Reality doesn’t care if it’s not your preference Will make no effort to accommodate you Will never ask for forgiveness Isn’t offended when you protest or hurl profanities Has no intention of starting over Reality and “ like” know each other but they don’t talk much And the thing most disconcerting about it…… it never…

If you are interested in learning lean in Act as if you are interested before we begin show some enthusiasm for your life is a gift If you want me to hang around show me                     ——————————————— lean in ttucro  

Life is full of apostrophes and that’s a very good thing for me because they make me pause and help me to see there is much to learn from an apostrophe Gives me a chance if I am willing to look at things missing and things I want to put in my book So in…

You can’t see it but it flows sometimes it rages and sometimes it’s calm but it brings me things and it takes things away The River in me makes its own way I realized the River inside when something in me was born …….and something died it brings me laughter and it brings me tears…

The discerning eye has learned to recognize “priceless art” In unusual and unexpected circumstances the beautiful thing about art is that it is appreciated individually some see and some don’t in different situations I enjoy in discussion the impression that others have on things I may have missed or undervalued An intrinsic part of learning…

Less of me is better for all that come in contact with me less talk…… more listening less judgment…..and more service less thinking……. More doing less of my agenda…….and more flexibility less time focusing on what I don’t have and more time being appreciative for what I do have ——————- knowledge is like snow…….it accumulates…

If patience always wins maybe that’s why I’m losing things I think rightfully belong to me areslipping from my grasp I have no interest in extortion or deception my ability to sit and wait is leeching as the days of contention drag on so if patience always wins …..I have to find the courage to…

Hate doesn’t work it enslaves and the animosity you generate is energy that is lost and non productive Prayer is more powerful than hate and produces  much better results the emotions that generate hate have their foundations in fear I cannot hate you because I don’t hate myself and having feelings of negativity towards anyone…

We whine at times in the predicaments we find ourselves in but over time we are resigned to accept that knowledge is expensive those memories we regret over time they are met with appreciation rather than disgust                                    …

I once languished when I could see the unplowed fields ahead of me but now I see them as an opportunity the unplowed fields in front of me the mud I have deposited on my feet from the roads I have trod are welcomed now because I see the fields I have tilled and they…