lynnette hafken

Sometimes there’s no explosion, just radiation. Nuclear radiation breaks chemical bonds, melts the thickest of skins, and when mixed with airborne dust, causes the landscape to freeze in a manmade winter. Eventually the sun will come out, but who knows when that will be? All the field can do is wait. It waits. It waits a long time. Someday the sun might shine on a dormant seed, and it would warm and sprout. The seed cannot bring about sunshine or rain by itself, no matter how it may yearn....

You're cold and the sky is filled with puffy clouds, dark in the middle with silver linings glowing on the edges. Suddenly brilliant light makes your eyes tear up and bathes your face and body in warmth as the Sun comes out. I remember feeling that healing warmth the first time I went to a Mediterranean beach in Nice, France. The gentle lapping of the waves and whole body warmth from the Sun reminds me that all life in the world comes from two simple energies: Sunshine and Water. Love is a...

These are a few of my favorite things words (in no particular order): Implacable - unable to be calmed or appeased Inexorable - impossible to stop or prevent (as in, a force of nature) Onomatopoeia - the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g., cuckoo , sizzle ) Ping-pong - the sound a ping pong ball makes; a game of table tennis Crepuscular - of, resembling, or related to twilight Flub : to mess up, bungle, or botch something, usually in speech....