Living Water
I am the stream of my childhood summers
Running down the hill near Grandma’s Summer Garden | A history of memories tumbling | rolling spilling over rocks | Always moving forward
Category: introspective writing
Do not forget our history
US Pride month marks the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. Why did they riot? Because of institutionalized discrimination and abhorrent repetitive legal brutality by the Police against members of the LGBTQ+ community. If you are black and LGBTQ+ — your life is absolutely a series of risks and micro-aggressions as well as outright discrimination on […]
Read More#OTR50 Day 240-326:
I wrote a poem on day 326. I wrote it. I saved it because it cut far far to much personal info. I’m not ready to share it. It is for me and not you. It helped me to get it out and to write it down. For now, it is mine and mine alone. […]
Read More#OTR50 Day 238-239: Burning the Candle at Both Ends
OK, I missed another day…. but still better than a few weeks. The past few weeks have been filled with early morning and late evening phone calls, webex meetings, and other various business communications because I am prepping for an event in Singapore. I’m in the final stretch. I board the excruciatingly long flight in […]
Read More#OTR50 Day 175 to 237: Forgiving Myself
62 days is far too long. And once the days turn into weeks and turn into months, I fall into the trap of old. I have lat inertia set in. Shame on me. However….
Read More#OTR50 Day 173: Road Trip Home
Yesterday I drove the almost 8 hours home from Vermont with only a few short stops. We had planned a break for lunch about half way through. Our initial goal was either Popolo or Flatbread Pizza Company for lunch. I thought I’d be exhausted and need to stop for a long break. However, a few […]
Read More#OTR50 Day 165: 200 to go. . .
I’ve been chugging along. Day in and day out. Sometimes writing with ease and occasionally every word a struggle. Some days my inner voice is crystal clear and screaming with the need to be heard, to be written, to be shared. Even though I’ve been writing and counting every day, there are moments when they […]
Read More#OTR50 Day 164: September Looming
It is only Thursday night and the week already feels incredibly long. . . I took a moment to breathe deep and recognized that it isn’t that the weekend *feels* long, it’s that it has been long! It’s been a days of early morning meetings with the middle east and late night calls with the […]
Read More#OTR50 154-160: Bump In the Road to 50
A bump in the road. I could not get myself to write. Part of it was a mental block, a lack of material, clogged up insides. However, that wasn’t all of it. I’ve been physically and emotionally exhausted for so long that I just couldn’t do it. The very thought of trying just made me […]
Read More#OTR50 Day 151: Toni Morrison
What is there to say? Toni Morrison was an inspiration to generations already. She will without a doubt be an inspiration to many many many more. Her words will live and motivate for years and years and years beyond her life. Life is too short. #OTR50 214 Days to go. © Randi Sumner
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Randi S. Sumner 