Wednesday, October 22, 2025

10/22/25 Mother time fixes Everything cc 11/18/18

Mother time fixes
Everything

Mother time will solve all my wows
From acid reflux to my fungus toes
I'm so grateful that I came to earth
Bad vision or cancer won't quell my mirth
Achy joints and noise in my ears
Its a small price to pay for so many great years
I'm falling apart as I get it together
Love and gratitude are the only real measure
I will find something good in whatever comes next
And deal with it patiently without getting perplexed

Mother time fixes
Everything

Thursday, October 16, 2025

10/16/25 Most failure Isn't fatal Success is never Final cc 8/27/18


Most failure
Isn't fatal
Success is never
Final

Success is great I've had a few
But it's in the failures that I really grew
What is success but a definition
Ambition, position, exhibition, recognition
Set your goals with thought and care
Life is a very short affair
Skills and knowledge are all we own
Everything else can be overthrown
All we're doing is passing thru
Be kind and gentle and enjoy the view

Most failure
Isn't fatal
Success is never
Final
10/16/26 day 41,391

Sunday, October 12, 2025

10/12/25 Read Learn with ease what Others have struggled To understand cc 9/5/17


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

Sunday, October 5, 2025

10/5/25 The field cc 9/18/15

The field
The full moon cast and erie glow
Through the light and floating snow

For 70 years I have walked this field
With cats,dogs and our two goats
With my grandfather and father kids and grandkid
With wives and lovers hunters and hunted
Pop let me drive his car here when I was 12
Grandpa taught me how to swing an ax here
As we clear the brush at the forests edge
In the snow or summers glow
To see the northern lights
Or the fireworks from Cooperstown
I once cut down the hedgerow at the West end
Now after 40 years it looks exactly the same
My wife and kids looked on blankly
They knew how stupid it was
But I toiled on blissfully I had a plan
So now some day soon I will see
The shadow of the grim reaper drifting across it
I remember reading about an Indian custom
Of chatting about your victories and defeats
As you face west and do your last dance
And I thought that the west end of this field
Would be the right place for me to step out of time
It just occurred to me that maybe
That's why I cut those trees so many years ago
So I could look 50 miles to the west
And if I time it just right
The sun will be dropping below the horizon
All is well

Monday, September 22, 2025

9/22/25 WOW What a trip

WOW 

What a trip   


My song is sung 

My race is run. 

I thought it would last 

But now its all in the past

I'll live like I'll stay 

So what's up for today

Cut the grass and plant a tree  

That I know I will never see 

Be kind and gentle and call some friends 

Be peaceful and grateful till it all ends

 

WOW

What a trip 



9/22/25 My only Trouble Is in my head cc10/12/18

My only 
Trouble
Is in my
Head

The last time I was dead
I had no troubles in my head
Never to be weird
Nothing to be feared
Without any expectation
Then came a sudden acceleration
Sound, light and sensation
So soon resolved by expiration

My only
Trouble
Is in my

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

9/17/25 When the What Is clear The how will Appear cc 5/18/18


When the What
Is clear
The how will
Appear

Busy busy in a tizzy
All I ever get is dizzy
If I knew the why
I would find the way
Stop and think make a plan
Believe and work do all you can
If nothing else get some gold
Before you know it you'll be old

When the What
Is clear
The how will
Appear