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Est. April 19, 2005
revdbob
I am 64, white haired, a little paunchy, and usually smiling at something. My .3 sons all make me very proud.I've an amazingly broad & deep experience as counselor, teacher, pastor here and in New Guinea to share. I'm interested in, well, almost everything! As you will see...I am perennially short of space here, but enjoy what you can see!

Memoirs 1: Timmy  [ASR]   12.3 KB
A memoir of the death of a playmate when I was a a child, and reflections.

Memoirs 2: Grandpas  [E]   14.2 KB
My Grandpas - one I knew well, though he died when I was three; the other, hardly at all.

Hsiao-tse III - Medicine for a Village  [E]   10.4 KB
Mr. Hsiao gives new life to an old lady and cures the fears of a village.

Tales of Hsaio-tse II - The Town Hall  [E]   7.7 KB
Fable of a Chinese sage who lives humbly, teaches wisdom, and subtly puts down the proud.

Tales 1: A Birthday Feast for Hsiao-tse  [E]   8.5 KB
A fable. A Confucius-like elder teaches values to his grandson.

Fiction 2: The Window in My Soul  [E]   15.4 KB
A mind's view across life thru the windows of the eyes into the structure of Creation.

Fiction 1: Bunny  [13+]   3.1 KB
Man in a bar finds a headache, love, Jesus, and an Easter Bunny. Sort of.

Fiction 3: Damned Nobody  [13+]   29.8 KB
A truly lost soul chooses to be hurtful in response to his own suffering and finds regret.

Fiction 4: Friday's Freedom  [E]   3.4 KB
A prisoner looks forward to his parole

Fiction 6: Potential  [E]   1.9 KB
A brilliant, but tormented child finds a way to get even. Permanently.

Poetry 1: Baptized  [E]   1.6 KB
One who watches from behind walls the work of God's Spirit is finally set free.

P 2: If I Were the Painting Picasso Made  [E]   0.9 KB
A poem about Picasso's ethereal Old Man with a Guitar

Poetry 7: Ah, But He Did!  [E]   0.6 KB
A triolet: the loving person's longing to help others is also fulfilled by his Lord.

Poetry 3: Hear My Song  [E]   4.9 KB
One who is totally unable to communicate sings a song of life.

Poetry 4: First Sight  [E]   1.1 KB
Imagine being the first to see, and to love.

Poetry 5: What does death look like?  [ASR]   1.4 KB
Death looks like several scenes, but ultimately is not fearful but a gate to joy.

Closet Doors  [E]   1.3 KB
Monsters hide in dark closets of children's rooms, and adult minds.

I Give Thanks  [E]   2.1 KB
A Triptych poem, maybe a form I have invented; reflecting thanks from 3 points of view

Affair in My Office & Other Comic Poetry  [ASR]   9.0 KB
About a strange computer, a dog's-eye wedding view, an ode to spaghetti, who needs love

Poetry 10: Tomorrow's Tears  [E]   1.6 KB
Laughter and Tears are two sides of healthy life. Are we conscious in seeking both?

Poetry 6: The WInd Cries  [ASR]   1.1 KB
Subtitled The Last Holocaust it pictures the wind crying its pain over an empty world.

Poetry 9: Amazing News from an Outsider  [E]   1.2 KB
A Japanese person's amazement that a foreigner would sacrifice for them. A sedoka.

Poetry 8: The War, Lost  [ASR]   2.6 KB
A loyal soldier "wins" the battle, but succumbs to despair.

Poetry 10: America Stands for Freedom  [E]   0.4 KB
A double acrostic in honor of Independence Day and principles of freedom and democracy.

A Dog's Life  [E]   2.2 KB
The family dog is not going to be left out of the wedding celebration!

What Kind of Book is the Bible?  [E]   19.4 KB
A reader asks if he is off base reading the Bible in a non-literal way.

Reviewing and Rating at Writing.com  [E]   7.8 KB
What experienced reviewers and raters really mean. How to rate when you review.

Concrete/Abstract Thinking & Fun'ism  [ASR]   15.0 KB
Differences exist in thought patterns of abstract and concrete thinkers between cultures

Should Prayer be Allowed in Schools?  [E]   7.6 KB
A discussion of what prayer is, and why schools are incompetent to teach or lead it.

Dreaming?  [E]   1.5 KB
Flash Fiction. Awakening in a new world....

Last Stop  [ASR]   1.8 KB
Flash fiction. Three people in the same bus stop and different worlds.

Such a small price to pay  [E]   1.0 KB
God thought His own Son a small price to pay to save His creation.

Cat  [13+]   13.5 KB
Cy saved a magnificent wildcat, and it repaid him. But how?

Lesson learned  [E]   5.3 KB
Just out of prison, Lacy only finds welcome with his old hound dog.

Tombs not of Stone  [E]   0.9 KB
Cascade Poem. Does a new vampire face joy in a new life - or despair?

A Real Gem  [E]   0.6 KB
99 word science fiction comment on true value.

Thinking a little more deeply  [ASR]   1 Entries
Send your questions and comments. Get a thinker's non-superficial response.

Marathoner  [E]   5.0 KB
What drives this girl who has never raced before to enter a marathon?

Mirror, Mirror  [ASR]   17.1 KB
Evil does not go unnoticed, and however unexpected, retribution is its ultimate result.

Run Out  [13+]   4.9 KB
A young man with the cards stacked against him learns he still had choices - too late.

Ode to Spaghetti  [E]   2.3 KB
What kid doesn't love the stuff - to play with, if not to eat? But to pronounce it....?

Philosophical Abcedarius  [E]   0.9 KB
A poem on creativity, with 26 lines, each beginning with the next letter of the alphabet

All They Really Need Is Love  [E]   0.9 KB
The title says it all. Almost.

Haiku: Reality  [E]   0.4 KB
Haiku. Living is not just breathing, but caring, thinking, dreaming.

Vampires  [E]   0.9 KB
Vampires thrive on power and pain, not blood. Only one thing can defeat them....

Colored World  [E]   0.8 KB
Finding hope in a world where so much is wrong