In the Rose Garden

White Rose BudWith apologies to the poetry aficionados frequenting the BouncebackCafe, I’m offering up an amateur knock-off on the Spoon River Anthology… one of my “what-the-hey” runs at an assignment from my creative writing class.  This is my tongue-in-cheek spoof at my Convent School Education experience.  All names have been changed to protect the guilty!  And, yes, smoking is so NOT PC  (Politically Correct) – a regretted and long-since discarded addiction. It’s hard to believe that my high school class is rapidly approaching our 50th reunion. (Ye gads, my age is showing!) I wonder how many of us still smoke.  C’est la vie! (For those of us who took Latin instead of French, say lah VEE] Life goes on

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Take a short break and consider the following:

“Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun. Care for those around you. Look past your differences. Their dreams are no less than yours, their choices no more easily made.”

Kent Nerburn

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