This week, Kate reminded us that keeping everything in one notebook is smart and keeping that notebook with us all the time is even smarter. I try to do this, though I tend to want a fresh notebook for each set of thoughts. For this challenge, I chose a notebook with only a few entries from a year or four before and decided I would just use it all 'willy-nilly' til full.
In the spirit of 'I always enjoy writing when I get back into the practice of it' - I now share some of the writing that was already in the notebook chose. I wish there were dates, but it seems safe to say I was still married... or mostly.
'Some men want an impossible thing:
A woman whose beauty makes him
the envy of everyone he meets
And also, a woman, the very same woman,
that no one else can see.'
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I still exist, beating heart, daily breath
the rest of me invisible
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I seek the sun, its warmth
and cheer
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I am complimented on my eyes.
he says this makes me a hoar,
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I didn't solicit strangers' kindness,
It's the sunshine they're drawn to, not me
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Gratitude makes every life better-
Even his, if he would allow himself to see.
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