this is an excerpt from my illustrated poetry collection, love of the monster – thank you
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since 9/11
“A husband and father, as he did every morning, kissing his wife and daughter before driving to Rescue 1’s firehouse on West 53rd Street in Manhattan. And his unusual decision to stop as he walked to his van on Sept. 11, 2001, and return to kiss them one more time.”
“I’m saying to myself, he survived. He was a Marine, he was a Boy Scout (and) he was a rescue guy,” Tillie Geidel said. “If anybody could survive, he could survive.”
– Leonard Sparks for the Times Herald-Record, September 11, 2016
portrait of Gary Geidel, Rescue 1 – painted this for his mom in 2001
faith and a full cup
I believe in quiet miracles of love
selflessness of the human heart
the breadth of compassion
the faith of Heaven above
tucked in floating clouds
and the people below
colors of rainbows
both on this side
and the other
I believe
one day
we will
fully realize
our humanity
and peace
will settle
across the land
“…Faith is believing in something when commonsense tells you not to…”
–from the movie, Miracle on 34th Street
To those who celebrate, Happy Easter
To those who don’t, have a lovely weekend
art titled, “Friends” – created at nine years of age, when I had much shorter hair and much longer sleeps 😉
