A Nurse with a Goat Rescue Ruby Slipper Goat Rescue was created by Lisa Thompson, a nurse, in a small town in Kansas. I worked as a registered nurse in a rural community in Northeast Kansas for over 25 years in the small town where I was born. Starting out as a surgical nurse in […]
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I feel blue, but I don’t want to I’d rather feel magenta or lavender or silver or bronze, but I feel blue. Not the blue of a tropical ocean beckoning you to come for a warm swim, this is a cold blue, an all alone blue that is like the night sky just before it
I waited.I waited until I couldspend two months in Goat NirvanaI thought I had diedand gone to Heaven.I had friendsGoats and humansI had foodGood foodFood I didn’t have to look forFood that didn’t make me sickPlentiful foodAnd…clean water….Clean…clean…waterTo drink waterand not have to find it.It was there,in a bucket.And I had shelter,didn’t have to always
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To Wilson and Dorothythat have blessed our lives,but are no longer the bodiesthat we wrapped our arms around. Losing youis hard!You were my companionthat I took care ofYou were the bond that I counted onTo help me make sense out of the chaos in the world Now that you are gone,I hear the wind.You once
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The sacred has been lostLost….The mundane moved into all spacesand crowded out the silenceCrowded out essence and beautyDiminished the sacredDulled the awesomePolluted purity.The moment lacked its momentof who it wasHow can we erase this noisy clutter?-that is not ours-that belongs to no one-that wishes to eradicate sensitivity and innocenceI gave you a giftbut you rejected
It took me a yearA year in everydayEveryday immersed in some part of youThat brought up some pain in me.I visited each moment of my memoryStuck in time on some visualLike your smile when you were happyYour tears of laughter when you left yourself open and unedited,Stuck in time on some soundThe sound of my
Fear, don’t believe it. Would you? When you say you pray, When you say you are a positive person, When you go to church or temple, Would you still have Fear? Are your prayers worth anything then, when you follow them with short breaths and sweaty palms? When your anxiousness is stronger than your faith
Behind the mask Alone with my thoughts and feelings While looking out from tiny windows At the people gathered in front of me Staring down at the t.v. screen I hold I am silenced! They don’t hear me. I am silenced. Most don’t care. I want to scream, but I can’t. I want to fly
You left me on the side of the road in the rain My Goat would have never done that His love is beyond the human type of love that smells from what is conditional that reeks from seething judgment and criticism with the stench of trying to gain something instead of being consumed by what
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I wish I could make you feel… Feel with your heart instead of always thinking with your head. I wish I could make you empathic so that you could deeply understand what another feels – animals, plants, people, so that you could feel what they feel and immediately care about them. I wish I could