never saw you crying, but you were/ for anthony b

funny a man can travel to the remotest places on earth and yet the greatest distance he will ever face is from his heart to his head i know you used heroin and kicked that habit, and substituted alcohol in its place there are many things that can take your life, sometimes quickly…………….sometimes slowly we…

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Why God?

i wonder how many times a day You are plied with that question, ”Why God Why” at least a hundred of those inquires are from me i am constantly reminding myself that i don’t understand Your Ways, and why You  do certain things and other times it seems You choose not to in reality to…

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almost

”almost” is like talking to a ghost not quite, close but not enough………………………………………almost is a fulcrum that teeters between your best attempt or a half-hearted effort that you decide ”is good enough”, which is short for ”i’m lazy and i don’t want to do it” the predicament is resolved only with an honest appraisal of…

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come home/ or farewell

come home from your fog and sit on the porch, sleep if your eyes need to close i won’t tell anyone you are here, just the two of us will know, give yourself a few days off the wheel and see which way you want to go we both know the easy way is to…

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fly away

someone who i watched regularly on t.v., decided he had enough and wanted to be free so he ended his tour and that’s that, except for all the people he left scratching their heads he went everywhere talking about people and their food, enjoying perhaps their libations a little too much i understand it was…

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the gardener and the mule

my wife is a good gardener and i’m a pretty good mule she shows me where to put the dirt and calls me when she needs a tool i did not always like my role until one morning i sat on the deck the morning sun was coming up and i was playing with our…

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no diplomas

there are no diplomas for this test call ”life” you pick up pieces and try to connect the dots you ask questions and try to remain green, just when you think you have learned something, you get stumped on that very thing but the learning turns out to be the easy part, the doing will…

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weavers

i wasn’t aware that i was joining the weaving club but that’s basically what it is all of us are on a spiritual journey whether we acknowledge it or not those of us who actively seek the journey are part of the ”universal weaving club” we take bits and pieces of shared experience and weave…

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parodoxical

you will never know how far this can go, until you let go we have been schooled to hold on, hang in there, tighten up when in reality we need to learn to let go, let life flow, let go of our grip and loosen up we are taught that life is a series of…

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feelings vs. facts

my lenses are not clear, perhaps i need to step away from here to a different vantage point where i can separate ” what is ” from what ” i want ” ”what is” needs to be seen in a different light whereas now there is hurt and strife,  i pray that i can be…

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