Tag Archives: The Trail

Reality

  Haven’t you learned this already? Those things are not real. The trees, the rain, this trail, me. These are real. Ditch that other stuff.   -Chuy

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Waiting Game

  I watched you push your painted, half-filled heart up the hill, Place it on a staff and wave it high For all to see.   I saw you stumble when tragedy rent your days Like sails in the hurricane, … Continue reading

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The Lost Time

  It makes me want to cry, thinking of her, all those years, born and growing in the wrong place. How could we have known? As we walked our trails in sun and wind, rain and snow, light and dark. … Continue reading

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Stay

  Let’s stay here. At this intimately familiar bend in the trail. Beneath these trees we know by name.   We are not compelled to move. There is no war or fire or calamity or threat that coerces us to … Continue reading

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Boundless

    We must always be bound somewhere. Bound for adventure or bound for glory. In the great wide world, Your own back yard, Your mind and spirit. We must always be bound for somewhere, Otherwise, we are simply Bound. … Continue reading

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Watchful

Don’t turn your  Back on a  Possum just because You think It’s dead. –Chuy

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Dog Mind versus Human Mind

Human Mind: Human is traveling down the trail, and comes to a place where a tree has fallen across his path. “I’ll use my brute strength and opposable thumbs to move this out of the way.” he says. He labors … Continue reading

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Finite

    If we did not have death to Remind us to Value our time  Here, Life would be A pointless marathon. It seems we  Must have an Ending Time to Appreciate the Finite & Numbered days, Each precious moment … Continue reading

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Kiss

Each day I Kiss  The Earth Beneath which he is interred. In some measure it is a symbolic Wish that I could Kiss His furry head. In another way, It is to thank  the Great Cosmos for this most Wondrous … Continue reading

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The Circle

Remember this always: The Circle must close. It is true for us all. It is simply so. –Chuy

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