Cassia’s uncle Barney welcomes street people to the back door of the family restaurant. Sometimes they’re invited to more than a free meal.
Do you know any businesses that have “back door” policies?
Tag: Relationships
Margin to margin
to various degrees in a free-fall through much of this trip with a few encountering a work-and-worship community much less a fresh voice, at least, oh, well, I get goosebumps every time I reread the final pages and think of all the possibilities we lost . for whatever that’s worth, don’t forget, when storm clouds appear, prime the pump . peace & love, all the same
Now for some guy things
Here are some qualities I most like in a man.
- Stability.
- Responsibility.
- Spirituality.
- Gentle humor.
- Kindness.
- Fairness. As in justice, too.
- Firmness.
- Generosity.
- Respectfulness.
- Courtesy. Tact.
~*~
How ’bout you?
In all due honor
It’s a fair question in my novel What’s Left.
Just what do we owe to our ancestors?
Infidelity
I promised to leave the door open
no matter what
vainly hoping a pearl would appear
in the rusting lock
as if she would ever again wear it
~*~
yes, I left it open
but don’t live there anymore
Hail, Xenia
assuming you’ll never see frail fragrant blossoms pendulous as an archway in the museum I parachute from our embrace so wide open I’ll drift a mile in the bobbing fullness of an eggshell antiquity . clearly, our love of your plump dreams would feast, yes, pray, at last lifting these arms together . maybe nothing more than the snap of the cord could be lovelier
Oh, brother! Watch out when he’s bossy
When a family-owned business has two siblings at the helm, how effectively they resolve conflicts – or ignore them – is crucial. As one well-known New England brother has said, he learned that family was more important than always being right. In their case, it worked. They even became TV stars in their ads. I suppose there were other corrective mechanisms behind the scenes or ones that would kick in later. We’ll see the biz school case study in time, no doubt. On the other hand, differences can also lead to lawsuits, the breakup of the company, even its sale to rivals, perhaps followed by a longstanding refusal to speak to each other. We’ve also seen those headlines.
Do you know of any businesses like this?
Cairo syrup, my dear
a sinkhole garden viewed from that kitchen window as a kind of sphinx with beanpole pyramids when you were young, the world seemed limitless just see what we’ve found since, in the perimeters of a root canal while watching a grosbeak feeding merrily at the other side of the dentist’s window painlessly, as promised . keep smiling
Really, they could be so embarrassing
Cassia’s future father arrives in my novel What’s Left after some funky adventures.
Throughout the story, she keeps trying to understand his hippie generation and its influence on her family.
But there are similar embarrassments going further back.
What most baffles you about your parents and their times?
Loves and fishes
three sessions dancing in a mental field followed by crisis in prayer life and practice of the sexual nature, followed by money and possessions Must run . Will walk later . because I hadn’t thought they’d be so closely related will you scratch the cat for me . every grub feeds on stage fright . with all encouragement, Woodchuck . birds are singing and carpenter ants invade the bathroom my brain goes ever into these leaps, as long as we’re at it at, beginning of the year we received a pay raise under the new contract, finally
