black garbage bag tote ~
carries all life’s possessions ~
piled on refuse child
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(Selection taken from A Haiku for Ricky Baker, on sale now. All proceeds go to fund art and writing programs for children in juvenile detention centers.)
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This is marvelous, can’t wait to have my copy. Yay
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Thank you so much, Manuel! I will be getting it out very soon.😊
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Tanya, you have no idea how much this means to me. For me the best gifts are books, it’s like…….like, I have no words to explain
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Thank you for sharing that! It is my pleasure to send it to you. I hope you love it…😊
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Good evening 🐞
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Hello! How are you?😊
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Thank you very much. How are you 🙂
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Busy and happy…pretty typical for me. Thank you.😊
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Die Arbeit ist schön. Happy days.🐞
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Happy days to you also!😊
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Alas, the bag women and the old man who pushes his life belongings along the street in a shopping cart …may they get some sunshine in their lives …
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I first learned about this among children in foster care when I lived in Texas. A high school student there had set up a charity to donate filled backpacks for these kids, because all that many of them had were garbage bags. Can you imagine? It breaks my heart.
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The “alternative world” world right now is heart-breaking with all its undisclosed alternative truths.
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Agreed. Stories like these get buried…
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