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Pearl Ketover PrilikDr. Pearl Ketover Prilik (PKP)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15506538737806033824noreply@blogger.comBlogger1134125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1819558801520044413.post-34709680763393309912024-03-13T09:05:00.000-07:002024-03-13T09:35:58.313-07:00Tree-dom <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiip3hLffht_4IKUdpxK6fUp9cc9MX7owNLDS-otjT-vyXP0afAUx1U15hHWgwS4czZpQhHWMtyM0JqJY4BfknkOpdUBiz5a4ShbAzGD_ks52FfCLiPX5vSu_GU-r5x4xrU7lDd_j6IzgSbrCzKB7PkU2CCPqIlVO_gSVd6-mc7OJGDu_542FOLHTFmLKwD/s2357/IMG_0911.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1446" data-original-width="2357" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiip3hLffht_4IKUdpxK6fUp9cc9MX7owNLDS-otjT-vyXP0afAUx1U15hHWgwS4czZpQhHWMtyM0JqJY4BfknkOpdUBiz5a4ShbAzGD_ks52FfCLiPX5vSu_GU-r5x4xrU7lDd_j6IzgSbrCzKB7PkU2CCPqIlVO_gSVd6-mc7OJGDu_542FOLHTFmLKwD/w448-h275/IMG_0911.jpeg" width="448" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">Tree-dom <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">Kindergarten chimes - One, Two, Three<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">Climb under our desks away from the windows<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">away from the tall windows where the oak tree branches did sway<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">majestic guardian, leafed or bare, strong limbed through each day <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">Turn your face from the windows teacher shrilly would say – <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">Yet, each time I curled in that<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">silent space – I lifted head over shoulder<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">and did turn my face - smiled at my tree smiling back at me.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">For, it was all quite ridiculous you see – <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">to a five-year-old thinker such as was me -</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">Metal dog tag pressed under clothes against my chest</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">I spent a good time with grownup slants of process <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">Hiding under a desk as a protection from a conflagration <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">that made teachers level voices scatter pitchy and high <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">But, good child that I was, I disobediently peeked, checked on my <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">tree and stayed silent and curled without even a hint of an exasperated sigh. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">Until after a moment or two, we were released to climb out from under <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"> – once again safe, none here torn asunder<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">and there outside just as always was and would be<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">Stood the solid, secure open-arms of my wise and awaiting powerful tree<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">Winking at the foolishness of adults and their blatant pathetic ill-hidden anxiety . <o:p></o:p></p>Dr. Pearl Ketover Prilik (PKP)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15506538737806033824noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1819558801520044413.post-20957648129356933122024-03-07T09:56:00.000-08:002024-03-08T19:20:31.847-08:00Twelve Steps Through Paralytic Existential Depressive Dread <p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt 0.5in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -0.25in; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt 0.5in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -0.25in; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><blockquote><blockquote><img border="0" data-original-height="1886" data-original-width="2074" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvItThFY6WzS8lWAFogq0PxDHlzvf_YKupTRbCLDiIfSWYMX2PhPqNvvUsS9E4-Rrce22FJUnjpd-TooLOWs7CYUUQUk3excaxtyOhEatKvm3v5hLTeX5FHN1x1P5bX2uC5yRN_0GbhnjrEpXz2Dwpz5-U32i3djFIzISPTs6mBCb28-LkAeZTU_H1T1rV/s320/IMG_0877.jpeg" width="320" /></blockquote></blockquote></div><br /><p></p><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt 0.5in; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -0.25in; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt 0.5in; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -0.25in; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Twelve Steps Through Paralytic Existential Depressive <span> </span>Dread </b></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt 0.5in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -0.25in; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> </b></span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b>Count up the years spent and the years left to go</b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span> </span><i>Reflect on what you have done and what you do not yet know<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> </b></span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b>Feel that little scratchy bump on your back and </b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0.5in; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><i><span> </span>Wonder if in that innocent persistence lay your final act<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> <b> </b></span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b>Wake from that dream when they’re lowering you and</b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0.5in; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span><span> </span> </span><i>Ponder -peace in soft cool earth as your soul flew<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Watch the children thin faced and wide eyed silent or screaming </b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0.5in; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><i><span> </span>Shudder at screens and papers and your impotence beaming<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">5<b>.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b></span><b>Recall history- bodies swinging from those trees – crematorium – litany </b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0.5in; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><i><span> </span>Shiver at the same implacable hatred appearing on ceaselessly<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Fall back into the arms of your family, the sweet embrace forever lovingly </b></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -24px;"><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><b> </b></span><i style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">Remember reading poems to still bodies from podiums in chapels with people fuzzy</i></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> </b></span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b>Sit in stillness and listen to your blood thrum in your ears as on play lows and great highs</b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0.5in; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><i><span> </span>Massage icy fingers on your trembling thighs <o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Breathe in to a count and out again in jagged uncertain puff puff after puff </b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0.5in; white-space: normal; widows: auto;"><i><span face="Aptos, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span face="Aptos, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: medium; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px;">Until it is all for heaven's sake enough, enough and enough! </span><span face="Aptos, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0.5in; white-space: normal; widows: auto;"><i><span face="Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"> <b>Review counting the years spent and the years left to go - </b></span><b><o:p style="font-style: normal;"></o:p></b></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0.5in; white-space: normal; widows: auto;"><b><span face="Aptos, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span face="Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;">Reflect on what you have done and what you do </span>not yet know</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0.5in; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="text-indent: 0px;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0.5in; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="text-indent: 0px;"><span>9. </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span>See the falling, screaming bodies, of innocents and evil-doers, guns, scythes, knives, lies, pollution, disinterest, genocide, war, failure to protect, rotting limbs of trees and testimony, rising seas and seizures of plague, creatures innocent curling in natural habitats as corporate jaws approach, see the birds fly in a murmuration of</span><span style="font-size: medium; text-indent: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium; text-indent: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium; text-indent: 0px;">color, watch the snow still sparkle on the highest crest, see the falling, the rising, the killing, the birthing of all creatures in all places on and on and on in brilliant racing images falling one into another piling on another and another and still not quite done -</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt 0.5in; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0.5in; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><i>Know that it shall all end for you and for each and every one </i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0.5in; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span><br /></span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0.5in; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span>10. Feel</span></span></span> the creepy descent of gray heaviness fall as a curtain on a final act three</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0.5in; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11. 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Sit</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"> in stillness …lips dry…heart pounding…mind racing through it all .. and just when you feel you cannot take another instant - just when, just when, just when....</span></b></p><p> </p><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0.5in; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><o:p> <b>THEN.</b>....</o:p></p></blockquote></blockquote><p><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Intone</span><span style="font-size: large;"> “Not Now!"</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Say it clearly and firm - step from the chaos, the dark and the gray </span></b></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">into the hope of the light of life in movement on this a newly dawned day</span></b><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </p></blockquote></blockquote><p style="text-indent: -24px;"> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0.5in; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><o:p></o:p></p><p><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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</style></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 18.4px; text-indent: 0.5in;"><o:p></o:p></p>Dr. Pearl Ketover Prilik (PKP)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15506538737806033824noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1819558801520044413.post-24918354084381190652024-02-28T10:27:00.000-08:002024-02-28T11:48:56.384-08:00It’s not just a cup of tea<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7NCuI9ZNbTscI8x3pslrF9UJNpx5NlstVfgcOLvAi4EjACgemYmDIIr4TxYD2E7P5zHXXzwfhUXGkDQZ8M4RufFyQ6OeuRDZ3vmoaoUpEr1Ekc6hr9RzVpaLqnz_F1nC4_avDNxOI6wXmodc4clTIkwuQ25M5b5i04Xurj00gWQWSIH1I74k6YdoxagR7/s2853/IMG_0840.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1888" data-original-width="2853" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7NCuI9ZNbTscI8x3pslrF9UJNpx5NlstVfgcOLvAi4EjACgemYmDIIr4TxYD2E7P5zHXXzwfhUXGkDQZ8M4RufFyQ6OeuRDZ3vmoaoUpEr1Ekc6hr9RzVpaLqnz_F1nC4_avDNxOI6wXmodc4clTIkwuQ25M5b5i04Xurj00gWQWSIH1I74k6YdoxagR7/s320/IMG_0840.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p> </p><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>It’s not just a cup of tea</i></span> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">steaming swirling in a smooth cup clutched in my hand</span> </p></blockquote><p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">It’s an elixir of hope </span> </p><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">It’s not just the sprinkled stevia swirling sweetly on my lips</span> </p></blockquote><p> <span> </span><span> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">It’s the promise of succor</span></p><p> <i> </i><i><span> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">It's not just a cup of tea</span></i></p><p><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>It's the sip </p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>of luminescent life</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span> </span><span> </span>slipping down</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span> </span><span> </span>my parched throat</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span> </span><span> </span>swelling my soul</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> in <span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">the shimmering sea of now </span></span><br /></span></p><p> <i> </i><i><span> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">It’s not just a cup of tea</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></i></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><i><span> </span><span> </span>It is not just a cup of tea</i></span></p><p> <span> </span><span> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">As I sip the last and set it </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span> </span><span> </span>down with a clink – </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span> </span><span> </span>my hand opens – </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span> </span><span> my </span>fingers unclench</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span> </span><span> the tremulous trembling stills</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span><span> </span><span> breath steadies, eyes clear, </span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span><span> </span><span> heart beats quiet calm .. </span> </span><br /></span></p><p> <i> </i><i><span> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">It is certainly not just a cup of tea</span></i></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span> </span><span> M</span>y mystic magic ministration </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span> </span><span> T</span>here <span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">for</span> the steep and the sipping whenever</span></span></p><p> <span> </span><span> t</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">he fragility of all that it is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">chillingly seeps ....</span></p><p> <span> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p> </p><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p></blockquote>Dr. Pearl Ketover Prilik (PKP)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15506538737806033824noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1819558801520044413.post-52858621227743432702024-02-21T11:04:00.000-08:002024-02-21T11:36:54.137-08:00Color ? <br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv_UJxIBP-BTj37V0seE2XspTDxcjZ06YEPoTD6WOJLyPPA-Q1e5rzKcGYxjYlaQJWPDBoGBYNkNOzqOBlcmNrBDO5Ve7_73An_k6u2amuhTJOE266puNNuwb097ZwtYz5D1bHQgmagYPvJa7OJgblr_uO1-B9CV5fzVQHSgvaOeLXLWHcWKXrDLSVAmWT/s1890/IMG_0800.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1422" data-original-width="1890" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv_UJxIBP-BTj37V0seE2XspTDxcjZ06YEPoTD6WOJLyPPA-Q1e5rzKcGYxjYlaQJWPDBoGBYNkNOzqOBlcmNrBDO5Ve7_73An_k6u2amuhTJOE266puNNuwb097ZwtYz5D1bHQgmagYPvJa7OJgblr_uO1-B9CV5fzVQHSgvaOeLXLWHcWKXrDLSVAmWT/w344-h259/IMG_0800.jpeg" width="344" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Color? </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">why is the sky blue? asks the child</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">is the sky blue? asks the philosopher</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">why is the earth brown? asks the child</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">is the earth brown? queries the scientist</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">in all manner of shades shimmering on</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">the wings of birds in flight, dipping into</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">seas and lakes, streams rippling over</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">rock, toads sitting on lily pads, insects</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">buzzing on fields of flowers, </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">mountain tops and graveyards, </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">infant skin and elders’ hair, </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">conflagrations and quiet meadows, </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">savannahs, and crayons </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">throughout the chaos of this life</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">pulsing with blood, bone and </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">imagination … throughout it all</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">color runs, flies, crawls, seeps,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">bursts, or ... does it? </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">is all a mere inking over the </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">raw lines of existence - yet...</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">should the spectral spectrum of </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">brilliance shared be so – </p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">does it finally fade to black as</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">do we? ...</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Is all tint, but a human construction </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">for this otherwise bland world?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">What is real? What is color? </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Is death the absence of hue ... </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Or...?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Perhaps there shall come a </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">conclusive, cosmic, collaboration </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">of color, a klieg lit nova of luminescent </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">illumination, formerly elusive,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">entirely incomprehensible </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">mimicked by mere mortal imagination - </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">only unlocked with the loosening</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">of physical coil </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">beyond </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">any rainbow</p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>Dr. Pearl Ketover Prilik (PKP)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15506538737806033824noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1819558801520044413.post-51758978351833353282024-02-10T15:16:00.000-08:002024-02-10T15:37:38.266-08:00Safe<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcLLeFZnb3u3eWetmItYdbvM5CoY3MNeTWJcmZ2dunk1S2EUNFtRytF1rw3l-TPOMOYE4NJF8oGT0UdnOELXmvJKudGRPKHERnmrjJf72qmiED5Empa7eI_RKSDdHm3fZTXKPQ9l2Lxmn_JZDmgIbSJFED0277BOhL2ZUmg_ABCZ7c8_adomK4dxJ2jTtY/s960/427834126_10231309485260880_8844060391228709893_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="681" data-original-width="960" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcLLeFZnb3u3eWetmItYdbvM5CoY3MNeTWJcmZ2dunk1S2EUNFtRytF1rw3l-TPOMOYE4NJF8oGT0UdnOELXmvJKudGRPKHERnmrjJf72qmiED5Empa7eI_RKSDdHm3fZTXKPQ9l2Lxmn_JZDmgIbSJFED0277BOhL2ZUmg_ABCZ7c8_adomK4dxJ2jTtY/s320/427834126_10231309485260880_8844060391228709893_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Safe </span></i></p><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p><i><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></i></o:p></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">in the arms of a parent</span></i></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">curled on one’s side</span></i></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">tears wiped with a </span></i></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">cool cloth as stutter</span></i></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">sobs recede ..</span></i></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">breath slowing</span></i></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">breeze gently blowing </span></i></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">the light cover soft </span></i></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">cocooning </span></i></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">in the arms of a parent</span></i></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p><i><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></i></o:p></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>Dr. Pearl Ketover Prilik (PKP)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15506538737806033824noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1819558801520044413.post-3250822705940501692024-01-17T11:43:00.000-08:002024-01-18T13:54:14.382-08:00Water under the bridge <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIwzPQycRarKffsBx7-JsKDObsuaLX0Pb4skIkJfaO5jVMRCpllaAxsskeqsTS7o92IdLfDqCXMcXrshhY1cECxEYoJtupkHdpYu0Be51i7nGyVnsDA_3OUq0R_GN4tDYaUkEPlPmmTPwcgSG4UBk8wsctgp51HkelpnOdlnNjbHb74cVOyaiz5xi1wNXF/s275/images.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIwzPQycRarKffsBx7-JsKDObsuaLX0Pb4skIkJfaO5jVMRCpllaAxsskeqsTS7o92IdLfDqCXMcXrshhY1cECxEYoJtupkHdpYu0Be51i7nGyVnsDA_3OUq0R_GN4tDYaUkEPlPmmTPwcgSG4UBk8wsctgp51HkelpnOdlnNjbHb74cVOyaiz5xi1wNXF/s1600/images.jpeg" width="275" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><i>Water under the bridge </i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">True as you say </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">there is a great deal <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">of water rushing under <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">our bridge<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">Yet, seems to me<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">that as long as we<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">are standing on the<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">bridge looking at<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">the water – <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">as long as we<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">take care <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">neither to fall nor dive in – <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">I believe <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">I believe <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">I still continue to believe - that<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">we can cross to the other side <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">Together. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">The water flowing <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">Sparkling … forward <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">After all. <o:p></o:p></p>Dr. Pearl Ketover Prilik (PKP)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15506538737806033824noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1819558801520044413.post-76313498012576155722024-01-14T10:49:00.000-08:002024-01-14T10:53:44.206-08:00Everlasting <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZGsYk8Ng9LgH0VGxduCouwENoHMtNz6bACzbBYMO3evhHA2Z89Zft1BJRqpROT99SbCSeQMJzzm5XG6PlrmKVV3lCrFenI3a3kFp1LaFT4LweYRbMEohgJ34zbOu03VbiosLSrKLtOOplYljDmDHx00JGITAouLC5-4DKonZ1ucagl_zEgq9_bDGaq6FX/s320/2014-05-10%2018.47.01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZGsYk8Ng9LgH0VGxduCouwENoHMtNz6bACzbBYMO3evhHA2Z89Zft1BJRqpROT99SbCSeQMJzzm5XG6PlrmKVV3lCrFenI3a3kFp1LaFT4LweYRbMEohgJ34zbOu03VbiosLSrKLtOOplYljDmDHx00JGITAouLC5-4DKonZ1ucagl_zEgq9_bDGaq6FX/s1600/2014-05-10%2018.47.01.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></div><b><br /><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;"><br /></span></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">Everlasting <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">She was twenty he twenty-two new wedding bands on fingers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">to <i>the islands</i> they flew <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">Landed and she entranced pulled into irresistible dance after a day or <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">two in her soul a certainty knew … she called home:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;"><u>Bride to her father </u><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">Hi Daddy, yes all is well – I need to talk to you<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">Things are not just okay – they are fantastic <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">As soon as I stepped off plane it felt like I was home <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">we’re going to stay <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">A second or two ticked by frangipani air <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">sweet and heavy drifted in from the open veranda<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">there she sat on the edge of the bed - a stream of hotel <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">AC lifted her just from the beach- showered hair – <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">she took a sip of her frozen drink – waiting for him to think -<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">his answer came swift and fast – <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">its portent intended and would everlast<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">“Baby, said he, is there a cemetery in town?”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">Yes right in the center down <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">“When you hang up go there and take a walk around inhale deep and see<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">it comes awfully fast - follow your dream and be .. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">I love you”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">Her heart swelled –breath caught, tears fell<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">To be understood and loved so true, so deep and well<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">By a father who could let her go <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">Though the decision had to be a shock you know. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;"><i><u>Groom to his mother </u></i><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">Mom, Hi …<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">Uh , fine, yep having a good time<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">Uh, Ma we figured maybe – Uh we’re going to stay<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">The receiver drops<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">“No No No … No way! <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">Hang the sheets on the mirrors my son is dead to me “ *<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">Her newly minted father-in-law picked up the conversation -<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">“Your mother is upset she thought you were just on vacation<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">Take care of yourself you hear<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">Goodbye call and ask for yourself it’s long distance the cost is dear” **<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">She could hear the wailing as he hung up the phone<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">Lit a cigarette, poured a drink, picked up a towel and walked out alone <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">She understood the love thrumming in both those calls <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">the winds of support the wails of pain <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">It all washes over her, warm and refreshed time and time again <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">Parenthood -Love – Life - all right there…. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;">Spilling, sparkling, in Caribbean air <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: AppleSystemUIFont; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332px;">*A Jewish tradition of mourning included covering mirrors with sheets<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332px;">** In the days long prior to cell-phones when long distances rates exorbitant for many – some devised a method of letting a caring party know of an arrival by calling ‘collect’ and asking for oneself. <o:p></o:p></span></p>Dr. Pearl Ketover Prilik (PKP)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15506538737806033824noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1819558801520044413.post-21710612335543931512023-12-07T12:07:00.000-08:002023-12-07T12:16:21.950-08:00I think it is all in that tree<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjakD7nhDxABlAF2NOsHCpABTam3aZWXaSwOdTEwURqmv5gxVionHWeY9JgMSbJIh6-G0T1B5Pq5cfusqUpvtaqmF9yCiIXxvauH_IRvvdZihe5gCykp5ess10BMgcule5etXNbnCUrUOnpMM-ioGC9rdIfoYwGwGTAln_qw3VHiwnM8JIG70krTImgJ7OC/s2420/IMG_0196.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1712" data-original-width="2420" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjakD7nhDxABlAF2NOsHCpABTam3aZWXaSwOdTEwURqmv5gxVionHWeY9JgMSbJIh6-G0T1B5Pq5cfusqUpvtaqmF9yCiIXxvauH_IRvvdZihe5gCykp5ess10BMgcule5etXNbnCUrUOnpMM-ioGC9rdIfoYwGwGTAln_qw3VHiwnM8JIG70krTImgJ7OC/s320/IMG_0196.heic" width="320" /></a></div><br /><i><br /></i><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>I think…<o:p></o:p></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">I think back <o:p></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">sun dappling through wafting<o:p></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">willow weeping - boughs over us,<o:p></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">Father and daughter<o:p></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>I shall never see</i> …<o:p></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">the grass cool beneath<o:p></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">our backs – breath<o:p></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">easy and safe-<o:p></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>A poem<o:p></o:p></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">Written in the air<o:p></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>Lovely as a tree<o:p></o:p></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">Held in my forest<o:p></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">of forever memory<o:p></o:p></p>Dr. Pearl Ketover Prilik (PKP)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15506538737806033824noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1819558801520044413.post-35830612769598519582023-11-29T11:46:00.000-08:002023-12-11T08:05:39.607-08:00Once I wore armbands and marched with flowers in my hair - <p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><br /></p><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRB5QGYzLdfYMAYQMqoD1NKqvDF8PuO0J4t8fhWNazf8PhMMBfXPp2vpsKF54lN11mB3kdAIw57o11heyOC5a3jZcRF4vBcMg6rKEyWbjEYRBHnAntdutofeQSY8v-qXwlJ3PSAcpoqIfNpjucr1KhtBVLt3pP9ARr3sQJXvSpsZO4fa_oynXPiBr-Th2j/s2116/IMG_0147.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2015" data-original-width="2116" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRB5QGYzLdfYMAYQMqoD1NKqvDF8PuO0J4t8fhWNazf8PhMMBfXPp2vpsKF54lN11mB3kdAIw57o11heyOC5a3jZcRF4vBcMg6rKEyWbjEYRBHnAntdutofeQSY8v-qXwlJ3PSAcpoqIfNpjucr1KhtBVLt3pP9ARr3sQJXvSpsZO4fa_oynXPiBr-Th2j/w493-h400/IMG_0147.jpeg" width="493" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;"><br /> </span><p></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">Once I wore armbands and marched with flowers in my hair</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">Left the battle-ground tearing the nation and traveled to an island far from the hatred</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">sputum streets thronging there - </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">Left my armbands, kept my flowers – found a place where there was pure treasure in simply living the hours –<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">Possessions were few and completely unnecessary when crystal waters flowed and there was gentle harmony -<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">Where I could in gentle frangipani breezes listen aware <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">nod Bon voyage to other materialistic far off voices running the treadmill to nowhere –<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">I yearned for the peace, for the universal kindness connection and believed with all<i></i>my heart it would come to pass – that I could step out and into a worldly nirvana and without guilt let the years pass –<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">I inhaled sheer beauty each day, taught bright eyed little children their letters and numbers, bore a child of my own, sailed on boats, talked of the world through the night <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">with those back from ‘Nam and those who had refused an unjust fight.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">Once I wore armbands and marched with flowers in my hair<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">believed, in a new world order seeded, ready to blossom with care<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">It never occurred to me that once this movement danced and sang in ardent passion as one glorious teeming mass. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">All hues and beliefs marched, loved and lived in ardent certainty that we had breeched the stultifying morass . </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">The beat went on and on and on nothing, absolutely nothing seemed out of scope. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">We brought wars abroad and home to a halt, everything seemed possible with this power of hope - </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">and as all transpired and we rose above fallen and slain – </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">burgeoned by new optimism, believed in all that the entire planet would gain. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">All the while of this time we listened, and respected the clarion call of Mother Earth – </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">it never, ever, for an instant occurred to me that any of this could spin in reverse.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">Now –<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">Many decades have flown and I am beyond all conceits - fully grown -the proverbial flowers have faded, dried and in the wind blown – </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">there is nothing as sad, depressing and desperate as aging in place – </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">when there seems little hope sparkling on the horizon for this too often inhuman race – <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">Too many overfed, privileged, greedy, and such, others struggling starving, the continuum vast and wide, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">Horrors spreading as a bloody overall haze, but worse, even worse than all horrors is this heinous malaise<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">The malaise that accompanies the grim reaper calmly irrevocably counting out our days with a smile that is cold. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36);">We are old. We are old. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36);"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">Revolutions need the power of belief – need stable institutions against which to rail – </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">we stand on unsteady limbs in the tarnish of age that is no longer gold </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">too much that glittered steady in a state of declining or absolute fail– </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">No, this age no longer gold we sputter and cannot find the words to inspire ourselves or the young -with the tales once told – of a time when belief in each other was strong – </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">in the power of the people and the future in each song.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">And yet, and yet through this fog of grim, dim, hopeless carnage and ache –</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">there are those crumbs of joy that still remain one day when the soul screams in hunger for pleasure to take.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">And yet, and yet, moving out, and above, soaring from perspective on high, this may very well be a time when the poison of hatred toxic and putrid runs through the lands and eventually runs dry. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">Perhaps, if we rise, far beyond our elusive, impossible, dreams of individual change, we will see that the seas rising, the bergs melting, the temperatures, quakes, tsunamis, all sorts of catastrophic things are simply the water pounding the rock<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">The rock that is stuck in our throats and our hearts, the rock </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">that seems to be an individual and global immovable block- </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">but perhaps it is true – in a beat of the sand and sea </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">that this revolution is a question of evolution whirling about us, confusing, us, into thinking that rapid change we shall see come to be. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">In the beat of the sand and the sea and all that shines through darkness – we are but a speck of stardust - but stardust collected illumes the darkness shooting light through - <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">whether we shall see the ultimate cosmic revolution is beyond all we can possibly know. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">All we can grasp with both arms, a full heart and soul is that ..<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">We are the wave<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">We are the flow<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">and as Belafonte sang long ago </span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;">... soon the rock must go -<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #202124; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #0f0f0f; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Harry Belafonte - Paradise in Gazankulu</span></span></i><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></p>Dr. Pearl Ketover Prilik (PKP)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15506538737806033824noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1819558801520044413.post-52921458873649683422023-11-25T11:10:00.000-08:002023-11-25T11:10:46.803-08:00Swing low sweet chariot<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-NfkflN6Zw8KWRL_QNOSjqwTFpVLSKPPKNolng8jxvXipIJcYk49F7UjbbzY_rYUzeHIoSSi7LA95BDxPtDB3iBaMwZLB6Awb0HMZo8xbXXjzcAn5DVwWL1Q-4yX5_4XCyHufJRAOS2RnUx7QBszK0NpjIshJor-UULFWa42AJEVvKSv7RcRRsruebW52/s960/IMG_0101.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="713" data-original-width="960" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-NfkflN6Zw8KWRL_QNOSjqwTFpVLSKPPKNolng8jxvXipIJcYk49F7UjbbzY_rYUzeHIoSSi7LA95BDxPtDB3iBaMwZLB6Awb0HMZo8xbXXjzcAn5DVwWL1Q-4yX5_4XCyHufJRAOS2RnUx7QBszK0NpjIshJor-UULFWa42AJEVvKSv7RcRRsruebW52/s320/IMG_0101.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b>Swing low sweet chariot<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i>Swing low sweet chariot -<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">at three my father sang <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">the words to me and soon<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">I sang with him, his large<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">basso velvet voice and my <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">little one merged together <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">echoing off the tiles at bubble<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">bathtime – or in our tiny living <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">room, wherever the mood to <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">sing struck him, and I his<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">willing duet partner de-<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">lighted to fill my lungs<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">and revel in the fill of <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">words in the air – the<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">thrum of some sort of<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">big feeling I could not name<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">in my chest<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i>Swing low sweet chariot <o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i>Comin’ for to carry me home<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i>A band of angels comin’ for to me <o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i>Comin’ for to carry me home <o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">As a teen we still sang together<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">all sorts of show tunes ….<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Carousel and Porgy and Bess – <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">that sort of thing and we were<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">in my memory quite good together<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">belting out in full voice <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i>I looked over Jordan <o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i>And what did I see <o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i>Comin’ for to carry me home<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i>A band of angels comin’ after me<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">We never stopped singing that song – <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Though time and geography grew –<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">college came and I went, a too early <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">marriage and some years lived in the<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">bliss of the Virgin Islands - <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Where, there, in the shower – <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">in the evening at sunset –alone or<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">later dancing with the infant son<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">I bore, I sang the familiar words<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i>Swing low, sweet chariot <o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Somewhere I knew he was singing too <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i>Comin’ for to carry me home<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i>A band of angels comin’ for to me </i><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">And one hot day years later on that<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">forever marked, shimmered August<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">afternoon – sunlight pouring over<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">him as he lay shivering in the heat<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">I pulled the puffed white duvet up <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">to his neck, smoothed cologne in his <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">black hair shot, watched the sun glint<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">on his threaded strands of platinum – <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">oxygen hummed in the corner – as I <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">sat on his bed and sang as he whispered ….<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i>Sweet low, sweet chariot <o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i>Coming for to carry me home <o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i>A band of angels comin’ for to me<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i>Comin’ for to carry me home<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">His eyes closed, his lips cracked<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">dry – but still in that quiet room – <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">in those last days, each time I sang, <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">and sang, and sang, over and over <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">and over again -<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i>Swing low, sweet chariot<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i>Comin’ for to carry me home ..<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Each time, I knew that from <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">the beginning he had taught<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">me, had scripted his leave-<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">taking, softened his ending with –<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i>A band of angels comin’ for to me <o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">As he was carried away with song<o:p></o:p></p>Dr. Pearl Ketover Prilik (PKP)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15506538737806033824noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1819558801520044413.post-89582545725747421142023-11-22T10:48:00.000-08:002023-11-22T11:13:32.579-08:00Tomorrow Repast <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMwPBy2siR10Go9ySSTrFix3h-xkFuXsQMShIZxH9xFCZZZgllaVNH-rQ79njFWNDpLP4U_1H2HokLKM43y6aFSKPnjO2jx5V9wb6vGAJCvp05vluQVXcDEebjqTiUaEzJlMEx80Qolg8ad1kTCl7BLzNh1Fl-Z2qsZju2O5_4zsCvupAA9BnWEUABfVJc/s5037/IMG_0010.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3847" data-original-width="5037" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMwPBy2siR10Go9ySSTrFix3h-xkFuXsQMShIZxH9xFCZZZgllaVNH-rQ79njFWNDpLP4U_1H2HokLKM43y6aFSKPnjO2jx5V9wb6vGAJCvp05vluQVXcDEebjqTiUaEzJlMEx80Qolg8ad1kTCl7BLzNh1Fl-Z2qsZju2O5_4zsCvupAA9BnWEUABfVJc/w436-h304/IMG_0010.jpeg" width="436" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB1moury6y2muI2zXgm6HZCSkLqXLww2NADGv4Nfl_V4mFNgoU5pinCYqIjvmfrEaQQ3d-jLm97WbwQ4Lk0nMi4XVoMv3XB63bl6M70ZVdQnSJI5qync5E_v1tKm2LU4Ml39KkbUsl5xNkiVBjdTOItRAjRIokLYnZOFUUyqpbY5d88BS0UvZb-NUGc4A4/s4032/IMG_2161.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Tomorrow Repast <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The tablecloth lifts, white and spotless<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">floats down on the table she sets <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">with burnt orange napkins rolled and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">set in umber holders – white pottery<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">and clear crystal tumblers at each place<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">A vase of autumnal leaves - crisp vermillion <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">mimic the three trees outside the front<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">window – sunlight streams through sky-<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">lights - Tomorrow is the day – <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">of thanks – of gratitude – for all the <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">tragedies that have not befallen – <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">for the privilege unknown to others –<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">for all that has not been taken – as others<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">have lost forever more – she strains to<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">fill her inner cup with the gratitude of what<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">she has not had to endure – and yet –and yet -<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">A random melancholy thought falls over <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">her as she surveys the gleaming floor –<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">inhales the good smells that the cleaners<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">have left – Yes, tomorrow is the day – the <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">table is nearly set – yet, that thought floats<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">through again – perhaps – she muses she shall <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Place photographs of all once there – place them<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Here, where they sat at each empty chair –<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Remember the clink of glasses the passing of <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">food- the round about the table thanks given<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The laughter, the love, the talk, oh the talk, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">tumbling like a water-fall into a clear stream <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Yes, perhaps she shall place a photograph at each <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">empty chair and fill the space with something<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">beyond misty memory – as they sit down <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">She and husband <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">passing sweet potatoes, and tradition - <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">smiling through the succulent sorrow of <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">tomorrow. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Gratitude must shine<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">for this<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">not small<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">wonder of<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">love and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">largesse<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">for what is-<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">in mystic memory<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">of all that is not. </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Dr. Pearl Ketover Prilik (PKP)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15506538737806033824noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1819558801520044413.post-30861858261784302462023-11-17T09:29:00.000-08:002023-11-17T10:08:02.104-08:00I love <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji75Hdj5zT8XqV-lrDNT9ido9m3InFaRobIAdeEBhz3JB9vYwbNMlSQQPBIdubMN76ObSSRoBGAQZmuzScqoRKHHHGtY1SjiVant1PT4MQcJ0oNpVdTwBo3GRlmKiL1wdEk9CrB8fYOY4rrfPkIZ8CVE4wkDplVbDOBCf7axWN5AStiGRq_4TFA37A-e-c/s348/HEARTS%20Unknown.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="145" data-original-width="348" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji75Hdj5zT8XqV-lrDNT9ido9m3InFaRobIAdeEBhz3JB9vYwbNMlSQQPBIdubMN76ObSSRoBGAQZmuzScqoRKHHHGtY1SjiVant1PT4MQcJ0oNpVdTwBo3GRlmKiL1wdEk9CrB8fYOY4rrfPkIZ8CVE4wkDplVbDOBCf7axWN5AStiGRq_4TFA37A-e-c/s320/HEARTS%20Unknown.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>I’m still hearing the song 🎶 🎶 thank you Tom Hall ❤️<br /><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">I love …<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">I love crisp white sheets<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Strangers smiles when we greet<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Rippling water on rocks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">And socks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">I love goslings in a row<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">First fall of flaky snow<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Quick crowds on cobbled streets<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">And seats<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">And I love you too<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">I love willows in the breeze<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Tiny children who say please<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Sleep poured in vivid dreams<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">And streams<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">I love tiny infant sighs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Movie romance sighs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Murmuration in the sky<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">And pie<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">And I love you too<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">I love dark coffee in a mug<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Happy hard hugs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Cream on strawberries<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">And ferrys<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">I love men when they cry<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">A baby’s first cry<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Concertos played loud<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">and clouds <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">I love a world without strife<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Expressing passion throughout life<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">The wonders of agape <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">And grapes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">And I love you too…..<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">I love this prompt so very much<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">I could reach out and touch <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">It’s made me so happy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">and Mary<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">And of course…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">I love….. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">pomegranates<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">owls<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">egrets<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">trees<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">roses<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">yams<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>Dr. Pearl Ketover Prilik (PKP)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15506538737806033824noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1819558801520044413.post-52291748921130171272023-11-08T11:13:00.007-08:002023-11-08T14:15:34.788-08:00Rat Run <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTLWfvP_Osql1u4tzsLVNnjOBXJqquQkjTmA35YSKP6YQkgtG9SpdzGoRe_-QjkQ0WT-jjxGfS0f8jC4Iz2BTeKjj0aFz5tG89vWvKktTyVi_aAqNXS96Hd_LJiniTmLLaGHJvSwG42enovlxIYgDUps8pcHkBP62R-6Opw8MYFIKbTRP4PlYbgvV9NVRz/s960/BEACH%20399025222_10230883252685332_1857206811630056378_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>my veins – thoughts run<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>rampant and distill - from<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>the world ravaged, to<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>warring atrocities, to <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>political immorality – <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>on and on and on <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>running this rampant<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>rat in my cranium <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>racing backwards to<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>historical horror and<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>finally clawing with <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>tiny razor talons into<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>the undeniable future<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>terror thrums throughout-<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>mental illness? – this anxiety,<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>this terror of tomorrow? – <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Perhaps, more than a small dose – </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Perhaps more an <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>overdose of reality - <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Reality streaming, screaming<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>in years that will not be<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>denied, nor distracted,<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>nor substracted, - </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>If I place my years upon any</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>object, take your pick – <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>I shall gasp at its fortitude –<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>call it by its righteous name- <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Old – If I place my years upon<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>a sentient creature I shall bring<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>it a chair – if an object I shall <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>handle with cautious care – <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>and all the grand and undeniable<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>sing operatically, discordantly, <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>chaotically, in deafening cacophony<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>as the rat runs rampant raging nonsense-<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>nibbling – gnawing, obsessing over <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>this or that - a new phone – <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>a color choice – a letter to be written <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>or sent – the roundness of a belly once flat – </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>errant hairs sprouting indignity in my nose –</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>I breathe – Slow inhales to counts of three of four,</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Long exhales to counts of four or six or.... </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>and then ...</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b> </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>For an instant the rat stops<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>scurrying - the morning is at<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>peace – Sun streams newly <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>risen bright on my white duvet -<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>I snuggle in the sheets and think<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b> </b></span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>They say we come from stardust<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>and I beg that it shall be to <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>stardust I shall return- a bright speck<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>over the ocean of time – sparkling <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>ever more. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b> </b></span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>For now I pull the covers<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>around my shoulders and exhale<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>into the brief ceasefire of shudder –<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>having fed the rat well and full. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>The sea, the song of seagulls, <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>The whoosh of chilled seagrass – <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>The glorious transformed sand shimmers, <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>languorously stretches opened arms to me.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Beckoning<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Rise</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Come<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Cleansed <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Simply</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Be. </b></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Dr. Pearl Ketover Prilik (PKP)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15506538737806033824noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1819558801520044413.post-18058661935739646942023-11-01T11:16:00.008-07:002023-11-01T14:04:48.112-07:00It moves<br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzpLC8S_RH6GNwtghHae1UYzzLT4N2QsL-80n9SkqhOoXZMTUn5Y5OOHfF_D7B5TLL_YTTbjth-3KYNlKoUr-0FLwD6vRAPmQkOy9Brlt7LORvAnwQcL1PvM2VmR3G-vKPGED-dXq2LO_K9AvgntKheeDaD0faVGw2cwV3gBP3Bl-74cKI8CbILVZNaopG/s960/house%20398966780_10230853990593798_5943319097958511565_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9NWpQCXCGZE12lqEDCkNLgDysh9ySHv9FLDUMUYbu768TDJwLs6ACOzaBqg47xpeoJ6TqE8zufCKh9BWhSEyjVZ884ZvCgj2kEFG9Iq_mu2ubyM3IMWLEYZbzBRQBkJ8E8bq4O9uR7l-pTbgs9hIzv3RRulT-SG7nPK2bTwtbKuZtGWEZMEOSqPmBngXT/s960/IMG_2609.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9NWpQCXCGZE12lqEDCkNLgDysh9ySHv9FLDUMUYbu768TDJwLs6ACOzaBqg47xpeoJ6TqE8zufCKh9BWhSEyjVZ884ZvCgj2kEFG9Iq_mu2ubyM3IMWLEYZbzBRQBkJ8E8bq4O9uR7l-pTbgs9hIzv3RRulT-SG7nPK2bTwtbKuZtGWEZMEOSqPmBngXT/s320/IMG_2609.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">It moves <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">I never planned to live here<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Dragged an unwilling hostage<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">By a hostile hard partner -<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Carried from my paradise of heart, visage and soul<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">To this soul-lesss suburb – <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Only temporarily – I promised myself but<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Knew that I lied as my feet were <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Shackled to the treadmill that would <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Move – <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Move –<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Move –<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Move me along to an unrecognizable me<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">I loosed myself from the partner – but stayed <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">In that empty house – with a small child - <br />I danced on bare wooden floors and hung<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Flower baskets in macrame and taught school <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">And schooled myself and wrote and passed the<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Time – and somewhere along the way found love<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">As life moved -moved – moved<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Through children and passion, family dinners – <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Laughter, love, and loss, disappointments and <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Unexpected pleasures – all held in the patina <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Of this wood floor shining under my feet <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">The click of the dice against one another brought these<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Unforeseen pleasures, the drive to return, to move, to go <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Melted in the years flying as a murmuration swirling in the<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Memory of all that came to be in this temporary house<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">That grew into a home – this lifetime lived together ….<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">I stare at the tree in the back garden – planted as a stick<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Carried from the marsh by a new husband and a young son<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Stare at its trunk wider that even the largest arms could never span<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">And look up through the skylights and vaulted ceilings at the leaves<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Crisp and falling as Autumn snow and somehow – dragged from the<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Sanctuary of frangipani and Caribbean blue – unshackled I stare back<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">In amazement and forward with fear of the inevitable move – hugging<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">My home – hearing the voices of all that transpired and willing it to stay as<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">It moves<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">It moves<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">It moves <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>Dr. Pearl Ketover Prilik (PKP)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15506538737806033824noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1819558801520044413.post-32977899902295091452023-10-25T10:52:00.011-07:002023-10-25T11:17:11.982-07:00Ode to the Banana<br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmDUIXkwm60_KWTo-Dqu7gIw6YC_F4aFFmGChQm3wEy-l1LlUB35dVMfgnOhAtgoeTCB-EBNyq-3S6QVystxi0XjmKCL4Y3vV5JKiwFxwujC8bQHqp1X-nOIHtoQq5ylW5U2SN5ABsg21HTeVAqDPYRBflK8WwPA2WeZw8W-EVKtxZibN93Dz4eiR8cIhV/s3094/IMG_2114.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1657" data-original-width="3094" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmDUIXkwm60_KWTo-Dqu7gIw6YC_F4aFFmGChQm3wEy-l1LlUB35dVMfgnOhAtgoeTCB-EBNyq-3S6QVystxi0XjmKCL4Y3vV5JKiwFxwujC8bQHqp1X-nOIHtoQq5ylW5U2SN5ABsg21HTeVAqDPYRBflK8WwPA2WeZw8W-EVKtxZibN93Dz4eiR8cIhV/w375-h259/IMG_2114.jpg" width="375" /></a></div></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Oh Banana - <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">presenting yourself in your own sunshined<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">wrapper – hanging in a comraderied bunch<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">or torn to single-hood on granite countertop or </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">a ragged hungry hand – throughout the world -</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Oh Banana - centerpiece of countless simple </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">humor through ages –illustration of all that is </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">sweet and softly velvet when revealed… </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Oh complicated, under-rated - majestic Banana - </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">from infant mash –to icy daquiri- to show-girl </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">headpiece - sexual aid or assist – on and on </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">and on whirling in use and taste and wonder</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">whirling your way even into a last gummed meal –</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">You Underated - Complicated - Simple - Sensuous - Delight-</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Full - Grand Banana perfume the spectrum of life – echoing<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">the wildness of verdant wet jungle palms watching us with <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">a slick wink –<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">as we slip and slide<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">along with you </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Dr. Pearl Ketover Prilik (PKP)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15506538737806033824noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1819558801520044413.post-69720337076256695922023-10-18T11:00:00.005-07:002023-10-18T11:33:43.442-07:00Secret Harbor <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_z9z1UpdGHiGu9lL3ZoGwUZjIn6G_l-Y-Bb0ngpI2-HtGWOHlW_GlXSPZ0h_m_Lxvpmdx2pKyTqr4LGwfWk4kxkO9Pm4To3w0pM5tXNrkqUTTqwiaqchb0-bF3ytxMysEOLP3IKTqWcyaTNBcAz2QwVq-y1iNbErjrtEmCU2_hMIp7UMa9Xtcd16A9yLO/s1280/Beach%201.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">and frangipani air – hammocks cradling<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">in air honeyed on the tongue – a lulling<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">born of gentle lapping waters on white<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">sand … the laughter of a child far away<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">in the distance … <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I begin to write -<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Seeing the white washed stucco – the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">dripping arbors of bougainvillea and the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">flaming crimson of bowing flamboyant<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">trees – a banana daiquiri cold in my relaxed <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">hand – I begin to write and it is obliterated<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">by the Hotel Hamas … and I yearn to gather<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">the mystic magic of years of peace felt in <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">this getaway … gather it into mortar and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">brick and build a hotel for Hamas and all<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">terrorists – where through the enchanted<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">illumed sacred something or other hatred<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">will melt in the heat of the Caribbean sun<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">and terror will turn on the tongue to sweet<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">mango and papaya and pineapple and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">faces soften as all sway sleepy in hammocks <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">hatred washed away in the crystal waters of<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">love…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I begin to write of Secret Harbor, my sanctuary -<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">for so many years and finish with this fervent <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">dream that all nightmares of the soul end … <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">that the secret of peace shall no longer be held <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">and harbored but <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">freed at last…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">for all… </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Dr. Pearl Ketover Prilik (PKP)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15506538737806033824noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1819558801520044413.post-31228760956580332272023-10-11T11:22:00.006-07:002023-10-11T11:35:11.299-07:00What's Going On? Indeed! - Neshama / Clinging to Gratitude<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Horror <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh0sJ2xk0heWxerTDD-uciOEQ1P0gcwI6CNWx9puJxhCjKU7SHOR13MHKm7z4rQbHgSL6Ch8NNL5JLg4vtRFKDFz2hOYsULXfEBWwBDz5PNX0BYexSapU8ncHHJbU678oqEGA6kYH5u0UrM5CbU68iHMRV-IhmPy_uMZ4OQ4Dvk50Px_LUSo9BhezZ7H5w/s1000/WAR%20.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="1000" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh0sJ2xk0heWxerTDD-uciOEQ1P0gcwI6CNWx9puJxhCjKU7SHOR13MHKm7z4rQbHgSL6Ch8NNL5JLg4vtRFKDFz2hOYsULXfEBWwBDz5PNX0BYexSapU8ncHHJbU678oqEGA6kYH5u0UrM5CbU68iHMRV-IhmPy_uMZ4OQ4Dvk50Px_LUSo9BhezZ7H5w/w513-h275/WAR%20.jpeg" width="513" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Clinging to Gratitude </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrmniQpSeb3q5OylZbJqFTDdiP1m13X60n6Xg8s2Q9JZ9sj5t6EkGirIsd3hQcT6iHgZIgq0vkY5E52jAjlp8XpKTUvebbXEC3y7PLzqEVP-9hoiAASMPomjZlTCRvoYplFv1hT8diXNJLkU9v89mRouGrBmCkPIQq6aj2wE_xS19CkP7hl6_83zELRzSd/s320/gratitude%203.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="320" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrmniQpSeb3q5OylZbJqFTDdiP1m13X60n6Xg8s2Q9JZ9sj5t6EkGirIsd3hQcT6iHgZIgq0vkY5E52jAjlp8XpKTUvebbXEC3y7PLzqEVP-9hoiAASMPomjZlTCRvoYplFv1hT8diXNJLkU9v89mRouGrBmCkPIQq6aj2wE_xS19CkP7hl6_83zELRzSd/w165-h160/gratitude%203.jpg" width="165" /></a></div><br /></span></div><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /> </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">This poem was written as the horror in Ukraine unfolded and now today<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">another day, and new unimaginable horrors …and I cling to the gratitude<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">of neshama, which as I understand it, in Judaism, is the concept of the <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">beginning and essence of life and the soul itself and therefore somewhat<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">appropriate for the current nightmare in Israel as I….<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Cling with gratitude and great gulping breaths, calming my horrified eyes<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Trying to slow my anxious heart, and trembling fingers -<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Grateful<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">I breathe fill my lungs, fill my stunned self with self-serving<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Gratitude <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">for my supreme, unguaranteed privilege of safety<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">as with deep quavering breaths – I type in a quiet<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">room where faint bird song drifts through the window. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">NESHAMA - UKRAINE <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Neshama - Neshama <i>- breath of life - sacred soul ... <o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">sit in my bed at night - in the dawn of early morning<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">this helpless cheer-leader - pounding sunflower <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">pom poms - poems and pretty pictures -illuming my <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">unadulterated incompetence to truly assist - with each<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">breath - my shame - inhaled - my safe existence exhaled <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">as I sit - watching, watching, the soul of freedom furl<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">manifested in streets - one particled part of this entire <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">watching world who gather and cheer - some as simple<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">spectators at a novel televised event -this watching world <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">that sends a bit of support here and there as men learn <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">weapons and kiss loved ones off – <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">as mothers craft molotovs - babes at breast – <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">take arms or flight away - in the cold, cold -<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">smiling for children, tears flicked off tired eyes- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">as a singular voice calm and measured rises above –<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">rises in a clarion call to all to come and join in protecting freedom sacrosanct - <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">calls in unwavering passion –<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Neshama manifested – <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">in a leader in a people – <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">as the world watches - and watches and watches –<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Neshama - Neshama -soul of breath - of life - <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">We are one - We are one breath - <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">I cringe in my privilege far far <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">away - push the button on my <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">coffee maker -return to <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">the couch along with millions<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">of others to watch - to watch - <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Nesahama - Neshama <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">soul of humanity -<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">my breath held <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">witness to <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Glory -<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">unstoppable <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Neshama –<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Breath<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Soul <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Life <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>Dr. Pearl Ketover Prilik (PKP)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15506538737806033824noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1819558801520044413.post-21348936953165535042023-10-05T19:45:00.006-07:002023-10-05T20:09:14.755-07:00Once <p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCDJw0XwisJrh7GlXuCw5Z1nNkgwwV0ZmSQyFDxLqrHI5OrTqSYxpGB-ydZx_TO7DoF0V1sqIYXlxLwEkUj4dR6tNAgf4sMTlm2e7HwEQJkdAQxh3g4qL9kM98ZD0tk_YW0ZP50W-nvLs58geP2QN60-0WNjTudyp4R0ovATQOBvr-C61sr3jk3yIAQtjy/s640/mountains-and-hills-5112952_640%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="640" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCDJw0XwisJrh7GlXuCw5Z1nNkgwwV0ZmSQyFDxLqrHI5OrTqSYxpGB-ydZx_TO7DoF0V1sqIYXlxLwEkUj4dR6tNAgf4sMTlm2e7HwEQJkdAQxh3g4qL9kM98ZD0tk_YW0ZP50W-nvLs58geP2QN60-0WNjTudyp4R0ovATQOBvr-C61sr3jk3yIAQtjy/w546-h308/mountains-and-hills-5112952_640%20(1).jpg" width="546" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Once <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Once my world was dotted<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">with endless hills,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">and I climbed, or skipped, or ran, confident<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">barefoot, or booted, flip-flopped sure-footed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">and if I slipped, the worst was a grazed knee<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">or a bit of a bruised heart – if an obstacle<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">appeared – a jagged rock or loosening purchase<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">the earth was my friend – digging in hand-holds<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">or toe-touches – or walk abouts – I climbed on - safely<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">surely, always – onward – convinced in my clear<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">anticipation of the always achieved acme – <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">daisies under blue skies - a flat place to sit for a while –<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">and when rested –refreshed -revitalized – renewed –<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">I’d stretch, stand, limbs loose and long, atop that hill –<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">breathe fresh air and survey the view –<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">the endless panorama of hill after verdant hill<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">awaiting me….<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Now, in surreality I walk a flat landscape – <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> slopeless spreading toward an ever approaching horizon<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">yearning to believe that beyond lay fields of daisied dominion<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">searching<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">for<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">one<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">more<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">hill<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">to <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">be<o:p></o:p></span></p>Dr. Pearl Ketover Prilik (PKP)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15506538737806033824noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1819558801520044413.post-60287515343079062262023-09-30T14:13:00.002-07:002023-09-30T14:13:14.364-07:00Last Ride on the Merry-Go-Round <div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #353535; font-family: "applesystemuifont"; font-size: 16pt;"><img src="https://media1.tenor.com/images/e308d631086ed8e0cb108de73308e940/tenor.gif" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;" /></span><br /><span style="color: #353535; font-family: "applesystemuifont"; font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1819558801520044413" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1819558801520044413" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1819558801520044413" style="clear: right; display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1819558801520044413" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="color: #353535; font-family: "applesystemuifont"; font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #353535; font-family: "applesystemuifont"; font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #353535; font-family: "applesystemuifont"; font-size: 16pt;"></span><br /><span style="color: #353535; font-family: "applesystemuifont"; font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #353535; font-family: "applesystemuifont"; font-size: 16pt;">MY MOTHER IRENE KETOVER 7/23/31-11/9/19 (eulogy 11/14/19)</span><br /><span style="color: #353535; font-family: "applesystemuifont"; font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #353535; font-family: "applesystemuifont"; font-size: 16pt;"></span><br /><span style="color: #353535; font-family: "applesystemuifont"; font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #353535; font-family: "applesystemuifont"; font-size: 16pt;">My mother was a realist undoubtedly a force of nature – the perfect </span><br /><span style="color: #353535; font-family: "applesystemuifont"; font-size: 16pt;">counterbalance to the dreaminess of my father – between them they balanced my world. My mother was the center of any gathering and frankly it seems ridiculous surreal downright silly that she is not here nodding her head as I speak. – Then again who amongst us knows for sure. She was certainly the loudest, clearest voice against any injustice personal, political or even in the case of her pond - duck related .. Others have paid fitting tribute to her sass her strength her joy - her fierce loyalty to family, to the values which she felt in her unshakable moral core was the right thing - All such tributes are absolutely true .. I stand by them as well .. and yet as children from time immemorial we all see different aspects of our parents. I wrote something for my mother’s 85</span><sup style="color: #353535; font-family: applesystemuifont;">th</sup><span style="color: #353535; font-family: "applesystemuifont"; font-size: 16pt;"> birthday, a sense of my mother who always had me feeling protective of this woman most viewed correctly as a warrior. I know she wouldn’t mind my sharing this personal take on my teenage mom, as I always thought of her, since she surprised me by reading it at her 85</span><sup style="color: #353535; font-family: applesystemuifont;">th</sup><span style="color: #353535; font-family: "applesystemuifont"; font-size: 16pt;"> party – and so with her tacit approval and just a few edits here goes… </span><br /><span style="color: #353535; font-family: "applesystemuifont"; font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #353535; font-family: "applesystemuifont"; font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #353535; font-family: "applesystemuifont"; font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vGFnNbol3Gk/XeRlwcRvhRI/AAAAAAAAIVs/Z5ayK38YFEAzkW_6eBHLNOkB0LwurLEdACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/15%2Byear%2Bold%2Bbeauty%2Bmom%2B76680863_10220178528993930_1917091865551699968_n.jpg" style="clear: right; 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text-size-adjust: auto;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">WITH A SMILE </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;"> … </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">My teenage warrior mom<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">I watched as you </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">proudly </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">stood my stiff starched dresses to</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"> stand </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">like soldiers in the kitchen - </span><span style="color: darkslategrey; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;"><i>and you smiled</i></span><span style="color: darkslategrey; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">I felt your long fingers </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">fumble </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">through my hair twisting white clean strips of rags into wet curls as I stood watching out the window and you smiled</span><span style="color: darkslategrey; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">You smiled on your hands and knees scrubbing a floor, tush waggling long toes bare behind you, singing Que Sera Sera</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">You smiled patting endless perfect balls of chopped meat into magic fricasse</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">On Friday nights, dishtowel on your head, you struck a match with a shaky finger and lit candles, I watched your arms circling the flame three times, covering hands over your eyes, whispering something I knew had something to do with all of us, and then flung the towel onto the counter, called out <b>Gut Shabbas, with what else – a smile. </b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">You smiled wiping out kumitz - cleaning heavy cut crystal dishes –until they shone with rainbow prisms, cooking, setting table with good silver, serving, clearing, washing, drying – still you smiled</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">You smiled singing Frank, and Nat, with my father, sang in your uniquely uniform continuously consistently off key fashion, </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">you smiled as we rode off to where I do not recall - standing with me wind whipping your hair in the front car of a swaying wicker</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">-</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">seated</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">-</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">porcelain</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">-</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">railed train - the chain in front of us swinging against the blackness of the rushing tunnels </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">You smiled bathing that new beloved-by-you baby brother splashing in a white vinyl bathinette as I stood and watched your face flush with a new </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">softness</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">You smiled swinging hands on the way to the park as we pushed that huge carriage - cold steel under my outstretched clinging hand walking in dappled sunlight singing A Tisket a Tasket, </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">You smiled at walks end as we slid onto high stools to eat whipped potatoes</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">, a </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">stick pretzel</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">,</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;"> a chocolate malted – </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">the baby </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">asleep </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">outside in his carriage- perfect </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">E</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">ven if one that time, just that one time, we did forget the baby,</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">All the way home after running back and retrieving him you panting out of breath and deliriously relieved, smiled –</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">You smiled, needles flashing and clicking knitting long into the night </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">and early at morning breakfast – </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">your hair delightfully mussed, cigarette dangling from your lip you smiled.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">Oh yes, you smiled, that mega watted klieg lit smile </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">at your parents and inlaws and friends and passerbys and later you smiled at customers and employees that became so much more</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"> to you -<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">One and all individually and collectively they loved that signature smile </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">Of course y</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">ou smiled at my father in a way that set a template that made every Russian romance novel, every love poem, every lusted look and giggled pushaway known and familiar to me when I </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">later </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">met them – </span><span style="color: darkslategrey; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">You smiled as I watched, lucky spectator with the best seat in the house – in the center of the love story that rose to the moon and stars and beyond</span><span style="color: darkslategrey; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">I inhaled the </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">love and lust and passionate possibility of you - the </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">dances you danced together, the secret looks, the arms around each other close, the whirl and whisper, the giggle and sighs </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">- </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">the </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">very </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">magic of </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">this love of </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">you -</span><br /><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">I too e</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">njoyed</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;"> all those smiles </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">But there was more, seen in stolen moments when a slipped glimpse caught the shimmer of your bright tears </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">those times in the quiet of a still afternoon </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">those times in the dark of night when on bare feet I was drawn to the golden light of you sitting there in a cool room as you let your knitting drop into your lap and just for a moment let silent tears fall onto a doll’s dress or a sweater for the baby, – as I watched quietly and tiptoed back to bed- </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">those times of quiet hidden tears, that I came to know –</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">the shimmering beauty of your courage – </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">confronting and besting that Fellow, Death that, silent, shunned, and hidden boarder who lived with us. </span><span style="color: darkslategrey; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">I remember and acknowledge and celebrate along with all the dazzle of your dancing smile- </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">I came to know early on, consecrated in one precious singular sacred moment so very long ago when I approached you, and reached out and dared to touch a single tear easing its way toward your mouth – </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1819558801520044413" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1819558801520044413" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1819558801520044413" style="clear: right; display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1819558801520044413" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">When that little girl me intoned "Don't cry Mommy" I came to know – </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">the nature of m</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">y teenage mommy - </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">the true </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">majestic </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">nature of those smiles </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">that manifesting </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">mystic magic, born and borne as a </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">shining </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">talisman protecting us all.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">So long ago, in </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">that</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">cool </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">darkened living room, the click of knitting needles, quieted , stroking the soft wool in your lap, the wetness of that brave secreted tear on my finger, you, my teen warrior woman, the powerful mother I adored, </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">was </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">revealed in all your vulnerable shuttered glory</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">T</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">hen, now and forever as years float, tumble tossed through life and death –</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">I feel that smile, that chosen strength scored, seared, branded in my soul, </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">side by side with </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">my protectiveness of tha</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">t</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;"> secret girl under the smile, my love sealed forever and a day, for the <b>who </b><b>you were</b> and the majesty of the <b>who you chose to be</b>, then, now and forever ...</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;">And now the ride you both spoke about on the merry-go-round has stilled – the calliope quieted and yet I still feel the whirl, the wonder, the whisper and wallop of the girl who</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"> for a few short days</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 16pt;"> lay with me alone in a quiet hospital room in a foreign state and chose to hold me close </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">before going out to face the world</span><span style="color: darkslategrey; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">with a smile <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">The mold is now broken – <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">The lessons remain –<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">The meaning of the song and the flash of your actual Smile <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">Unforgettable. </span></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></b><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj03uDL6ZXmAhVivFkKHVJ3DZUQyCkwAHoECAwQBA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Da0Hi-ZKAKMo&usg=AOvVaw0xRMgxxTbMK62GfH2ufKku">Smile - Nat King Cole (High quality) - YouTube</a><br /><br /></div>Dr. Pearl Ketover Prilik (PKP)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15506538737806033824noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1819558801520044413.post-1318447825967187822023-09-24T14:21:00.003-07:002023-09-30T13:05:49.374-07:00 Take this? <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS-i6L3dcFZbI1R1EKYA-L1D7Aez0cqfXixRUJeVux5RfnxWkFmvRGZTDJDsKn2a0WfjLxjazX0WK_8NIIEFPLnFedwdOrcmy-oVPCZ78wOyRFuRmilpwIXuNXBDABp-ZJw_kdM4CZXacmGV_IU_c88h8P8McInUdTfd2YaPQU19a6osz_NHpOH3weysWw/s600/skyscape.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="403" data-original-width="600" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS-i6L3dcFZbI1R1EKYA-L1D7Aez0cqfXixRUJeVux5RfnxWkFmvRGZTDJDsKn2a0WfjLxjazX0WK_8NIIEFPLnFedwdOrcmy-oVPCZ78wOyRFuRmilpwIXuNXBDABp-ZJw_kdM4CZXacmGV_IU_c88h8P8McInUdTfd2YaPQU19a6osz_NHpOH3weysWw/s320/skyscape.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><i><b>Take this? </b></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Take this fear <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">From me this<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">nausea, these <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">icy fingertips<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Take this worry <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">of glaciers melting<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">swollen belly children<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">staring do-nothingers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">rising tides and lowered<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">expectations <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Take this disgust <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">from me at lies <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">bold-faced, insidious<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">divisive, insulting <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Take this insecurity <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">from me as offspring<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">grown- withdraw and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">bare teeth and i</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">n</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">difference incomprehensible</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Take this soul-chilled<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">storehouse of historical <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">horror – </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">bodies floating <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">from falling buildings <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">children torn in<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">school houses<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">prayful people <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">slaughtered </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">shoppers, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">party <span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">goer</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">s, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">sleepers in their beds</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">drivers in their cars<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">walkers in the streets<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">toddlers drowned at <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">shoreline – migrants<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">housed in cages –<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">children ripped from <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">mothers – on and on <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">barbed wire and <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">crematorium smoke<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">waft from past into<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">pollution's noxious present</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">slavery, butchery, forests decimated,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">a lone child’s cry growing faint under rock<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">on and on and on - we all know </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Take the spittle of hatred, the vicious glint of eyes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">the indifference of one another, the righteous<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">unrighteousness, the replacement of facts, with opinion<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">the instability, the cracks widening, the smashed sanctuaries<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Take the knowing that I am more old than young<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">and growing older still on the known path to the unknown<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">working at the glorious, inglorious oxymoron of<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">trying to find peace of mind … <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Take …..<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">NO.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Return each and every -<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><i>Take nothing.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Leave all mentioned<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">and all implied <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">For in the convergence <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">is the essence of caring<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">and I shall not cede <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">I shall not ever cede<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">to care <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Dr. Pearl Ketover Prilik (PKP)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15506538737806033824noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1819558801520044413.post-71633787838912340032023-09-13T11:46:00.006-07:002023-09-13T11:57:49.627-07:00Ahhh... how's the weather? <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGMQB0DsbMV4ptV6qHEtRwdESuWGzjvp9d-5oOgIGQT24aBQzZKVAVB8ysKLb1w00uIoS8JT1nCyuUQ6r8lGfjK9tDx_-a6aQmOnIp7FPnCa78d9lxO1U11aAijBoN4vRePb2-_oFphoHg_BGI3e9sTipPC28YQIo1zEgYqmToIMxL0erZZwUzgkyfIpfm/s3358/IMG_1881.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3358" data-original-width="2059" height="471" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGMQB0DsbMV4ptV6qHEtRwdESuWGzjvp9d-5oOgIGQT24aBQzZKVAVB8ysKLb1w00uIoS8JT1nCyuUQ6r8lGfjK9tDx_-a6aQmOnIp7FPnCa78d9lxO1U11aAijBoN4vRePb2-_oFphoHg_BGI3e9sTipPC28YQIo1zEgYqmToIMxL0erZZwUzgkyfIpfm/w369-h471/IMG_1881.JPG" width="369" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><i>Ahhh... how's the weather? </i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Ah to recall those days <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When the most benign<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Conversation began with<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">How’s the weather?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We whirl hands over<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Our heads or eyes or<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">ears – now in a maelstrom<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We modern day manifested<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">naked dinosaurs walking<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">through forests of fire<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and melting icebergs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">humming, screaming, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">sciencing</span></i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, silencing,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">or simply writing a poem<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">to pass the time in these<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">days of destruction… <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>Dr. Pearl Ketover Prilik (PKP)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15506538737806033824noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1819558801520044413.post-29730581655383668462023-09-06T06:47:00.010-07:002023-09-06T10:13:11.695-07:00GOBSMACKED <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Hi all at </b></span> <a href="https://newwhatsgoingon.blogspot.com/">What's Going On?</a> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><a href="https://newwhatsgoingon.blogspot.com/2023/06/youtube-video-player.html?sc=1694019563380#c5113351950371855758">https://newwhatsgoingon.blog<br /></a><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: medium;">First of all .. a public hurrah.. congratulations, welcome and delighted to participate in the launch of this much-needed site... For the last few years I have been wandering around in my mind ... wondering in polite language WTF is going on... and so to find fabulous familiar voices raised and opening doors to connect is a breath of fresh air. Time marches on and I'm part of the parade - have continued writing and have my small as I like it private practice to keep me connected outside my own tumultuous head. Enough of the prologue. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">I hope that I am not beginning by breaking any rules - but as said I have had this question whirling for years now... I wanted to share my poem Gobsmacked with you all... (which is how I was feeling a few years ago and I've just continued to be smacked in the years up to the present!) </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hugs and looking forward to reading and commenting ! .. and now here is my launch poem... </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">GOBSMACKED </span><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When day might turn to night and night might turn to day<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And people stop talking to you and why they won’t say<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When the icecaps are melting and some say nothing is wrong<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And the bees they are leaving and the frogs stop their song<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When politics turn misanthropic, a mass mad mobby joke<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And those who should speak forget how they once spoke<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When you wake in the morning with a shudder and chill<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And the future seems dark and dim and filled with ill will<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When shots ring in classrooms and children fall dead<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And elders are quiet while youngsters spill wisdom instead<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When day might turn to night and night might turn to day<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And you speak, think and write and don’t know what to say<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When your heart pounds bloody and fingers turn icy and cold<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And you try to be fierce, strong, stand up and be ever so bold<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When the world starts to shrink and toddlers die at the shore<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When war weapons murder innocents not less but still more <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When eyes look for footing and guidance in hurricane gales <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And find instead tossed bombastic operatic paper-towel tales<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When it seems like you’re standing in a snow globe of frizz<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And the very air that you breathe is thrumming with fizz<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When sense flies out of touch and nothing seems real<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And divisions are toxic and conversations surreal <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When all that you knew seems now up for debate <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And too much around you spews spilled out with hate<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When you want to get going but can’t get to the gate<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When day might turn to night and night might turn to day<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As global shards of pain sidewise whirl destruction’s disarray<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When oceans rise and mountains fall<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And injustice and wrongs far too many to articulate them all <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When you see time running out, hopefulness each day attacked <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Then my friend, then you know, you are being ....</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <b> -Gobsmacked-</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitz_jINS1TJLw_4ny8uWT1gwqd1yffOlK2AvL3z55Mhh0QMCNw9IcpUrJYKFs6n1mMWdMrj3XA-j1A-UZyUwyOYvtWmzQHiPCfmyddA9WChZetR6gyMaKu7eff5udGm4xIEQlAEZ3Ry-mdQO71yH7iPVubagg3XlArHqiGe1ieidpkqTNihCpFFM8AhCet/s960/GOBSMACKED%20FOR%20IMAGINE.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="586" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitz_jINS1TJLw_4ny8uWT1gwqd1yffOlK2AvL3z55Mhh0QMCNw9IcpUrJYKFs6n1mMWdMrj3XA-j1A-UZyUwyOYvtWmzQHiPCfmyddA9WChZetR6gyMaKu7eff5udGm4xIEQlAEZ3Ry-mdQO71yH7iPVubagg3XlArHqiGe1ieidpkqTNihCpFFM8AhCet/s320/GOBSMACKED%20FOR%20IMAGINE.jpeg" width="195" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">*</b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">title poem for a chapbook published out of frustration in 2019 -</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: x-small;">I thought it was particularly appropriate for this wonderful kick off of </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: x-small;">What's Going On? </span></p><p><br /></p><p></p>Dr. Pearl Ketover Prilik (PKP)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15506538737806033824noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1819558801520044413.post-60385155992740317652023-05-01T16:54:00.003-07:002023-05-01T17:38:28.479-07:00Motherhood Map <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilURcgrQAADQSyMnP_3hbwV9rfdHnD4AlFXdpBsgPdvF7-A9BQbyTg5adRPdPnWbxplAL_Ytck8OpTc2F_ta8b7Yv4NTyfBXVoUuxpCUS3ciqID6YiaLcW8204ROPAik_Rc1H2JphKmiT8chwPwVeUF7-QmZzVYmclOnIvwr-E-54Pnd0m1NVmtrvu4g/s320/pink%20sunset10402825_10205489072846707_1320772688412713211_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilURcgrQAADQSyMnP_3hbwV9rfdHnD4AlFXdpBsgPdvF7-A9BQbyTg5adRPdPnWbxplAL_Ytck8OpTc2F_ta8b7Yv4NTyfBXVoUuxpCUS3ciqID6YiaLcW8204ROPAik_Rc1H2JphKmiT8chwPwVeUF7-QmZzVYmclOnIvwr-E-54Pnd0m1NVmtrvu4g/s1600/pink%20sunset10402825_10205489072846707_1320772688412713211_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><span style="font-family: times;"> <span>Motherhood Map </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Enter <i>Fingers Caress Slime–</i> inhale at <i>Wonder Of Birth</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Take <i>Fingers Interlace</i> until roundabout- <i>Suckling/Basic Skills</i> to </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>World Socio-Natural Interaction </i>merge <i>Education </i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Exit <i>Central Route </i>to <i>Service Road Sports/Interests </i>– rejoin<i> Central </i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Full-stop at <i>Embrace/ Pause and Reflect</i> continue to </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>Bon Voyage Blvd</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Let Go</span></p>Dr. Pearl Ketover Prilik (PKP)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15506538737806033824noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1819558801520044413.post-85980611886537620802023-01-16T15:04:00.003-08:002023-01-16T15:10:48.060-08:00Keeping On The Wheels<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRiRNw3vmX-H_-VxnNx1JgL7E9o-XOU0VChrD1mLMNQ1lUMSFDLvEC63Z6R8C4l3GCZ1LC3cxKjRO0V4Vb5UhqmfGyX6KAptBU_eQk6ImIyoP-5pWs8A5dPmT46FBEBM3JbpOuXpMv5pCP7lKWzPOqlFLrL-5wL3iaoqXP6FK3Sub91IWsBMq7z6s5Fg/s237/school%20bus.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="213" data-original-width="237" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRiRNw3vmX-H_-VxnNx1JgL7E9o-XOU0VChrD1mLMNQ1lUMSFDLvEC63Z6R8C4l3GCZ1LC3cxKjRO0V4Vb5UhqmfGyX6KAptBU_eQk6ImIyoP-5pWs8A5dPmT46FBEBM3JbpOuXpMv5pCP7lKWzPOqlFLrL-5wL3iaoqXP6FK3Sub91IWsBMq7z6s5Fg/w272-h244/school%20bus.png" width="272" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Keeping On The Wheels<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">They sit in a circle tiny children held in big laps<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">The Wheels On The Bus Go Round and Round<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">sing the mothers and perhaps once in a while<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">a father ..clutching tiny hands to clap, bouncing<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">knees – Grinning at one another - some even <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">happy … <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Others just trying with pounding hearts<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">and trembling fingertips just trying to <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">keep the flippin wheels from flying off<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Crashing, cracking the wall standing<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;">Between song and sanity <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>Dr. Pearl Ketover Prilik (PKP)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15506538737806033824noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1819558801520044413.post-63725830214150515552022-12-31T17:12:00.000-08:002022-12-31T17:12:21.408-08:00This year shall be a peaceful New Year...<div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xdj266r x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwjRgfABCHE2BbPVDM34pYRDfIJzJGeD8_wKemzOl0-lG-wGDfFfIsW9l5QD1qO8UCcBC0bDN-2zgjF_6KX_X26pmRqYxUZdJDp9v4Eor6dEqpI3otoM2r1rz7so_yvmMlEvNZ0NukK5UtJB6INyZYYTCUHT_V9PIf27NnTS1Xv4CuvXHd_cx5IrTNYw/s960/rainbow%20light%20322950188_858854188721675_3370630484042988684_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="960" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwjRgfABCHE2BbPVDM34pYRDfIJzJGeD8_wKemzOl0-lG-wGDfFfIsW9l5QD1qO8UCcBC0bDN-2zgjF_6KX_X26pmRqYxUZdJDp9v4Eor6dEqpI3otoM2r1rz7so_yvmMlEvNZ0NukK5UtJB6INyZYYTCUHT_V9PIf27NnTS1Xv4CuvXHd_cx5IrTNYw/w445-h232/rainbow%20light%20322950188_858854188721675_3370630484042988684_n.jpg" width="445" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">This year shall be a peaceful New Year...</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Goodbye to the mind-cracking chaos of 2022.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I have tried the marches, followed the news in an incessant loop, wrote postcards to encourage voters until my wrists ached up my arms, stayed sleeplessly wide wake into the early morning hours, running as a worn ribbon over and over, the rationale for, the potential solutions for, inexplicable estrangements, hatred, violence, hunger, pain, lay wide eyed in wonder and horror at the sheer grit <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>and grieving there in Ukraine, there in Afghanistan, and here, on stateside borders. Watched impotently, recycling my cans and paper and plastic, as tempestuous storms rose and buildings crashed and then guns fired and lives fell and children huddled in classrooms and too many police confoundingly lost their compass. I have tried to take it all in, to translate it all into some sort of sanity, to find a path in the darkness, even for myself and too often, found the ceaseless whirring of my mind in those looping paths to no answers… and so…I have decided that it is my inner sense that has been askew - Finally realizing that I cannot control but I can manage. I can manage. And so..... </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">This year shall be a peaceful New Year. I shall drink some simple coffee with sweet cream from a heavy cup whose heft fits my hand – I shall allow pleasure in whatever form it appears. I shall see the spectacular marvel of a single raindrop as it joins its collective, I shall know the wonders I cannot see of savannahs, seas and arctic circles, of birds flashing in the midnight skies and all creatures, in all places doing their natural creaturely things. I shall hear the joyful cries of newborn babes and not permit misery, no matter how horrific, to obliviate joy. I shall comfort where I can and bring compassion in any way I can to all that suffer. Yet, this year, I shall humbly acknowledge my limitations as one single creature on this teeming planet and I shall choose to know with the certainty of belief that all will be well even when it is so clearly not – I shall choose to believe that the path forward is one of peace, and that love, compassion and calm is the only way through – and whether there come sunshine or darkness, whether the skies storm or clear and shine in glorious splendor there shall be light …<b><i> in me. </i></b></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">If it shall come to pass that each of us cherish and protect and refuse to extinguish our own spark of light – Ah that would be quite something would it not? I wish for each and all the joy of your own indomitable, light and that 2023 shall shine with our colossal connection as each day unfolds. With love to you and yours and to each and all. Happy 2023.</div></div>Dr. Pearl Ketover Prilik (PKP)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15506538737806033824noreply@blogger.com0