Remember the Moon Survives BY BARBARA KINGSOLVER Remember the moon survives, draws herself out crescent-thin, a curved woman. Untouchable, she bends around the shadow that pushes himself against her, and she waits. Remember how you[…]
Tag: adversity
When Two Cars Crash
Sorry for my indecisiveness- this is another personal response to Joy Kogawa’s poem “Where There is A Wall,” but it is not a short story; rather, it is a personal response to an adversity that[…]
Melted Chocolate (Polished Personal)
Melted Chocolate Back then, the water in the wishing well always had a degree of perpetual splendor in the gentle luminescence of daylight, bubbling ever so clear and soundless. He would reach in, trying to[…]
Mon Coeur – Polished Personal
The first day that I can clearly remember in my years as a child was my father’s 41st birthday. It was fall – I remember playing a game with him earlier in the crisp remains[…]
Patterns We Follow and Choices That Enlighten ~ Polished Personal
When grief or hardship assaults us, we as humans fall. In the face of any difficulty, our instincts are to despair, to treat the situation as incurable, and to buy into self-pity. But the human[…]
Polished Personal ~ Colour in a Grey World
I stood there—watching her spin around and around; soaring high above my head, laughter spewing out of her rosy lips and her golden mane being carried by the autumn wind. Her innocent face—so much like[…]