Sign Language for Dogs

o.henry came back to finish a book and talk with me ”i see i have influenced the way you recant, the things you have learned, the wasted time you have spent, but if you will read a little further i think you will see many times i was lost along…

now the world looks clearer to me for i focus on where i am can’t go back to yesterday, i refer to it now and then tomorrow seems so far away if i am concentrating on today everything that is happening is going on right now i didn’t always live…

that junk in our eyes when we first wake is evidence of what goes on in our sleep our mind rests and our soul goes to work, connecting the strands of love that we broke so we start each morning ready to give, ready to help others in their struggle…

i can’t farm out the work that only i can do when my soul springs a leak another plumber just won’t do i have to roll up my sleeves and put on my boots, put in a sump pump to drain out the slug, find the leak and determine the…

there is a place of solitude it isn’t hard to find the challenge to enter in, is to be able to stop your mind because if you are not able to turn the system off, then you no longer own it, it now owns you seems like a simple thing…

i collect people and i am careful whom i choose they aren’t going in a box or placed on a shelf, they have something that i want, and more often something that i need now i do not enter likely in the selections that i make, for i am well…

sojourner says: ”if it ain’t worth giving away, it ain’t worth keepin” so from a toothless prophet i entertained his thought and me thinks he is right on target if i wouldn’t consider giving something away, be it an idea, or word, or thing it probably wouldn’t be good for…

i glad that’s over, what made you come down well we attract what we are but you turned your life around i was lazy and you were like me, so i hopped on board and let you carry me around you got tired of the same old, same old so…

HERE’S YOUR BULLET, THE ONE YOU SHOT AT ME I JUST STEPPED ASIDE AND LET IT PASS YOU WILL PROBABLY NEED IT AGAIN, BUT I WOULDN’T WASTE ON ME BECAUSE I’M NOT A TARGET YOU CAN HIT ANYMORE I FOUND THIS SHIELD AND I KNEW IT WAS THERE BUT I…

what are you going to do, when all the pieces you put in place come unglued the best planned life always has a bump or two, when it all falls down what are you going to do i don’t wish you conflict but i’ve been here before and you’re riding…

i may need a hand here and there sometimes a little prod or push but i will ask God up above, i won’t ask you there may be a time when God will need a helping hand that wouldn’t be my first choice i’ve notice we’re pretty close in the…

looking out the window i watch a woman throw a ball her dog waits patiently until she tells him to go and i investigate the field below in all it’s majesty and realize when i’m not thinking, then i actually see i notice many things that i didn’t notice before…

not an easy child to raise, to say the least i had a way of wandering that caused me a lot of grief but through the hills and valleys you did the best you could to try and guide this wayward child and teach me when you could but i…

takes one to know one i always say you spot it you got it, because i use to be that way when you hustle you create a draft and usually it blows up under your ass wheeler dealer oh that’s just my card, but it also tells people who’s number…

old Joe was a friend of mine we worked together on the docks at the Port of Richmond now there was some pretty tough rascals that worked hard, drank hard, and like to fight for a young kid that was an exciting environment if they liked you they looked after…

Willy is always happy, always up and looking for something new and exciting Willy is a one of a kind person, i know of no other that matches his enthusiasm and lust for life. Not even close. Willy has lots of friends and hundreds of acquaintances, but he can’t keep…

my ego is in a spin because it can’t get me to do myself in and no matter how it tried i didn’t need an alibi words thrown around are like jagged spikes so you have to be careful when you know it time for a hike i acknowledged that…

Lord, let me not be a boastful man, let the things i do say who i am, and let me speak softly so others will come and ask about the God i’ve found Lord let me be calm and serene to show by example how You work with me, to…

God touches me when i touch you i feel his hand as i am greeting you and when i hold a child close to give him a hug i get one to from God above so in essence i would say God gives us His love to give away the…

shouldn’t be that hard to wrote a few lines on a birthday card i know what i want to say, hope you have fun and a pleasant day but the words are like 2 left feet, they cause me to stumble and creep that’s not a very good tone to…

in your shoes they hurt my feet, i walk the alleys for something to eat i crawl in a box to go to sleep when i walk in your shoes in your shoes i make a few bucks doing odd jobs and collecting cans, people save them for me as…

that silent man says so much and we never hear him utter a word his actions and the things he does shouts his message loud and clear ” i am not here to preach or teach but to help those that need a hand, and if i can lessen the…

i gave you that smile wasn’t hard to do, you seemed puzzled not sure what to do when we passed i made a point to look you in the eye and i smiled with my heart and it showed through my eyes i watched you continue walking down the street…

almost ashamed to say, but if you expect to get better there isn’t another way you have to be willing to tell on yourself i won’t try to explain and i don’t know that i could but along the way i have confused sex with love i understand this isn’t…

took me awhile to see when i take from you, i take from me the things i do in defense don’t keep me safe they dig a trench and i’m the one who falls this modern approach to right and wrong would have us to believe there are various stages…

let me go, i cannot stay, yesterday is gone, now go away you have this need to correct the past, but it like trying to paint a cat, they won’t hold still and you just make a mess let me go let me go and do productive things, helping someone…

i would not dare say i could care less of what others think of me but i clearly have in my mind all those people do not lay their head on my pillow when i sleep it isn’t natural not to want to be liked, but everything we do or…

i was feeling kinda crappy and reminded myself that feelings aren’t facts, feels better when i notice things in my behavior before someone else does i had a slight sinus headache and it has lingered for several days and went to a 12 step meeting and saw an old friend…

what oh what can we do about Mary, she’s getting closer to the grave everyday her husband has taken the children and she sits in the house and drinks all day the accident keeps her in money and she has the liquor delivered to her door she tried getting sober…

i ask earnestly if You would look after me then when the slightest ripple stirs the boat i begin to pray that it will float You have accomplished great things in my life showed when to walk, and when to fight somehow everything seems to work our right yet i’m…