Another ten commandments

1. Do - act as if it was meant to be.
2. Doubt, but never undermine.
3. Say something positive.
4. Understand that you and the person next to you are not part of the "we" "they" conspiracy.
5. Know that you are paying member of the "we" "they" conspiracy touted by experts.
6. Kill experts
7. Wait, that's what Pohl Pot did.
8. Check this list.
9. Maybe there is something wrong.

Guide says follow 1-3 regardless. That seems like sound advice.

gift horse

there was no reason really
just love and wonder.
now he is here, and brings with him
a host of other problems, concerns, constraints.
i don't mind.

Walking upstairs

Sometimes it smells a little like gunpowder;

sometimes it smells a little like dust floating in sunlight;

The doubt comes with the origin of the stairs.

The Window

was open.

I could have waited.

I leapt through.

other times

I had to crawl through.

Superstition ain't the way

or maybe it is

i just don't know anymore

i have felt moved by signs

that were heart-stopping and

and chased some dubious leads

with my skinniest intuitions.

some came to fruition

others now show like a temporary madness

i could feel a fool, but don't

in the end the reality is

the best time to do something

is the time you do it

Eldora told me this story,

When I was a toddler, maybe 2 1/2, I wandered away from the yard. She was frantic and unable to find me. She could not imagine I would have gone across the street towards the Steen's house, but she went that way, towards a pasture, and there she found me. I was inside the barb-wire fence, sort of pinned up against it, and a horse had his nose right in my face. She grabbed me up , and I said to her "Mom, that horse was tasting me."

Knives

While the fall of the Berlin Wall should be celebrated, it should not be celebrated by US politicians in favor of the guardian wall with Mexico. That is as near to heresy as a politician might commit and should be a hangable offense.

And we shouldn't be thanking Reagan for tearing down the wall, we should be thanking him for teaching Democrats how to deficit spend, properly.

Where do we sharpen the blades?

Truth, beauty or bust

Surrounded by a population that is drowning in emotion and sweating death,
Standing on the well one asks, "Who should survive if it cannot be all of us?"

When stopping hurts more than staying

If I feel I also think.

Why isn't this the expected outcome?

There is more to disease than just the germ,
but the everyday doesn't deserve mystery status.

If I hold a candle will you be a moth or vigil attendee?
I'm so very tired of mourning.

There's always another sun to worship,
depth to test,
darkness to explore.

But being here is so much better.
It could be the best we have known.

Liar and Thief

Cruelty can start with nothing
nothing said
nothing done.

Isolation works the other's brain like a boxer.
Depression becomes communicable, calls for hospice.

Illness deserves its time
to run its course
life continues.

What is untrue is the shared dreams,
What is taken is the ability to dream more.