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