tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44125479041174019952024-03-13T13:22:38.808-04:00Imperfect DichotomyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412547904117401995.post-18463395713291398332014-10-02T15:06:00.000-04:002018-04-20T11:06:01.988-04:00Life, Line by Line<div style="background-color: white; color: #262626; line-height: 13.63636302947998px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These moments that pass,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">too painful to feel</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">as I face them head on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Life is Surreal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not knowing where </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the next bend will lead,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I act Fearless.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But all there is, I heed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The shadows and the dark,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">lurking. waiting. Unknown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Frightened of choice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To the wolves be thrown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh but for the soothsayer </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to call and answer my pleas</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to inform me of my future</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">as I wait upon my knees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My ringing head does not know </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">from whence the vibrations start.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Silence echoes off blank walls</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and reverberate in my heart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Confusion sits restless</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on the empty, worn throne.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Disquiet fills a void</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">while the gray king cries alone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ponder too long while</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the creeping enemy steals</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">each saving breath away</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and my cruel fate is sealed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Autumn is upon us</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and winter is around the curve.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The misty fog is deafening</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and I cannot find my nerve.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cloud-filled skies hint</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">at pending, troubled storms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seething Doom surrounds us</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in many different forms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dust slips through the glass</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As each hour speeds by.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Crimson mourning waits</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and the mongrel starts to try.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shoulders slump with burdens</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">piling heavier upon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Waiting for sweet relief</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As life blindly rolls on.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412547904117401995.post-14238408885614368132014-09-21T15:52:00.000-04:002018-04-20T11:05:25.994-04:00Almost Full Moon - September 18th, 2013. <div style="text-align: center;">
Shot through my Celestron AstroMaster 70 Telescope with my iPhone</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412547904117401995.post-65553432407962699862014-03-30T16:28:00.000-04:002015-05-11T08:21:22.644-04:00Oblivious to My Gratitude<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;">These
faceless masses </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With grim, determined
drive<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">continue forward
regardless<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of the failing social
hive.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ignorance to truth
of a<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">less than purposed
life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stumbling onward
blindly,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">heedless of the
strife.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Do they sense a bitter
despair<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">or a hopeful horizon?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Do they even care<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">how I love my son<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And daughter and wife?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My vision shapes my
thought<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to live slowly and
softly,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">grateful for what is
taught.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412547904117401995.post-68016638429098856482014-03-02T16:25:00.000-05:002020-07-24T09:45:29.514-04:00The Cycle<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;">What
is purpose if</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Chesterton's Labyrinth
proves true. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The arrow of time
continues<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As we dissolve into
the blue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A certain crispness
fills the air<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And autumn has arrived<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To set life's stage
and show <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All has been
contrived. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Unplowed fields lay
fallow.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Shame built from
despair.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The watchers keep
watching<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">While the doers only
stare.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What path can be found<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If all are unattended.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Badly broken, bleeding
hearts<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Are sad and unmended.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Is your house in
order?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Do you sense the
reeling?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Can you sense the
softest glow <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">while cold darkness is
stealing?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Winter waits, willing
yet impatient.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Frost with effort will
freeze.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In our time of living,
stalled.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To hibernate with
leafless trees.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yet over yon horizon
met<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With serenity so
filled.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The sun and warming
heat awaits<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The proper hour
billed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Those left standing
after all<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The freezing air
dissipates.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There may be fewer
around,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And we simply
congregate<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To tell of woes and
grieve.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Season's losses, vast
and unreal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Incomplete harvest
leads to<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">deadly Winter's
earthen feel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hope rides high and
fresh.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Spring begets new
green.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Promises of man's
bitter life<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Begin again unseen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412547904117401995.post-36625852889693413622014-03-01T00:55:00.000-05:002018-04-20T11:04:35.389-04:00Do Not Fear the Unknown<div style="text-align: center;">
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Do not fear the unknown. If</div>
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then know all you can, my friend.</div>
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Fear has no place where knowledge</div>
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exists. Seek the tomes, dusty.</div>
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Absorb the message behind.</div>
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Seek to understand meaning.</div>
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Seek to understand substance.</div>
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This ever-driving desire</div>
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to never absolve fear of</div>
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hollow powers unfounded,<br />
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Within knowledge is power.</div>
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<b>Ode to a Wondrous Evening</b></div>
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Dreams of perfect hills blanketed</div>
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with evergreen spires against an indigo sky.</div>
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Each twinkling light, a pinhole in the dome above</div>
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as silence dominates the air.</div>
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These fleeting moments which seem to drift, ephemeral.</div>
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How we long for time to slow to a crawl.</div>
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A mixture of mourning for those no longer here</div>
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and sheer joy on the faces of our youth.</div>
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Patience now as the air, cold, presses the lungs.</div>
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Contentment, real or not...accepted.</div>
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These shock waves of silence send shivers</div>
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and all stand still.</div>
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Only daylight may break transcendence.</div>
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Maybe. The beauty could linger...longer.</div>
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Tomorrow is of no consequence</div>
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when the night is as perfect as tonight.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412547904117401995.post-53271927172797805512014-01-01T00:33:00.000-05:002020-07-24T09:48:40.405-04:00Within your control<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are many factors beyond our control, though this knowledge does not stop the panic or anxiety. The question then becomes: why? Why do we let things beyond our control have power over us? We may make many excuses along the way:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"If this would've happened", or "if I could've done this or that", or maybe, "that person was against me", or "I don't know how", or "it's too hard". I've become quite adept through the years finding blame on other issues, but the truth is I was deflecting. I was pointing fingers at all things other than the source of the anxiety or stress. Me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ultimately we can only control four things: our action and our reactions, our effort, and our overall attitude. Anything falling outside of this cannot be controlled and thus must be something with which we must deal. Therefore, we must master how we react to information coming to us. What happens with good news, or bad news? What happens to you if the determination of your happiness hinged on four simple things? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Your actions: what you decide to do on a daily basis.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Your re-actions: how you process information (with my best Master Oogway voice, "there is no good or bad. There is only information.") and how you outwardly project your mental state.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Your effort: what you do as an individual through determination and perseverance to ensure the task is completed no matter what.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Your attitude: is the glass half full or half empty? Do you look for silver linings on cloudy days or do you sense pending clouds on sunny days?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The mastery of the four factors in your life will open your eyes to happiness and joy, but self reflection and the acceptance of failure are always a part of truth. </span><br />
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