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summer breezes
The night comes falling with a soft breeze, stars and a full moon. Young girl is walkin’ with dreams of love and forever. The colors surround her – shades of blue, black and white – and the soft breeze blows. Standing on the boardwalk just under a street lamp, looking across the sand towards the…
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The Fountains of Life and Love by Freddy S. Zalta
The first days of spring we witness the rebirth of all thinhgs given up for dead. The afternoon gloom begins to give way for sunlight and the windows once sealed shut – now are pulled open to welcome in the fresh winds of change and renewal. The branches which just the other morning was seemingly…
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Celebrity and Reality By Freddy S. Zalta
Celebrity and Reality By Freddy S. Zalta I am walking through Union Square Park on a beautiful day – this 26th day of May of 2011. Today there are vendors sitting on chairs – their merchandise on display to the side of them. One older man, who resembles Ernest Hemingway, is stroking his goatee while…
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The Flame that Cannot be Extinguished by Freddy Zalta
May 24, 2011 Tonight as I turned on my television I was touched by the power of the people of Joplin, Missouri. There was a father who was missing his two daughters and could not get in touch with them for hours. He finally…
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Parents Days
The crying is relentless and the pacifying is close to impossible at times. There are no “hours of operation”- its a round the clock deal. No time off for feeling sick, being depressed or holidays. The job of a parent is, at times, thankless. There are phone calls in the middle of the night, decisions…
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Clouds like Time
They come out of nowhere. Blue skies and then suddenly clouds begin to form. At first they are all separate and take on their own shape and form – but suddenly the come together strong enough to block the sun or any sense of warmth or perceived warmth. The wind picks up and the dust…
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Time Sails Away
Being a salesman for too long can break even the strongest of souls. Like a baseball player you can strikeout the majority of the time – but if you get that big hit – it can make a star out of a flash of light. But even stars fade away and the flashes of light…
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Kingsway Theater
Maybe its the safety of the past that lures us back there again and again. Maybe its the complexity of our lives today – no down time and the speed of that the time travels on and on.
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Living with Elton
There were other songs recorded I never understood how they did not do well as singles or get airplay – “Nobody Wins”, “Soul Glove”, “Please” As my first marriage ended – Elton’s resurgence began. Now sober he wrote about finding “The One” and “Simple Life (again).” In 1998 I danced with my bride to “Something…
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Counting down ’til Friday
When you lose your true self – when you compromise for the sake of being accepted or inclusion; that is death. We all die thousands of times in our lifetime
