The Moments Of Your Life

We are the sum 

of all the moments 

of our lives

—all that is ours 

is in them.

 ~ Thomas Wolfe

Winter's Madness

You can tell yourself what you'd like...

I know the truth

I know

Everyday is Halloween

Creep, slither, crawl, and ooze

There's no stopping 
there's no rest
the mind of the mad
the mind of U

Encased in fear
eyes of mirrors
see what they wish
fear what they see

I worry
only for a moment
I wait
only for a lifetime

A SKY FULL OF STARS

"A Sky Full Of Stars"

'Cause you're a sky, 'cause you're a sky full of stars
I'm gonna give you my heart
'Cause you're a sky, 'cause you're a sky full of stars
'Cause you light up the path

I don't care, go on and tear me apart
I don't care if you do, ooh
'Cause in a sky, 'cause in a sky full of stars
I think I saw you

'Cause you're a sky, 'cause you're a sky full of stars
I wanna die in your arms
'Cause you get lighter the more it gets dark
I'm gonna give you my heart

I don't care, go on and tear me apart
I don't care if you do, ooh
'Cause in a sky, 'cause in a sky full of stars
I think I see you
I think I see you

'Cause you're a sky, you're a sky full of stars
Such a heavenly view
You're such a heavenly view

HAL9000 is Happy !!!!

Daisy, Daisy,
give me your answer do,
I'm half crazy,
all for the love of you!

It won't be a stylish marriage
I can't afford a carriage

but you'll look sweet
upon a seat
of a bicycle built 

for two.

Today... my world, in my waking dream

It's warm, 

and green, 

and steamy, 

and quiet.

I wander aimlessly, 

a lost balloon
taken by wind
floating in a sea of white
and blue.

 I mingle with clouds 

so unlike them and

so the same

Exploring, watching, feeling.

I move through my green world

My precious garden 

I love you so.

Lush, green, and glowing...

It knows me.
I, both father and son

I feel life blooming.

My thoughts flowing and dreaming

 of tomorrow, of today. 

There is little emotion ... 

I am calmness, I am stillness, 

a breeze whispering through the soul. 

I like these moments.

My secret garden
of the soul

where I live

my waking dreams.

QUESTIONS (and Imagination) ...

How much

do you still wonder 

about the world around you? 

What is your state of curiosity?

When you pass something 

that you dont understand, 

do you pause to reflect 

on what the answer might be? 

Do you wonder 

how we came to know something 

that we now believe? 

Children do this naturally, 

they are explorers. 

I AM ...

“There are victories 

of the soul and spirit.

Sometimes, 

even if you lose, 

you win. ” 

~Elie Wiesel

EVERYDAY IS HALLOWEEN

Well I live with snakes and lizards

And other things that go bump in the night

cos to me every day is Halloween

I have given up hiding and started to fight

I have started to fight

well any time, any place, anywhere that I go

all the people seem to stop and stare

they say 'why are you dressed like its Halloween?

you look so absurd, you look so obscene'

o, why can't I live a life for me?

why should I take the abuse that's served?

why can't they see they're just like me?

it's the same, it's the same 

in the whole wide world

well I let their teeny minds think

that they're dealing with someone who is over the brink

and I dress this way just to keep them at bay

cos Halloween is everyday

it's everyday

o, why can't I live a life for me?

why should I take the abuse that's served?

why can't they see they're just like me?

I’m not the one that's so absurd

why hide it?

why fight it?

hurt feelings

best to stop feeling hurt

from denials, reprisals

it's the same it's the same 

in the whole wide world.

THE NIGHT SHADOWS

THE NIGHT SHADOWS

A wonderful fact to reflect upon,
that every human creature is constituted
to be that profound secret
and mystery to every other.

A solemn consideration,
when I enter a great city by night,
that every one of those darkly clustered houses
encloses its own secret;
that every room in every one of them
encloses its own secret;

that every beating heart
in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is,
in some of its imaginings,
a secret to the heart nearest it!

~ Charles Dickens

THE PERIOD

THE PERIOD

It was the best of times,
it was the worst of times,
it was the age of wisdom,
it was the age of foolishness,
it was the epoch of belief,
it was the epoch of incredulity,
it was the season of Light,
it was the season of Darkness,
it was the spring of hope,
it was the winter of despair,
we had everything before us,
we had nothing before us,
we were all going direct to Heaven,
we were all going direct the other way...
 

~ A Tale of Two Cities

~ Charles Dickens

The road

Life.... sometimes we just go for a run, 

no particular direction, no particular destination.

There are no answers just more questions.

Still the road is definite and it has its own truth... 

a definite reason for being and a definite destination... 
and we somehow recognize and somehow sense 

that definite purpose we crave. 

So on we go..moving forward. 

It is when we are worn 

we come to our "island" 

of definite direction within...

and we stop MOVING so that we can ACT...

Forever

Forever

It was always forever

and what is forever

for a mortal...

Is it time 

is it a gentle breeze

a wisp of smoke

a whisper

Education ...

Education is freedom 

but it is not about ease, comfort, 

tests or believing you are "right". 

It is about the unknown 

and challenges that are faced with curiosity, 
perseverance, and fearlessness. 

In the face of locked doors, dense fogs, 

and mountains that pierce the clouds 

and block our path, 

do we embrace the possibilities 

or despair at the unfortunate predicament? 

When you accept fear, 

you embrace all that defeats you, 

all that diminishes dreams and inevitably 

set a course in life that has no motion 

and leads nowhere.

THE 12 WIZARD RULES

THE 12 WIZARD RULES

Wizard's First Rule: 

People can be made to believe any lie, 

either because they want to believe it's true, 

or because they are afraid it's true.

Wizard's Second Rule: 

The greatest harm can result 

from the best intentions.

Wizard's Third Rule: 

Passion rules reason.

Wizard's Fourth Rule: 

There is Magic to heal. 
In the forgiveness you grant, 

and more so 

in the forgiveness you receive.

Wizard's Fifth Rule: 

Mind what people do, 

not only what they say, 

for deeds will betray a lie.

Wizard's Sixth Rule: 

The only sovereign you can allow to rule you 

is reason.

Wizard's Seventh Rule: 

Life is the future, 

not the past.

Wizard's Eight Rule: 

Deserve victory.

Wizard's Ninth Rule: 

A contradiction cannot exist in reality. 

Not in part, nor in whole.

Wizard's Tenth Rule: 

Willfully turning aside from the truth 

is treason to one's self.

Wizard's Eleventh Rule: 

Seek the truth not through others, 

but through yourself.

Wizard's Twelfth Rule: 

You can destroy those who speak the truth, 

but you cannot destroy the truth itself.

Second to the right, and straight on till morning...

They who lack talent 

expect things to happen without effort. 

They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration 

or ability, or to misfortune, 

rather than to insufficient application. 

At the core of every true talent 

there is an awareness of the difficulties 

inherent in any achievement, 

and the confidence 

that by persistence and patience 

something worthwhile will be realized. 

Thus talent is a species of vigor. 

~Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)