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  It’s in the moments (Short and deliciously expectant) – Tony Bennet on the record player, The cake not cut, The plates not dirtied, The candles freshly lit and still proud, Before the friends you love arrive – That life shows the simple beauty That it is.

The Most Expensive Cupcakes Ever Or: Why you should also use a map feature in conjunction with a shopping feature on your smart phone.  Winsome city dweller From far off and ignorant places Hemmed in by all that your iPhone apps allow you to believe No, we cannot deliver three cupcakes To Cavalier, North Dakota A small …

Perhaps it’s jut the vitamin D pills talking Or the endorphins from the treadmill at the Y Or the delicate clatter of dried leaves blowing and gusting down Washington Street Or the lowered and refreshing temperatures But I am inclined To disregard the annoyances of the day (e.g. woman at the bakery who forcefully insisted on having …

Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. –Robert Frost, Nothing Gold Can Stay Walking home from work during the rush hour, I …

I thought I knew pain, that it struck and then left glancing blows – maybe bruises at worst, slight ache at best – but now I know hooks. Pulling and tugging when I am not prepared because I do not control the string – maybe punctured at best, ripped apart at worst – wondering how I …