Meanwhile, the water heater silently and secretly begins to drip, drip, drip onto the garage floor, eating away a corner of my wallet which allows vast amounts of money to drip, drip, drip into the waiting hands of a water heater repairman … for a house that’s already so under water, we need to don [...]

From Auburn, Dan, Wilson and Scarlet to our friends at DancingBirds — may you be ever blessed with thankfulness and filled with thoughts that always lift you higher.
Today … and always.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone
Auburn

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.  ~Colette
Writers.  We blurt and bloop and blather on about this and that.  Sometimes even, after years of practice and millions of writing belly flops into very very cold water, we find our voice.  Our brilliance.  Our excellence.
Sometimes.
Ah, but those years of practice before coming into [...]

Okay, here’s the truth.  I’m a dog.  Yes.  Yes.  How could anyone think anything less of me?  I’m an animal.  Okay?
But party animal?
Please.  I’m sure it’s all a mistake.
It can’t have anything to do with that ridiculous picture captured of me with the curly paper party hat.  Ha!  I laugh in the face of curly [...]

A Tiny Garden

See what I’ve done with
my fingers, my hands, with the
sun.  I selected you.  Stood your
legs deep inside dark and loamy smells, unfurled
your petals into the breeze.
You answered with your bodies,
swelling into green, budding, giving things,
fixing my mouth,  my eyes into
watering anticipation.
~  Auburn McCanta

If you should happen by my garden in the next [...]

It happened over the course of two days.  Sunday and Monday.  I suppose it could have been any other two days of the week.  Tuesday and Wednesday.  Friday and Saturday.  It really doesn’t matter which days.  It only matters that for two days, I was in the right place at the right time.
First, I was [...]