9/11/21 One more chance

One more

Chance

One more day on planet earth 

I'll be sure to fill it with joy and mirth

This may be the last one that I’ll know 

I'll stay awake and savor the show 

Almost 30,000 days have passed 

The mystery grows until the last 

There's so much new I want to learn 

And I have free time with no concern 

It's the blessing of old age

Maybe someday I'll become a stage 

One more

Chance

9/11/21 day 29,898

9/10/21 Attitude

The most important thing 

In my life 

Is within my power to change  

( my attitude )

It's so cold, I can't stand the heat 

My back always hurts and so do my feet 

But

There's gas in the car and great places to go 

Electric, plumbing and a plow for the snow 

Now

I will direct my thoughts to always be grateful 

Kind, present, humorous, and playful

The most important thing 

In my life 

Is within my power to change  

( my attitude )

9/10/ 2021 day 29,897

8/23/21 Lost in the familiar cc

Lost in the

Familiar

One more day

Same old way

Winter is here

Springtime is near

Then summer again

I don't know when

It will come to an end

So be of good cheer

Laugh while you're here

You will soon disappear

Lost in the

Familiar

8/10/21 Mission cc

What is the next

Mission critical

Action

Always busy never thinking

My greatest asset always shrinking

Take some time and figure out

What the next step is all about

Forget all else and take the leap

And finish it before you sleep

Sometimes things change really fast

My largest dream may come to pass

And then what

Happiness? Fulfillment? World peace?

Or just old fashion eternal death

 

What is the next

Mission critical

Action

Tim Ferris

7/29/21 the mystery

 

 Savor 

The mystery

I don’t know why

I don’t know how

All I really know is

I’ll never know 

And that I am incredibly grateful

To have this opportunity 

Of experiencing human life on the planet earth 

Now

Loving, learning, associating with others 

And living in our cozy little settlement 

On my grandfather’s potato field

A drop of time 

A stupid rhyme

I’ll savor the mystery

Till I’m just history

7/16/21 does this activity cc

Does this

Activity

Lead me to where

I want to be

No is the answer most of the time

All I do is sit and rhyme

Today I'll make a great bold list

Of all the things that I have missed

And one by one I'll cross them off

Then someday soon I'll sit and scoffed

At all the wasted time I spent

I'll learn from it without lament

Oh what great things I'll achieve

Or is this just one more chance to self deceive

Does this

Activity

Lead me to where

I want to be

7/14/21 know that you must die cc

Breathe deeply

And know that you 

Must die

If I knew it would be today

What wisdom would I convey

Study life and be kind

Always manage your busy mind

Be loving and grateful

Never act hateful

Get tough and resilient

But don't think that you're brilliant

All we have is just a little time

So write a song or some stupid rhyme

Breathe deeply

And know that you 

Must die

7/14/21 day 29,839

7/12/21 This shit ain't personal cc

I'm standing too close

This shit ain't personal

(Universal unfolding)

My shoulder hurts my feet are swollen

I got toe fungus and a iffie colon

North Korea has been shooting missiles

The dog came home with lots of thistles

Life is better than has ever been

Garden greens and eggs from our hen

Electric, heat and indoor plumbing

Coffee, wine and the checks keep coming

I'll stand way back and watch the show

Be kind, gentle and stay in the flow

I'm standing too close

This shit ain't personal

(Universal unfolding)

 

Destiny 7/5/21 cc

Does this brick 

Fit in

The wall I'm building

(Destiny)

Almost all the things we do

Cast a shadow out of view

It's all the small things that add up

Like a little sugar in each coffee cup

Draw something each and every day

In a decade or two you'll have a display

Graduation, marriage or divorce

Well put us on a different course

So I'll consider the choices I make

And hope that it's not just another mistake

Does this brick

Fit in

The wall I'm building

(Destiny)

7/5/21 day 29,830

 

Candlelight 6/30/21 ss

Today

A one time candlelight

In the

Dark silence of time

Our rooster is crowing and it's not yet dawn

What adventure will this day spawn

Start the coffee, feed the pets

Saver life without regrets

I'll spin a rhyme and make a list

Of all the undone things I have missed

This may be the last so I'll do my best

To stay loving, peaceful without  regret

Life gets better every year

As I realized there's not much to fear

Today

A one time candlelight

In the

Dark silence of time

6/30/21 day 29,825

6/3/21 Meaningless mind storms cc

Meaningless

Mind storms

In the heart of

Great possibilities

Always busy thinking thinking

When I should be drinking drinking

Dr. Marcola said 10 glasses a day

If it's hydrated you wish to stay

And then there's all this email stuff

I read and read but it's never enough

I just remembered what I should do

Figure out who to send my new book to

And call friends and family far and near

I'll do it now before I disappear

Meaningless

Mind storms

In the heart of

Great possibilities

5/25/21 Never ready cc

Never ready 

Always imperfect

Start now

For sure tomorrow I will get underway

I know it will be a much better day

The stars will be right

I'll check them tonight

How grand it will be "tomorrow"

I've struggled so long

So what can go wrong 

I'll jump in the fray

And never delay

How grand it will be "tomorrow"

Never ready

Always imperfect

Start now

Rain 5/15/21 cc

Every minute it

Doesn't rain

Gets us that much closer 

To the next rain

Bitcoin is soaring

The economy is roaring

Stocks are at an all-time high

It's easy to forget

The size of the debt

Commonsense doesn't seem to apply

In 28 they were yelling

In 29 they were selling 

Reality they could no longer deny

Buy gold and silver

Every minute it

Doesn't rain

Gets us that much closer 

To the next rain

4/30/21 The unexpected cc

The unexpected

Lurks gleefully

In every instant

The same old thing keeps coming up

Sudden-death or just a broken cup

I stumble around in my last days

In the same old self-deluded hays

Life has never been this good

Because I never understood

It's not what happens that makes the day

But how I react and what I say

So from now on I'll pay attention

And give up all my apprehension

The unexpected

Lurks gleefully

In every instant

4/30/21 day 29,764

4/21/21 Never in doubt cc

Often wrong  

Never

In doubt

If I'm going to try I must believe

That the plan will work as it was conceived

Quell my doubts and charge right in

Only think about the win

As time passes things will change

And I'll see what too rearrange

Sometimes it's time to start a new

And keep on trying as my skills accrue

Often wrong  

Never

In doubt

4/21/21 day 29768

How-- why 4/15/21

How why?

I came to earth no one knows why

It took 80 years to be sure I'd die

In light of that how should I spend my time

Study read and spin a rhyme

Exercise and grow healthy food

Weed and harvest in the nude 

Read the classics dine with friends

Be kind and grateful until it ends

How why?

Nobody going nowhere 4/12/21 cc

I'm nobody all 

Packed up to

Go nowhere

I make such a big deal

About all that I feel

Then time sweeps it away

Like a snowstorm in May

So be of good cheer

The end is quite near

I'm nobody all

Packed up to

Go nowhere

4/8/21 Goodwill capital

Goodwill capital

 

Over 50 years ago I read

Think and grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

This one line has had a very large impact on my career

“Give more than you get and get more than you give”

Forget about 50-50 when ever you setting up any kind of a transaction 

I never looked to get more than 45% or sometimes even 40%

That extra five or 10% is what I call 

Goodwill capital

And quite often it can turn out to be the

Most valuable part of the exchange

People go out of their way to do business with you 

And refer you to their friends and associates 

Any kind of dispute or misunderstanding 

Gets resolved in a friendly manner

When ever I have needed help or advice 

My customers were always available  

The power of 

Goodwill Capital 

Goes way beyond the people you  actually deal with

It seems to have a universal power

Whenever I have been in need of something 

Someone would show up with the answer

Until lately I would attributed it to dumb luck

But from the high ground of my 81st year 

I see a pattern 

Go out of your way to give people extra value 

And watch the magic work 

Something as simple as a sign in a store window 

Our bathrooms are open to the public  

Can generate an enormous amount of Goodwill 

“Give more than you get it and get more than you give”

And always feel compassion for the greedy small minded people 

That try to get more than their fair share

   

Goodwill capital

4/3/21 there's never anything to just "get through" cc

There is never anything

"To get through"

It's just more practice

A building block in my

Growing repertoire of

Skillful responses

The greatest gift that time has given

Is to be grateful and never driven

Sometimes life's road gets really steep

A chance to learn and grow a heap

Or get depressed and just complain

But that only brings on more of the same

No one lives a perfect life

There will always be some kind of strife

Freedom lies in our reaction

So find the good and give it traction

There is never anything

"To get through"

It's just more practice

A building block in my

Growing repertoire of

Skillful responses

3/26/21 Make the best of a devolving situation

Making the best of a 

Devolving situation 

My little world shows up every morning 

Dog, cat and coffee by the fire that's roaring

What's going on what should I do 

I study and think about what to pursue 

Then all of a sudden it's time for some wine

And watching the news while we slowly dine

It’s 29,649 days since I dropped into time 

And the best I can do is one more  stupid rhyme

But today's a new day with great possibility 

I'll do the same shit as yesterday in all probability 

Making the best of a 

Devolving situation 

3/21/21/ Read cc

Read

Learn with ease what

Others have struggled

To understand

When I was young I knew it all

Yet to take my first big fall

Then I found myself on a long commute

Many books I read while in route

The more I read the less I knew

My profound ignorance came into view

Learning is like a mountain climb 

The higher you get the more things rhyme

So read what others have come to know

And wisdom's light may begin to glow

Read

Learn with ease what

Others have struggled

To understand

Socrates

3/14/21 Short road cc

We are all

Walking the short

Road back to

Nowhere

The first time I was dead

I had no troubles in my head

For reasons all unknown

I came into a zone

Of noise,light and feeling

That left me scared and reeling

It only took me 80 years

To put an end to most of my fears

Now soon I'll be dead again

What a great life it has been

We are all

Walking the short 

Road back to

Nowhere

3/9/21 stay curious cc

Stay curious 

There is always

Much more

To learn

We will never know what we don't know

But the more we know the more we grow

So much new is learned each year

About health, science and what to fear

As we learn our brains grow stronger

It may even help for us live a little longer

It's always easy to keep on learning

All it takes is a burning yearning

Lady Google knows it all 

She's always at our beckon and call

Stay curious 

There is always

Much more

To learn

3/2/21 Fashionable nonsense cc

Fashionable

Nonsense

The first time that I tried to smoke

I was sure that I was going to choke

All the adults that I know

Puffed away the whole day through

I coughed a lot but I kept on smoking

I'd fit in even if I died choking

But very soon the miseries ended

And then I felt like now I blended

There was much concern about my shirts

Especially around the pretty skirts

Fashionable

Nonsense

Alan Sokol

3/2/21 day 29,296

2/26/21 Lost in the familiar cc

Lost in the

Familiar

I was young and he was old

Of the future he foretold

From the maple grove the brush we cleared

Until the sun had almost disappeared

He said someday these trees would be mine

And the maple sap would flow like wine

More than 70 springs have come and gone

Not one drop of sap have I withdrawn

I sit here writing by the fires light

Just 200 feet from that very site

Lost in the

Familiar

2/26/21 day 29,292

Do less get more 2/21/21cc

Do less

Get more

Busy busy all the time

Never anytime to rhyme

This day ahead will be gone forever

I'll choose carefully what I endeavor

Good decisions change things fast

Days fly by but outcomes last

Where in 5 years would I like to be

Rich and famous, thin and free?

I'll set my sales and stay the course

And then time will kill me without remorse

Do less

Get more

 

Question everything Assume nothing 2/15/21

Question everything 

Assume nothing

Only a sleuth

Can get to the truth

Big companies are selling

Politicians are yelling

They pull facts from the air

Talk nonsense with flair

So how do we know

What's real or a show

Study and ponder

Till you're taken up yonder

Question everything

Assume nothing

2/15/21 day 29,281

2/1/21 We paint the days on the canvas of our lives cc

We paint the days 

On the canvas

Of our lives

In the mornings first light

I sit here and write

Of the things that I will do

While the sky is still blue

And then once again

Like most other days end

The list stays intact

Because I don't act

We paint our days

On the canvas

Of our lives