Posted by Brad Osborne on May 27, 2023 · 15 Comments
You were once everything,
But fickle is love and fate…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on February 27, 2020 · 20 Comments
We tell our teens,
“For you there is no limit”,
For fear their dreams,
May somehow be diminished.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on October 21, 2019 · 16 Comments
It’s not as easy as it looks
To put words down in poetry
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 26, 2019 · 2 Comments
As referenced above, this phrase is just shorthand for ‘the proof of the pudding is in the eating’.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 15, 2019 · 5 Comments
Recently a close friend referred to needing to end the pursuit of a love interest because they had too much “baggage”. I understood immediately this was not the literal possession of a vast number of suitcases. It was a representation of emotions, feelings, hurts, or misperceptions that someone carries with them long after the event … Continue reading →
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 16, 2019 · 2 Comments
Beginning the concept of “learning from other’s mistakes” with the hopes of anyone avoiding a given risk or its consequences is unreasonable.
commonsensiblyspeaking 