Monday, July 25, 2022

Spend Your Time Wisely


When all around you is idleness, friction, or complaining,

Spend your time learning and earning and contributing.

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Spend your time wisely.

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When all around you is uncertainty and confusion,

Spend your time increasing your stability and developing your clarity.

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Spend your time wisely.

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When all around you is fear, anger, and divisiveness,

Spend your time in unifying and edifying actions and thoughts.

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Spend your time wisely.

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When all around you is sadness, grief, and pain,

Spend your time in healing thoughts, healing ideas, and healing actions.

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Spend your time wisely.

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When all around you is ignorance, or this or that opinion clamoring for your belief,

Spend your time researching and increasing your knowledge and wisdom.

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Spend your time wisely.

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Worry and panic?

Respond with calm assurance.

Hopelessness and cynicism?

Respond by shining a light.

Injustice?

Respond with speaking up.

Devastation?

Respond by focusing on repair.

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Observe, reflect, learn

Teach, calm, heal

Repair, give hope, bring clarity

Learn, meditate, unify.

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Spend your time wisely.

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Spend your time wisely my friend and fellow earth traveler.

Spend your time wisely.

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Let your legacy be comfort, clarity, peace, understanding

repair, consolation, justice.

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Spend your time wisely.

Sunday, July 17, 2022

Your Story Is Lived A Page At a Time


Your story is lived

A page at a time

A page at a time

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One day you are sick

The next day you are fine

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A page at a time

A page at a time

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One day you are happy

The next day you are sad

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A page at a time

A page at a time

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Bad follows good

And good follows bad

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A page at a time 

A page at a time

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At peace one day

The next day you are frantic

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A page at a time

A page at a time

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Life is full of lessons

Not all of them romantic

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A page at a time

A page at a time

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And even your mental state

Keeps shifting around

One day you are on cloud nine

Next day you come crashing down

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A page at a time

A page at a time

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Smart and clever

Stupid and dumb

Interested and alive

Bored and numb

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A page at a time

A page at a time

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Creative, reactive

Clear, confused

Connected, lonely

Upset, amused

Treading water, zooming like a rocket ship

Now one kind of person

Now completely flipped

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Mature as an adult

Petulant as a child

Cheerful and contented one minute

The next unable to smile

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A page at a time

A page at a time

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You go from thinking you are special

To feeling like useless and nothing

It's never static

There's always something

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Always something!

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A page at a time

A page at a time

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Yes, your story (and mine) is lived

A page at a time

A page at a time

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And that's just the way it is

You can't escape that bind

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A page at a time

A page at a time

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And even though it's so weird

It's also so human, so to my mind…

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We each must learn to accept and deal with the fact that

The fact that…

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Our lives are lived

A page at a time

A page at a time

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Through prayer, through meditation, through contemplation, through mindfulness

We have to accept and deal with the fact that

The fact that…

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Our lives are lived

A page at a time

A page at a time