Bernice and Garry: Requiem and Godspeed
Requiem Today, 20 months after her passing, I find this memory, above all others, to hold the essence of the woman I knew and loved. ...
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"I believe writing is a precursor to thought,
not the other way around"
Garry L. Cox
The Bard of Appanoose
We are all told, “live your life to the fullest”; I am here to do just that. The Bard's Contrarian Bar serves as a vessel to project my passions and clue in my loyal readers as to what inspires me in this crazy world. So, sit back, relax, and read on.
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garrylcox
- Oct 22, 2012
- 6 min
Run For Your Life - Progress Report
A Dream Deferred Langston Hughes What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore– and...
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garrylcox
- Sep 19, 2012
- 20 min
Bernice and Garry: Adventures in Paradise
The Triad The electric arcs across the great Prongs of our Life-Triad are strong, brief and luminous. And so it is with memories. There...
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garrylcox
- Jul 8, 2012
- 7 min
Bernice and Garry: Bernice takes a year
Our final destination would be the city of Phoenix and the two-bedroom condo in a Dreamsicle colored condo complex called Anasazi. This...
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garrylcox
- May 5, 2012
- 15 min
Bernice and Garry: Honeymoon Vignettes and Snapshots
Business First: A Trust Issue When I admitted to Bernice that I owed the Federal Government $10,000, she asked to take a look at my...
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garrylcox
- Apr 10, 2012
- 7 min
Bernice and Garry: Dawn of the Honeymoon
An obelisk can be any object that when touched by two people can become a portal to their future together. author unknown When Bernice...
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garrylcox
- Mar 27, 2012
- 4 min
Hall of Famers Among Us
One of the themes of this blog is that running will make better people out of us. I would like to share the stories of two exemplary...
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garrylcox
- Mar 8, 2012
- 4 min
Bernice and Garry: Notes on Grieving - You Can Go Home Again
It is summer, 1996. Bernice and I are driving her stuffed-to-the-gills Taurus on our way to our new life in Phoenix. After an...
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garrylcox
- Feb 16, 2012
- 10 min
Bernice and Garry: Love Finds a Home
February 17, 2012 marks the one year anniversary of the passing of my beloved Bernice. This post will begin with Bernice Remembered,...
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garrylcox
- Feb 1, 2012
- 19 min
Here’s Mud in Your Eye
Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of...
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garrylcox
- Jan 23, 2012
- 2 min
Progress report: Between the darkness and the dawn
Darkness and light I am ten months out from the race of my life (NYC Marathon) and eleven months past the loss of my life partner Bernice...
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garrylcox
- Jan 16, 2012
- 5 min
Notes on Grieving: The lighter side of grief
Two guys girl-watching at a party First Guy: What do you think of that tall redhead over there? Second Guy: Not bad. I wouldn’t kick her...
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garrylcox
- Jan 6, 2012
- 4 min
Bernice and Garry: Prelude to a Kiss
Oh! How my love song gently cries For the tenderness within your eyes My love is a prelude that never dies A Prelude to a kiss Duke...
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garrylcox
- Jan 2, 2012
- 6 min
Progress Report: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
Imagine a bumbling blogtser like myself has asked you to participate in a short survey. The purpose of the survey is to come to grips...
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garrylcox
- Dec 27, 2011
- 8 min
Bernice and Garry: Christmas in the Caymans
My original plan was to tell the Bernice and Garry story in simple linear fashion. The end of the story would coincide with my final...
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garrylcox
- Dec 17, 2011
- 4 min
Bernice and Garry: Sweetness and Light
It is easier to remember “the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune”, the tragedies, the down times. Happiness is generally something...
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garrylcox
- Dec 12, 2011
- 2 min
Progress Report: Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner
My training schedule for this Saturday called for a ten miler at South Mountain, but as indicated in last Notes on grieving, I opted for...
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garrylcox
- Dec 8, 2011
- 3 min
Bernice and Garry: It’s All In the Cards
From Love’s Labor's Lost post: Then the pause you never want to hear. “I don’t know,” she says, “I’m going to be out of town for two...
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garrylcox
- Dec 4, 2011
- 2 min
Notes on Grieving: First Timers
One of the hardest things for anyone grieving for a loved one is to face the “first timers”: the first birthday, anniversary, holiday,...
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garrylcox
- Nov 29, 2011
- 1 min
Progress Report: Hudson River Ramble
Admit have not posted for over a week, Admit have not maintained my training regimen over the same week. Admit daughter Brett and...
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