Short and Sweet

Short and sweet

So much to eat!!

We laughed a lot

We talked more

Heavy is my head

It’s time for bed!

“Small cheer and great welcome make a merry feast.”

~ William Shakespeare

More than 'Thank You'

So many things 

 to be grateful for in this life. 

the list is long, 

  longer than this page, 

    longer than any book

with each passing year, 

  each day is more precious. 

no need to wait til Thanksgiving Day 

  to feel them, 

    to voice them 

to be kind to that youngster 

 who didn’t know that gratitude 

   was anything more than saying 

            ‘thank you’.

“What if, today, we were grateful for everything?”

~ Charlie Brown

Made for TV

It was only an old TV show. 

It showed me a plain 

that I longed for. 

desperately hot, 

hot winds that sculpt the sand, 

sparse cacti, 

tough plants 

    cling to scant shade. 

amazing broad blue sky 

where a burning hot sun reigns. 

black star studded velvet sky at night.

sands magically covered in vegetation

when clouds and rains roll in. 

Of course it was only a TV show, 

polished and stunning for the camera. 

My dreams are something very different.

“When you’re in the desert, you look into infinity….It makes you feel 

terribly small, and also in a strange way, quite big.”

~ David Lean, Film Director

(1908 ~ 1991)