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Missing Out
I have realized that most stories, poems, or tidbits through 2019/20 never received payment, not the fault of Medium, but from my own lack of attention to detail.
I will present some of these in a different light. I hope that those who did read them will enjoy reading them differently, and I’ll become a trillionaire.
There ought to be a carnival, a sky full of coloured balloons drifting on the wind with tags on them saying goodbye…goodbye… as they sail out over the Golden Gate and around the world relying only on the trade winds of friendship.
I wish I had moved more slowly, taken more time to arrive at where friendship left off. I wish I had danced and dined more often, learned the meaning of each other’s glances, or taken note of how quickly time was passing. Your warmth and humour always had me feeling a little tipsy and light-hearted, as if I’d eaten a perfectly ripe tomato, and its colour had drained into my cheeks. I feel there are many things I don’t yet know or understand, and I am still trying to write about them, not as a writer does, looking for an explanation, but as a man wishing he’d known more about love than he does.
Memories return, some broken, splintered, like shards of affection returning from another universe after being flung far off into space. Fragments still survive, coming back at me speaking of warmth, friendship, or what goes with what. Of course, I alone know the truth, all the things I leave out, cast aside on a Sunday, but recalled on a Monday as I hurtle into Tuesday…exhausted.
I think balloons have taught me about life. The beauty of balloons is in their flying free, side by side, maybe, but untethered, the wind caressing them along their journey. I don’t feel a need to demonstrate courage or reason to do something right, even if I only share my stories of friendship, illustrations that are not a definitive roadmap but rather a journey into the next life…or Wednesday.
Adrienne Beaumont | Autistic Widower (“AJ”) | Brett Jenae Tomlin | The Sturg | Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles | Trisha Faye | Karen Schwartz | NancyO | Katie Michaelson | Bernie Pullen | Michelle Jimerson Morris | Amy Frances | Julia A. Keirns | Pamela Oglesby | Toni the Talker | Tina | Pat Romito LaPointe | Ruby Noir | K. Joseph | Brandon Ellrich | Misty Rae | Karen Hoffman | Deb Palmer | Susie Winfield | Vincent Pisano
Paari | Marlene Samuels | Ray Day | Randy Pulley | Michael Rhodes | Lu Skerdoo | Pluto Wolnosci | Paula Shablo | Bruce Coulter | Ellen Baker | Kelley Murphy | Leigh-Anne Dennison | Jennifer Marla Pike | Carmen Ballesteros | Marlana, MSW| Patricia Timmermans | Keeley Schroder |Jan Sebastian
If you do NOT wish to be included in the above list, my apologies. Please let me know in the comments.
