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About Ken Greenman

Married and Happy. Retired and busy. Living in NC. 71 and counting. December 12, 2025 and it's 77! ... I would love some written comments, critiques, adulation or kind suggestions.... If you have the time and or inclination, please feel free! Not in fear but by faith. We will see. See you later! If you ever want to talk for real, email me and I will send you my cell number.... I am enjoying this!

1198 MY “LORD’S PRAYER” (another rendition) 08-09-24

Mother-Father God in Heaven and on earth and in our lives and in mine, all the names You have chosen to be called are Holy. Your Kingdom is coming and Your Kingdom is here, already! In Us! Help me to … Continue reading →

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1197 ALL GLORY, LAUD AND HONOR! 07-23-24

…given to those few fools who float in magic pools where the water, clear and cool, can not be seen, splashed or swallowed by, would not even wet a non-believer in the Mystery, but a faithful acolyte might even drown … Continue reading →

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1196 ARGUING WITH MY ATHEIST FATHER AFTER READING the iowa baseball confederacy BY W.P. KINSELLA 07-23-24

“Look, Dad, it’s not nonsense! It just doesn’t make sense to you! But I sense order in the swirls and twirls of tornados. I sense Will in this world wide web of chaos, in the screeching cacophony of questions with … Continue reading →

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1195 A SLICE OFF LIFE 07-12-24

Balanced, precariously, on my red hand-cart, two buckets full of water for the dry bird baths, wobbled a bit. So I stopped on the dirt path to the bird feeding ground to secure them. I feed the birds twice a … Continue reading →

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1194 “QUIET, PLEASE!” 07-05-04

Here’s to tight lipped librarians imprisoned by stacks of books, keeping their passions checked. Their minds subdue their flesh. All those bound volumes bind their bodies tight Like their proper dresses buttoned to their necks like nooses. ‘Till evening comes. … Continue reading →

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1193…with Her old canvas sack… 06-29-24

The cosmos is an old canvas sack slung behind the Creators back as She slogs through undeveloped space thinking, “Location! Location! Location!” Wondering which plot in the universe She will develop next, way out there, somewhere. This ceaseless speculation tires … Continue reading →

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1192 OH! THE DRAMA WE MISS! 06-26-24

We ignore, by conscious choice, the ordinary drama around us and never learn the life or death of it. like the hawk perching on a branch of a Long Needle Pine high above the seed and suet holders and the … Continue reading →

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1191 COLATERAL DAMAGE 06-15-24

The acorns in the oak trees are meals for squirrels. But the green leaves that fall in Spring, bitten from their stems by those gluttonous rats with fur are the collateral damage on which squirrel- survival depends. Innocent green leaves … Continue reading →

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1190 GREEN LEAVES FALL 06-13-24

Appropriately, Autumn’s leaves in reds, yellows, browns, blanket the earth in a timely death when all is as it should be. Waiting winters crystal coffin to hold Mother’s sleep, Her shroud, white and frozen for the season. But, now I … Continue reading →

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1189 IF YOU DROP IT 06-09-24

There’s nothing so easy as dropping something. A fork under the table. A vitamin pill into the corner behind the toilet seat. A sock under your bed when you’re just about finished folding your wash. It’s just a matter of … Continue reading →

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