Personal Responsibility
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I work in downtown Ottawa which is the capital of Canada. My office is a five minute walk from our Parliament building. Every morning in the summer there are homeless people sleeping in many of the doorways on my street. You see them year round with hats or cups in hand, sometimes with a sign.…
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Accentuate the positive! It took me years to learn this seemingly simple lesson. Too often we focus on the negative. We remember the guy who cut us off in traffic but forget the person who slowed down to let us merge. So much of our happiness comes down to growing what we feed. Feed the…
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As so often happens, I started this with nothing more than the opening line. There was no sense of narrative or where it was going. I find that some of my best writing is done that way. Let me know what you think 🙂 DREAMING TOMORROW Now go to sleep and dream sweet…
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ON GREED Oh once upon a time a King, Sat on a Royal Throne. While at his feet a Royal hound, Gnawed on a Royal bone. The bone belonged, or so it seemed, To the late former King. To normal folk, it’s murder clear, To them a different thing. Now heavy weighs the…
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THE FUTURE We see a shape but dimly there Not certain what we see. Project on it our hopes and fears, No clue what it will be. A thing of beauty it may be, Yet certain we are not. It may be brutal or bizarre, May prove ice cold or hot. The problem…
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So I’m more than a little behind again. But I’m still in there trying. This is the first of five that I have to post to make the target by month’s end. Write Until I Die I am behind again I fear, this verse is some days late. I offer no excuse to you, ’tis…
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Often we get so caught up in what we think we should be doing, or how we think the world should be, that we miss out on what is right in front of us. The Prison of the Self some walls a roof a floor and such, do not a prison make sometimes it’s…
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Commonality So I believe and know this truth, I am the same as you. Not in the way I speak or look Nor in the things I do. It’s what we are that is the same, This we should keep in mind. And understand the falseness of, Divisions that you find. What matter gender, race…
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Don’t Mind My Mind Oh what a wonder is the mind, Its so full of fears and dreams. It’s wider , higher, deeper and, So much larger than it seems, It’s every God that ever was, And the Goddesses as well. It’s every heaven ever dreamed, And it gave us every hell. The mind is…
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Dream Big, Work Hard A dream is born a fragile thing, To nurture and to grow. A vision of what things might be, It’s possible you know. Hard work and drive and lots of faith, A willingness to learn. Stay true, hold fast, to your true wish, To that for which you yearn. There’s those…
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