Image via Wikipedia Yesterday, as I took a break from work to gaze out the window the line of Rudyard Kipling‘s poem, If ran through my mind: “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs..” Lately, my thoughts often turn to words of the past. Unlike so much of our [...]
A Verse of Hope
October 21, 2008 By 18 Comments
Image by Swamibu via Flickr Written by Karen D. Swim I awakened this morning to darkness. Momentarily confused without the morning light to guide me, I got up and padded to the window. I peered out into the darkness silently willing the dawn to break. I gave thanks for the day as I carefully stepped [...]
How Santa Busted My Recession Blues
October 17, 2008 By 11 Comments
Written by Karen D. Swim One evening last week, I sat on my couch debating whether to make the trek to gather the mail. After all, it had been a long day and it would simply sit untouched anyway. As I was debating, the news hummed in the background with an incessant procession of bad [...]
Climbing the Rough Side of the Mountain
September 29, 2008 By 23 Comments
Image via Wikipedia Written by Karen D. Swim There is an old gospel song called “Rough Side of the Mountain.” The song is older than I am and has been sung by many artists. At odd times, the song comes to me (the Mahalia Jackson version) and I sing the chorus (I’m coming up on [...]
I’m Still Standing! I’m Still Strong!
September 19, 2008 By 28 Comments
Written by Karen D. Swim “It don’t matter what you tried to do, you couldn’t destroy me! I’m still standing! I’m still strong! And I always will be. “– Antwone Fisher, 2002 I saw Antwone Fisher in 2002, when it was first released. I was drawn to the story line about a young man who [...]
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