Can be 5/23/29

Who I am 

Keeps me

From who I

Can be

Who I am where I live what I think

Who I spend my time with 

What I have done what I think I can do

We are all on the same death march

But before then many things are possible

Who I am

Keeps me

Who I

Can be

5/23/20 day 29,422

Self-righteous 5/14/20

Self-righteous 

Freedom from

Doubt

Without any thinking I launched this great plan

And pretty soon it all went in the garbage can

That was just before I turned 80

 No more will I start anything weighty  

A few times in the past lady luck has come thru

I'd get all puffed up and start something new

No council or thought just time in money

From the high ground of old age it seems really funny

To the young people I say be cautious but bold

It takes more than thought to pile up some gold

Self-righteous  

Freedom from

Doubt

Robert DeRopp

5/14/20 day 29,413

New day 2/1/18

1. Brand new
2. Day
3. Same old way
4. 
   
5. The rut gets smoother and deeper
6. Comfortable easy ways 
7. Of slow-moving days
8. The living death of routine
9. Break something down blow something up
10. Climb out of the rut
11. Before it becomes a grave
12. Somebody said a rut is a grave
13. With the ends knocked out
14. 
    
15. Brand new
16. Day
17. Same old way
18. 2/1/18 day 28,569 

Consider 5/9/20

Consider 

Act

Observe

Nothing is all gain

One can never know at the beginning

Where all the obstacles lie

As the plan takes shape and materializes

The flaws and misjudgments are exposed

Here is the opportunity

Learn what is needed to prevail

Or take your lessons

With gratitude and goodwill

And make another plan

Consider

Act

Observe

Nothing is all gain

unknown

5/9/20 day 29,408

Roll on 5/7/20

I'll roll on  

Till I'm rolled

Over

I wake up feeling like death warmed over

2 cups of coffee and I'm dancing on Clover

29,406 days have taking their toll

But still I have a really big goal

To help others see the value of learning

And how to develop a lifelong yearning

If freedom exists it comes from our knowledge

Not just the kind that they're teaching in college

Ponder and read hang out with good friends

I'll keep on studying learning until it all ends

I'll roll on  

Till I'm rolled

Over

5/7/20 day 29,406

Test everything 5/4/20

Have faith in nothing 

Believe nothing

Test everything

Die smiling

I was so sure how it would all come out

You'd think my experience would cause me to doubt

From now on I will remember that I just don't know

I'll study and take counsel before any new show

Uncertainty is the thing for me to remember

To stop anger and fear while they're still an ember

Study and learn but always be doubting

I'll go slow and careful as the new plan is sprouting

Have faith in nothing 

Believe nothing

Test everything

Die smiling

Robert DeRopp

5/4/20

Day 29,403

Acceptance may 1 2020

 Live with

Willing acceptance

Of what ever nature

Allots us

The is ,is always what it is

A flat tire or a cold beer fizz

There's many things that I cannot change

 But I can my thinking rearrange

To gleefully except what comes up next

And never allow myself to get vexed 

My judgment creates the way I feel

I keep on making stupid head stuff real 

There still may be time to change my ways

To clear my mind of this self-made haze

Live with 

Willing acceptance

Of what ever nature

Allots us

Marcus Aurelius

May 1 2020 day29,400

                                                             

Busy busy 4/21/20

Busy busy  

In a tizzy

Lots of stuff to think and do

Always something while the decades flew

As time passed I began to see

The only way to get really free

Is to stop the head noise and pay attention 

Do it without any apprehension

Stay calm and peaceful in the present

Even when it seems unpleasant

Freedom is nowhere in but my head

I hope I learned that before I'm dead

Busy busy

In a tizzy

4/21/2020  day 39,390

Don't kill me 4/16/20

God please

Don't kill me

Yet

This voyage that you have sent me on

It is one incredible phenomenon

It only took me 80 years

To give up all my stupid fears

I learned a lot in the last decade

It makes me even  more dismayed

Now I know I'll never know

What I don't know but before I go

One thing I can now see clearly

Be grateful kind and love life dearly

God please

Don't kill me

Yet

day 28,509

Slave 4/12/20

Becoming an inner 

Directed being

From an outer directed

Slave

I used to think others made me mad

But now I'm mostly feeling glad

I have come to know

Who runs this show

Study and practice are the seeds that grow

It takes years to see the benefits they bestow

There is more to learn but I should start to teach

To solidify the learning that's  within my reach

Help folks seeing the great opportunities of life

And to study, learn and live without strife

Becoming an inner 

Directed being

From an outer directed

Slave

Roberts DeRopp

4/12/20 day 29,381

The way 4/11/20

When you know the why 

You can find the way

What is the one thing I would achieve

I can do it if I really believe

Spread the word that life is good

If that is really understood

I can practice my skills at every turn

Read and study think and learn

Give up my small minded petty attitude

Turn everything into gleeful gratitude

I'll pay the price and lead the charge

You're never too old to dream real large

When you know the why 

You can find the way

4/11/20 day 29,380

Only the dead 4/7/20

Only the dead 

Know and end to

WAR

We laugh and sing and make great art

Study and learn and get real smart

Laptops and smartphones are all the rage

The world wide web has turned a new page

India and Pakistan are talking about war

The Syrians are making dead bodies galore

Our president  want's to drop bomb on Iran

Remember the dead that we left in Saigon

There's a giant flaw in some human beings

They plunder and kill without any feelings 

Only the dead

Know and end to

WAR

Unknown

4/7/20 day 29,75

Drain away 4/4/20

What still can be 

Drains away

In the routine of my

Daily busyness

Do this do that

Don't get too fat

Check my email feed the cat

Put wood in the stove do the dishes

Cook up something really delicious

All my big plans are just fictitious

Old men should know their place

Give up their dreams and quit the race

But still my mind set a rapid pace

Soon mother time will settle my case

Refuckinglax

All is weller than ever

4/4/20  day 29,373

Be at home 1/25/20

Be at home  

With your

Contradictions

Sometimes in the course of my day

The plans I laid wind up  in decay

Most of the time I can see my good fortune

I have been served such a generous portion

Once in a while

Without any style

I wine and complain

From a whole different brain

But this is the hand that I was dealt

So I'll play it with gratitude & stealth

Be at home

With your

Contradictions

Robert De Ropp

day 28,363

Fit 3/21/20

No one gets fit 

By being lucky

So much of what I do today

Is just past choices that I repay

My days are ruled by habit and routine

I'm like some kind of do over machine

This propensity is just like cold beer

It can wreck your life or bring good cheer

I can use this force to change my life

To get fit and sharp like a hunting knife

Lady luck has been kind to me 

Good habits help but there's no guarantee

Know one gets fit

Bye babe Lucky

3/21/20 day 29,359

Slow down 3/19/20

Slow down 

The

Dieing process

Eat your spinach get lots of sleep

Look both ways before you leap

Staying healthy takes study and thought

It's worth the effort don't get distraught 

Eat lots of veggies nuts and seeds

Be kind and gentle do good deeds

Drink spring water and exercise

Stay the course don't compromise

There's no way out we're all dead meat

Sing and dance till your times complete

Slow down

The

Dieing process

Make them feel 3/14/20

People forget what you 

Say and do

But not how you 

Make them feel

Skunk cabbage fresh and green

Clustered around a cold high stream

Aprils song is loud and clear

Noisy brooks and skinny deer

Lawns and pastures all agleam

Just awoke from a long cold dream

All is well have no fear

Winters gone and spring is here

People forget what you

Say and do

But not how you 

Make them feel

Jen Sincero

Chance 2/26/20

One more chance 

Maybe

The days come and go at and accelerating pace

With all that I learned it still seems like a race

What's of value what should I do

Be kind and loving till I'm through

Krishnamurti, Gurdjieff and the Buddha we're clear

If I fix my head there will be nothing to fear

Meditate, study and hang out with great minds

I'll stay cool, collected and write some neat rhymes

Make the most of today it may be my last

80 years have raced by incredibly fast

 2/26/20 day 29,335

Promise 2/23/20

The promise of a sunny day   

Glows below the horizon

A flight of noisy geese

The crunch of frozen grass

Under my bare feet

Gleeful gratitude

Radiates this incident

Death is later

This is now

All is well

2/24/20 day 23,331

See it small 2/23/20

See it small

Keep

It complicated

Think about it forever

Try not to risk anything

Create detailed plans

That cover every possible contingency

If it becomes difficult

Quit and start something else

After you think about it forever

Be sure to stay outside your expertise

See is small

Keep

It complicated

2/23/20

Gardening 2/21/20

Gardening  

Is the favorite pastime for

Centenarians

There are so many reasons to grow our own food

And to prepare it myself & make sure that it chewed

To be out in the sun with my hands in the dirt

Planting and weeding keeps me calm and alert

Every day things change and grow

Salad greens are the first to show

Then rhubarb, kale baby carrots and beets

Blueberries, blackberries and strawberry for treats

Then all of a sudden the fall harvest is here

I'll freeze and dehydrate it for the rest of the year

2/21/20 day 29,232

Sweet spot 2/21/20

Sweet spot 

We picked a sweet spot in all of history

To be born into this incredible mystery

And now in addition to just being alive

We changed the world so we can thrive

Get enough to eat and a little spare time

So an idiot like me can sit and rhyme

There has been no concern for sustainability

Or how all the debt will create future instability

It's been really great to live this way

But sad that the future will have to pay

2/21/20 day 29,231

See 2/20/2020

83% of all sensory perceptions 

Are received through our eyes

It's not what we see but the way we look at it

I can create gratitude, joy or an angry fit

The next thing is mostly out of our control

But I can always using to forge my soul

Whatever happens will not last

Soon everything will be in the past

The best I can do is be grateful right now

And to lady fortune always gracefully bow

WOW

Life is good

Settling 2/19/20

Settling in a 

Unsettled

Settlement

Think of how our world has changed

Almost everything has been rearranged

From horse and buggy to a Boeing jet

Now 23 trillion in national debt

Smart phones ,drones and packaged food

Instagram & Facebook "likes" to be pursued

Life is very different but the game is the same

I'll be kind ,loving and forget about blame

Walk in the woods and hang out with friends

Be grateful and keep learning until it all ends

2/19/20 day 29,329 

Education 2/17/20

Kids should be with 

Adults

Most adults can teach reading and writing

Without all the bullying and fighting

Kid cultures have unwholesome ways

Gossip, fashion and a few outcast strays

It's a different world we're living in today

Knowledge is free and easy to convey

Give them problems that they can solve

And watch how fast that they will evolve

Example teaches much more than words

Keep them home away from the herds

2/17/20 day 29, 328

Petty concerns 2/18/20

I'll step back 

From all my small minded

Petty concerns

Just this morning I had a breakthrough

Another chance to change my view

Every morning as I prepare the dogs food

Our cat jumps on the table & acts really rude

He claws at the plate and makes a big mess

And me in my ignorance I allow distress

This is a big lesson that I finally have learned

To give up all of my small minded concern

Gratitude can be the elixir of life

I will remember that when I experience strife

!2/18/20  day 29,327

Maybe 2/16/20

Maybe 

They were messing around with atom colliding

And all of a sudden they got them dividing

The whole planet went poof nothing left but rubble

And the telescope look down from the eye of Hubble

There was no one to see what the scientistic had done

Not one living child to laugh and have fun

The pyramids and the coliseum had all going away

Because a few scientists got money to play

Maybe not

2/16/20 day 29,325

Time 2/15/20

I can't save time 

And time can't save me

The best I can do is

Sow some seeds

And pull some weeds

Create a list

Of things I missed

I will plan ahead

And do what I said

Be loving and kind

Except my decline

Go peacefully on

To the great beyond

2/15/20  day29,344

Morning delete 2/14/20

Morning delight 

This morning before the clock turn three

Our nutty cat came and laid down on me

He purred real loud and licked my hand

Trying to make me understand

The time be damned he wanted to eat

Nothing about him is the least bit discreet

Then Peanut our dog started to wine in my ear

I got their message it was loud and clear

With joy & good humor I krept down the stairs

And directly addressed both of their cares

All three of us now sit in the warm fires light

They doze off and I wonder what to write

This early start of my 29,323rd day on earth

Is a celebration of gratitude and mirth 

There's no other place or no better time

That I can imagine to sit around & rhyme 

2/14/20  day 29,323

Mirth 2/11/20

Mirth

I sit here on planet Earth

Filled with joy and great mirth

Everything seems real funny

Even losing lots of money

One more plan is turned to shit

I'll learn and smile as I take the hit

Most people learn by the time they're eighty

Not to start anything to weighty

I'll swim at the Y and have lunch with friends

And be grateful and kind till it all ends

2/11/20  day29,320

Light 2/10/20

Light 

Turn back the night

Bring up the light

Stand up for what's right

Wage the good fight

With all of your might

To an extraordinary height

It will be a grand site

Or just more fools delight

2/10/20  day 29,319

Time 2/9/20

Time 

Time is life and life is time

And all I do is sitting rhyme  

If I'm ever gonna make a mark

I better start while there's still a spark

Everything has been preparation

A long and painful education

I will spread the bullshit of my creation

And fill the masses with inspiration

Rave on fool your time has passed

Eighty years and it's been a great blast

2/9/20 day 29,318

Choice 2/6/20

Choice 

Everything seems so funny these days

I think it's because I stepped out of the haze

Of the illusion that makes everything real

And I finally realized that I create how I feel

All this activity will soon come to an end 

And there's nothing that I need to defend

Politicians, taxes, religion or art

Here's the lesson I'd like to impart

Whatever happens I always have a choice

To give gratitude, kindness & compassion a voice

2/6/20 day 29,315

Brake 2/8/20

What a break 

Waking up on planet earth

It took me 50 years to learn how to live

With comfort, good health and something to give

So now I'll teach what I still need to learn

And keep it light and joyous at every turn

Mirth, good humor and gratitude

Are the building blocks of right attitude

I've study & trained  to except what comes next

To do it peacefully without getting perplexed

If you think I can help just give me a call

Maybe there's a drama that we can forestall

2/8/20 day 29,317

Time Storm 2/7/20

Time storm 

Time is nowhere but in my head

Will I keep rushing around until I'm dead

So many books and emails  unread

I'll study, question and not get misled

Analyze the past to learn what's ahead

And except it gracefully without any dread

Big insights sometimes hanging by a thread

After all this high thinking I'll head up to bed

2/7/20 day 29,316

Choice 2/6/20

Choice 

Everything seems so funny these days

I think it's because I stepped out of the haze

Of the illusion that makes everything real

And I finally realized that I create how I feel

All this activity will soon come to an end 

And there's nothing that I need to defend

Politicians, taxes, religion or art

Here's the lesson I'd like to impart

Whatever happens I always have a choice

To give gratitude, kindness & compassion a voice

2/6/20 day 29,315

Relearning 2/5/20

Relearning 

So much of what I thought I knew

Wasn't even close to true

My parents taught me how to eat

White bread, sugar and feedlot meat

In school I learned how to be controlled

Sit still, keep quiet and do what you told

The Navy taught me how to march and sing

And that my C O was just like a king

Now 60 years have come and gone

And I'm up and reading before the dawn

So many books so little time

I'll study, learn and write another rhyme

2/5/20 day 29,314

Head rot 2/4/20

What I've learned about managing

Head rot

1 gleefully except all the careless things

  I do over and over and over
lost cellphone lost glasses etc

2 write it down at once always have a list

  of everything I want do

3 create a remember to remember list

 stand straight-breath deeply-smile-

 ask questions-don't interrupt-be kind-

 exercise-keep your word-show up on time

 chew your food-be mindful and always be 

GRATEFUL  !!

 2/4/20 day 29,313

A glow 2/3/20

Sun on the snow life is a glow

I'll stay calm, soft and go with the flow

I made lots of history

(Almost 30,000 days)

And life's still a mystery

The greatest thing that I have learned

Is to make this my only concern

To be peaceful and grateful when I react

This will have by far the greatest impact

On experiencing life

Without any strife

2/3/2020 day 29,312

Pals 2/2/2020

Pals to the end 

Me and my dog here on planet earth

I rub his head and I'm filled with mirth

The joy he brings me is no small thing

We sit by the woodstove and wait for spring

Every morning he curls up to my head

And wines in my ear that he wants to be fed

He's old I'm old both soon to be dead

Together will face whatever is ahead 

2/2/2020 day 29,311

Dead man 2//1/20

Dressing a

Dead man

All of what I say and do

And everything that I pursue

Are lost in time and have no meaning

Alive right now but I'm careening

Like all living things to a transformation

And maybe some kind of revelation

Now the coffee's good & the fire's hot

I can't believe I'll get dead and rot

It's true I know but I'm alive right now

To be grateful, joyous & eat healthy chow

Day 29,310  2/1/20

The work 1/31/20

The work  

I'll drain the Dragon before I go

And leave a piss hole in the snow

I'll drive to work with joy and zest

I've come to realize that it's all a test

Of what I've learned and how to react

If I'll act with grace  or just get cracked

Time is short and the message is clear

Get tough and skilled or live in fear

Day 29,309 1/31/20

Old age 1/20/30

Old age 

I wake with joy and live with mirth

I'm really glad that I came to earth

Food in the fridge and firewood in the shed

Heating, lighting and a comfortable bed

TV, radio and my incredible cell phone

Hunger and thirst are totally unknown
Wife family and friends 
How great till it ends

The best part by far is what's in my head

Gratitude gratitude till the day that I am dead

    Day 29,308 1/30/20

Optimum 1/29/20

Don't over tighten

The water faucet

Balance

Knowing when to stop

Having the discipline to be able to stop

Two glasses of wine at sunset in

Mendocino

Can be a life enhancing experience

Six glasses of wine anywhere

Is distractive and unhealthy

Seek the optimum in all activities

Don't over tighten

The water faucet

1/29/20  day 29,307