Just Excuses

Apology

Sorry, I have been rather distracted lately and have not been as regular with my blog postings. I am working on getting another book published and it is in the final stages of editing so I am eating, sleeping, living with that book constantly.  I cannot seem to get my mind on much else these days and that is beyond silly.  Guess they call this the "one track mind syndrome" and I have it bad.  It is not as if the book is in "stall motion"! It is just me and I know that!

I do have other very interesting projects on the go. I am just too lazy to get going on them. I know the book is just a poor excuse so shame on me!!!!   You cannot beat time. You have capitalize on every moment you have and make the most of it.    I am just stalling and I have is no decent excuse for  it. Nobody can move my projects for me except me! So bear with me while as I stop making up excuses and get on with living again.

EXCUSES --- BE GONE!!!

In Memory Robin Williams

When Depression Wins

He made us laugh all through his life

It was his glowing passion

Yet behind that silly grin there lurked

That demon of depression.

That depression got the upper hand

And he lost all will to fight

All his problems overwhelmed him

When the darkness shut out light.

With age and fate against him

And gloom would not dispel

When the torrents of bleak anguish

Did forever rise and swell.

He tried to hide his feelings

His  problems and his  pain

But gloom and desperation

Had established their domain

He sought relief where ever

Illusive though it be

For just a glimpse of childlike peace

To end the misery.

But it’s really  not that easy

To camouflage the truth

No matter how hard we try

We can’t recapture youth.

Rest in peace Robin and keep smiling into forever!

Red Sun Phenomenon

A Red Sun in the Heavens

I’ve often watched a sunset

And marvelled at the view

Of clouds of pink and purple

And colors of every hue!

But what I saw last evening

Was a sun that was red! Instead!

I’ve never seen a sun like that

Hang suspended overhead.

Some said it was humidity

Some said it was just heat

Some said it was all that smoke

But I just thought it neat!

For I was watching a red balloon

Hung out there in the sky

An ornament for us to view

Our heavens to beautify.

Amid all our strife and conflicts

We need to sense delight

To know that life’s worth living

And our world can still be bright.

So that red sun last evening

Was a sign from God above

That even when we misbehave

He won’t withhold His love!

Prairie Floods

Flooding Prairies

Those twinkling stars of heaven

That wink and blink and tease

These days just hide in darkness

Determined to displease.

They peer from behind the shadows

Of clouds that make them dimmer

They peek and sneak in secret

With just a scanty glimmer

The clouds just weep in torrents

With tears that will not stop

Raising surging waters

And flooding every crop.

Those raindrops they all gather

In fields and streams and lakes

They have done so  much damage

All earth below them quakes.

They’re flooding every highway

And all valleys in between

In relentless surging rushes

Overflowing each ravine.

How do we save our homes and crops

And end this devastation

If all this rain does not stop soon

We may be asking for flotation

Paying it Forward

SNATCH THE MOMENT

With the weather kind to us, and the sun smiling down on us, and it is indeed difficult to feel anything but grateful for all our blessings.

I watch the news and see people are flooding on the Canadian prairies, burning in the far north and and in the American south, fighting typhoons out in the Philippines and living through horrific wars and strife in other parts of the world.

Here in our peaceful area, I hear our people complaining about oppressing heat! Granted I do not enjoy the 30 above heat either. But I am one of the fortunate ones. I do not have to actually go out and work in this heat.  If I did, I would be complaining too, but luckily, I can hole up in an air-conditioned building and wait it out. So my complaints could easily be classified as "juvenile whining".

Not so for the  problems of the millions of the really unfortunate people who are facing "real" problems. They cannot escape their hardships no matter what they do !!! My heart goes out to them, but that is of no consolation to them! We can only watch their suffering on a TV screen and empathize and sympathize and wish that somehow the world would right itself (but it doesn't!)

So to those of us who can, let's snatch the moment and make something good out of it --- for ourselves, for others out there.  Let's plant our piece of good where we find ground for it. If that stifles one senseless complaint and puts a smile on even one face, then we we have done "our part"!
In this world, that is all we can do. But it is better than contributing to the depression with complaints about things that are of little importance!

Search For Peace

Desperate Search For Peace

Searching for truth in a sea of doubting

Amid the frothy waves of life’s unending trials

I battle fear to maintain confidence

But simple buoyancy evades me still.

Desperately I flounder 

As I sink ever deeper beneath the brine.

The shore of wisdom slips ever further

From sight – and panic now grips the mind

All signs have vanished that had meaning

Survival struggles have lost appeal

It’s just “defeat” that now seems real!

Should I really forego the combat

To maintain serenity, faith and pride?

Is it really worth all this turmoil

This endless strain that just won’t yield?

Would it not be so much simpler

To accept the inevitable and make that the “truth”?