Baseballs, Citrus Suckies, Stanley & Me_Ora's Wish_The Desolation of Smythe_Giving Thank
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Baseballs, Citrus Suckies, Stanley & Me
At the age of seven, I batted .292 for my hometown Pee-Wee baseball team. I had a three year .327 Little League average, a four year .384 Babe Ruth stat. Fifty-eight homeruns, ninety-two triples, one hundred sixty-three doubles. A seven year .352 ERA. Seven years - no errors, no cup. All of little matter.What mattered?For eight years, I was first baseman!Spring of '65, my junior year of High School, I had one wish, one dream, one desire; skip JV baseball try-outs entirely, and try-out, to play, to be, first baseman on the Varsity baseball team.I have my first baseman's glove. I have my first p...
Ora's Wish
Ora’s WishThe Zemi began to take shape because of a prayer. This one had not taken any form or consciousness for more than two-millennia. The song which summoned it now was strong, and irresistible. The spirit took a direct path, up from 8000 meters of pressure and depth and cold, moving through the ocean like smoke blown on the wind. As the music got louder, the Zemi took a vague shape and scattered a school of mackerel. It began to see rich sea-life and sense the temperature of the water warming around it.The swell off Punta Las Tunas moved oddly, against the tide and with a barely shimmeri...
The Desolation of Smythe
Gone.Every last vestige of my treasure.There is nothing left of my life’s work.The scorched and blackened emptiness before me mirrors the terrible void opening up within me. “You shouldn’t go in there…”I ignore those words. How can I not go in? This is my place. A place that I made. A place that became more and more special to me over the span of my life. Little by little and piece by piece I filled this space with the very best of things. This was as much me as anything else in this world. An extension of my self. A part of my very being. The ash and dust is everywhere. A sad, dark powder tha...
Giving Thanks
People like to be appreciated and being thanked. For being acknowledged for doing something good or heroic or just plain useful! However, a lot of people do and say things just for the acknowledgment www.onedoor.ccand to be ‘seen’ as doing good, like someone giving a meal to a homeless person then taking a selfie with them. Just so they can post it in Instagram or Facebook, without thinking of the shame that the person receiving the meal actually feels.The point is that giving or doing good, should be its own reward. What does it say in the bible? ‘Never let your left hand know what your right hand is doing...