Simon & Garfunkel – Old Friends / Bookends…

preserve your memories – they’re all that’s left you…

An old, old photo…

this was found in a old family photo book – I restored and made digital. I have no idea who this person was but I love this photograph. She appears to be wearing a bird or thunder-bird phoenix type pin. She hails from a much more graceful time. I feel as if I know her although we never met. How strange. Perhaps memory encoded in the genes/DNA. Probaby Circa 1900’s.

More good news…

My three month lab tests came back showing my PSA went from 357 to less than 1 on this treatment. That means a slowing down of the cancer cell growth. The Dr’s high end of three years survival could be possible. So I was happy about that result. Right now I’m doing good and getting as much done as possible before it is no longer possible. It’s an odd feeling to get used to in your life but I know there is always worse. I still feel very blessed…

Happiness is like a butterfly…

Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder… ~Thoreau

There’s a face in the clouds…

There’s a face in the clouds
sometimes silence is so loud
soon that will be me looking down
with my ashes in the ground
it’s quite surreal to me now
when I take that final bow
all flashed by as if a dream
don’t you know that’s how it seems?
(Copyright 08-05-21)

Almost as if it knows me…

A couple years back, a catbird slammed into the sliding glass doors. I looked out to see a lifeless bird laying there.
So I placed the bird on a napkin and gave it reiki. Eventually it came back from being knocked out and just sat there looking at me. I placed some water and seed close by. The next time I looked out – it was gone and had flown away. Perhaps this bird did know me…

Gray catbird…

For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these: “What might have been!”
John Greenleaf Whittier, American Quaker poet

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Mary Jane’s Last Dance…

Not amused at all…

This large toad got trapped in garage during the day and then locked in till I found him that night.

I released him to the outdoors and he quietly hopped away.

“The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.”

• Chief Joseph

This one came back 3 evenings later…

He came much closer and challenged me by stamping his front right leg. And he made that funny sound deer’s make when they are letting you know this is their turf. He was much closer here maybe 30 feet away – right before it got dark.

Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. – Henry David Thoreau