IS SEEING BELIEVING by Linda Mussmann

They want us to unsee what we have seen They want us to unhear what we have heard They want us to forget what cannot be forgotten we always saw the naked truth we saw that the emperor had no clothes we saw it and we said it but now that the veil was pulled […]

THE COWS ARE IN THE CORN BY LINDA MUSSMANN

“The Cows are in the Corn” This was the shout that was the call to action on the farm where I spent  my first 18 years.  The fences were always at risk of failing and if that  happened the cows got into the corn—and how they did love the corn and the freedom to run […]

New Song July 11, 2024 by Linda Mussmann

New Song July 11, 2024 L’ Etat, c’est moi”I am the state” Louis XIV or the state is me. 1643-1715 ______________________________________________________________________ Choices are difficult these days when one thinks about where we are and who we are  What does this mean did you ask me or not The world is spinning the sun rises the […]

CROSSING DAYS OFF by Linda Mussmann

Crossing Days I would cross each day off on my calendar. I did this because it was a way of keep track. Keeping track was a pleasure and marking each day off with my pen was an accomplishment — a complete  kind of sentence. Days are time as well as numbers. Decades, scores, and millenniums […]

THE BUBBLE by Linda Mussmann

The Bubble  The place where we live and think of as safe and sound. Then one day it bursts like a bubble. This place is fragile and tentative. Nothing is forever as they say. Bubbles are temporary as is light and sound. We think we know where we are and who we are and how […]