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My Secret Santa
My neighborly Santa You see Brought me Under the tree Today Wednesday A very tasty Cranberry Pastry I will now Somehow Need the recipe...
tenbrunsel2
Dec 21, 20221 min read


PRAY
Let’s start with a prayer, then take prayer head on: Prayer - Lord God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, as I sit by the warming fire this...
tenbrunsel2
Dec 19, 20223 min read


ANCIENT OBJECT
I picked it up To have a look Dusted off, What life it took Perhaps a miss Perhaps naught A story told A story bold. A lucky charm Ages...
tenbrunsel2
Dec 14, 20223 min read


THE SOLSTICE MOON
The full moon Winter Solstice woke me sharply from a deep slumber at 4 AM this morning. Mesmerized by its magnificence, I grabbed my...
tenbrunsel2
Dec 8, 20221 min read


EPILOGUE TO MY MEMOIRS
EPILOGUE Through my faith and travels and in my many roles as spouse, father and grandfather, faculty member, university administrator,...
tenbrunsel2
Dec 4, 20221 min read


TABLE OF CONTENTS: My Wrinkle in Time
Sample Memoirs Table of Contents: Who Am I? My Journey: Come Along With Me Victory Garden (Casual Gardening) Boom! Eddie Wotier The...
tenbrunsel2
Dec 3, 20221 min read


PROLOGUE TO MY MEMOIRS
My Wrinkle in Time: My Memoirs . . . and a river runs thru! As I write, I am much older now. My pen is Tenkara, an ancient Japanese-easy...
tenbrunsel2
Dec 2, 20222 min read


MY WRINKLE IN TIME: My Memoirs
Brooking the Chattooga from a photo by Brian I am writing my memoirs. It is a gathering of my life stories, by which you will come to...
tenbrunsel2
Dec 1, 20221 min read


LET US GIVE THANKS
Let us take pause from the hustle bustle of everyday life to sit down with family and friends in giving thanks. How I remember a time...
tenbrunsel2
Nov 24, 20221 min read


The Portal
As by my window, I stood gazing, The heavens opened, The brightness blazing. So amazing, So dazing, Reminding me, Where my center be. The...
tenbrunsel2
Nov 22, 20221 min read


SUNSET SERENDIPITY
There is nothing, Nothing more musical, Than a Sunset. Where with a stroke of God’s brush, Heaven meets eternity, Peacefully beset, In a...
tenbrunsel2
Nov 19, 20221 min read


Gramma Sec
She lost her Gramma Sec. - Bummer! “We live but one life, Thru toil, love and strife, Goodness gone before us, Reunited in the next life,...
tenbrunsel2
Nov 18, 20221 min read


FALL’S END
Fall’s in its splendor, Of colors on end, Winter sure’s coming, On Fall’s blustery Wind, Bears gittin’ sleepy, Putting on fat, Settling...
tenbrunsel2
Nov 15, 20221 min read


AUTUMN
I once walked a dirt road, A road quite traveled there, From here to nowhere. Dirt? Yes, quite dusty, But with canopy of gold, Autumn...
tenbrunsel2
Nov 10, 20223 min read


SELF HELP SERIES: Insights into Psychology
Group photo 1909 in front of Clark University. Front row: Sigmund Freud, G. Stanley Hall, Carl Jung; back row: Abraham A. Brill, Ernest...
tenbrunsel2
Nov 1, 20223 min read


LOU! LOU, IS THAT YOU?: Unusual Eulogy for an Unusual Lifelong Friend*
SHENANIGANS: It's true! I can't get this or other images of Lou outta my mind! I mean I see George C Scott in a movie - frig, I see Lou!...
tenbrunsel2
Oct 22, 20224 min read


THE ROAD
The road before me bends, Twists and winds. It is the road least traveled by, And I’m somewhere nigh, on my adventure. Author’s Note: ...
tenbrunsel2
Oct 12, 20221 min read


HOW TO READ AND APPRECIATE POETRY
The Poet Laureate of My Domain Poetry! Don’t rush thru it! Read with your heart, not your mind. Let your mind straggle behind that first...
tenbrunsel2
Oct 1, 20223 min read


FAMILY JAM
Mirth, conversation, folly, laughter, loudness, music, humor, and song filled the living room air, when it was “family jam” night with...
tenbrunsel2
Sep 20, 20223 min read


SHADOW
Is it me Or not me? It’s plain to see It mimics me. Then sometimes It’s never there Am I still here? A thought I cannot bear The other...
tenbrunsel2
Sep 13, 20222 min read
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