It’s cold and how the wind blows chill. Nor all the comfort in a paper bag can hide my fears or help me through the night. How have I come to this low place in life where none will smile at me or hold my hand? Is there no comfort or no love of man, […]

We colickty-clack past shabby houses, clinging together in rows; cringing as trains rattle past. Tin tubs hang on walls. Grimy urchins playing games are sheltered from the sun by the green gasometers gray shadow. A cloud of dust and smuts speckles off white washing. Pale faces peer and disappear, as light glances off windows. A […]

If you must be critical, be critical of yourself.   If you must be judgmental, be judgmental in the time frame.   If you must feel slighted, check your point of view.   If must feel abandoned, think of a slave ship.   If you must feel alone, go to a mountain top.   If […]