Posted by Brad Osborne on August 1, 2021 · 29 Comments
I wrote this piece on April 4, 2020 at the onset of the Covid pandemic. Some of the thoughts and feelings I captured then have changed and, sadly, some have not.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 17, 2020 · 23 Comments
‘Twas the night before Christmas, 2020 the year,
The days were blurring with pandemic fear;
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Posted by Brad Osborne on October 24, 2020 · 18 Comments
It was not all that long ago,
When an offered hand,
Was the measure of a man…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 22, 2020 · 19 Comments
But there is no thought to this,
These crazy things you do…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 13, 2020 · 12 Comments
I thought I had a handle on things,
But what little did I really know…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on May 30, 2020 · 35 Comments
She cries,
Salted pain hangs from her lashes,
And falls upon her light blue smock,
To mix with the sweat of long days.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on May 2, 2020 · 41 Comments
A lunch bell rings and echoes,
But there is no one to hear…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on April 11, 2020 · 33 Comments
Now we see the things that bind,
A ribbon through humanity…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on March 28, 2020 · 27 Comments
There is greater understanding now,
A global view of connections…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on March 26, 2020 · 5 Comments
These are the times when mettle tested,
When we are measured and weighed…
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