love
All you need is Love, and Love is all you need.
True emotions I've never really felt.
Having lived a life of long hard work hours and providing for a loving family I never really had time for emotions. There was always some issue to resolve or project to complete trying to keep ahead of the curve. Then came retirement and the sudden loss of a wife. We had planned to grow old together but she became sick and needed a regimen of medications to reduce the pain and inflammation she was experiencing. This is where I learned patience and empathy through the suffering of my loved one.
By Ismael Fernandez4 years ago in Humans
The Harpist
Summer 1984. Sixteen years old. Nashville, Tennessee. Cracker Barrel parking lot in Music Valley. I was a "host" at the music theme park Opryland USA, which is a polite way of identifying the person who walks around with a short-broom and dustpan. One sweltering day I worked the Doo-Wah-Diddy-City section of the park, which was themed after the 1950s. I took my fifteen minute break in the small, hippie colors painted room between the train tracks and the Rock n' Roller Coaster.
By Jason Goldtrap4 years ago in Humans
Happy Just Because Day
“86 degrees and we’re supposed to be thankful it's cooler?” Morgan paused and looked in the shop window of the dark little store on the town square. She was stranded, waiting for the car repairs to be finished, and the relative darkness inside the shop seemed to beckon with coolness. “Antiques and Rarities, Consignments,” she read. That could be interesting. Browsing would definitely be worth it to cool off for a bit.
By Lois Brand4 years ago in Humans
The Corkscrew
The Corkscrew By Jason Goldtrap March 9, 2021 When I was growing up in the 70s and 80s, my hometown, Nashville, Tennessee, had a musical theme park called Opryland USA. Aside from the standard thrill rides, the park was noted for dozens of shows featuring Country, Rock, Gospel, Bluegrass and Broadway. The king of the attractions was the Wabash Cannonball.
By Jason Goldtrap4 years ago in Humans
Psychology Finally Reveals the Answer to Finding Your Soulmate
We all as social creatures have a deep and underlying desire to find that one special person to spend the rest of our days. That one person that when we meet, we feel an uncontrollable desire and an illogical sense of familiarity. As if you had known that person for a lifetime, or perhaps lifetimes. Whatever you want to call it, films and television alike have romanticized the phenomenon known as the soulmate.
By Luis Rubén4 years ago in Humans
The Forgotten Athlete
Her mother always told her she was stubborn. Since the day she rather ungraciously entered the world, she was doing things her own way. The entire family used to tell us all at every function, “She came when she wanted to come, there was no sticking to anyone else’s schedule. She got far too comfortable in there and it took the Doctor’s intervention to get her out three weeks after she was told! But at least we could choose an auspicious day.”
By Holly Jackson4 years ago in Humans
Why Do We Keep Talking About "True Love"
I have a vehement dislike for the term “true love” because it limits love. It suggests that if your love doesn’t fit a certain mold or have certain characteristics, it isn’t “true.” It will not last if you don’t “do” love right.
By Dani McGaw4 years ago in Humans
What should have been..
Maybe she held out too much hope that she could be loved, in a delicate way that did not crush her spirit or contain her. Maybe she thought that chivalry wasn't dead. That she could be touched so gently she would fall in love and together again instead of apart. That fingers could trail up her body and across the stories on her body written in ink, that there would be candles and flowers combined with the strong hand around her throat. That it could be more than just sex. It could be love like she always knew love to be. That she wouldn't have to lead the dance between their bodies, that time would evaporate in meaning, that she could fall in love and believe words spoken and promises made. That she could cling to him in the storm that is her world, and not have to always be the strong one.
By Justice for All4 years ago in Humans
