Don’t kid yourself…….. you are never alone… there are shadows and they are hard to see in the daylight and a little easier at night…… shadows walk …. They bend…… they laugh and the cry…….don’t believe it? that funny feeling you get sometimes that someone is walking beside you or in front of you…… because…

I heard your sobs and I saw your tears and the moans that originated from somewhere else….I suppose I will never know your pain of signing your children away……. But your pain was sufficient for me….. You can’t imagine that it was the best thing to do, I’m not a mother so I don’t know…

Stopped at a street light …….. the wind lifted you from the road……and you skipped along and pirouetted and twirled….. and I watched a natural ballet unfold. Other leaves surrounded you,  circled and strode, but you were the lead and it quickly showed…. I watched as the troupe was driven from the stage.. And you…

Well…… let me see… I suppose a Turtle is a way to describe me……. For I carry my home everywhere I go……. My home my heart…… filled with an abundance of gratefulness for the gift of life and all the wonderful things that come with it…. It’s a sad day that the Turtle can find…

He’ll make room if you want to go…….. say a few words and mean it…….you’re on your way some folks don’t believe it and turn away…..but I’ve been to hell and there’s got to be a better way so I read this old book that is always new to me and life continues to unfold…

When I was young I was often stopped in my tracks and encouraged to reflect on the things that I passed that reflection raised questions in my mind and now that I’m older my heart drives me to find……those answers why do people think as they do? Why do we say things when we know…

My school is the world around me…….. the streets…… the neighborhoods….. the parks……the people that I cross paths with. I take it in and chew on it…. describe it……feel it and pay attention to how the contact influences and affects me. I’m in it not around it……….could never imagine testing the temperature of the pool….…

I cannot rely on you to help me see……traits that aren’t beneficial to me……I have to tell on myself The responsibility of being the best “me”…..I can be, isn’t up to you…… it’s up to me…..I have to tell on myself Although I like to think otherwise……ego in reverse. I never was that good at…

Be mindful……. the last geese in the formation is traveling at the same speed as the leader…… just at a different position………think before you speak ttucro

I carry a small rock in my pocket to remind me to think ……..happiness or confusion is just a stone’s throw away…..because I cannot change what is in front of me…… but I have a choice in how I view what I see……….many things come on different days and often I am tempted to let…