The Arrows in Your Quiver

Perhaps the arrows in your quiver need to be thrown away The feathers are worn and missing and you would never hit anything anyway So why do you continue to carry them, your bow is warped and frayed And the people you wanted to shoot no longer seem to be in your way Do they…

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Dandelionā€¦ā€¦

Labels have connotations that often precondition our appraisal of thingsā€¦ For instance for all intents and purposes the dandelion is a dreaded weed, and it does seem out of place in the midst of a beautiful lawn. However in many other situations it shines bright as a little starā€¦ determine to make its presence known.…

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Trying to hold waterā€¦ā€¦..#13

Iā€™m sitting in a restaurant eating salad for my weekly commitment to eat all the colors in the rainbow once a week I reflect about you and liken it to trying to hold waterā€¦the more you resisted the tighter I held youā€¦.for awhile Until I realized it wasnā€™t what you wantedā€¦and I didnā€™t persist after…

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Tin Can Above the Fireplace

Just so you donā€™t get to high an mighty, no matter what you have or what you do or your degrees or your possessionsā€¦ You will either end up in a box in the ground or in a tin can on the fireplace Get over yourself and treat everyone with respectā€¦. Best way to live…

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Postage

I hope I have accumulated enough postage to send myself into higher realms Some of it is by a determined effort to better oneselfā€¦. And some is by the efforts of others to carry you along There are no limitations other than my degree of willingness and determination to not so much discover as to…

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Coming into the Hyaline

Oh myā€¦it took some time But I think I made it to the Hyaline Feels like I left a lot behind which allowed me to climb out of the clouds to the hyaline Traveling lighter and freeing my mind things are looking clearer In the hyaline Climbing Ttucro

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You Get Stronger as You Walk

I went to the beach we favored when we were togetherā€¦..it has undergone quite a cleaning The debris and wood from the various storms over the years has been removed and it reminded me that this change has been cleansing to me as well and from your comments seems you would agree Nothing is guaranteed…

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A blade of grass

Not to think less of myself But in reality Iā€™m like a blade of grass We enter into this life and we try to find what is right and what works for us If we are smart we accept the fact that the other blades are just doing that, trying to be aware that the…

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Epigraph

Perhaps I can live a life that some would say.. his epigraph should read this way: ā€œ thoā€™ challenged by the conditions of life, dealing with himself and the consequences of bad decisions..ultimately his journey was in search of the God of his understanding and by all appearancesā€¦he found Him.ā€ May it read as such…

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Deleting from Vocabulary

The three words that I have spoken over the years along my journey, that I have literally marginal concept of are, ā€œ I love you ā€œ I am striking them out of my mind and vocabularyā€¦.. It I meanā€¦. I will exhibit it If I exhibit itā€¦ it doesnā€™t need to be said Love is…

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