A walk in the woods...

I feel the cool breeze
I hear the birds sing
I feel at peace in this world
I am content with what I have
I am happy with my life
but
There is change coming on the wind
I can feel it
I will let it take me over
Wash my spirit clean
I will rise anew and be free

First Light

It is raining on my window
I smile at the sounds
It is a peaceful feeling
that somehow I have found
My heart is full tonight
I will sleep in peaceful dreams
For I shall think of you
when the sun come up first light.

You know who you are....

You came into my life
and proved my suspicions wrong
You looked into my soul
a place not to many have seen
You let me see the real you
and I loved what was there
You put a smile on my face
for the first time in years
You conquered a part of me
and I let you
You walked away
and now I am lost

To One in Paradise

Thou wast all that to me, love,
For which my soul did pine-
A green isle in the sea, love,
A fountain and a shrine,
All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers,
And all the flowers were mine.

Ah, dream too bright to last!
Ah, starry Hope! that didst arise
But to be overcast!
A voice from out the Future cries,
"Onward!"- but o'er the Past
(Dim gulf!) my spirit hovering lies
Mute, motionless, aghast!

For, alas! alas! with me
The light of life is o'er!
"No more-- no more-- no more,"
(Such language holds the solemn sea
To the sands upon the shore)
Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree
Or the stricken eagle soar!

And all my hours are trances,
And all my nightly dreams
Are where thy dark eye glances,
And where thy footstep gleams-
In what ethereal dances,
By what Italian streams.

Alas! for that accursed time
They bore thee o'er the billow,
From Love to titled age and crime,
And an unholy pillow!--
From me, and from our misty clime,
Where weeps the silver willow!

~Edgar Allan Poe

Life's Song

There is a sadness in my life
that will not leave.
It keeps me broken and alone.
There is a pain I try to hide and it's getting
harder everyday.
I want to break out
of this disguise.
I want to rise above the despair.
I am not the person everyone sees. I am not
at this point in time at all me.
I have been buried in the dark
for far to long.
I just want to get out
and sing life's song.

The ABC's of Life

A ccept differences
B e kind
C ount your blessings
D ream
E xpress thanks
F orgive
G ive freely
H arm no one
I magine more
J ettison anger
K eep confidences
L ove truly
M aster something
N ature hope
O pen your mind
P ack lightly
Q uell rumors
R eciprocate
S eek wisdom
T ouch hearts
U nderstand
V alue truth
W in graciously
X eriscape
Y earn for peace
Z ealously support a worthy cause

A Poem....

Hearts to be broken of an unchained love
That will strike without hope or single care
This pain so in vain sent down from above
Change dark to light days to night life prayer
But along with love also comes pain
Of hearts on fire burning up with desire
A soul so torn apart by love in vain
A rapid death of hearts that love tired
After time love dies thoughts of what to do
A soul can seen lost inside of a heart
But is this total feeling to be true
I should have known from the start I love you
But now it's gone an after all is said
I think it would be better to be dead

~Donald Miller Jr.

Quotes of the day...

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." ~Samuel Johnson

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." ~Antoine de Saint Exupery

"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them." ~Ian L. Fleming

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world." ~George Washington Carver

"Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself." ~William J. H. Boetcker

"Faith is believing that what you cannot see will come to pass. Fear is believing that what you cannot see will come to pass." ~Edwin Louis Cole

I Crave Your Mouth, Your Voice, Your Hair

DON'T GO FAR OFF, NOT EVEN FOR A DAY
Don't go far off, not even for a day, because --
because -- I don't know how to say it: a day is long
and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station
when the trains are parked off somewhere else, asleep.

Don't leave me, even for an hour, because
then the little drops of anguish will all run together,
the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift
into me, choking my lost heart.

Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach;
may your eyelids never flutter into the empty distance.
Don't leave me for a second, my dearest,

because in that moment you'll have gone so far
I'll wander mazily over all the earth, asking,
Will you come back? Will you leave me here, dying?

Pablo Neruda

Q. If you could hear what someone was thinking for a day, whose thoughts would you want to hear?

My 5 year old son. He has downs syndrome, but I know that even though he doesn't talk much there is a lot going on in that head of his. I would love to be able to just hear what he is thinking about, that would make all the hard work worth everything for me.

A book everyone needs to read...

Was given a book called How Full Is Your Bucket? and I think everyone should read it. The basic principle to the book is about positive strategies. What it talks about is that everyone has a bucket and you can choose to fill that bucket or take from it. You fill the bucket by your positive interactions with that person and you take from it with your negative interactions.

One of the things that love to do everyday is the chance to fill someones bucket :-) It fills mine to make someone else feel good. What's even better is that I simply like making people happy, and with most people that is not a hard thing to do.

For instance I have this great group of people I talk to everyday and no matter the mood of any one of us we can always manage to make each other feel better.

And nothing beats feeling good among friends.

Stand By Me from www.playingforchange.com

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. ~ Kahlil Gibran