Tag: hope
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Orphaned
On September 11, 2025, just before dinner time, I became an orphan at 45 years old. My mother passed away in 2006 after fighting through kidney failure and multiple heart attacks for years and a week ago, as I’m writing this, my father passed away after a short battle with multi-systems cancer. And try as…
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Trying Again…Again – Death
I have watched people die. As an EMT, I’ve been in the presence of a body separated from its soul as we fought to reunite the two. As a child and grandchild, I’ve sat beside a loved one as they’ve taken their final breath. Each event is as traumatic and life altering as the next.…
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Quiet Noise
One of my most vivid memories from childhood was the day I got run over on my bicycle near my house. My parents had called out for us to come home, and I knew, on that particular day, that meant that we would be going to Leal’s for dinner and I could eat chips and…
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Day 1 of Writing Everyday Until I’m Published
In mid-June this year, I set down my pen and took some time away from writing. I was tired, my kids were home for the summer, and I just needed a break to collect my thoughts. At the time I was working on a novel that just wasn’t going anywhere, and I needed to step…
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Judas’s Choice
He has made a fool of all of usClaiming the power no man can haveCommanding things mock the LawGiving no regard to our lives or our nation Something must be doneHe must be stoppedThough the example our leaders have in mindMight be too drastic a choice to take They have offered me so muchTo betray…
J.Rhett Lively 