Rewinding the Past by Amy Carothers

Rewinding the Past

By Amy Carothers

Years slipping by

faster than we can hold on to

The mirror reflecting a face that shouldn't be so

For some the marching of time is their greatest fear

While others see it as a map of life's accomplishments

Each dent or slope a hidden memory

A gray hair, not something to be pulled but examined

before

  being

     colored

         away

Watching children skipping down the street

Don't envy their energy

but take a deep breath

and reclaim your own

The passing of time can not be altered 

                                                                     

                                                                     So

                                                                    As

                                                                Time

                                                          Ticks on

Make it count!

A New Yorker’s 12 Days of Christmas

Five Golden Rings

A New Yorker’s 12 Days of Christmas

By Amy Carothers

12 Drummers Drumming: 'Music' Makers banging on garbage lids

11 Pipers Piping: The same clarinet player playing Part of Your World day in and out

10 Lords a leaping: Cockroaches scurrying along the streets or subways

9 Ladies Dancing: On the bar after too much merrymaking

8 Maids a Milking: Women on the prowl during the weekends

7 Swans a Swimming-Central Park’s Swan House and Turtle Lake

6 Geese a Laying: No geese but New York City’s Bird-The Pigeon

5 Golden Rings: With the ratio of guys to girls people are searching for at least a brass ring

4 Calling Birds: People giving the bird after someone steals their taxi

3 French Hens: A French Guy in the city, at least 3 women will be after him

2 Turtle Doves: Couples kissing on the train pushing you in the corner so they can make out

1 Partridge in the Pear Tree: Kevin is not the only one Home Alone

Life’s Bumps

Life’s Bumps

By Amy Carothers

Such a tiny little thing almost could be ignored

Fighting its way to the surface more of a bothersome than a sore

Wouldn’t even have noticed except a blackish bruise

Now the waiting begins, to find out the news

The unknown is fleeting more than ever before

How could such a small thing become impossible to ignore

Settling in the back of my mind making me question

Life’s oddities and my future’s direction

Family history has always been important to me

But this tie to my past, I’d rather not see

Banding together the women in my family tree

What leaf will be unturned, what will the future be?

Thanksgiving is a time of hope and health

Never more, do I want that for myself

The Choice

The Choice

By Amy Carothers 

To many years I fought the waves

The ups and downs keeping the currents at bay

I’ve learned this year you can’t control

Everything life bestows

The most important thing is to be true to you

Don’t let others drag you down or be cruel

Make a choice to stand up for yourself

You’ll be surprised how good it felt

Loving is powerful but can be binding

Leaving is sometimes the most freeing

Sometimes the life we were born into is not what we need

By removing ourselves , it’s like the cage bird being freed

You can love but not remain

Be true to yourself, be happy and that’s winning life’s game

Falling Towers and Dreams

Falling Towers and Dreams

By Amy Carothers

The day the towers fell

Broke our nation’s spell

Shaking it to its very core

The Big Apple’s security felt no more

Unprepared that it could happen here

Holding tightly to each other trying to abate the tears

From the ashes heroes were born

Brave men and women forgoing the scorn

Entering the Trade Center to save others

Risking their lives for their sisters and brothers

The tenth anniversary brings the past home

People anxious of what the day holds

Remember live your life to the most every day

Carpe Diem, Always Seize the Day



My Suitcase gets more use than my apartment does: Travel on…

Bradbury said it best with ‘Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness’ and I love to get lost, well purposely in any place that I visit. Sticking to the tourist trappings, you don't get a chance to really see the setting. It’s often when you venture off the beaten path that you come across something special.

Many of my trips have take me for the first day to the landmark locations but soon after I’m questioning locals on where their favorites places are to eat, visit or are the not-to-miss-attractions of their city or village. The locals have yet to steer me wrong so when I visit, I’ll be questioning. So that’s a warning to any of you, if you’re in a place I haven’t visited yet. Look out!

Once again I've booked another trip, departing in mid September. I’ve been itching to go overseas and within an hour yesterday, booked, got the time off approved and paid my security deposit to go to Amsterdam, Paris and Bruges. Three locations that I haven’t been to yet, so I just ‘had’ to go!

It’s funny with venturing out to Long Island this weekend I started realizing that my suitcase or carry-on bag is used more than my apartment. I love getting out and enjoying all that life has to offer and don’t want to be trapped in by four walls. Why not voyage into where the world takes you, just make sure to have your passport in hand!

Forward, Back and then Half Circle the Other Way…

It’s funny that when you decide to make a decision that life likes to pull the carpet out from under you as if to say ‘who do you think is in control?’ As many know I’ve been applying for my British passport and the waiting game that has been underway since March has been driving me crazy.

Finally I decide to just let the process take it’s time, to put it far from my mind until it’s completed. This week curiosity got the best of me, patience is a virtue that I do not possess and while I was busy making other plans, found out the passport should be processed by the end of the month.

All the plans that I’ve made in the interim are now up the air. Furthermore I received an email about an opportunity stateside that has me questioning what path I need to take. I’ve come to the crossroads before and veered left and have always wondered what if, now that the same opportunity has presented itself again do I venture right or continue on my course?

The Road to take, I haven't decided yet?