Sign Language for Dogs

for you who cannot speak, may i say a word for you to shine a light were darkness tried to overshadow your life that others remember you for your living and that you didn’t die in vain  that such a sacrifice perhaps will open many closed doors and minds as…

you came into the pool area tapping your cane very softly and carefully, i watched you place your towel and goggles on the bench,this action obviously have been repeated many times…………… you said ”hi” to the lifeguard as she greeted you inquiring about the temperature of the water, to which…

some of us have a grudge, and we’ll get over…………talk about it………..blow off some steam………..and move on one of us will start a grudge, feed it, nurture it and turn it into a vendetta against society sometimes there is someone who has knowledge of this ” out of control behavior,”…

”we do what we do, might be different from you, makes me no better, no worse,be grateful we have a choice.”……..ttucro i make marks on my left hand for reminders……………………….i have a laptop, i have an i-phone, i have sticky notes, if it is something i cannot forget to do…

a hard man to love took the trash out and sat down at his desk and put a snob-nose 45, by his lamp started to write a note and couldn’t decide where to start much less where to end he heard his grand-kids playing in the yard and that made…

opinions are like mosquito’s of your mind, they bite you when you’re not looking and they separate and divide either things are good for me or not…………………they are inclusive or devisive…………..sound or shaky, for me what you chose to do with them and how you view them is up to…

we are born with the capability of behavior that can resemble a firecracker or a feather let’s examine the firecracker factor: very loud very messy can create damage powerful for a moment lasting effects…………….marginal now the feather factor: light…………..adaptable non threatening comforting structured non-combative longer lasting influence ………………………………………………………………………………………………………. now which…

they make a product we all can use, but you can’t buy it in a store it takes time to get the formula right, several years or more and it takes a special person to know when to use it and how to apply it right sometimes people get in…

some days it’s easy being me and some days it sucks sometimes i feel like i’m on one of the moving transporters at the big airports and i’m just waving at people and places as they pass by, like a parade wave then other days i have concrete blocks attached…

i keep a little song going on, somewhere in the back of my mind often i hum a few bars and i know people wonder what’s going on but life goes on from day to day, filled with those who want and those who need i try to be the…

oh yes, i’m a believer…………………………………….i’ve said a thousand times, to which i now would respond, ” why don’t you try practicing” everyone is talking about statues and kneeling at nfl games, but nobody is talking about the real deal…………………..and that is we still live in a segregated nation and guess who…

the lies i tell myself aren’t as well crafted as they used to be………………………………i suppose subconsciously i know they are lightweights anyway the balance has shifted and it’s almost not worth the trouble to construct them at all, i said almost the lazy me still wishes to avoid doing things…

being a friend is easy,……………………until you have to do something until you have to tell your friend that his partner is unfaithful until then being a friend is easy when you have to set with a friend while they wait to hear if their mother or father survived the operation…

the scales of life are balanced just right……………..so we get in proportion to what we give the only people who have a problem with that………………………well you figure it out……….. i don’t know who said it but ”fair” is a place where pigs get ribbons we as humans have a hard…

safely tucked somewhere you cannot see, is a very special place i have set aside for thee it has little pieces i thought that i should keep, reminders we might need sometime, when the light of love is weak for if we are to be honest we know life has…

how’d you sleep?………………………………..we do make our own bed and the debris and chaos we initiate during the day follows us into the night surely you have heard this remark coming from someone who has been or is a royal pain in the a……………”i just don’t sleep well, toss and turn,…

”i think you should do this, maybe you should try that”……………………………if you are going to play God you better be God ”it’s not the right time in your life, maybe you should wait a few years”…………….if you are going to play God , you better be God ”i was faced…

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…