The (not so) Secret Life of a Cat Lady

Saturday, June 30, 2012

Poetry

Saving Face

Stand at the face of infinity,

and see me.

Read from the books of reality,

and hear me.

Take heed in word I will sing to you,

then feel me.

Find fact through the eyes of integrity,

then teach me.

Close doors on forgotten memories,

to need me.

Speak silence in words of true honesty,

to have me.

DLM

Words will Manifest

Blood and life in the tips of my fingers
click, click on the small padded squares.
constant pressing matters of the brain
calling to the conscious
from the subconscious.

They live in me and my body trembles as
they fall from the world within my limbs and flesh.
a day without words manifested is like a day without
a stranger in ones life.
Unusual to me.

I am not unlike the bear.
I am living on the white lace and satin.
Manifested in the words of my flesh
Blood and life
Blood and Breath
They live in me and I simply offer them to you.

And they make me beautiful.

DLM

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Sunday, January 23, 2011

It's a little not right...

0 comments Posted by Dodi at 11:23 PM

Although I'm sensitive to the earthy humor of Red Skelton and the likes, as well as the twisted peculiar humor of Muppets and Saturday morning 80's cartoons. I have never enjoyed so much as I do now, the strange and ridiculous humor of the television show The Office.

Monday, November 8, 2010

November 7....

0 comments Posted by Dodi at 12:02 AM

The months go by. I will probably count them for a while as they continue to get further and further away from August. I'm exhausted and sometimes very confused. I've spent so much time in prayer and conversations with the Lord I feel like we've been to lunch each day. I've shed a lot of tears lately. I've been trying desperately to keep my head above water and not drown in the creeping depression that has slowly made its way into my life in the last 6 weeks or so. I finally decided to get help and have been medicated with Cymbalta for 4 days now. I can honestly say I am beginning to feel like I am coming out of this fog and making some improvement.

Monday, October 11, 2010

Pumpkin senses and Autumn delights

0 comments Posted by Dodi at 11:55 PM

I love FALL! It's the opening procession to the cavalcade of seasonal events from September to January.The smell of pumpkins and spices; the changing leaves and brisk early morning chill in the air.

Can you smell the cinnamon and nutmeg? Can you hear the rustling of the fallen leaves or feel the static in the breezes?

I don't know any other time of year that feels so vivid for me. From the turning of the leaves until that darn groundhog checks his shadow, life's little trials and tribulations are all worth while if I get to experience the seasons of autumn and winter with incomparable joys and vicissitudes. I love spring and summer for their reprieve from cold toes and excessive sniffles. I love them for the opportunity to experience things not possible during autumn and winter. Nevertheless, they are not as brilliant to my senses as the Holidays.

Thursday, October 7, 2010

2 months today...

0 comments Posted by Dodi at 12:46 AM

I miss him but it gets a little easier each day.

Pie Jesu

Pie Jesu,

Qui tollis peccata mundi

Dona eis requiem.

Agnus Dei,

Qui tollis peccata mundi,

Dona eis requiem

Sempiternam.

Merciful Jesus,

Who takes away the sins of the world,

Grant them rest.

Lamb of God,

Who takes away the sins of the world,

Grant them rest

Everlasting.

Sunday, September 26, 2010

I had GREAT seats; Dad Has BETTER

0 comments Posted by Dodi at 9:23 PM

The score was ultimately 27-13 in Nevada's favor thanks to some crappy calls by the WAC refs but my very first in-stadium BYU home game was incredible! Being disabled, I took my electric wheelchair with me so I could avoid having to climb too many stairs. I didn't know we would end up seven stairs away from the side of the field! The only problem (besides the refs), we sat on the side with the National Guard's cannon...

On another note, I've recently found a painting that immediately made me cry when I came across it downstairs in the BYU bookstore. It's by Jon McNaughton, an LDS artist. It's titled Parting of the Veil (The Second Coming) you can see it here Parting of the Veil. The images were so beautiful and vivid to my spirit that I wept right there in the store. My heart and mind were filled with the knowledge that I will see my dad again when Christ returns to this earth. Yet, my tears at the time were sadness because I do not know how long that will be.

I made sure to take as many memories of Daddy with me to the game yesterday: a hat I bought him at Disneyland a few years back and a BYU blanket I got him for Christmas last year. I even made sure to mutter under my breath a time or two like he did when the game was going south. He would have loved the seats I had but like my sister texted to me just before the game started, he has better ones.

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