TEMP WORKER I had a job offer the other day. The online dictionaries hire people with pleasant voices to be their “pronouncer” for words that are posted in response to search engine inquiries. I’ve been told that I have a good reading voice by an educated friend of mine. She likes my mid-Atlantic drawl. I … More Temp Worker
Sarah in the kitchen singing, She is prepping tomatoes for canning, Roger rumbles through lugging a crate of veggies, We all have been stripping plants in the garden of late produce, Do you want tea? from Sarah. Yes please, I reply. I’m making black, says Sarah. Oh, good…, from me. Roger rumbles past – carrying … More VISITING FRIENDS DURING HARVEST SEASON AT BLACKFISH CREEK
Mister Ed was a favorite character in a weekly T.V. show during the sixties. Reruns for decades put the opening credits’ theme song into everyone’s conscious forever. The plot contained a ‘talking’ horse Mister Ed. I briefly discussed the song with the bag-boy at Hannaford Supermarket recently and that is how I have arrived here … More A HORSE IS A HORSE OF COURSE OF COURSE
June 14, 2024 Let’s see where this takes us. I’ll say more later as I re-connect with this system.Let me know if you are listening.Peace,g
Early in October on the Merritt Parkway. I left Mystic just a short time ago. The sun is lowering in the west and I drive nearly directly into it. I am going to California to visit people I haven’t seen in years and meet my granddaughters for the first time. Early October of 2012 and … More LARGO
ORCHID I feel sensual while regarding orchids, I want to taste the bud, I want to breathe the air close to the petals, I want to hear waves washing ashore in Carlsbad late at night, When the grunion are running and I am lying atop you. G. M. Goodwin 17 January 2014
The sweetest flesh Falls to earth, The crows of distrust tear at the Corpse, Spilling sweet scented petals, The bones of a fairy-tale dream lie Scattered and bleached under the glare of Real. Women, mothers and sisters, weep for the dead, In truth, for themselves, Men, with no clue, watch in solemn ignorance incapable of … More Death of Love
I have truly enjoyed my time on this wordpress experiment, experience. Those who chose to comment deserve my gratitude and appreciation for what few words you shared. I wish I could have been more technically adept so I would have presented and attended more thoughtfully. I am retiring from ‘wordpress’. My writing will continue and … More Farewell, goodbye, have a good life.
Yesterday, shortly after 6 P.M., son Scot MacKenzie Goodwin passed onto a different place. Scot was a victim of early onset Alzheimer’s Disease. He has been moving from hospital to medical facility to institution for the past year as he lost ground in his struggle to retain whatever level of cognition he could. It has … More Scot MacKenzie Goodwin
ROADSIDE CROSSES New Mexico sanctions the placement of crosses along public highways. The crosses locate the points on earth where loved ones have left us; mostly as the result of traffic accidents. The crosses are typically decorated with plastic flowers and other memorabilia. Crosses placed for children have stuffed toys. The sites marking the placements … More From Seven Years Ago
Playing Fair and Being Kind 