Sign Language for Dogs

i use to live in the land of what’s next always looking to tomorrow with minimal concern for today that left many situations unresolved and much unfinished business life has taught me that fear and lack of maturity ruled my life for far to long one pushes away the concerns…

i admire the way you handle yourself when you are standing on shaky ground i’ve seen you chase elephants until they left town but the most impressive thing i ever watch you do was listen to someone who thought they had an issue with you you waited until the air…

labeled a freak because i seek good things for my soul like healthy food when it touches our lips we know when we are nourishing our mind it’s easy to slip into doubt’s hampering grip that tethers us to the past but once you let go and let God have…

things we try hide become splinters in our soul,we think it doesn’t feel that bad, no need for anyone to know but it doesn’t take long until it affects us in ways we could not know infected and uncomfortable we realize it has to go,so we call a friend or…

if man or woman can be at peace, sitting quiet and still as the world is racing by without fear of being left out or behind than i think it safe to summarize that person is well aware of their value and their worth and needn’t feel the pull or…

actually that term would be a step up for me, after spending 50 years in a fog Rip Van woke me up and said, ” get up man we need the space” so it was suggested that i throw my lot in with a similar group, asleep at the wheel…

you are a special friend to me, but often you seem like the enemy you ask me things i don’t care to talk about and show me things i prefer not to see perhaps that’s the true definition of friend, one who has the courage and compassion for another to…

feelings aren’t facts, don’t start to defend yourself no one is trying to take yours away you have so much invested in them you couldn’t possibly be willing let them go without a fight but no one is attempting the operation, wouldn’t do any good, if you didn’t agree it…

my intentions have limited dimensions until i put my hand on the plough then they take form and i have a path to travel that leads to a destination that sometimes i pick and often is chosen for me i think about many things but i am selective as to…

perhaps we know each other better than we think i have only met your on certain family occasions but the stories of your youth preceded you long before we met left me amused and troubled, not sure what to expect so therein lies our common bond, for i was once…

i woke up at 49, didn’t look like the kool-aid was going to work, another failure and decided if i wasn ‘t going to die, i didn’t want to live the life i was living with the skills and temperament of a 20 year old, i embarked on a sobering…

sometimes we lead and sometimes we follow wisdom part comes in determining which is appropriate often it isn’t about the most qualified in a particular situation rather who is willing to step up and get things going i have also found that when the bravado starts to wane from the…

”people of great intelligence find few things beneath them, only above” ttucro ”only the wise think they are foolish, only the foolish think they are wise’ ttucro i sit with my grand-daughter and we read a book, now i’m much older but she shows me where to look to see…

wouldn’t try to shove it down your throat no need to talk loud or boast the debate is over for me, if you are looking for someone to argue about faith look elsewhere if you are having difficulty with you life i have a suggestion…………….suggestion………………pray about it pray about it…

hard to get there, you if don’t know how you got here sounds like gibberish but let’s be fair the chances of arriving anywhere would be unlikely if i didn’t know how i got here be surprised how many are afraid to look just turn the page and get on…

desire, and acquire and it ends up in lumps stuff you carry, sort and lug doesn’t take long before you ask yourself why you thought you ever needed it in the first place things add responsibility and things take up time and in case you haven’t noticed it, it’s flying…

one had a thought and was compelled to share not knowing if anyone would dare read or if anyone cared we do what we do because it is who we are so it is with great pleasure to hear another respond letting you know they get where you’re coming from…

there is a bridge that leads me to you and the same bridge leads you to me we built it each day with patience and care when we started it seemed a very long way from here to there but i see you coming as we lay the last final…

grateful when i recognize that my walk is out of sync there wasn’t much to do but accept it for what it is a day to be somber and to choose carefully those words that needed to be said deferring to be reserved and not flippant with my lips sometimes…

was feeling sad and an angel passing by said/they come by all the time ”why the long face, just a little bump in the road and remember,there is a rainbow in every cloud” so i continued through the day and it became obvious to me, that what i termed a…

words fall like cascading rain and from the expression on your face they don’t mean a thing you would like to change that but you’re not sure where to start it’s hard when you don’t even believe yourself it’s part of the deal we think we have perfected a lie…

not in charge glad to say, so don’t blame me if things don’t go your way i gave up the reins some time ago, paddled upstream and got in the flow there is a rhythm to life and everyone ins’t the same you will know when you find it, because…

today has enormous potential, like a potter with his clay i can make a vessel or a plate to feed a friend there is no way of telling the opportunities that will come my way tomorrow may bring floods of tears………………….so i will stay in today today will have its’…

the calendar says older and i guess it doesn’t lie but part of me gets younger as the days go passing by perhaps it is the knowledge that life has brought my way so things i once took for granted now have different meanings to me i suppose that makes…

i’m not impressed by what you say, i’m impressed by what you do and i’ve been listening to your words and they have the ring of truth so i made a conscious effort to see if your deeds matched your song and i found that they did, so now i…

started building a platform several feet off the ground wasn’t sure why i was building it but something kept prodding me on the structure had a few steps and pillar at the top made a trap door , pull a lever and it dropped this went on for several days…

some things don’t make sense and you can analyze and twist torment yourself and pitch a fit drive your car into the lake and remember you can swim somehow you get to shore and tomorrow do it again some things just don’t make sense friend of mine got a new…

jealousy, anger and envy came knocking on my door said they heard i was in a bad place and wondered if they could help even the score i asked them in and listened as they orchestrated my revenge so the plan was set in place at the appointed time the…

i remember reading that very intelligent people are rarely bored because they can find things of interest all around them i don’t claim to be in that group but i have learned to pay attention to my surroundings taking time to see as opposed to surveying life ins’t a landscape…

everyone will face a storm and will look for a safe place to go sometimes that place is a building, a loved one or a kind word from someone who has weathered such a storm i have stood on a porch and watched as the winds tried in vain to…