Sign Language for Dogs

there are no diplomas for this test call ”life” you pick up pieces and try to connect the dots you ask questions and try to remain green, just when you think you have learned something, you get stumped on that very thing but the learning turns out to be the…

i wasn’t aware that i was joining the weaving club but that’s basically what it is all of us are on a spiritual journey whether we acknowledge it or not those of us who actively seek the journey are part of the ”universal weaving club” we take bits and pieces…

you will never know how far this can go, until you let go we have been schooled to hold on, hang in there, tighten up when in reality we need to learn to let go, let life flow, let go of our grip and loosen up we are taught that…

my lenses are not clear, perhaps i need to step away from here to a different vantage point where i can separate ” what is ” from what ” i want ” ”what is” needs to be seen in a different light whereas now there is hurt and strife,  i…

waiting has always been a problem for me impatient, demanding, for which i have paid dearly hard for me to reconstruct events where i have lost, by waiting but not hard at all to recall calamities as a direct result of running in front of the horses ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… measured steps,…

my big mouth is the worlds most efficient trap, catches me all the time i wish i could say that it amazes me the little restraint i offer when the bull is about to leave the pen but it doesn’t, i have said this before, if i ever have the attention,…

sometimes He leads the way, sometimes He follows me sometimes i feel His hand on my shoulder and hear Him when He breathes sometimes it’s just footsteps that remind me He is by my side i feel it very comforting to know He cares that much it never feels imposing,…

”need” had a conversation with ”want” need: ” man you are cluttering up this joint, the slightest whim and you are off again in search of the missing part” want spoke up and said: ” it’s not just stuff, i earned these things and it gives me a little joy…

i will never be everything i would like to be……………………………………….. i have many interests and to pursue one would leave much of what makes me……………………me this kaleidoscope has many colors and when the wheel turns so does the colors and the path to be great one must be totally focused…

”i could be wrong” and interesting thought one that isn’t a popular note but i must say that my back is in better shape now that i am not carrying all the answers to the problems of this world the willingness to reconsider hasn’t turned me into a vacillating blob, just…

i have a friend who takes a spin every morning she gets out of bed and it is easy to get caught up in that spin because it’s about love and good will and the joy from life spills over on everyone she is around and her boundless energy is…

taking the time to read between the lines has allowed me to see the story i didn’t tell about being afraid of what people would do or say if i traveled the road to myself you see we were born with a dream and through time and conditioning we let…

this business was failing, the future looked grim, then i got out of the way and had new management come in i’m still the owner but i stay out of the way and do what i’m told and listen to what they say the big decisions are still left up…

”me first” the children say but as we grow that should fade away for if i am always at the head of the line, everything from that vantage point always looks fine and that isn’t reality when we get upset because others won’t follow our lead, or fulfill our needs,…

i read these words in the Bible before i start the day and i ask You to send the Holy Spirit to help me understand what i have read that helps me with understanding what it is You would have me do but as i go about my travels, Your…

if you need a reason to continue down this road of recovery take a moment and think back about how your life used to be i know the unknown is a scary place to go, but remember others have gone before you and they will help you along the way…

so you have appointed yourself to the bench the power to help or the power to lynch and sometimes we all could use a ”time out” but brother we all need compassion from time to time it took awhile for me to understand that the gift of love can only…

i am not the little boy in the street that doesn’t have a crumb of bread to eat, that fights off the cold with cardboard and leaves, but i know he is out there i am not the woman who sells her flesh to buy a drug that she injects,…

few have the courage to be the real person they are supposed to be between pressure from the world around and the confidence to sometimes go it alone, we give in the hippest of the hip are on their own trip and they refuse to be defined or corralled into…

there is an umbrella that goes with me and protects me from the rain sometimes it rains from the heavens and sometimes it rains from men but it really doesn’t matter where the storm comes from, for I am protected by the umbrella and God surrounds me with His Love…

doing for others does more for me gives me purpose and sets my heart free to do what it was intended to do be a beacon for hope and hand to help someone up shallow life indeed when i am consumed with me but to get my life back on…

you only call Me when you arse is in a jam and that’s too bad for I AM THE GREAT I AM I saw you in and I’ll see you out, it’s the in between that I could help you out but you have a plan and what do I…

run,run,run as fast as i can but wherever i go there i am so it makes no difference where i stand, i stand arm in arm with the same old man wasn’t expecting a miracles just a few days in a row when i didn’t regret being me or the…

chosen to bear the burden of addiction because i was going to do it my way God didn’t curse me with addiction, rather blessed me i was going to have to make a choice, my way or His way it was going to be like that, a constant battle of…

my past is part of me and had a heavy hand in determining my present but recognizing the power of affirmation or the lack of it i see how my desire to be loved and needed as well as my desire not to be overly exposed has been in a…

may the God n me see the God n u in everything we say and do when we are confused and life comes unglued may the God n me see the God n u we humans get confused, short on patience, shorter fuse if we can resist the temptation to…

we’re not lost, don’t need to be found far as i can tell we stand on common ground i don’t really care about your politics, i would like to know your name we breathe the same air and rise to the same sun let’s put all this division aside and…

your walk, your facial expression, what you are thinking, your hands, your eyes are saying something long before you open your mouth the stage is set for you oration, you set it and most of us are unaware what we are saying i cannot come to you in confusion or…

one day before my birthday, a thought crosses my mind about tomorrow, it’s almost here, then what? seems like i have been living and waiting all my life to get somewhere, and i am already here tomorrow may be my birthday, which at 64 is just another day and i…

it only takes one to turn the tide to reach someone who is trying to hide to clear a path where hope can walk in give someone the chance to start over again only takes one who will give an ear and be an audience to someone who needs to…