Realizing age adds character has proven to be quite a grounding experience. – Ash
Category: memory
Calm – Haiku
the shore is sleeping
as the blanket dark tucks in
night sound til morning
Earth to Ash Podcast Episode # 21 – Let’s Yarn
Welcome back, join me and my continuing conversation about my thoughts, feelings, and emotions to the world around me.
In this episode, I take advantage of having a yarn with my podcast audience. Catch up and chat about how awesome we all are. Life is tough, so it’s nice to talk about the struggle. And, as always, I throw in a quote and a poem for good measure.
Enjoy!!
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A Shade of Ash # 46 – The Longest Yarn
I only have a portion of your whole life. But because I gorged, it is enough to sustain me for the remainder of my own. Your stories like ripened fruit that were picked just for me. In the garden, we grew together. They remain sweet to this very day. You taught me there’s no spoil in a deep-rooted yarn. A good yield will last forever when you remember where they’re planted. – Ash
Earth to Ash Podcast Episode # 20 – Just Cause
Welcome back, join me and my continuing conversation about my thoughts, feelings, and emotions to the world around me.
In this episode, I talk about how important it is to tell yourself how proud you are of yourself. Other people rock but so do you. I also give you a glimpse of a day in the life of Bartender Ash with a memory-inspired tale. And, as always, I throw in a quote and a poem for good measure.
Enjoy!!
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Doorway to a Rainy Day
a chair with no back
black and white paint flicks all over it
it’s pulled to the threshold of a spring rain
where I was perched
at that tiny door under the house
I am mesmerized
I am tranquil
I am frozen
in awe
in comfort
in curiosity
as the small rain rivers push down our little lane
carving its fight
water from the sky stretching and stretching for something bigger
to the ocean that’s only a small way from our hamlet home perhaps
there’s a seagull struggling in the wind, I hope he makes it
I think about birds for a moment and gales
until buoys pull me away out there drowning over and over in the storm swells
boats rocked in all the wrong directions
kelp flaps clinging to moorings who never wanted them in the first place
then I catch a race
a bottle cap leads a fallen leaf
both carried along the curbside down the road
passing gravel traps and grass hazards
the cheers in my head grow loud as rain poured like applause
thunder even showed and lighting had to come too
to see this race and how small it was
a spectacle on a grand scale to me
the only fan of something worth an encore
it was then the rain stopped as the bottle cap did
by the fallen leaf
both stalled by the grate covered in debris
drifting and dancing together like memories do
Earth to Ash Podcast Episode # 19 – Winter is Going
Welcome back, join me and my continuing conversation about my thoughts, feelings, and emotions to the world around me.
In this episode, I talk about a bad day, and if it’s paired with a bunch of snow, an even worse day. But with the bad comes the good and the more good, the better. And, as always, I throw in a quote and a poem for good measure.
Enjoy!!
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A Shade of Ash # 45 – Jogging My Memories
Running helps me store memories from what I can recall. – Ash
Earth to Ash Podcast Episode # 18 – March Forward
Welcome back, join me and my continuing conversation about my thoughts, feelings, and emotions to the world around me.
In this episode, I’m back inside perched at my pass-the-vibe-check cozy corner of my home and anxious to chat with my loyal listeners. It’s March and Spring is just around the corner. That alone has me talking, talking about looking forward. And, as always, I throw in a quote and a poem for good measure.
Enjoy!!
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Second Thoughts # 15 – ISBN Thinking About This Memory
Caught the bus for my afternoon classes only to have them cancelled. What now? Oh, I know. Off to the university library I go. Where I spent almost all of my free time while on campus. It was a five-minute walk from my political science class and I used every second of it to get there. Soaking up the semester sun and atmosphere of an ordinary Wednesday late 1990’s.
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