One day I will set like the sun

I hear too many songs about hearts that are broken

When reading books, it is so tempting to flip to the end to see how it ends. It is in our nature to want to know how things end up. We speculate while watching movies and some of them have alternate endings for us to view. In our lives we also want to know where we are going. We use things like prophesies, astrology; even fortune cookies. With them comes either a feeling of relief or the thrill of having insight. Having plans ourselves that are a surprise to others is also fun. It gives us satisfaction to see someone smile who had no clue what was coming. When we have premonitions that don’t happen we experience disappointment. Some may get depressed. That is why it is best to take one day at a time. Circumstance and attitudes can change. Good principles are love actions defined. As long as we stay in it things will turn out OK. Everything else, those pesty variables in the future, will fall in line…

Hooray! a shout for justice!

I write the poems

It’s all that I can do

With a bitter face 

I have been reading stories on Holocaust survivors lately and was reminded of a story I read years ago…

A true story I read once had a big impact about how I deal with day to day problems. I haven’t been able to find because it was years ago. A reader’s digest story about two men that worked at a factory. The storyteller was a worker who had issues with the frugal German owner of the company he worked for. The writer hated his job and listed all the issues he had with management. There was another worker who seemed quiet and who also did his work. One day the writer unloaded his grievances on the worker. The worker told the writer that he needed to see the difference between crisis and inconvenience. He was a Holocaust survivor and had watched his entire family die in prison camps. The grievances the writer had were normal inconveniences everyone has to deal with in life. You deal with them, make choices and enjoy the results. No one is being put to death. There is no starvation or family being shipped off in trains. Being healthy, alive and having the freedom to move as we see fit is something to celebrate. Everything else is an inconvenience….

When I think of failure