Sign Language for Dogs

i heard the voice of a young man and his concern about the conduct of a person he barely knows his conclusions may be right on target but his concerns affect no one but him why, do all of us punish ourselves with angst over concerns we cannot change the…

living consciously is a challenging prospect……………..but it is the only way to a great life imagine looking at every encounter throughout the day and making a determined effort to benefit everyone involved are you someone friends come to for strength and understanding………………..yes i am, sometimes friends don’t tread water in…

there is a magic pill………………………….. it can cure all manor of sickness and ills it comes from a place deep within, likes a spring it flows and it has no end it seems to replenish itself again and again………………………..that magic pill is love stronger than steel and softer than fur,…

everyday is not going to be a stellar day you won’t feel you should be riding a float in a parade confetti and streamers won’t be flyin’ your way but you don’t have to be a pothole……………………….. in someone’s day this has been my m.o., and i’m not proud to…

i will start with giving credit for that statement to David Jenkins……..a friend who tried to teach me but i was under the heavy influence of addiction for Amelia,CC, Cullen and Ian……………….my grandkids the most unwilling, uncooperative, don’t want any of this grandfather there ever was………………………….immediately went to ”we will…

freedom isn’t free, takes a fair amount of work to get out of me if you want to be free, stop thinking so much…………………………just enjoy being pondering is a beautiful pastime, until it becomes consuming this is a simple axiom that perplexes me and does so until i accept it:…

i just know it’s here somewhere, the little spacer that goes between thought and speech, a.k.a the ”pause button” mine is broken………………………..it’s like the transmission in my Yarus……………………….. it’s starting to slip and my ” pause button” allows things to slip out …………………………things that don’t need to be ” thought”…

we’ll see how often my wife reads this blog.……………………… consumed with  things i have no control over for years…………………………….opinions about this……………creating dissent at home, with friends, at work…………….ridiculous enough…………………………….i believe in voting………………..don’t vote………don’t complain but the hours i have spent listening to hundreds of different self- serving slants on the…

life : the ongoing narrative when it is ”all ” said…………………………………………..at least everything you are gonna say, what is the message of your book so far this is my message: you can do it your way, just remember everything has a price………your way can be expensive, mine was your message…

say we each have an allotment of 1,000,000 words when we enter this world…………. and you live you life. you got kinda old but you really weren’t  feeling all that bad and you get an email for the ”Chief Timekeeper” that you are down to you last hundred words before…

let’s start with me……………………..i am classified as white and i’m not white, reddish brown but not white most of my friends that are classified as black aren’t black, from olive to various shades of brown my black friends are Africans………………………………………….. so……………………………………. what the hell are we doing still referring to…

it doesn’t matter now, that was his name………………..his family wouldn’t dispute a word of this anyway this is called ”cracking the safe”/ for r.s. a bastard………………………., nothing good to say about anyone or anything everyone has had or will have an r.s., in their life, most of us will put them…

my old man,dad, father…………………………..and he was all these at different times depending on what his middle son, me, did to provoke the living sh..t outta him i can say at 63 that he did the best he could for me and my brothers. given what i know now and being…

think you know someone…………..okay want to understand that person on a different level? take time to notice the manner in which they do common place things eat………………..do they enjoy food or just eating to stay alive drink……………the length of time they hydrate may give you insight as to how long…

i saw that walter becker died, half of steely dan wonder how many of us get up and know that today is our last day on this plane? some, few, none……………………….i don’t know so how does one continue to remind himself or herself to make the most of everyday? do…

the hardest time you will ever do is in the prison of ”self” you did the crime, you assign time, you sit in the cell by yourself ”self” will keep you alive, but if you aren’t careful it will takeover your life, until there is little room for anyone else…

brother, i need to know where you are, how you are just like i hope you would do for me, if it’s been awhile i need to know you’re allright a bond is formed, we cannot see, stretches form you and it stretches to me  and we are connected because…

everyone is faced with the eternal quest, finding balance in life you start with the things you have to do and work out from there most of us are not situated that our financial responsibilities are taken care of; so we work……………………some are fortunate to love what they do, some…

learning is like water, you never know where it will flow nothing we learn affects one thing finding what is under one stone, begs one to turn over another new thoughts are like a crackling fire, they warm  and inspire  discovery has no do’s or don’ts, nor protocol  when we…

God knows we are human, takes us awhile to learn the dance, we step on so many toes…………………………..           He knows……………………….were gonna need a second chance don’t get me wrong, He wants us to give it our best shot, sometimes we get it right the first…

hey, tightwad want to have some fun?     try out giving God this is a test……………………………………………….your in initial investment is $10 carry  ten 1 dollar bills , a challenge in itself for me because i never carry cash,  the people you encounter at the convenient stores, holding signs in…

i went to prison today to visit a brother who lost his way and to my chagrin, i found i was more incarcerated than him  doesn’t matter where you are, walking down the street or looking through bars if your mind is twisted and your heart is empty than you…

half christian, half ass quick to judgement, slow to forgive short on patience, long on fear quick to petition, slow responding to requests half christian, half ass make no mistake about it, i’m not an elevated class, i can get down in the mud with the best of them and…

fragments of a bomb, embedded in my skin not to much to debate about, get a pair of tweezers and jump right in and with each painful pull, i remind myself again: relationships are like  grenades…………………….harmless until you pull the pin old Ben told me when he was alive ”…

1 the trickle of water: a/ was enough to fill my cup, if i was patient b/made me long for loud torrents of rain c/started to weaken and stopped to a trickle 2 after reviewing my notes i realized… a/i had focused on areas that mirrored my own opinion b/i…

parents place their children under the colortree they point to the color that looks like me, i will pick this one now it belongs to me……………………. now i have been placed in a box,with others like me, because if your color is different ………………we are not the same, separate i…

God does things we don’t understand, like Texas, like Texas   to stop us in our tracks and make us turn around, like Texas, like Texas   nobody is talking about race, too busy giving thanks, in Texas, in Texas   God will do what He needs to do …………………..like…

when something is not filled or occupied……………………………………………. the tides of life will upend and turn us inside out and upside down i have never seen a person so spiritually fit, that they do not waver from time to time and question their faith……………………………don’t believe it will happen on this side…

my name is lawrence drummond, most of my colleagues and friends call me L.D. i was a successful lawyer in this town and a successful drunk, who got sober some time ago and continues to be in total awe of the sober life…………how it has affected me, my family, my…

parable: the value of your word the obins were a simple people……………….after the great tumult, the day the rearrangement took place and everything that was in place as far as systems or currency were replaced by the value of ones’ word. so no one had to carry money, only a…