Good Sunday Morning,


Well it is another Veterans Day, and I pray that someday all 'swords will be beaten into plowshares, and swords into pruning hooks.' I fear that this may only happen upon our Lord's return.

In the meantime, for those of you who are willing and able to do so, thank a vet and visit my facebook page. don't be afraid to leave your comments and share if you are so moved.

So it goes. Press on regardless.

Thursday, November 8, 2018

often
when we go out of our way to be helpful
the person that ends up getting hurt
is the one that is doing the helping
or
no good deed goes unpunished.

So it goes. Press on regardless.

Good Morning Everyone,

Sometimes it is all good and sometimes it is all bad. The only thing that I know right now is that depending upon which side of the political aisle that you are on, the midterms were either a bust or the best thing that could have happened to our country. All that I am sure of and this is just my opinion, that it is simply going to be the same old song and dance, once the new Congress begins, or as my Aunt Winifred would have said, 'It is the same old mutton and fat.' one of those British/Australian things. Love the Brits and Love the Aussies.

The point is that all of this is just going to be the same and that in the end, the best that we can hope for is that we simply do not go bankrupt in the process. 

So it goes. Press on regardless.

Faithfully Yours,

Lee

Thursday, November 1, 2018
​
for me,
it all still comes down 
to the passage of time
and my ability
or lack of it
and how all of this will 
finally be able to make
some sort of sense to me

that there are times when I find myself thinking
that life should not be so complicated
that if life is complicated
then we have made it that way
and that we need not be so worried about keeping 
up with the Jones's 
or the Smiths
or the Browns
or whoever else we are in competition with 
and simply keep to our own gig
our own needs
and of those that we care for
to live and let live as I have heard it said 
of course, 
that would simply be too easy

Good Morning Everyone,


It is hard to believe that we are in November and that the midterm elections I fear will just be the beginning of another round of what I am starting to call the Washington DC shit storm. Yes, I used that term because of all of the nonsense that is going on there. No matter what side of the aisle that you are on, there is so much finger pointing going on, that nothing is getting done, and these idiots in Washington are simply letting their overgrown egos get in the way. Democrat Republican or the man in the moon. they are little more than a pack of cutthroats and thieves who are interested in little more than saving their political necks instead of reach across the aisle and doing what is in the best interest of the country. Maybe it is an oversimplification of things, but sometimes the best thing to do is to just keep the whole thing simply and get out of the way and simply let the thing work. It's just a thought.

So it goes. Press on regardless.


Faithfully Yours,

Lee

Monday, October 29, 2018

we often find ourselves living lives that we would not have planned for ourselves
but it is what has been given to us, whether we like it or not
and the best that we can do
is to do the best that we can do with the skills that we have been given
and pray that it is enough.

Good Morning Everyone,

This will be short because of my life outside of all of this is demanding my attention and that can not be avoided, unfortunately.  So the only thing that I can say right now is that I will try and deal with it as best as I can. what else can I do? Well, there are a lot of things that I can be doing, but sometimes it is better to take the high road in all of this.

So it goes. Press on regardless.

Faithfully Yours,

Lee

Sunday, October 28, 2018
​
words are sad
words are healing
words are many things
words can bring laughter
words can bring tears
words can leave wounds 
that may never heal
so choose them wisely

Good Morning Everyone,

Well, this will be a quick turn around because it is a 7.30 am start and it comes awfully early. Not the way that I would have planned my day, but it is the way that it is. 

So it goes. Press on regardless.

Faithfully Yours,

Lee

​Tuesday October 23 2018

sometimes the easiest lessons are some of the hardest to learn
but in the end, we all need to go through something
and come out the better person for it

Good Morning Everyone,

I am trying to slowly work my way back online. Things are good and getting better all of the time. In the end, the only thing that I can say is that we are all a work in progress. We just have to be willing to learn from our mistakes. What is the definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result?

It’s all good. So it goes. Press on regardless.

Faithfully Yours,

Lee

​it’s just a thought

It’s just a thought, but to say thank you to all of my friends simply does not seem to be enough, but it is the only thing to say. I am very grateful and very humbled to know that there are so many friends who care enough to pray and to share their good wishes. Thank you and thanks be to God.

​Tuesday, October 16, 2018

when you find yourself in the darkness of your own making
knowing that it was something that should not have happened
but it happened anyway
you pray that you will not be overwhelmed 
that there will be the sunshine of God’s love
we just have to be willing to ask for it

​Good Morning Everyone,

I normally do not ask for prayers at least not in this form when I'm going through a dark and difficult time right now due to circumstances that I will not get into here but please pray for a quick and quiet resolution to this matter. I'm finding myself through feeling very ashamed very embarrassed over the situation that I should not have let happen but it did and I fear it may escalate into something darker that's why I'm asking for your prayers at this point. If you are a member of the Christian church that has a prayer chain please feel free to place me on your prayer list as well until the situation is resolved. Thank you and thanks be to God.

It’s all good. So it goes. Press on regardless.

Faithfully Yours,

Lee

​it’s just a thought

it’s just a thought, but there are times when the only thing that can be known is that we are always trying to find meaning in something that we know that we may never find and that those who live lives that are not always understood, always seem to be the happiest. It’s just a thought. So it goes, press on regardless.

​Saturday, October 13, 2018

moving through time in order to try and make something real
something beautiful, something that just might be worthwhile
even in the middle of all of the ugliness that life has to offer us
becoming aware of all of the things that will make life real
what else is there left to remember, what else is there to forget
laughter mixed with tears mixed with the wine of sorrow
wishing that there is always something that seems less than perfect
looming for perfect has never been easy and is always out of reach

​it’s just a thought

It’s just a thought, but there are times when the only thing that I can do is to just start typing and see what it is that I end up with. At times like that, I feel a bit like a jazz musician. Sometimes they start and they do not know where it is that they are going to finish. It’s just a thought. So it goes. Press on regardless.

​there are times

there are times when it all just doesn’t seem real
that the world should be a different place
more calm sedated
near to where God is
but it doesn’t always work out that we
the world is much too real
cold
unforgiving
never really true
and never really false
it is all some sort of chess game
of chess game
where there are no losers
and the only winner is the undertaker
and his turn will soon come

​Sunday, October 7, 2018

spending hours trying to write
but at the end of it all
it just seems to be all wrong
but the best that I can do
is get up and go out for a coffee
have a cigarette
watch all of the young women
almost girls who are young enough to be my daughter
and wonder where it is that I went wrong
wondering what it is that I am doing wrong
still
I know what it is that I am
and I know what it is that I am not
but it is still not helping me write

Good Morning Everyone,

Well here I am again trying to say something worthwhile but there are times when I think I have so much that I want to say but when I actually sit down and try and say it I spent half my time trying to sort it all out and I spent half my time trying to sort it all out trying to figure out what's important and what is it or what order to put it in. Seems I'm wasting more time trying to figure that out that I do actually try to write. Sometimes I think that if I just start typing or in this case just start talking because I am at the moment using some dictation software so if I tried just speaking I just might find out what's really on my mind.

Of course, there are times when I feel that I am under the time restraints so that may or may not have something to do with it, but that's another story for another time. In the meantime I can only do what I can do and hope that one of these days I will be able to put all that behind me and I will have  without having to worry about all the time that I need to write without having to watch the clock to watch the calendar to concentrate on nothing but my writing. In the meantime, though I have to live here and now under the conditions that I am living under right at the moment which is not all bad considering what I came out of. That too is another story for another time.

As for everything else, things are fairly quiet in this part of the jungle. That's always a good thing but in my life, things are always subject to change without notice.

It’s all good. So it goes. Press on regardless.

Faithfully Yours,

Lee

​Friday, September 28, 2018

the way that I am feeling right now
about life and the condition of the world
I think the less said the better
because I feel that I am just talking and there is no one listening

Good Morning Everyone,

I am beginning to think that I might have over done it at work today, just a little bit. There are times when I keep forgetting that I am not twenty five years old anymore and that I cannot always do all of the things that I was doing when I was twenty five years old. I wonder why that is? I know what it is, it is because I am notr twenty-five years old any more. It has become a case of what I could do all day now takes all day. 

It’s all good. So it goes. Press on regardless.

Faithfully Yours,

Lee

​It’s Just A Thought.

It’s just a thought, but why is it that those who want to honesty, are those who are least willing to hear what is honest. It’s just a thought. So it goes. Press on regardless

​becoming aware

becoming aware at a time when it all just seemed well too late
I cannot undo what has been done it simply doesn’t work that way
never believing otherwise
I choose to believe in something else
someone filled with wisdom
insight and a new way of getting over it.

Saturday, September 22, 2018

sometimes I find myself losing the spirit
the fight
the lust for life that I thought that I had 
feeling miserable about the way of things
of the word
the way
the life that I thought that I was going to have
that I was going to be
that I was going to make it
whatever it is
in spite of all of the odds
the will 
the way
the life and death of it all
leading to a blind life 
at blind jobs
with blind love and dumb luck
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