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It’s a time of green grass and colorful flowers, a time of growth, renewal, and new life born. Winter’s snow melts under warm Spring showers, disregarding their spray I hike for hours, my mind relaxed, free from all thoughts forlorn, on the trail by the lake in the wood. To my right, the narrow strip [...]

He stayed in the bathroom, staring into the mirror, long after finishing his shave, and, not pleased with what he saw, he had to admit, to time he was a slave. He turned his head left and then right, pulling and stretching his face, but every time he removed his hand, the wrinkles popped back into [...]

It was a warm late summer’s early night, when I reached for a book I barely recalled, decades ago a favorite, but long out of sight. I carried it to my sofa and there happily sprawled, turning page after page every bit as enthralled as the first time I read it while still a young [...]