i can’t breathe and the walls are closing in……..i see the sky above the water………but i don’t have the will to swim…..i feel myself falling and it never seems to end……..drowning…….drowning in myself……… i see images coming near me, dear and lost friends…….the ones that are gone call me to join them……..and the others grab…

”did you think it all the way through”…………………..i didn’t wait for a response…….i motioned to the bench and sat down by you…….i could see you were in a stitch………somehow your emotions got the best of you and you were embarrassed and wasn’t much to do……..but ride it out………. i offered a saying from an old…

much as we would like to say ”every day is a holiday” our mental frame gets in the way….most days end up being ”okay”………….. but we have those days that stick out in our mind and those are the days that gradually define the person we turn out to be……. ONE OF THOSE BOOKMARKS WAS…

stumbling through some notebooks of acts that never made it to the show………i am confronted with the realization……….it foretold where i would go……………i was so absorbed in capturing the feeling at the time, i was captured by the feeling……… the picture that they painted never crossed my mind……… time tinkers with our memories, our awareness…

until you finished what you started ………………everything else will be a waste of time……..you may feel that what you are doing in the end won’t amount to a dime…..but because you persevered that experience will take you to a place few will ever know…….because you kept your commitment………..when you finish………it will be easy to let…

don’t count me out just because you don’t see a way………i was walking with them when they crossed the Red Sea……………….. things people said couldn’t happen…………..happened to me…….. don’t count me out the trick about overcoming things of great odds………….forget having a plan…………..you go with the tide……………because you want it………….isn’t the best way to proceed…………..you…

dosed the fire with water until the area around it was muddy…………..and i watched…. from the ashes a tiny plume of smoke emerged and i investigated…………….uncovering an ember that had managed to keep it’s fire alive…… not sure why, but i was almost knocked backward……and i managed to fall into and old deck chair………. i…

poet’s always walk through puddles and long for railroad tracks……..blustery windy mornings and rain on their back, camouflaged sunsets and moons that seem to smile, poet’s love the sounds of night when nature starts to prowl…… poet’s love animals because they do not exclude people from their love………….birds in trees that speak to them as…

the good Father listens to every word and then asks if the child is through…….then replies ”I heard what you said, now this is what we are going to do”……………….. i know i give God a giggle and a charge when He witnesses the antics in which i engage……when i hear Him chuckle i reply,…

the conditions were right on the mountain the temperatures where beginning to rise…………and i clearly heard the warnings but the mountain beckoned me to ride…………….i went to the top of the mountain, a small shovel strapped to my pack……………and as i quickly descended…………the mountain began to talk back……..soon it became louder and i knew it…