Getting Acquainted
I spend most of my time playing alpha female for my pack of dogs. Lucy (Boston terrier), Harley (chihuahua). Hershey (miniature dachshund) and Jasper (standard schnauzer) are my entertainment and sometimes muses. Jasper is a puppy mill rescue dog and I'm in the intital stages of writing a series of vignettes of his life since the rescue contrasted with eduaction about rescues and puppy mills. I do actually have other interests than writing and my dogs. I love to scrapbook, watch ice hockey, listen to a variety of music genres and reading. My parents both were avid readers and passed that love on to me. I'll read a cereal box if you set it in front of me!
Cutting the Strings
Cutting the Strings

How dare you attempt to
clip my wings!
You have lived your life,
Allow me mine.
Planting the seeds of doubt,
manipulating my conscience.

Why?

To keep me tightly
under your wing?
I cannot breathe,
I cannot fly.

Ah, but
the walls you have built
around me are crumbling.
There are chinks in the mortar.
Light filters in.
Fresh air,
whispers of breaking free.

The boundaries are
disappearing.

I take tentative steps~alone.
Sweet freedom is calling out
to me.

I must answer.

I can answer.

I will answer.

I'm soaring!
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