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Who said it was going to be easy?

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Choices, choices, choices When I began this particular blog, Sidetracked Charley, I had come to something of a crossroads in my life - face it, a damn switching yard - and it seemed like an apt title with lots of possibilities. Okay, maybe just a bit too many possibilities. And I began looking for a photo to use as a banner for the blog and Googled Images of sidetracks. Now I am wondering if I should have named the blog derailed. It has been a rough month with really few choices. It has been rather like the bear in those old arcade games where when shot its only option is to turn around and head the other way. Then of course it is shot again and must again pivot. It keeps moving but does not seem to get anywhere. Seems to always stay in the frame to be shot again. There have been the new tires, and the water pump, the blood test on Mardi. Coming up is the semi-annual business insurance premium, various professional organizational renewals. The progress I had hoped to make in Apri...

Narrow Passage

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Slice of Sky by J. Binford-Bell Narrow The path seems to narrow these days choices so few. One foot in front of another toeing the line. No room or time for deviation. No wiggle room Judgement  sits on either side awaiting a misstep. Time so confined cannot even sit down and cry. J. Binford-Bell August 2012 Wow And how Did I arrive At such a destination Thank you for the honor I nominate Wyoming Diva's Poem Missing