Staceys-musings

Pleasure you delude me As I search high and low Never drawing near you Watching as you go Why do you so despise me Leaving me alone ...

We must experience pain: otherwise delight will never have its proper savor, nor pleasure its sweetness, nor love its bittersweet ache... ...

CARETAKING AND DETACHMENT Even as a child I had grown-up responsibilities, so it is no wonder that I grew up being a care-taker.  It s...

Impossible... "Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been give...

WHY I WRITE by Stacey Baty Patterson 10-23-12 Why do I write?  Why does anyone write? What need are we fulfilling when we ...

My Disability and Character Development (from a former achievement junkie) <p>Becoming disabled is the experience that has probab...

Why we must stop trying to change other people...An Alanon Gem Willpower is not the key to the way of life we are seeking. Surrender is...

Christmas for Bill's Friends! 'Twas the night before Christmas, we were all in the club, Enjoying a meeting, instead of a pub...

Great quote on WRITING! "Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write ...

         Snow.     Flakes.    Falling.   In.     My.    Eyes. Snow.      Flakes.      Falling.           No.          Surprise.   ...

Stout liver and onions frying In a skillet Sweet broccoli and carrots steaming In a basket Orange tea steeping In my cup Nanny prepar...

All out everywhere, streets and alleys alike Children roll and bounce on bikes and scooters and on trikes They run and leap with such del...

One and two Bodies intertwined Intertwined  bodies Two become one

A long, foggy, winding path Littered with reptilian fears and chaotic isolation Turns To serene belonging As debris is cleared and f...

(tools: imperfect, Limerick, enjambment) Why aren't they   smooth, shiny and bright The texture so coarse and so tight ...

This smooth brown texture, soft to the touch, This deep defiant hue, hated so, This darkness so questioned, so often feared, T his b...

DENEX (tools: gift, acrostic, simile) Dare I venture past this door? Eaves above me beckoning more. New relationship like an unwrappe...

(Tools: Haiku & Alliteration) Always in action Inhaling Ammonia air As I arch and ache

(Tools: Haiku) Screen so blue so white Grant me inspiration now Or I may perish http://staceys-musings.blogspot.com

It Really WAS Good! So, when I was a kid I had this love for certain sandwiches. I ate one almost every day, when I got home from schoo...

"We couldn’t ask for more beautiful day!" said the man to his wife, as they sauntered through the park together, hand-in-hand. H...