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Traveling Under Cautions Against

Audio Recordings, Travel / September 18, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Crowded places where people with grievances real or scriptured make their point with bombs and such Draw circles of safety if you must and trust the angels that you trust Death may not be the foe we've feared but injury hurts, and the deaths of others

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When Travel Became Gravel

Audio Recordings, Flight, Pilots, Travel / September 17, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
When the lines got longer When the seats got smaller and my knees locked up on a ninety minute flight When Westjet couldn't find the hat I left right on the seat When Boeing started cutting to make more money on poorer planes and have computers fly them When they locked the cockpit door so I couldn't chat with fellow pilots like I did on the Concorde and more
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Travel

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Reluctance / September 16, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Packing again in a place I love for a place that I might like Taurus roots crab-grass to the ground Each tearing tendril cursing and wanting if it could to kick whoever made this bucket list
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Bucket List Half Full

Audio Recordings, Travel / September 15, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Ain't been everywhere but ain't been nowhere neither Rather read the list that keeps me warm at night than the one that keeps me awake
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Respect

Audio Recordings / tagged Aging, First Nations, Native Americans, Wisdom / September 14, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Pleats in clothes go in and out of fashion Pleats in faces in some cultures never do

Illustration of Chief Dan George’s mother by Helmut Hirnschall from The Best of Chief Dan George

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Lest We Regret

Audio Recordings, Family / tagged Art & Artists, God / September 12, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Whistler and Durer did paintings of their mothers something I wouldn't dare to do If photos can capture souls some risk paintings can as well And I wouldn't want to wrestle with the dude how had dibs on hers
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Benevolence

Audio Recordings / tagged God, Mystery / September 11, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
The man in the moon is a mask no-one knows if behind is a he or a she the answer may make all the difference
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Secret of Life

Audio Recordings, Haiku / tagged Faith / September 10, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
The secret of life is that God can keep one well live the mystery
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Caught You Looking

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Nature / tagged Buddhism, Meditation / September 9, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Buddha in garden practicing detachment from beauty illusion
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A Friendly Face

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Connection, Healing, Love / September 8, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Image by Couleur from Pixabay

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  1. Sandi Hebley on How Fallen AngelsAugust 17, 2025

    Indeed!

  2. Nancy Fierstien on Unremember ThatAugust 16, 2025

    Gonna be inclined to share this one at my Poets' Tea reading tomorrow afternoon. Thanks, Neil!

  3. Sandi Hebley on Memory Lane JoggingAugust 5, 2025

    Lovely!

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    😢

  5. Sandi Hebley on One for the AuntiesAugust 3, 2025

    Wow!

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