Sign Language for Dogs

the monkey is gone……you made him leave……but not before he brought you to your knees…….as he we tying the noose to put around your throat………….you stepped down from the platform………..you had enough……………although he pleaded to you to try dodging the hangman one more time…….in a moment of clarity……………..you had no…

grateful it has come to this……hurtful things i no longer resist………for the deeper the arrow goes………..awakens me to the core……………..and i have the courage to ask for more………. i have traveled along this way and i have learned there is a blessing for me…………and i look back on the hurt…

glad for the happy……….glad for the sad…………..glad i can experience the good and the bad………….glad to view all the colors i see……..glad i can pick the right ones for me…………glad i can dream and glad i can soar……………glad for the days i just want to lie in the floor…….glad to…

the ”obvious” came around and quietly sat down……..because the gate was open………….and we were left to figure out to close it or leave it………. we have a say in how things will unfold but it isn’t totally up to us………… what’s right and how that goes is contingent upon doing…

i can scant recall a word so small that encompasses so many things………..wrapped up inside is appreciation and pride and an acknowledgement of what has been done………..and the lingering vibe is akin to a tribe of well wishers chanting to come in………… and yet perhaps i am as guilty as…

you never know where life will go and we best be ready to ride the tide…………what had seemed like a sure thing doesn’t seem that solid after all……………………. we look across a frozen pond and we wonder if the ice will hold………….debate the pros and cons and decide to wait…

so what is the criteria for a life well lived…………..would have to include mistakes……..learning from those mistakes…………..love…..lost and reclaimed………fear……acknowledged and overcome…….goals…met and not met……..giving………..received graciously and rebuffed………..patience……..tried and broken……….and held by a thread…………….influential by actions accompanied by a few well placed words……….running off half-cocked and returning to measured steps………………life torn…

after all the medical procedures and treatments that destroy your body to fight of the cancer…….i still see your light……… that spirit that chucks the middle finger up at your disease and says i’m living in spite of you……………i’m still making a difference in people’s lives……that light….. that light that’s…

what can i bring to a dying man who is full of more life than most of us…………who accepts the outcome but not the terms…..he has basically told his disease, ”i’m going when i’m ready………………not when you’re ready………this is my show and God is the director and producer……….so sit over…

efforts to make God more reasonable and easier to comprehend are the equivalent of bringing God down to our level……i couldn’t put much faith in a God that operates with the same skill-set of a man……………… the need to understand and comprehend the works and measures that God takes is…

the appropriate definition for the aforementioned word is : YOUR ACTIONS NOW GIVE ME FREE REIGN TO DO WHAT I WANTED TO, AND IT’S YOUR FAULT…….. when we are hellbent, and i do me hellbent to do what we want……..we will find a way to make it acceptable……..and your fault……….…

there comes a time when reality hits…….. after you have given your best shot…….it’s time to quit……. when you pick up the pen and connect the last dot………the picture was easy to spot, a long time ago………but you couldn’t be honest…….you couldn’t let go……… so the ball you have been…

it’s been awhile since you have been gone but i still feel your presence as i go along and when i seem anxious about the best way to proceed i think of you fondly and ask you to lead……one a natural father and the other an adopted father……when i needed…

the reality is i am in recovery from myself. yes i used alcohol, drugs, women, money to change the way i felt…………..but at the core was an inability and unwillingness to accept what i was and what i wasn’t………scared, inferior and lazy………….and not confidant, truthful or committed…….to anything….. the challenge,…

you will never…….never………never……know what is in someones’ head…………..if you know them for 50 years………………live with them or was raised with them or by them……………..never…… but you will know what is in their heart……….by the way they address you……..pay attention to you…….stay in touch with you and confide in you…………………… so…

situations…….what people do or don’t do……..desires not met…… lack of appreciation………..respect………injustice……..lies…….unfaithfulness………….the list is virtually endless……..these are hard things that at some point in time most of us will face……….but without a dominant underlying belief and appreciation for life and the wonder of life one is doomed with the seemingly continuous…

deny, deny, deny until it’s on top of you……looks you in the eye and says, ”what wrong with you ….you don’t have to like it but stop lying to you”….. you have been in the process for so long that you aren’t even mad that it took you so long……you…

the ”hard way” still retains it’s place as the accepted method of learning………..you would think that with all the advances in technology that would have changed……..but i’m here to tell you….it hasn’t…. people are still reluctant to embrace the truth if it interferes with their agenda or personal beliefs…….. also…

much as i would like to think i appreciate the significance of things and people in my life……i don’t think we are capable of that realization until it is taken from us or it is lost through negligence or rarely……no fault of our own………………. the love of a friend or…

i would see you looking out of the corner of your eye…….i knew you were wondering how i always seemed happy and joyful and alive……..it was all i could do to stifle myself and wait till the right time arrived…………finally after no one was left to accuse…….God pointed the finger…

you don’t have to explain it i get the gist…..everyone and everything is on your shit list……..i hear you beating around the bush……but i think you know the problem is you………….we run in the same circles and the people that drive you crazy drive me crazy too…….but i just accept…

when your feet were stuck and you finally broke free…….you came to believe in a power greater than thee………..as life moved along often you would forget and things got twisted and you gave into it…….after suffering enough you would surrender and that’s when you would remember how to handle it……give…

i needed a generator repaired and i know an old codger that is beyond compare when it comes to things that start and run……..and he is so ornery that he makes me laugh……..always followed by ”are you listening to me”……. so the repair was done and i went to retrieve…

the battle within determines the battle without and when i conquer my demons i pause to reflect………my greatest victories are within myself……. sad to say but i often forget others may pose problems but they are rarely a threat………the one i have to be aware of is within myself………. there…

a act of kindness affects me to this day…….although at the time it did not register to me…….perhaps i was lost in the conversation and i failed to acknowledge the significance……….but later it dawned on me and stays with me ever since………. perhaps we are remiss at times to think…

so they keep trying to convince me it just couldn’t be …….the things in the Bible are to far fetched and illogical……..but i never thought i would be at the place and the only reason……Gods’Grace………….. so you can’t believe that i could be fooled by things reported that seem impossible…

i can’t be doing my best…….if i am keeping you from doing your best……………………..i cannot claim to be caring unless i do things i am not drawn to…….but know needs doing……..that is convenience…..i cannot profess to be loving if i am only able to love people that love me……………reciprocation should…

the seed of hope had taken hold and you stopped asking why and did what you were told……it was tested and proved and the road ahead had been paved for you by other lost souls who had found their way……………listening to those who had been saved, from a hopeless state…

we make certain things part of the regular script and there are days when we can barely hold to it………but we keep info to get through it…….we’ll call it l.,t, and mayonnaise……. at the end of a trying day we grab hold of something that we know is okay and…

let the past sleep, it did it’s best to prepare you for upcoming tests………everything was supplied that you would need…….some you latched on to and some was like the wind in the trees………we all have missed opportunities to learn and to grow……………but let the past sleep……………..today isn’t waiting