Blog by Philip Charles Williams

Her father poo-pooed the idea

Of her going to Law School

And becoming an attorney, like him,

Because that’s not what girls did,

Even though she could take apart his arguments

With her eyes closed.

After battling her father at the dinner table,

She learned what it’s like to deal with difficult people.

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Have your cake, and eat it too,

Was what he said to inspire.

Do what you really want to do,

Make motions, move mountains, start

The journey of balance on a wire.

Have your cake, and eat it too.

You can do both work and art,

Make beautiful things from deepest ire,

Turn lost hours into sapphire blue.

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