Category: the juju bird

Not To Be Dead

“So we dance, we dance so as not to be dead. We do not want that.” — Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man I have had a hard time lately. Such a very hard time… All around me is decay, All around me is heartache. Nothing is as it seems anymore, and anymore, it seems there …

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K, Ready? On Three…

It was this day, this time, three years ago, that Melissa and I were in the hospital, waiting forever in a tiny room to hear the results of unknown discussions about us by unknown peoples in unknown other rooms. Were we going to be rejected from this place with our desired plans further un-planned? Or …

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The Daddy Wheel

Tomorrow is Father’s Day… The subject and word of Father brings up so very much for me, on many levels. I’ve been thinking about this lately… I haven’t spoken to my own father in nearly two years, though he lives only twenty minutes away. A cauldron of past issues and present issues, combined with the …

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My Drum Did Bang

It is undeniably apparent that our physical environment is directly connected to our inner environment, and the energy of both. I spent a good part of yesterday (with my amazing little JuJu helper, of course!) ridding our lives of large, space-taking, yucky crap, dragging it to the curb for Recyclers to score. LOL— I dragged …

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Happy

.   My daughter has to be the sweetest potato on the planet!   I’ve had a pretty difficult time with a variety of things lately, the past few days especially rough…   I came home from work yesterday, and JuJu— who usually yells, “Daddy back home!” and runs to hug me each day— walked …

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