Dear Phoenix, I saw you! Freed of your cage and burning brightly across the sky! I can't imagine the price you had to pay... And I hope you didn't pay it for me... Please...Endure! Learning by Example! The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.-- Thomas …
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Dark Was the Night (Cold Was the Ground)
Dear Wormtongue, Speak your ills of me... Salt the earth with my name... Feel free...for it was tarnished long before I gave it to you. Like my respect, it was more than you deserved and more than you took...-- World Breaker Enjoy your winter. Signed "Brick" Learning by Example!
Taking Care of Business
Dear Asterion, You languish in a labyrinth built of deception... Betrayals...lies... Your tomb. Icarus has taken flight... Now. My eyes watch Theseus... All of them. Signed "Argus Panoptes" Sometimes... you have to let go. Lady Jane knows that lesson. Can the Valkyrie learn...?-- Heimdall (earth-616)
Time
I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me!-- Rorschach (The Watchmen) I remember a time; not so long ago...minutes dragged on like years... I was mired in muck...slogging... But always forward. Now... Like the faded light of a long dead star; forgotten by time itself... Cold, dead, empty... I forget …
Tin Man
Dear Black-bolt, I didn't come here to hear you whisper... I remember when running the 100 meter felt like an up-hill marathon... Slow off the line...struggling for every breath...grateful for every step forward... thankful for being alive...enjoying the freedom of my solitude! Learning. Growing stronger with every step that I took!!! Every challenge that I …
Not My Cross To Bear…
Has my seed taken root? Do you question The Wretched Thing? Or just me? Have my answers changed? Do you doubt my love? My compassion? My commitment? My courage? Do you dare and doubt my honesty? I hope the storm of hatred passes. I hope you find your peace. I hope you find your voice. …
Indestructible…
In our house... Video games: privilege! Staying up later to finish watching a movie: privilege! Getting an extra 10 minutes to finish the chapter: privilege! Staying home from school...just because: privilege! Extra dessert: privilege! In this house talking is not a privilege! It is a right! We encourage it...we provoke it...we demand it...we celebrate it...we …
Blue Dream…
I sit and watch the morning sun. The birds are chirping. It is warm. Comfortable. Sometimes I pretend that you are beside me. I can sense peace in your words...love in your heart...kindness... I smile. Mostly I cry. Learning by Example Grief is never something you get over. You don't wake up one morning and …
Swatting the Hornets nest…
Dear Wretched Thing. Does it irk you to know that you have no authority over my words, actions, thoughts or feelings? Does it irk you to know that your new goat is not yet ready for the slaughter? He is nothing more than an angry child! Fool! Anger is my ally! I pull the strings! …
The Eclectic Family 