Author Archives: Susan L Daniels

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About Susan L Daniels

I am a firm believer that politics are personal, that faith is expressed through action, and that life is something that must be loved and lived authentically--or why bother with any of it?

communication 101

there is eloquence inside silence in letting the eyes speak for themselves without framing so often lips lie, tongues cut and tattle let us move beyond anything spoken and just be, and be just that together

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One Lovely Blog Award/Sunshine Blogger Award

Oh, wow–I love you guys, and the support is overwhelming!  Thanks to Spilled Cookies for nominating me for this wonderful award! Also thanking my sista from another mother, Rhonda at Help me Rhonda for nominating me for this one…well, I … Continue reading

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Fizzy Feelings and Fuzzy Physics #2: Inertia

By Noel Ihebuzor and Susan Daniels We drift in habitual wobbling circles hobbling like feet poorly cobbled, feeling neither earth nor one another, stranded arid motion free stretch of ever elongating slippery quicksand highway, without grip or traction Smiles stiff and … Continue reading

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Walking: 3 haiku

ripples catch sunlight shadow and reflection blend into one  beauty *** currents shatter sky into laughing blue ripples capturing sunlight *** the whole green rainbow is painted here, in the woods I walk through all shades

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don’t gamble what you can’t afford to lose

all that is left is that smile and swagger those empty pockets you cashed in the last of your second chances and did not notice my patience is not infinite like a poor poker player, you ignored your dwindling stack … Continue reading

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dawn

the touch that teased you awake that traced your jawline, your eyelids that you brushed off as early sunlight once those eyes opened did some part of you open, too, still half dreaming lean into that heat gently for a moment … Continue reading

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what the?

no one else knows such precise approximately my difficulty but you unknowing that absolute limited science of solutions to track thicker than layers of water over the nothing of everything duller than diamonds shiny as mud & I am confused with … Continue reading

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