Sign Language for Dogs

we’ve been doing this long enough that i can tell when a thorn has taken up residence in your butt probably the only thing in the paper worth focusing on the crossword puzzle, learning to improve my vocab and better understand the verbage i spew out mirror, mirror on the…

sometimes all my efforts seem so futile……………….what i do at work, what i do at home and when personal relationships seem strained,……………………………………….i suppose it’s human nature to question and to raise concern if we are doing this thing right so for the thousandth time,” a life that doesn’t include self-examination…

i guess a lot of people are like me…………………….they gather all kind of ideas and projections that turn out to be about as close to reality as Venus is to Mars so instead of wait and see, my brain and my fears get way ahead of me i wonder, but…

a friend will know you are way off base, that you are not close to the beam, that your EMOTIONS ARE RUNNING THE SHOW, that your tongue has more venom than a cobra, your ability to make sound judgments is impaired, your perspective is jaded to say the least, the…

you were the most consistent person, i have ever known we met in high school and became fast friends in a hurry because we couldn’t find anyone as crazy and wild as we were………we fit the bill perfectly for each other…………………….you told me that you were going to live this…

i’m right here but nobody sees, i try to speak and no one listens to me i walk away and no one bothers to ask me where i’m going……………….invisible suppose we all have had those days, we don’t feel it matters what we do or say try not to put…

there is always a guest at my table and He has provided the food……………… sometimes we talk, often we enjoy His company without uttering a word we make sure He knows we  are grateful by offering a prayer before we eat and often inviting others to share the bounty of…

i’m sure as my parents watched me grow, they wondered if i was able to hear their words, because i wasn’t good about following directions…………………………………….that continued through my teens and adulthood it was only after a series of events, any of which was capable of ending my life, over a twenty…

i couldn’t imagine being any more free then the life of a turtle consider that a turtle has everything in its world with him at all times no clothes, no possessions, no constraints………………ready to go anywhere, at any time, in a moments notice i believe this lifestyle is attainable…………….but one…

seems trite when someone says that, but actually you need to take into consideration if you think they mean what they say how many times have we heard. ” the only people who scoff at prayer are those who never tried it”…………………and that is where i will leave it i…

best we can figure it’s been a week since our boat took on water and sank…………..we were anchored near a small island we intended to explore the next day…………………….in the middle of the night we rammed into something and it wasn’t long before we knew we were taking on water………………………we…

here, you take it, this ”king stuff” isn’t all i thought it would be being in charge seems thrilling at first until you realize you have all these people counting on you and you need to be ”right” being king you don’t get any time off, somebody’s always trying to…

let me see…………………..perhaps i should change my trajectory perhaps some of the things that i place in my way and many of the things that rot my brain………………………….would change…. if i consider and change one thing……………………………………….o………………….n………………e if it causes discomfort or pain, if it turns your sunshine into rain, leaves…

i can’t make sense sometimes how things go these days wonder if this world is out of control and the devil is having his way and in my moments of despair often a voice comes to me , ” you will never understand my ways, but I am here don’t…

you didn’t have to take time to help me, but you did and you did so with the grace of someone who cares and not like you were doing me a favor some people are good at doing certain things and some are good teachers, rarely is someone good at…

so i can push people out when they are getting to close, in hopes they don’t see the real me or shuffle the deck and start over again, but the person dealing me or go off in a different tangent and change people , places and things but no matter…

my grand-daughter placed a tiny nest in my hand and explained it fell from a tree i said the nest had been used by a family of birds and they needed more space for their young she pointed out what great care had gone into the construction and how each tiny…

it’s hard for me to watch a friend lose control of their life funny you said the same thing about me when i was fighting my demons you always had a plan and now the plan has you you knew what you wanted, now i suppose you might say to…

a difficult man will take his stand and fight to the very end and over time perhaps………………………………………………….he will find he could have accomplished more if he had put more effort into making his adversary his friend but stubborn as we sometimes are we think there should be pain and though…

these words i read in my little ”red book” some i don’t always understand and your ways are often so much different from how we act as men but what i lack in understanding is replaced by a sense of calm for as my world seems to be falling apart,…

u think you got and it and it looks pretty good and a breeze comes up and the leaves are all over the yard not a big deal and you start over again and you’re just about finished and here comes the wind so now you’re determined to see this…

here take this blessing, it’s waiting for you here is where it started and here it will end here is the letter you wrote trying to justify your actions here is where i tear the letter up and forgive you whether you realize you were wrong or not here is…

tell me what you see………………………………………..not what i want you to see tell me what you think…………………………………….not what i want you to think show me where i err…………………………………………… and when i get it right talk to me plainly……………………………………leave the colored words for your prose ask me why i responded that way……………………………………hold…

much as i would like to say, ”i practice staying spiritually fit everyday”………………….i don’t some of that i blame on being human, and the majority is because i’m lazy i let things affect me and only after they intrude upon my relationships, including myself do i make a conscious effort…

inquisitive student with a passion for learning: seeing mankind slip on the ever-present banana peel, watching the efforts of those fallen to rise again, you recorded as many of these instances as you could…………………..remembering the thoughts you hid in your heart, always wondering what had and had not been learned…

when i am alone i laugh about life and my relationship with reality, which has been somewhat touch and go   if i stayed here all the time i would be as difficult to deal with as the rest of them   so pardon me while i journey through this…

peering out the window, i went into a daydream………………………..i was startled by a tapping sound coming from the roof 3 ravens descended to the grounds below to something i surmised was a dead animal, as i moved to a different window for a better vantage point, a car came down…

hey brother, i’m sending you a little piece of me you may not be able to see it, but you will feel it as you read i wish i could do more…………………………… please know it bothers me to picture you in prison and me walking around free there were so…

sometimes i wonder what all this means………………………so many people preying on others and seemingly without any remorse when i hurt someone, i hurt as well……………………..it is not natural or normal to cause pain and suffering and blow it off like hey they were just in the way, luck wasn’t with…

simple things are all it takes to redefine this world take a simple thing like a smile and watch it’s magic unfold the power of a kind face, spreads the threads of love  the tapestry that we weave is how to be a blessing to this world ttucro smile……………………….when you…