When you are stressed,

forgetting that our todaysmaybe better than our yesterdays were.We look at the friends we had then,forgetting we may have more friends now.We think our life was filled with rosesand forget the roses we have now.Our memory excludes the heartaches,only showing good things from yesterday,and then we look around usat all that we have and thinkmaybe…

I have nodded offbut in fact I’ve closed my eyesbecause I am lost in thought.As a writer I find silencean opportunity to let myimagination run freegetting engrossed in thoughtthat fully captures me.The problem with being lostyou lose all track of time.As time has no meaning in thought.Exploring our imaginationtakes us away from the present.Deep in…

We journey through the cloudsof a new day coming.Rolling pins and saucepansclatter each time they fallawaking us from wonderful dreamsthat occasionally come to call.We are but a speck in the universelooking out for brand new worldswe can visit in our dreamswhen we drift off to new lands.With our head in the cloudswe can conquer all…

As one door closesanother opens elsewhere.As love passed through my life,will another love come into itand will that love stay?It was a question that often plagued meas love slipped from my grasp.I know the answernow the tears have passed.With every exit,there is an entranceand the process of falling in lovebegins all over again.Just beyond the…

Each room need a sparklewith pictures on the wall.A fire needs a steady bedto yield its warmth there.The sound of heartbeatsneeds to fill the airand each room needs laughterto echo from within.With out those ingredientsa house is not a home.6 September 2008

thirty or forty years before.We look for themas they looked then,not as they might look now.Their faces may have gone gauntand some maybe crossed with lines.Some may have put on weightand have bulges where they shouldn’t be,but the one thing we should look for,the one thing that never changesno matter how old you grow.We should…