Author Archives: Wint

About Wint

Pray, love, parent, play, give back... repeat.

Beasts of Burden

My wife and I shoulder the yoke of our shared lives as gracefully as the soil, into which our plow share is forming a new furrow, allows. For me, this recently came into sharp focus while we were replacing soffit … Continue reading

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Own Today, and Everyday

Below is a message from me to my most beautiful daughter Allison. I have just finished our phone call in which you had just left the office after quitting your job. Again, congratulations on how you handled the process! My … Continue reading

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Finding Things In Plain Sight

Whilst I may be good at finding things which are lost, I absolutely suck at seeing things right in front of me. My wife, Katherine the great, is renowned for putting things down in the most unlikely of places. The … Continue reading

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Katherine at 59

Here I am at sixty-four, Feeling no different than I did before, Sharing a Love, sharing a life, With a drop dead beauty as my wife. At the tender age of fifty-nine, It’s a conundrum that boggles the mind, How … Continue reading

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My Wife Caught Me Doing It!

For quite a while I have turned down our bed in the evening. It is one a few ways I do such small things in attempt to silently honor my wife and to let her know how much I appreciate, … Continue reading

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Sensual Renaissance

Who’d have thought, it would happen for us? We are now, what we were once, Who’d have thought, I could still make her blush? My wife and I, in a sensual renaissance.   When did I stop, seeing what I … Continue reading

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Somebody Shoot Me Before I Get There

Dementia will come like my dad they say, I still have some sense but have little hair, Signs are showing I’m on the way, Somebody shoot me before I get there.   My brother has sense and more hair than … Continue reading

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Random Thoughts About Stuttering, and Me

Most of my life I self-identified as a stutterer. Today I see myself as a writer. Apples and oranges, you say? Perhaps. Today my drive for effective communication may be derived by limitations imposed on me by my stutter. As … Continue reading

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The Man in Your Eye

When I look in your eyes who do I see, The person you love looking back at me, Confident, brash, cocky yet wise, Blessed and favored, is the man in your eye.   The man I see is nothing without … Continue reading

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You and Me, Yin and Yang

Who is yin, and who is yang, My protest is muted, yours is bang, Look before leap, for this I’m renown, You figure it out on the way down.   Is someone wrong, anyone right? Is someone day, anyone night? … Continue reading

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