Dogs are Truly the Higher Species: What Do You See #213

Bailey lay in the sand, suffering the doldrums because of the craziness of the humans arguing politics at the beach around him. He couldn't understand how they could be so angry in the bucolic setting of mountains, lots of trees, warm sand, and the ocean. What is it with these guys? Can't they just relax... Continue Reading →

Hold On to the True Vine, Change is Coming

Image Credit: Daria Nepriakhina@Unsplash I am holding on to the True Vine, For with Him, I can do all things. When trials come, and I feel overwhelmed, I remember the promises of the King. He prunes me and makes me more fruitful, Because sometimes, I need more steel in my spine. So when evil seems... Continue Reading →

Progress Needs Redefining: What Do You See

Image credit: Joshua Kettle @Unsplash Sitting in a cafe with a 1960s vibe, I listen to the jukebox playing rock and roll. My mind is on the maelstrom building outside the window. The shrewd person who doesn't cower from other's opinions recognizes bigger doesn't mean better, especially when it comes at a cost to the... Continue Reading →

The Tears of an Abandoned House: What Do You See?

Image Credit: Joni Ludlow @ Unsplash Standing in the garden of the old English manor house, I had a vision of the people who had lived and loved here for centuries. I looked at the walls, and I thought of the joy this room's beauty must have given countless owners before the pain began to... Continue Reading →

The Unfamiliar Path May Take You Where You Can Succeed: What Do You See #202

Image Credit: Lakshay Joshi @Unsplash It was hard for Kabir to select the perfect case for traveling, not knowing how far he had to go to find a job that suited his talents. It was no ordinary quest but the chance to redefine who he believed himself to be. He didn't want to be buried... Continue Reading →

The Last Time We Meet: What Do You See?

Photo Credit: Simon Berger @ Unsplash As Ella walked to number 115, her heart hurt, knowing it was the last time she and James would meet. She would miss how he always spoke the right words to uplift her spirits. When they first met, he seemed as strange as a Martian on planet Earth. His... Continue Reading →

Take Me With You, Mr. Train Engineer!

I wait for the trains to pass each day, Watching enviously from the hillside. I wonder where they are headed, Wishing I was going along for the ride. So many places that I could visit and see, And peaceful people I so long to meet. But I can only dream as the trains go by,... Continue Reading →

You Have to Trust Somebody: What Do You See?

Image Credit: Noah Buscher@ Unsplash Alone on the precipice, looking down in fear at the ripple marks on the rocks, I wanted to reach for the rescue represented by the outstretched hand. But trusting others is a challenge for me and has been so since childhood, When I suffered so horribly from ugly conquests that... Continue Reading →

Beware of People With Vacant Hearts

Photo Credit to Carter Saunders @ Unsplash He spoke sweet words from between smiling lips, And she missed his pernicious danger from the start. No one had schooled her on what to look for In a man with a vacancy in his dastardly heart. He made a quip about women as easy pickings, That it... Continue Reading →

The Death of Vocabularies

Image credit to 8Machine @Unsplash It seems quite vain to text full sentences in this digital age. But I can't refrain from writing my feelings with entire words. Yet the answers like "k" or "BTW" are again sent back in reply, Which for someone with a large vocabulary seems really absurd. Even though full words... Continue Reading →

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