Posted by Brad Osborne on January 20, 2022 · 25 Comments
Charged particles paint the sky,
Shimmering in blues and greens…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on November 29, 2021 · 23 Comments
I remember laughing with friends about the fact that in 1969 we could put a man on the moon with the computing power of one of today’s lesser cell phones, and yet it took us 40 more years to figure out we could put a flat bottom on a taco shell.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 27, 2021 · 20 Comments
Charged particles paint the sky,
Shimmering in blues and greens…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on November 11, 2020 · 10 Comments
Like an elongated silence before the needle drops,
Like a lover’s kiss and sweet lips that stall…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on August 27, 2020 · 24 Comments
The greatest minds do teach thus,
The tipping point has reached us…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on February 15, 2020 · 14 Comments
Though shouted from the source,
The words of love you profess,
Through life’s peaked and valleyed course,
Each echo is heard a little less.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 22, 2019 · 14 Comments
All the words followed by rote,
The wonders of most holy night,
Geographically does not denote,
Why your Savior born was white.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on May 30, 2019 · 7 Comments
I was torn between the English and Metric systems of measure. Two systems that rail against each other in their efforts to complete the same tasks. There is no simple conversion for any units of measure.
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