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Goodnight Girl

* cold night * warm embrace soft music * slow dancing sweet wine * mind games brown eyes * blue eyes masked emotions * repressed passion

Michigan State of Mind...

“In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open. In an hour like this, when the mind has a passive sensibility, but no active strength; when the imagination is a mirror, imparting vividness to all ideas, without the power of selecting or controlling them; then pray that your grieves may slumber, and the brotherhood of remorse not break their chain.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne Northern Michigan, Seasons, Sunrises, Beaches, Waterfalls, Mountains photo credits: coloneljohnbritt

Angels or Demons?

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Farrah Fawcett was my favorite angel in Charlie’s Angels She was every young boy’s darling while growing up in the 70s & 80s She defied the norms when she posed for Playboy at the ripe age of 50 Her futile battle with the Big C was well- documented and became the staple of America’s penchant for reality shows No matter how we view the life that she led, it cannot be denied that she was a woman who was not afraid to speak her mind and follow her heart no matter what She was a woman in her own right. + I liked Michael Jackson I followed his meteoric rise to the top of the world and his free-fall thereafter But I did not buy the sexual molestation allegations that were hurled against him by people with hidden agenda that was further fueled by the media into a conflagration that consumed his fragile soul He was part of my growing up years; I’ve danced to his music, listened to his songs and bought his records I understood his eccentricities and frailties as a person I was able to separ