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