36/100 Acorn
Every day throughout this project, I am keeping a journal of the inspiration and the process behind each poem. Since most of the poems are first draft writing, I am counting on my notes to help me when I edit. Every now and then, I feel like the story if worth sharing here and now. Today is one of those days. We were at that park celebrating Joshua’s little brother’s third birthday. Joshua came across the grass concerned about this…
35/100 Break
34/100 The Porch
33/100 Making Plans
32/100 Why That Word?
This may be more of a rant than a poem. Nearly all of the healthcare professionals that Weber has encountered in the last week due to his knee replacement surgery have been fantastic. The one exception is the home health nurse who came to the house on Saturday to admit him to home physical therapy. The whole time that she was here, she kept making rude and unprofessional remarks about her geriatric patients–“Those 80 and 90 year olds don’t know…
31/100 Balance
30/100 This Place
29/100 Takeout
28/100 Teardrop
Sometimes working with limitations makes the task easier and other times it becomes much more difficult. I have no brain power today. I thought creating a piece of blackout poetry would be less taxing than sitting down to write from scratch, especialluy because I told myself that I was going to pull one random page from a discarded novel and that would have to do. I did that, and that one page was a tough one with which to…