ON TRAVELING

A Haitian Experience     People surviving, people living their own dreams. Some full of passions, some passionless. People do Facebook, negotiate prices on purses while outside others beg for anything. Garbage everywhere and not a can in sight.  Pastries by the bag, people begging, people making deals.  Pottery and purses.  Buy here, pay there Men in suits speak four languages, others wonder why. Art for sale, so are people’s dreams Undecided women shopping, Others wanting the sale The heat of the day increases, People are getting tired All kinds of machines.  Broken cars being fixed on the roadway. Toto didn’t … Continue readingON TRAVELING

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Haiti

I saw a little girl walking down the street carrying her whole life in her head.  I asked others for her name, they knew her only as ti madam. On second glance she was not a girl but a woman.  She had all the desires of a girl and the passions of tigress.  She was trapped by her circumstance, a creature of circumstance. Still a bird without flight, a butterfly in a cocoon, a young bribe without a lover. Her black waist long hair flowing down the mountains, an unexplored country, hidden in mystery.  How I desire to explore … Continue readingHaiti

Explorations in Honesty. The Bright, Blinding Beast

Honesty is such a gray word. One might expect something as simple and virtuous as honesty to be clean-cut, black or white, solid as a preacher’s handshake. But we don’t live in a black-and-white world. All our perceptions are blurred, smudged in shades of gray like an overused pencil eraser. True honesty—pure, unadulterated truth—would be a light too blinding, too hot, for our tender souls to endure. It would sear us to the core, leave us naked and trembling like sinners on judgment day. And so we compromise. A little dishonesty here, a dab of self-delusion there, like smudges … Continue readingExplorations in Honesty. The Bright, Blinding Beast

WIN / WIN in everything….

An updated version is here WIN / WIN in everything…. The greatest tool to being successful is the attitude of WIN/WIN. I am sure you have read or heard something about the concept. Let me expand on it more and let me expand on the concept of Win/Lose and Lose/Win. There is also LOSE/LOSE but no one wants that. In WIN/WIN both parties feel that they are winning in the relationship. Both are relatively happy, and both are working for that WIN/WIN feeling. In a WIN/LOSE, one party is purposely trying to win at all cost over the other … Continue readingWIN / WIN in everything….

Confessions of some of my deepest thoughts

Things you probably don’t know about me….   I get up in the middle of the night to write on my computer and don’t really sleep much  I love to paint, and sculpt in many different mediums. Never said I was any good   I used to be the total nerd and wore glasses to look older so people would respect me.  I taught classes at a College once… I got tired of saying same thing over and over again.   I am much more open in my writings than in person, I tend to go a little more over the top … Continue readingConfessions of some of my deepest thoughts

HOW TO SEDUCE HER

Not all women are the same — especially if they still haven’t gone through that first love experience. But this does not mean you still can’t flirt with that beautiful twenty one year old red head that works in the same building as you. Some young women will entertain the idea of dating an older man, while others will diplomatically pass up the invitation. But if you want to improve your chances, then you should keep these tips in mind: Be a friend: The last thing a young woman needs is a man that wants what every other boy … Continue readingHOW TO SEDUCE HER

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PHOBIAS

Bet you can’t get half-way down this list without discovering that you are afraid of at least a few of these. Ablutophobia- Fear of washing or bathing. Acarophobia- Fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching. Acerophobia- Fear of sourness. Achluophobia- Fear of darkness. Acousticophobia- Fear of noise. Acrophobia- Fear of heights. Aerophobia- Fear of drafts, air swallowing, or airbourne noxious substances. Aeroacrophobia- Fear of open high places. Aeronausiphobia- Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness. Agateophobia- Fear of insanity. Agliophobia- Fear of pain. Agoraphobia- Fear of open spaces or of being in crowded, public places like markets. … Continue readingPHOBIAS

Ode to a Clownfish

Ode to a Clownfish – Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness, With silence and slow time, Who canst thou express A flowery tale more sweetly than rhyme: What legends haunt about thy thoughts Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Miami or the island seas What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What wild ecstasy? What passions? Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter: therefore, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear’d, Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor … Continue readingOde to a Clownfish

Path to Everything

The path to accomplishing anything and everything… Begin with the end in mind, work backwards. In the beginning say yes to everything. Do everything you want. Build a foundation then expand. Eliminate personal history. Celebrate your excellence. Connect, understand, share, accept everyone. Act with detachment, react to nothing. Pay attention to your inner voice. Eliminate your fears and limiting beliefs. Explore to abandon, Violate the appropriate. Seek pleasure and not pain. Become spontaneous, finding balance. Practice confidentiality, celebrate silence. Check your ego, advance your empathy. Eliminate personal censorship, drop expectations. Harm no one, harm nothing at all. Take almost … Continue readingPath to Everything

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Mordida

A work in progress in two languages give me a little Bite only a small bite a little bitty bit   give me a little bite here and there and everywhere   give me a small bite in your ears on your neck     a small bite in every inch of your arms in every inch of your legs   give me bite, a very gentle bite in your lips that reaches all the way to your breasts let me bite those small massitas that you are always hiding   give me a little Bite only a small … Continue readingMordida