anticipation
the curse of
the season
anticipating
joy
peace
love

anticipation
the perfect gift
alread sold
the perfect meal
argumentified
the carols of joy
moodily mumbled
anticipation
lost in reality

when
an unexpected hug
a smile of thanks
exclamations of surprise
thanks
joy
peace
love
surprise

is what
Christmas really
is

Trim the Blog

lights glint
off ever imaginable
surface
mundane
now illuminated
by the softly
riccocheting
steaming shades
of blues reds yellows greens
they sink into my soul
and color my life
with Christmas

Blog Time

I want to play

My half finished paper
lies on my desk
but
I want to play

My half cleaned bedroom
a confusion of
neat clothes
and jumbled papers
lie on the bed
but
I want to play

I run past the kitchen
grabbing a soda
on the way
ignoring the chaos
of dishes unfinished
but
I want to play
now
first

Homework Blues

I read the paper
five times
each time
I read the paper
one line farther
than the time before

I read the paper
six times
each time
I read the paper
one paragraph farther
than the time before

I read the paper
ten times
each time
I read the paper
one page farther
than the time before

but I don't remember
reading it
at all

Blogging Laptop

A brand new
Toshiba
laptop
shiny
new backpack
new mouse
new new new

safe in the car
locked in the car
secure for the night
ready for class tomorrow
new new new

in the morning
rush rush rush
get coffee
go see the new apartment
go to work
rush rush rush

look in the backseat
the backpack
new new new
the laptop
new new new
my homework
done done done
all
gone gone gone

Blogging Bowling Blues

throw the ball
just throw the ball
don't think about it

just
keep your hand behind the ball
loosen your shoulders
eyes on the mark
walk straight
elbow straight
and
just
throw the ball

Blog Days Until Christmas

14 days to Christmas
2 weekends separate
2 Mondays
2 Tuesdays
6 days of work
1 day of school
3 papers due
5 nights of bowling
2 Thursday nights with the girls
2 Friday mornings with cereal and hot chocolate
3 laundry days

I live my life in groups
of numbers
how many of this
how much of that
but it's still
2 weeks until
you know

Silent Night

It's not silent night, not yet
but in Omaha silent night
came Thursday
and Christmas will never
ever
be Christmas
again

Blog Oughts

"Codes of ethics freeze the oughts in time and space." P.M. Cunningham. p281. "The Profession and Practice of Adulte Education.

I hate to take up space with citations, but I really like this quote and in case you want to find it, well, here it is. I'm taking Adult Education classes at UNLV and found this as I was drowsing over the last chapter in this book. It's not that it's not interesting, it's just been a long semester and, well, this is the end of it.

But, I really like the line, "freeze the oughts in time and space." Because lots of things seem to do that. The 'oughts' become stagnated, frozen in time, unchanging, when they should be fluid, mutatable, enriching, So the 'oughts' that should mutate depending on the situation and the people involved to paint a gloss of humanity and compassion, to soften the lines of 'should' that can become 'could' into hardened and unpenetrable, unchangable and heartless forces that bend one to another's will instead of lovingly and compassionately moulding two 'oughts' into one 'is'.

Blogging to the end of the semester

A beacon
of light
it urges me
it pushes me
it cajoles me
to reach
the end

without stopping
to clean the kitchen
put my clothes away
visit my mom
sweep the floors

but move
directly
unconsciously
purposefully
to my computer
to finish my last
assignment

Blog Las Vegas Style

I have a new blog, livenlasvegas.blogspot.com. I wanted to find a way
to express how it is actually living in Las Vegas. The capture the essence
of living in 'Sin City' USA. It's about the same as any big city though.
It's not CSI or any other show, it's about people going about their
daily lives, raising families, going to work, struggling, laughing, crying
but in the context of an unusual city, the City that Nevada Sleeps.

Within the framework of all of the hype there is an element of truth,
and so that's what I'm going to try to do.

Check it out.