How things change

Last year round about this time I was a complete mess. I was unemployed, despairing and depressed with everything seemingly going against me. The only companies willing to hire me were the insurance companies and every  time one made me an offer circumstances conspired against me.
It was out of desperation that I took a look at writing. A social dating site had allowed me to experiment with writing poetry although this was not totally new to me because I had been writing poetry for many years.
In the poetry I had written in previous years I was to find inspiration because circumstances was not done with me as yet. It was when I was down and out flat on my face that I learned so much. I have expanded into writing short stories, novels and religious writings. Things have not stopped there because now I have begun to explore other fields as offshoot from writing and have a number of people ready to assist me in carrying out the ideas.
Looking at my life just now I do not think I have been in such a wore position before but I am not hopeless because I have never seen so much possibilities in the future at any time in my life.

Happy Mother's Day

I got up at 4:00 am to pen these lines for Mother's day. Happy Mother's Day to any mother that take the time to read.


Only Mother

I observed   a mother and could not understand

How so much could be transmitted through those gentle hands

Or her ability to transmit such patience and tenderness

And her saying to a child "I love you" through a smile and caress

How every sound that from a child that is heard

She is able to comprehend and put into words

I could not understand how every time the baby fusses and cries

Her ears is able to interpret and analyze

Or when the baby is sick and not well

How she knows the doctor what to tell

I could not understand why beauty, charm and grace

Are always in season and never out of place

And throughout life she continues to impart

Strength of character from a noble true and loving heart

Small Talents

It is a lazy man that bemoans and laments what he has been given. Each of us as we seek to develop what we have will find that we expand and acquire more.
One of the exciting challenges in life is to develop the small talents that we have. Consistently working on the small talent with which we have been blessed will raise us into the ranks of the super talented. Soon it will be difficult to tell the difference between the really talented and the man who had to work at building his craft.
Think of this coaches get fired when teams do not perform up to expectation. why?
I never did figure out why. What if the coach was given a no good team?
May be a good coach should be able to make great a team with little talent. It may be up to the coach to move the mediocre to great.
This may be my legacy to take my mediocre gifts to great heights.

Capturing thoughts and ideas

It continues to be fascinating what we can acquire, store and leave for posterity. One of  the great blessing of life is the individuality of each person. it is said that a person has about two thoughts every minute. It then becomes what will a person do with his thoughts? Will he make all go to waste? It is thoughts I believe that leads to ideas so ignoring our thoughts will also lead to a shortage of ideas. Ideas not acted upon is a waste of  valuable resource.
For many years I have been challenging older persons to write down and record their memories. I believe that the older persons have wisdom of years and that is one of the things that they will always have over the young. I cannot honestly say no one has acted on this because I have no way to know how I influence those with whom I come into contact.
Here is a challenge. always carry with you a pen and writing material and when a thought occur write it down. Do I do this for myself? The answer is, yes.