Posted by Brad Osborne on January 21, 2023 · 12 Comments
Our love was but an arc in time,
A span of moments,
Bridging one shore to another…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 20, 2022 · 5 Comments
We are not what we were,
But we are what we teach…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with bigotry, enlightenment, failures, growth, hate, history, humanity, learning, lessons learned, poem, Poetry, slavery, society, tragic, war
Posted by Brad Osborne on July 13, 2022 · 15 Comments
Sometimes, you don’t know if something is a blessing or a curse.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 2, 2022 · 27 Comments
Wisdom is rarer when found in error…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with choice, cost, decisions, direction, freedom, learning, life, Life lessons, living, mistakes, path, poem, Poetry, wisdom, wrong
Posted by Brad Osborne on April 6, 2022 · 20 Comments
He had watched his father work the seas his whole life and wanted nothing more than to be a great fisherman in kind.
Filed under Taoist Parables · Tagged with boat, fishing, generations, gift, giving, hard work, koan, learning, life, Life lessons, mantra, parable, taoism, taoist koan, tradition
Posted by Brad Osborne on February 23, 2022 · 21 Comments
Our love was but an arc in time,
A span of moments,
Bridging one shore to another…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with bridge, crossing, future, heartbreak, learning, Life lessons, love, lovers, moments, moving on, past, poem, Poetry, relationships, time
Posted by Brad Osborne on July 1, 2021 · 9 Comments
We are not what we were,
But we are what we teach…
Filed under Poetry · Tagged with bigotry, enlightenment, failures, growth, hate, history, humanity, learning, lessons learned, poem, Poetry, slavery, society, tragic, war
Posted by Brad Osborne on April 23, 2021 · 25 Comments
He had watched his father work the seas his whole life and wanted nothing more than to be a great fisherman in kind.
Filed under Taoist Parables · Tagged with boat, fishing, generations, gift, giving, hard work, koan, learning, life, Life lessons, mantra, parable, taoism, taoist koan, tradition
Posted by Brad Osborne on March 8, 2021 · 21 Comments
The pens of writers that came before,
The lives that did not look like mine…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on August 26, 2020 · 30 Comments
“The gift of words, holds within it every possibility. Boundless permutations of human thought, emotion, and expression. It is like the universe wrapped with a bow. And, how do you thank someone for that?”
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