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The sunrise I could write how breathtaking beautiful it was that first morning. That would be fiction. I can tell you the night before had been dark. That must be true. Truth told I woke after the sun had decided all on its own to rise and the night before I choose not to remember the dark details. Survival pulled at my heart and motivated my first step; that I do remember. The rest; all I know was that I was there, life started or just moved from what had been to what would be, my eyes and ears were open without me being connected, and I tagged along.

In a time between sunrise and sunset one day and long after sunset another winter night, from somewhere deep within there was a voice calling me home. I had to listen. When a child of any age hears that voice, there's no denying it, least not to yourself, especially when the call becomes a whisper. Daisy I sensed near and days and nights that followed I dreamt the story told through our words, what our ears surely would recognize as words we shared of our hearts. Pages to be filled with common everyday words, even American slang filled with history and time origin built into the phrases, words of the heart and Soul, cultivated in the minds of Earth people, grounded in soil, fed by Sun and Water.

 
       
 
 
I needed to tell a story of a time back then and now about how people treat people, address "properly", even how people of different "colors" mix. All this, labels, words, even laws changed with time, but truth of heart reflected by ways people share space always speak truth. Over time, I learned and relearned people aren't good with truth, telling or hearing it, but truth of heart always rises to the surface through action. You will soon discover that this book contains no breakdown of chapters. I used page numbers under protest and conformed merely to be kind to those publishing and collating the book. Life is not arbitrarily broken down this way and none of us ever know what page of our life we are on. Purposefully  I designed this work to reflect life as life is presented to each of us, day-to-day and by seasons.
 
 
   
I stopped my wheels in front of her front door step. Actually the back wheel stopped but the front wheel kept spinning itself after I jumped sideways off and let the bike find its own way to the ground. I didn't have time to set no kickstand. I had important delivery business to attend to. I almost had myself totally convinced by this point that the contents of this letter was nun my business. Those final seconds approaching her door, knocking my mail delivery business knock, and waiting for Daisy to come answer I was muttering the entire time, (nun my business, nun my business...).     It was a private. Besides the mystery was more fun secret in my head and I didn't want to spoil all that fun. I smiled at myself.

Jim answered. I said in my official mail delivery voice, "Here be Daisy's 'portant letter. I gots it here safe."

Getting letters safe to Daisy was always my most important job. 

Dear Daisy ©2004


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