The Magic Within

I found myself with glistening tears this morning. Although I had watched it before, I was watching McFarland this morning. I started working in the fields with my parents at an early age, my mom use to pull the covers off of us to wake us up at the crack of dawn. It was hard work, but thinking back it was probably some of the best times, of my youth. I was with my family all the time, eating outside, laughing and joking. The sharing of our lives.  Feeling that unity that one only knows when they have gone through the same experience. As I watched the movie, I was thinking of a friend with respect, that this was part of his story, he lived there, he ran through the fields. The never ending plates of food, you visited someone and you never left hungry.At the end of the day when you know the time is just about up and your dad says let's race and see who can fill up their bin first. I was always paired with my dad, my brother with my mom. In the end it didn't matter who won, all...

In the first moments of finding love, there is excitement, your heart beats know your love is thinking of you too. The lights are brighter, a soft romantic song plays over and over in your head and heart. You think this is the one, he is perfect for me . The attraction grows everyday. He knows me, he understands me. he will love me forever. You can't stop smiling.  You get together and one day, you realize the music stopped, the lights dimmed and your hearts beats to think he is thinking of you. Somehow your world is what he says it is. You go where he says to go and talk to . He tears your gentle heart and brings you to tears. Only to build you up and knock you down again.  The world is against him, he has all the tough breaks. And somehow it becomes your problem.  With mere words he takes everything you've worked for and reduces it to dust. Takes your hard earned money , your keys and it's still not enough. You cut all you can and it's still not enough. It's like...