Poems
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I went for a walk on the hottest day of the year, so far. 96 Fahrenheit, 36 Celsius. Hot no matter how you measure it. As my feet competed to be in front my mind wandered, and I found myself thinking about an upcoming trip to South Africa. We left there at the start of…
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Cars kill forty thousand people every year in the USA. Guns are used to kill others on average twenty thousand times a year! Another twenty six thousand gun related deaths are suicide. Not counting suicides cars claim twice as many lives as guns. Here is the strange thing: if a person is reckless with a…
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Thoughts! Thoughts lead to feelings, and feelings lead to action. We are just bags of bones and blood, but have a brain that can that run amok and cause us harm. Limiting our thoughts is cheating. I always though it is best if a head can hold two ideas at once. Between right and wrong…
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Loss is the flip side of have. There cannot be loss without having something you value. Loss is a terrible thing, but also a wonderful thing. It is terrible because we lost something or someone we held dear, and wonderful because we had someone or something special for a while. We can loose people to…
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We are what we eat! There is more to that saying I think. We are what we consume. Food, thoughts and ideas, all these things makes us what we are and directly influences our thinking. Considering that thinking sets our behavior, and our behavior determines our world, we really need to consume carefully, and develop…
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Freedom is not free. This is often said by politicians to defend their shameful sacrifice of young lives in wars. Any politician that engages in war is a failed politician in my book! I see that statement differently. To be free is not the same thing as having freedom! The freedom offered in society does…
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I told someone earlier this week that once I was a crastinator, but have since become a pro. I have things to do, but I am also very fortunate to have time to waste. Of course wasting time is not good, but it is good when you can! Having downtime to kick back and relax,…
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I see this phenomenon everywhere. Opinions and direction swings like a pendulum, from one end of the spectrum to the other, only passing the middle ground, but lingering at the extremes. The saying ‘Two wrongs don’t make a right!’ applies here. These swings are much more common and prominent due to media programming. And here…
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I did not plan to publish anything today, but unfortunately I started thinking about taxes. It is very complicated I know, but to me it seems set up to make the consumer, that is all of us ordinary people, pay the brunt of it. When there is a deficit, and the debt ceiling looms, more…
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Time is precious. Each of us is allotted a fixed amount of time, and like the sand in a hour glass it never stops flowing. We can add more money, things and people to our lives, but not time. There is only 24 hours in a day, and our days are numbered. I am very…
Tales from my head 