http://edlamaze.com Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:04:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://edlamaze.com/2010/02/25/the-table-has-been-set.aspx http://edlamaze.com/2010/02/25/the-table-has-been-set.aspx#comments Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:57:40 +0000 Ed http://edlamaze.com/?p=2275 http://edlamaze.com/2010/02/25/the-table-has-been-set.aspx/feed 7 http://edlamaze.com/2010/01/05/1086.aspx http://edlamaze.com/2010/01/05/1086.aspx#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:13:57 +0000 Ed http://edlamaze.com/?p=1086 http://edlamaze.com/2010/01/05/1086.aspx/feed 6 http://edlamaze.com/2009/12/24/a-classic-revisited.aspx http://edlamaze.com/2009/12/24/a-classic-revisited.aspx#comments Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:05:31 +0000 Ed http://edlamaze.com/?p=995 http://edlamaze.com/2009/12/24/a-classic-revisited.aspx/feed 6 http://edlamaze.com/2008/07/27/sunday-sonnets-i-seek-simplicity.aspx http://edlamaze.com/2008/07/27/sunday-sonnets-i-seek-simplicity.aspx#comments Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:25:00 +0000 Ed http://edlamaze.com/2008/07/sunday-sonnets-i-seek-simplicity/ Zoë and her mother spent the better part of last evening looking at dresses.  They oohed and ahhed over each new find noting differences and similarities in the ones that they liked.  An innocuous exercise on the surface yet shockingly harsh in it's reality.  Painful  in it's intents as I came to realize that try as I may, I am powerless.  I attempt to control, to steer, to guide, to shape, and to mold the lives of my children with a vision of what I believe to be good and honorable.  I instruct and chastise, comfort and soothe.  As a parent, I am provider and a source.

Yesterday I came to realize the infinitesimally small amount of control that I actually have.  Time has far more power and I am defenseless to it.  Whether or not I am ready, my children are growing up.  You see, yesterday evening Zoë and her mother spent the better part of two hours looking for a First Communion Dress.  The harsh realities of the situation humbled me.  It has also inspired this week's Sunday Sonnets.

I Seek Simplicity

Like it or else, time does wait.
Our children grow though we resist.
Their minds ever expanding as the world
In which they live continues to grow smaller.

Objects become concepts and pat
Answers are no longer acceptable as
Explanation of the ordinary.
My kids are growing up.

Haughty, my spirit is lifted as once
Impossible tasks are now ordinary.
Rudimentary conversation is replaced
With provocation and depth.

Time matures us, teaches and molds, not me.
I long for the comfort of simplicity.
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Thank you, Linus Van Pelt.



God Bless and Merry Christmas to you and yours from me and mine.  Here's to a year of promise, prosperity and peace.

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