I know that our internal clock begins to run down the moment we are born, the best we can do with the time we do or

do not have is to honestly say we knew what love is, I do not put love in the past tense because I do not believe it really

ever lives just in our past, even if it has been many years gone by.

My friend Susan and I are very similiar in that we collect pets like most people collect baseball cards, there have been

so many in our lives that we…

REM iniscing over seasons and Holidays past, Spring is sprouting small green smiles across the land.

E very bird is singing the song of Spring, but it is landing on deaf ears.

M emories of Spring flowers conflict with the snowplows that invade the roads today.

B eautiful Mother Nature gave us four feet of snow as a reminder of her wrath.

E arly birds caught no worms today, the…

We are each the love of someone's life, I have known mine as they left my life, and they have known me, life can be cruel to the best of us.

Prince, my ring necked dove, has proven this for many months now, everyday he waits on Patience's branches for hours at a time, waiting for his beloved Penelope to return.

The other pair of doves flew away long ago, shattering any hopes I had that she survived and that my pair were still as one, but by…

Yes, I travel where Angels fear to tread.

I travel where Angels forbid, yet I walk on.

I open doors that should remain shut.

Doors to both the Sacred and the Profane, my fingers bleed.

I know there is a price, but isn't it worth it so the words are not lost?

The price is always so much more than I thought I could imagine, will I never learn?

My daughter's words come back to haunt me as I sat on Raven's lap for warmth, his abandoned tarot cards splayed haphazardly on the table waiting for his next customer, I all the while waiting for a woman I had never met who would answer questions I didn't know I had about a spirit I came to love but knew nothing about.

"How will you know her Mom, how will you find the person who will tell you about our ghost?" she honestly asks when I tell her…