Lately life feels like I’m playing a game of pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey and that creepy Jack-in-the-box keeps spinning me around and moving the donkey. 🤡🎯
Where is my trusty wooden dog Snoopy? 🐶
He would chase Jack back into his box so I could ride off into the Lollipop Forrest of Candyland on my bouncy Wonder horse… toy guns a blazin’ 🔫🤠🍭🐴
E.A. Fussell
05.06.2021
There is no failure
There is no success
There is only feedback
If you like the feedback
You are receiving
Then continue with your path
If you don’t like the feedback
You are receiving
Then change your path
The mind likes to classify
Failure and success
The ego likes to compare
Itself against others
The Universe is indifferent
We have a free will
To walk whatever path
We choose
Feedback is freely given
Based on our choices
How we use
The feedback
Is also
Ours to choose
E.A. Fussell
05.05.2021
Beauty can often be found in the midst of ugliness. Isn’t it inspiring that man-made things, such as asphalt and concrete, cannot contain the beauty of nature? Nature’s beauty is determined to exist and bloom. Finding the gap in man’s creation, forcing its way up and out. These expressions of unmitigated defiance inspire me to push through my own self-made obstacles to find fresh and interesting new perspectives.
E.A. Fussell
05.03.2021
Hey girl, Hey!
Sometimes
Life gets a little crazy
Don’t let it get you down
Friday’s here
The weekend with it
Have a little fun
Soak up some sun
Put on a fancy gown
Go out on the town
Or just relax
And read a book
Whatever you do
I will be sending
Good vibes to you
E.A. Fussell
04.29.2021
Homes
Big or small
I love them all
And one of my favorite
Things to see
A good crew finishing
Freshly poured concrete
E.A. Fussell
O4.28.2021
Live your life
Take some chances
Ignore the fences
Climb across the barbed wire
Crawl underneath it
Be wild and crazy
Like nobody’s watching
And if they are
Let them
You’re more interesting
Than those Kardashians
Make some waves
Relax on the shore
Dance barefoot in the sand
Sleep under the stars
Remember
In the end
You are the only one
You have to answer for
Right now is the oldest
You’ve ever been
And the youngest
You will ever be again
What will you do
With the rest of
What life has to offer you
E.A. Fussell
04.27.2021
Little lily
Fresh and pure
You make me long
For something more
Your effortless springing
From the dry crusty ground
Makes me believe
Maybe
Hope can still be found
E.A. Fussell
04.21.2021
CUERO, TX.
Indians were known to kill wild cattle that got stuck in Cuero Creek. The Spanish called it Arroyo del Cuero, or Creek of the Rawhide. The town was named after the creek. It was one of the stops I visited that was on the Chisholm Trail. You can read more about Cuero and it’s interesting history by visiting Texas State Historical Association.
The bravest thing I ever did
Was continue to live
The day you died
Those who see me now
Will never know
The pain I’m in
Or the grief I battle
Each and every day
In a multitude of ways
They can not see
My heart
Ripped and torn
Thinking about
The day you were born
They can not see
My tortured mind
Tangled up
In the ties that bind
A mother to her son
They can not see me
When I’m driving along and
Your favorite song comes on
A memory flashes
The tears freely flow
I see your smiling face
I hear your voice
I reach out to hug you
But you’re only a vapor
Drifting around in my mind
If I seem distant to others
It’s because I am
A part of me
Has left this place
It is gone forever
My heart
Is wherever you are
Happy Birthday Derreck
Love, mom
E.A. Fussell
04.15.2021
In loving memory of my son Timothy Derrreck Howard
04/15/1983 – 01/20/2021
I used to tell you
I love you to the moon and back
A million times
Do you remember
You were the only thing
That kept me hoping
And now
Somedays it feels like
All hope is gone
This is one of those days
I see your eyes
Light up
I hear your laugh
I feel your hug
I’m running to you
Running for my life
But going nowhere
I wake up
And I’m still in this lonely place
I know you’ll make it
Anywhere
I wish you had known that
While you were here
You made your choice
I have to accept that
But to think I might not ever
See your eyes again
Makes it hard not to cry
Can you hear my voice
Can you see my tears
Do you know how very much
I love you
No matter that worlds
Separate us now
You live on in my mind
And in my darkest days
The memory of
Your beautiful smile
Lights my way
And eventually
Pulls me up from
The darkest place
E.A. Fussell
02.21.2021
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