Sign Language for Dogs

Am amazing thing happens when you begin to live consciously……..you enter a new world….a new life………things you have seen for years take on a new light…….people you trusted become questionable and people you assumed were enemies……turn out to be good friends…..open your heart and mind to a new world ?……..reality.…

One must scale the peaks of one’s soul before tackling the peaks of this world……ttucro

Be prepared to spend more than you think when doing acts of kindness…..it is rarely an easy affair…..that is the sequence.  1….the feeling of concern…2…..the act of reaching out physically…mentally….financially…..3…the obstacle….there is always an obstacle to test your metal and commitment 4……the blessing….to those who receive it with humility and…

The pursuit of knowledge…….involves a fair amount of waiting…….you plow through the underbrush as a man chasing the golden goose …..then you hit a wall…..too high to climb so you wait……and wait……..pace and wait……finally you sit down against the wall…..when you awaken…. the wall has been reduced to a mere…

This world is a plethora of delicious delights…the key is moderation…..many a man  has cut short those experiences and the length of his life by succumbing to pleasure…..it is a two edged sword that taken for granted will pierce the armor of the soul and leave one drained and empty…….ttucro

Ok let’s say you are fairly intelligent…….and use the analogy that your mind is a bucket where you store things……if you put everything you know in that bucket and you think it’s close to being full…. you aren’t that smart after all……if you feel you have barely covered the bottom…

It is a joy to be a weightlifter you see…..helping to carry another’s load…..the pay off for me is the ability to see my issues in a different light….and as I go along my way it occurs to me that without life’s hurdles……I would have missed so much of what…

When I separate my fears from reality…… I am  on the road to clarity…… but only… if I am willing to accept what I find………ttucro

Fine line Valentine between love and dependence…….we depend on each other for the basics…….but love starts when we accept each other for what we are…….who we are ….and where we are…..I never knew love until I saw your shortcomings and mine….and decided to love  you anyway…….giving you a hand isn’t…

Facts are facts…….the truth maybe hard to swallow but it doesn’t stop it from being the truth…….when I want to do something I can justify my wants faster than dominion can change votes in an election……I can only corral my behavior by realizing that left to my own devices I…

Better late never……realizing I never had a clue……my ideas above love were as far from the truth……as the Earth ? from the moon……….slow learner

There is a great deal of logic behind the statement “A penny for your thoughts”……much of the time that’s what they are worth……..jus sayin.         Ttucro

every artist knows about the constant battle of people trying to dominate and control you……… either they are not naturally creative or they envy your work and  your interaction with life………………….. their efforts will take on many forms…………….the occasional off hand remark………….unenthusiatic comments…………………..or complaints about your preference in use of…

The world doesn’t stand a chance getting me down…….I’m a friend of God’s……ttucro

I seem to recognize those words but they aren’t congruent with your face ……..the words tumble from your lips like water over ice….. they would suggest a pleasant experience had they not struggled with your eyes…….your lips were trying mighty hard but your eyes….,they could not lie:…… i think you…

I see temptation and i sit down and wait … convinced that i can hangout……resist and be on my way…….then I am reminded that a little deviation is expected……no one is perfect……an that lapse in emotional control leads to situations that require much time and effort to resurrect……..a conscious life…

I toss and turn all night long…. from these rocks I placed in my bed……  when I expect more from you than I do from myself….I take the rocks in my head and place them in my bed and wonder what’s going…… on…….expectations are bullets waiting to be fired

Blame our misfortunes on others and a funny thing begins…… the issue we thought we had come through… often begins again…..own it….your life…….your mistakes or you will never learn and the same things will happen over and over…again.      Ttucro

I can’t change things that come my way but I can accept them as they are meant to be relying on a faith and past experience that there is a purpose and plan that requires this seemingly disturbing situation to be present so it is…..a bump in the road….a hill…

i see the bee…………..and the bee sees me………………… i can pretend that it will fly away……………………..and it may…………. i can take measures to assist the meeting remains friendly………………..by moving from the vicinity……………….. but………………i have as much right to this space as the bee…………………i will stand firm and strong………………………………where has the…

hard thing for me to accept things i don’t like about myself……………… i am easily influenced………………….generally opposing views i do not agree with………… not so bad on face value…………………but the reality is that negativity influences and colors the rest of my day………………………. careful with that axe Eugene……………………those are your toes………………..…

it’s almost gone before i see the true value and what it’s worth to me…………….. never stop to appreciate things and people before it almost to late……………… sadly……………………..sometimes it is……………………………………………. never gamble with things………you aren’t prepared to lose

no one was ever meant to have everything…………………….there are reasons for what you have and reasons for what you don’t have…………….. change it if you can………………..accept if you can’t……………………………..and pray to know the difference

time never lies………………like it or not

things only bother you………………………..if you take them personally it’s not about you…………………..it’s about them

i may not get to the space your in………………..but i won’t act and i won’t pretend…………..accept me as i am…………….or give someone esle the time… i this is my life and before i can be true to you…………….i have to be true to me………….. i do the things i do………………..draw……….paint………write…………play…

this body is getting older……..but my heart is getting younger…………….as the blessings of life keep piling up…………………..i stand on them and look to a horizon that is filled with wonder and expectation of the possibilities and the marvels of another day walking to paradise…………. it is a guarantee of the…

your face speaks……………….your lips never moved………………but you eyes sparkled and your heart smiled…………. we send messages that precede us and those thoughts travel faster then rockets through the sky…………… we are more than our body and more than our mind………………if……………….we are tethered to the ‘source’……………..that i call ‘G’ and tap…

the ‘Spirit’ came to me…………..’little seed i shall make you a tree……………….and your part will be a leaf……………..I will let you pick the tree………………….but i would be careful because there are different leaves on different trees’…………………………………. so i began to inquire about the roles different leaves play on different trees………………….…

there is little point in digging the shallow well…………………often runs dry and reveals little………..the springs that feed our insecurities and defects run deep and scratching the surface is often worse than no attempt at all………………….the source is elusive and we may reach many false bottoms…………deterred by what seems to be…