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Who Cleaned the Crash Site?

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I was more worried about my dad and brother’s grave than the food.  “I’ll run there now and check,” I said.

Arriving at the crash site, I gawked at the empty beach, stunned.  The remnants of the crashed spaceship and the dead people were gone!  I ran to the boulder where I had buried my dad and brother, and started digging.  They were gone too!  “What the hell…freaking thing happened?”I peeled my eyes to look for anything that had once belonged to the spaceship but could not find any.  There was no evidence of the crash as if the accident never happened.  Even the reek from the condemned ship was gone, and the air was ocean-smell-fresh.  The animals couldn’t have done it.  Excellent cleaning!

–From Chapter One of THE SPACE HERMITS

Rain (my favorite childhood poem)

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I will go
To the pond
To draw circles
I will go
To the pond  –Author’s name forgotten

As I grew older the rain became my alter ego. And the pond, the world I live in.
Regretfully, I drew circles that had no ripples.  That’s okay.  Who says I have to?  After all, the roads I’ve taken for the destination are important too.

While trying and failing and trying again, I learned lessons and matured and still growing, calmly accepting reality.  A wise man once said that we live in our desire rather than in our success.

Family Walk

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Family hikes along the trail

Higher they go, rougher the road

Not a bit discouraged to climb

Even the arduous hill

Just to be together

With timeless ardor

The hill echoes the lovers’ voices

Embracing them in her bosom

With ancient-beauty, fresh-blossom

Her sweet June-breath in the air

 

Mango

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Many years ago, my husband and I briefly lived in Panama. Behind our rented house stood a mango tree that produced lots of fruits. Back then I didn’t like the strange-looking fruit, and let them fall and rot. I even thought it was poisonous fruit. Years later, when I learned that mango is full of vitamin C I began to eat and decided to like it.

Now, the humble-looking mango is my favorit source of vitamin C. 🙂