four yea

THE MEMORY BOOK

Every now and then a certain blog catches my eye, like this one INNOCENT THOUGHTS OF A GUILTY MAN written by David Anthony  http://davidanthony31.blogspot.co.uk/2015_06_01_archive.html As I read this I found I liked the narrative-cum-prose as I found it as enchanting as the story itself. It is for that reason I have re-blogged it here on BRILLIANT BLOG SHARE. So please feel free to post this onto your own contacts and spread the love! When she left me, she left me with this memory book A collection of happiness clothed in love I torture myself, and peek at how the memories look, She said she made it for me, for me to remember us. It sits in the bottom of my closet, All covered in dirt and clothes, And I wish that I could simply disregard it A simple task it should be, I know. And yet it stays, in the corner of dark places The picture of it reminds me of an Edgar Allen Poe Poem it was like her "Tell Tale Heart" was in the pages And I cou

For their tommorow

As you will no doubt see by the few posts on this blog (and the fact that there are far between) is because I am keeping the standards here very strict. Only those blogs which I find exceptional will appear here. I have known 'Rusty Rimes' as an internet 'friend' for some time. So it is with much pleasure I am posting this one today. I hope you enjoy watching and listening to Rusty's wonderful poem as much as I. You can 'follow' Rusty Rimes' on you tube http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC7V50kyG75PNtzIgVji7TA