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.
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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…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 1, 2021 · 9 Comments
We are not what we were,
But we are what we teach…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on April 23, 2021 · 22 Comments
He had watched his father work the seas his whole life and wanted nothing more than to be a great fisherman in kind.
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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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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 13, 2020 · 16 Comments
I woke with a yawn,
As it was just dawn,
No time for any breakfast.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 4, 2019 · 1 Comment
I know this is a rare earth kind of find. The leader we need for the world we live in today.
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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.
Posted by Brad Osborne on May 13, 2019 · Leave a Comment
I put it simply to them, “with each day that goes by my simply writing it gets to be a little more “enough” and the desire to share it fades a little correspondingly”…
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Post Script to ‘I Found My Line’
Posted by Brad Osborne on May 13, 2019 · Leave a Comment
I put it simply to them, “with each day that goes by my simply writing it gets to be a little more “enough” and the desire to share it fades a little correspondingly”…
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