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Heaven

Family, Nature / tagged Death / December 31, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
If you've lived that long by the Miramichi You're probably right about what heaven is like

In loving memory of my son-in-law’s father Dr. Fred Bullock

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Painting the Prairie

Farm, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged Art / December 30, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
No abstract art
in the Old Farmer’s Home

Survival needs order
Home Sweet Home 
painfully into a sampler stitched 

Only the storms 
got to color outside of the lines
someone had to rope the house to the barn
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Remembering Ram Dass

News, Personal Growth / tagged Death, Psychology / December 27, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Be Here Now is now there
or there and here if he was right

What he took 
was how he sees the world
what he left was 
how he saw it

Ram Dass (1931 to 2019) American spiritual teacher, academic and clinical psychologist, and author.

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The Day After Christmas

Uncategorized / December 26, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
The tree is still up
manger strewn straw and paper
wise men saddled gone
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Why Children Are Christmas

Family, Personal Growth, Relationships / December 25, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
The gift
of every you
is a point of view

The gift
of every me
is willingness to see
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When Chameleons Dance Who Leads

Personal Growth, Relationships / December 24, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Love’s a game of give and take
but I’m running thin on take to give 

So I’m putting on my new leaf cape
(it won’t kill you to be seen in green)

I’m happy if my rosy makes you rosy
but I’m no longer doing blue for you
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After the Winter Solstice

Personal Growth, Relationships / December 22, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Days grow longer now
may I grow daily larger too
to hold more of you

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Each Time We Meet

Relationships / December 21, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Each time we meet
and talk and touch like this

The between

which never grows 
poorer through absence

grows richer
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Holiday Haiku

Haiku / tagged Christmas / December 19, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Christmas almost here
Santa plugging Rudolf in
charging for the trip
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The Space Between

Relationships / December 17, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
The space between 
you and me
is as real as real can be

I have moved 
a hand through it
rich and thick as water

Felt ripples
when you hurt
a thousand miles away
and rested in it while you slept

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