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Not Even The Rain Has Such Small Hands

I have always liked the poetry of E. E. Cummings. Who else would write about water falling from the sky having small hands?

And, Wow!, when he writes "the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses", what a beautiful, incredibly romantic verse. Then in the same poem he so eloquently states "you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skillfully, mysteriously) her first rose."

I love the imagination, imagery and verbal skill you see and hear in his poems. He is truly one of the finest poets I have ever read. If you're not familiar with this poem I am quoting from, you can read the rest of it at somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond.

We are all potential winners, Sometimes we loose sight of that because our lives may get slightly out of alignment. Perhaps it's because you've hit a bump or two that has knocked you off course and you become temporarily befuddled. A failed relationship, a lost job, financial problems, unformed goals, a lack of support, illness, many things can send us off course temporarily.

It is difficult for others to understand the rawness of a broken heart or the aching emptiness of an unguided spirit. You and I know. We have been there. Some even become afraid to risk any more because of what they have risked and lost already.

During prosperous times, we build and focus on material things, forgetting to strengthen what is in our hearts. When we focus on our potential we often gain insight into ourselves, insight that leads to self-mastery and an expansion of our understanding of what we can become and develop in our personal and professional lives.

Props to my daughter Jen, she is also my amateur photographer. It snowed around here on Saturday night and being the outdoors kind of guy that I am, I had to go out on Sunday, take some pictures and enjoy the fine winter weather.
The change in weather that the seasons bring is something that thoroughly enjoy. I can't wait for the spring ... Greg, Jus, Mike and I are going to hit the links. I hope one of them will supply me with the clubs and instructions because I have no idea what I'm doing.

"Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love." -- Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, Sweden, December 11, 1964.

It's interesting how ordinary thinking can be made extraordinary when a concept or idea is introduce into the fray. Take the philosophy of the roulette wheel for example. This started as an ordinary conversation between a co-worker and I. Greg's unique perspective into the peculiarities of human nature and the mundane intricacies of day to day activities combined with my interest in world history and social norms led us to ponder the idea of how the chances of an event or multitude of events occuring, directly impact life as we understand it. The roulette wheel, represents uncertainty, possibility, control, chaos, persistence and most importantly, Hope.

Went for a walk on the boardwalk at the marina near me this afternoon with my daughter. She took the picture on the left, the temperature was about 40F, weather was calm, sunny and brisk, a perfect winter day.

Observation: Interpreting and expressing well, approach and presentation goes a long way in the corporate politics arena. Do the above skillfully; you will manage your environment and most situations well. However, if your motivations are guided only by a personal agenda and a leaning to exercise power over others, you will eventually experience a mental hell of your own creation. You may succeed for a while, but that success will be shallow and may not last because you have not built a strong foundation necessary for sustenance when the walls around you start to crumble.

Conspiracies! a site that has a different view for events that are important and have been explained to us by our leaders and media but which may in fact be cover ups. You decide.Serendipity: Geopolitics, Drugs, Religion, Music and More! A good site for the favorites list, review it in your spare time.

"We will find the people who manufactured these pretzels. We will find them, and smoke 'em out of their pretzel factories and also any countries harboring these rogue pretzel factories. We will bring these pretzel evildoers to justice." - Dubya