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Pic and a Word ChallengeThe Pic and a Word Challenge comes from Patrick Jennings’ site www.pixtowords.com Each week he provides a photograph of his along with a single word. The challenge? Use the pic and/or word as points of inspiration to create something — a photograph, a painting, prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, longread or just a few words. We are welcome to use these two elements (photograph and word) literally, thematically or metaphorically. If we create both images and words, all the better.
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Enlarged Heart

Last night, my adopted son who bears my name met his paternal biological grandparents for the first time.

December 28, 2021

Ben Kohns

Blessings, Blog Entries, Christmas, Life, Love, Uncategorized

adoption, family
Freeze Frame

Freeze Frame does not stop the madness…

June 26, 2021

Ben Kohns

Blessings, Life, Love, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Uncategorized

#picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, beauty, chaos, family
“If” – A Grateful Nod to Seuss

If I ran the zoo (hey, you know what? I do!)

March 5, 2021

Ben Kohns

Blessings, Death, Frank’s Friday Focus, Freedom, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Politics, Purpose, Suicide, Uncategorized

cancel culture, family, parenting, Racism, Seuss
Family Fractured?

I, ultimately, don’t get to choose.

December 28, 2020

Ben Kohns

art, Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized

choice, family, identity
family ties

some days I lose my mind and they lose theirs, but mostly – we lose our hearts.

September 6, 2020

Ben Kohns

Blessings, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized

family, hiding, loss, Love
Tattoo

a change on the inside / made outside / more tellable

July 7, 2020

Ben Kohns

Blessings, Christianity, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Homosexuality, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized

culture, family, indelible, ink, permanent
reunion

I think of underdogs today and choose to go a different way

June 10, 2020

Ben Kohns

Blessings, Christmas, Faith, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized

#poetry, childhood, communion, family, joy, playround, prayer, reunion, sing
the lair

I was ten or eleven, you may recall everything seems bigger when you’re small

April 28, 2020

Ben Kohns

Life, Poetry, Uncategorized

adolesence, bedroom, brother, family, lair, lion, men, mid century modern, Poetry

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