Sign Language for Dogs

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…

the apprenticeship is over/we are both skilled masons/ able to demolish and construct walls instantly how easily we learn when we apply ourselves/ unfortunately we never learned how to build doorways…………………………………… for that we have paid dearly, we’re fired

by now you know i am a very simple man i look at everyday things and supplant them into situations where they were never intended to be used………………………………………..so a little slanted or warped…….okay …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… looking at this pencil on my desk i notice it has been mauled, attacked by my…

took a long time for me to realize how much power is in my feet a lot more power than in my mouth people argue with words…………………….hard to argue with someone who isn’t there that power hurts no one………………………..threatens no one……………………….condemns no one has you ever noticed that unchallenged rants…

sometimes the last thing we need /is the first thing we need sometimes the BIG GUY will throw something at us to shake us out of the misconception that we are in charge…………………………..if we don’t see that……………. when the water left thousands stranded on roofs, trees, bridges……………………no one was saying…

i had no idea what i was getting into and neither did you……………..you had that deer in the headlights look and i needed to get out of my head and help someone else get out of theirs……………………………..i grabbed you because i needed you as much as you needed me…………..you didn’t…

you saw you chance and you took hold you believed in a dream and never let go you did whatever needed to be done to keep the dream alive it’s one thing to have a dream, it’s another thing to live it you are an odd duck, but that’s why…

i know a person who is extremely contagious if you want to be miserable you don’t want to be around him, he will ruin your attempts at self- pity or negativity he is the most giving person i know and he continues to be blessed in so many ways as…

pray, yeah, yeah…………………………………do it anyway what is your part?…………………………………hate that stop digging say ” it could be worse” 100 times…………………..use as needed write a gratitude list forgive someone………………………..and mean it go to a hospital or nursing home go visit someone who is sick count your fingers and toes……………………….20 % of…

communicate: the transfer of ideas and information really………………………about 99% of my verbiage serves little purpose other than to create noise like an animal letting others know of his presence thinking before speaking…………………………what a novel idea actually giving purpose and substance to my utterance we already have the ability to speak…

try to go one hour without passing judgement on something or someone okay try and go a minute without making a judgement………………….you might make a minute if you really try my point : it’s not easy………………..as humans we are constantly comparing, sorting and labeling………………..that’s what we do………………………and what it does…

there is no potential in wishing……………………………………….. but endless opportunities in doing……………………………………. the end result in looking is finding……………………………………may not be what you were looking for but along the way there are many doors……………………………open one

Horace soared toward the sky by the edge of a beautiful meadow. a meandering river passed nearby and offered its’ sweet water often. He longed to roam the fields with the other creatures or to fly over the earth with the sparrows instead of being pegged to the earth, confined…

a bit of food gathers at the edge of his mouth, mrs. dixon passes  in the hallway, smiles and gestures to her mouth, he gets the message and says thanks / old people have to stick together and watch out for each other if he were five years younger he…

don’t define me by the color of my skin i am so much more than that, not a good place to begin i didn’t choose my color, it was out of my control i accept what i am, don’t put me in a mould my color doesn’t dictate that i…

write it down , stake a claim where you are use it as a reference to check if you are headed in the right direction like a compass to confirm what you think you know as opposed to what you know the most powerful words a learner can say ”i…

the bully is back and full of caffeine he’s on a roll don’t get stuck in between he’s always right so don’t bother to reply he got all the answers for you and i he can’t understand why he doesn’t have more  friends the ones he connects with are just…

she’s changing my idea of love in ways i have never known before, with eyes i have never seen before, with arms i have never held before she’s changing my thoughts of love i’m giving what i couldn’t give before, i’m finding what i have been searching for, i’m sharing…

gathering twigs and small branches, i listen to the night sounds as i go about my evenings work. at one time i got into the habit of collecting large reserves of kindling for the evening fire, however it wasn’t long before i missed the sounds of the night and the…