What Do You Want?

123newyear (flickr) By Robert P. Poindexter Why is such an easy question so often hard to answer? Is it because we fear an obligation to ourselves and others by admitting it out loud?  Or, could it be that we simply don’t feel that we deserve what we want? Even more sinister is the possible negative...

Creating Striations: Defining 2013

Kara Lynn Bird (Flickr) By Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter Pensive, yet excited. Intellectually wrung, yet physically and emotionally rested. Lingering, deliberating, strategizing, planning, poised for renewed momentum. The days between Christmas and New Year’s are gently stretched and pulled with the weight...

“Words”

By Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter In 2012, I will aspire to … More of this … and this … Sea's the Day and this … Lake...

The Good News Is It Ain’t All Bad News

via CupOfJoe (flickr) By Robert P. Poindexter Wow!!! I don’t know about the rest of you, but I am worn smack-out!!!  What a year this has been so far, and with just a few days of it left, I must admit I am really looking forward to 2012. Two thousand eleven featured everything from droughts to wars...