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Frost Bite

Audio Recordings, Ranch Life, Relationships / February 3, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
On the prairies they know that you have to use snow In January on the Wood River the laces got wet and then stiff and could not be untied Walked the whimpering long mile home in one frozen skate and one warm boot part of my foot and all my toes numb and milky white On the prairies they know that you have to use snow Too much warmth all at once can bring the feeling rushing back with more pain than you can stand I have since learned - and this is the sad part - It is the same way with the heart
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War Wounds

Personal Growth, Remembering / February 2, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
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Sisyphus in Winter

Nature / February 1, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
It was easier with a stone this snowball keeps growing
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The Wall | El Muro

Uncategorized / January 31, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
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Seven Years

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Remembering / January 30, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Lovers and true friends are mirrors where we see the better parts of you and me Death the mirror breaker these reflections interrupt And many there are who choose to follow the sparkling shards before the seven years is up
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Latin 101

Relationships / January 29, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
I never learned the past tense of love Amo, amas, amat and that’s that
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Psychotherapy (or A Six-Year-Old Learns About Clocks)

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / January 28, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
The difficulty in taking things apart to see why they tick can often be in putting them back together again
Photo by Ava Mayer
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Holocaust in the New Millennium

Remembering / tagged Concentration Camp, War / January 27, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
This is the age of the coming of age of the children The children of those who fed the fires and of those who fed the flames And we who are the children of neither are the children of both And this may be the last time this can be healed in time Or are we to have a new calendar so much like the old where 2000 pages are torn off and the pinup remains the same Already 60 years A.D. (Anno Dachau) still counting still counting still counting
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The Old Dry Guy and the Bath

Cowboy Poetry, Nostalgia, Ranch Life / January 26, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
The old timers were all settin around the general store I think they’d been there forever, or a few days more hocking up gossip, and spit and an occasional snore And as it’s always been, in the West of the East the one who knew the most; said the least He had a face like old harness and one bad eye to myself I called him ‘the old dry guy’ Late January one year the old boys were a buzz old Jeb had got scalded and burned off some fuzz He’d been bathing in his kitchen in the old tin tub and reached across for the kettle to warm up the rub slipping he’d spilt it and lost some skin and some hair and the boys were all speculatin’ how much and where They’d talked it around for three hours or more when the old dry guy moved in his chair by the door They all got real quiet and leaned closer to hear He said: “Serves the damn fool right, takin a bath this time of year”
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All Austin’s Chillin’

Travel / tagged Texas / January 25, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
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