Sign Language for Dogs

i put a rainbow in one pocket and a star in the next, no one said i couldn’t do it because i didn’t bother to ask…….and almost immediately things i didn’t think were possible came true……..and i finally realized not many things a confidant mind cannot figure out how to…

just a minute is all it takes to heal a friendship or make a mistake……………rarely have i seen things that suffered by waiting, but i have often witnessed and participated in actions that resulted in chaos by not doing so,…………….haste indeed does make waste………………”just a minute friend, let’s let this…

i saw the rabbit from the corner of my eye, the sound as we rode over him, made me shudder…….and ask why. the report of a family in the wrong place at the wrong time, resulting in a bullet riddled fan and children set on fire,why? there are many things…

take the cooker off the stove, it started cooking when they stepped on your toes, let the temperature drop before you open the lid………………and try to remember what was said, came from someone who is sick in the head……..now what my instincts prefer to do is cut you down and…

trees can laugh……..and trees can sing………..they also know how to cry……………….to dismiss this as ludicrous would denote little time had been spent outside……… go outside to nourish the inside…………………curtain call

good minds listen to great minds without hesitation or confrontation……………….aware that we are not all capable of extraordinary insight or discernment…………..most can elevate to higher levels of thought through prayer and meditation, but genetics and surroundings often determine the levels our minds can achieve………all can become educated, some become wise.…

my God is the God of the atom……………should cover everything

a short pause you afford me as i enter into today, events that have transpired do not go my way, but i have good reason to believe that it will end okay, because i know you are in charge and Your Ways are not my ways. as i travel throughout…

i get you and you get me and what a beautiful thing to feel and see/ two people connected by a desire to seek reality as opposed to what we want to see……….very cool when a good friend takes you to school and shows you a different way to handle…

thank God i have enough sense that i can laugh at me, when i think i have made huge strides spiritually, i let an offhand remark send me spinning like a whirling dervish. i am still that little boy who isn’t that fond of sharing his toys but at least…

” a rare crop indeed ” said he as he climbed the tree ”and what is especially unique, it that the fruit is bitter sweet” and so my life unfolds, entertaining me as it rolls, and i am constantly amazed how much more i experience out of the ”haze” the…

make peace with your past and the sting won’t last, from those memories painful to recall/ easier to retrace if a lesson was laced into the fabric of your soul/ we didn’t get it all right and we didn’t get it all wrong, we stumbled and rose and carried on/…

your demise came at a surprise although looking back it shouldn’t have been so………………you wouldn’t stay within the bounds that were made……….outside those you were on your on………….freedom has a price and sometimes the cost outweighs the benefits………….the incident that took you is new and it’s pain sharp and directed…

he was just a square headed dog that guarded his girls like they were his own, causing you to trip occasionally because he was going to be right with you every step of the way/you looked at Sam and he was an easy read, he wanted to be loved and…

our paths crossed once again and i hit my knees reliving our time and gave thanks it was left behind……

the past is a good place for things that were lost, most of which we didn’t need anyway/ a reluctant phone call revived old memories better left buried in the ground of yesterday/i am not that person who you knew then and i am grateful for the changes i have…

your reaction to my joy was an essay of a thousand words, the look on your face and your attitude spoke volumes…….i will leave it behind because it has no other redeeming qualities other than to remind me that although i would like to believe we have made progress it…

as we grow we begin to know, enough to get us into trouble………we place ourselves at the center of the universe and expect everything to revolve around us and when of course it doesn’t, there is trouble in Oz……after experience and many disappointments we come to a crossroads and the…

seems interesting to me that i am now able to see that there can be victory in failure…………..what i had in mind is often defined by unrealistic expectations………the process reveals where i failed to anticipate and what i was remiss to see……therein lies the victory i only fail when i…

i have come to appreciate the consistency of the same…..no longer do i find it boring but relaxing and mundane…….doesn’t take much for me to be enthused with life, i enjoy the simple elegance that the natural world provides………………… i can now appreciate the beginning and the end and things…

hey young fella, hear what i say, it isn’t tomorrow today’s the day, so use it wisely before it goes away, tomorrow may not come so today’s the day……..i see you looking down the street…… having an idea where you are headed is a good plan to seek, but all…

i understand why as you good older your beauty changed but it didn’t fade………because it radiates from a place deep within…….so i have come to see from the example you have set………so within then it will show without now i will never be a beauty but i can be beautiful…

i can see you would like a remedy, that would lend itself to butterflies and rainbows…………………but you won’t get that promise from me…..we can examine the best course of action and i will be there to to help anyway i can, but all i can in earnest offer is sweat…

one will never become, until one faces the unknown, for without that leap of faith we cannot seek or embrace that power that leads us home………walking and guiding us through the unknown…… the unknown can be a scary place, depending on our state of faith, but only there do we…

this body of mine has several parts… mental, physical and spiritual…..if i expect it to preform at maximum effectiveness, i have to do the required checks…. when one part is out of balance this machine doesn’t operate smoothly and it shows in my relationships and my interactions with others………………….so on…

now i was born with with a will and a whip and i can get going and things will flip, but time has mellowed me out, but i’ll never quit looking for another spool of thread to unwind…….about as curious as an old cat………i’ll scratch around and see where your…

at this stage in my life………nothing, turns out to be a lot….. not having to always be on the clock, taking time to to take stock of all the wonder around me, that’s what doing nothing affords nothing is clean and nothing is clear and i welcome nothing as something…

the best intentions in a well thought plan will not be received favorably if it’s bad timing/so the hardest part in life on this plane………is playing the game of waiting so you can get all fired up about a plan you’ve made but all that enthusiasm will have to be…

so i’m with a friend and we are watching the news and he makes a comment on what we just viewed and i start to smile and break into a laugh………….because i never saw any of that seems awful strange that two sane adults could interpret the same thing in…

u cannot live until u die, distort your face, but i will tell you why….until the sting of death is near your mind is congested and never clear…….but when death comes to visit the fog quickly fades and what is left is reality and that often is hard to see…