​it’s just a thought

it’s just a thought, but the idea that I am working my life away to make someone else rich just seems just so wrong on so many levels. In the end, though, all that I can say is that either way I still need to work.

​Sunday, October 14, 2018

the best and the worst that I am going to be able to do is to just take it all for what it is
when nothing else really seems to matter, there is always something that gets away from us, and the world that we see never really matches up to what we thought that it should be
life never really seems to matter, when the only thing that you want to do,
is to simply get away from it all, and still manage to be alive
random thoughts about something, anything that seems to make it all less real
sometimes, the only thing that I can do is sleep

Good Morning Everyone,

What else is there left to say other than the first day back to work is always the hardest, but now it is time to slowly start getting ready for the holidays, which is not always a good thing. Every year I say that this is going to be the last one, that I am going to have to go into another line of work.

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 I think that when it comes to doing just about anything and doing just about anything and being just about anything that its  a case of, you either have the chops or you don’t. Simply willing it to be so is not going to make it happen. It’s just a thought. So it goes. Press on regardless.

​alone

there are times
more often than not
when I find myself listening to Debussy
or Lester Young
or any of the other great ones
and not so great ones that you would care to name
I find myself alone with my thoughts
my dreams
my memories
the best days of my life
the worst days of my life
the beginning and the end
meet here and sit next to me
unseen
unnoticed
but always remembered
as I think of what could have been
that being alone may not always be a bad thing

​Monday, October 8, 2018

thinking of my youth
and what could have been
thinking of my future
and what might be
thinking of now
and trying to make the two fit

Good Morning Everyone,

Well, tonight is game three of best-of-five between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox. So at the moment I'm going to have both eyes on what it is that I'm trying to write and one here on the Yankee game which may or may not be a good thing but at this point the only thing I can hope for is a Yankee win tonight and another Yankee win tomorrow night so the Yankees can advance in Boston can go home. In the whole scheme of things so that's it really matter who wins and who loses I don't think so at least not as for sports is concerned.

I can talk sports for a couple of hours but it seems to me that there are more important things in life other than who won the latest sporting contest. If nothing else it does give us something to talk about. Of course, I do know people who would disagree with that because these people sports is there whole life and there's nothing wrong with that if that's your thing but it just seems to me that there is more to life than just sports.

Now what does this have to do with anything probably not all that much but I'm throwing all this out there just to see what kind of reaction if any I will get if I will get any reaction at all. Either way, it's all good.

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 any of us can do is to just show up the rest of it is simple out of our hands. It’s all good. So iy goes. Press on regardless.

​Monday, October 1, 2018

the power of jazz
the mystery of the night
the search for love
the meaning of life
a special time
a special place
that special someone
the coffee of time
the wine of eternity
it all happens
nothing ever really ends
it just changes

Good Morning Everyone,

Trying to see if I can make this an early night. That just might be a case of wishful thinking, but I find myself needing some sort of a routine outside of what I need to be doing for work, but work, I mean what I am doing to help finance my passion is simply taking up to much of my time, but what else can I do?

I don’t have a rich uncle and the odds are against me of hitting the lottery so I guess that means that I still need to go out into the real world, whether I like it or not. What else is there left to say about that, at least for the moment. 

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 have been times when I thought that some of the best stuff that I have ever written has been on the fly. I don’t think that this is the case this time. So it goes. Press on regardless.

​the measure of time

the measure of time is not always in seconds or years
but of how much of your soul you have left at the end of the day
the measure of time is not always measured by the passing seasons
but of how much you can love and be loved
the measure of time is not the turning of the pages of a calendar
but how much of yourself that you are willing to give away
the measure of time is not measured by the punching of a clock
but how much you are willing to take and still keep your sanity

​Monday, September 24, 2018

who will remember
who can forget the love that we thought would last forever
sometimes a week would be nice
even two if the stars are right
but in the end
the whole thing is better than not remembering anything at all

​it’s just a thought

it’s just a thought, but when I am writing there are times when it happens too easily, and other times when I wish that I was having dental work. It’s just a thought. So it goes. Press on regardless.

​Sunday, September 23, 2018

I am trying to make something happen, a truth perhaps
an idea has gone quite mad, but no one seems to notice
out of the gray sky of myself
the sun is long gone, barely remembered
but I will not let it go away and it will not let me die
is this the way that it is meant to be
for those who are forced by circumstances to live alone
the wildfires are long gone
and the world has become little more than an afterthought

Good Morning Everyone,

Right now I am just trying to get back into the whole thing of being back online. You would not think that it would be something that would be so hard to do, but at this point, I am finding that it is for some reason, that something that should be so easy, is turning out to be so very hard. Well, maybe hard is not the right word, but this just seems to be harder then it should be.

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

Faithfully Yours,

Lee

​It’s Just A Thought.

It’s just a thought, but from time to time I find myself thinking of someone that I use to know that was very special to me, but due to circumstance beyond my control, it was not meant to be. There were others, but she was special and I still feel the sting all these years later. Why is that? It’s just a thought. So it goes Press on regardless.

​Thursday, September 13, 2018

thinking of a woman that I use to know
but knowing her was simply not enough
but it all just slipped away
and I think of her at times like this
when the world seems to get much to close
much to real
much too much of everything
but the only thing left to do
to believe in
to try and understand
she took with her
though I did not know it at the time
and that is what bothers me most of all 

Good Morning Everyone,

There are times when I find myself searching for words that do not want to be found. It seems that there is nothing more than I can do other than to just keep on searching, to keep on trying, to keep on believing. 

There are times when I find myself thinking, is this what I have been reduced to? Is this what I have become? Left searching for words that use to come so easily and freely. Now, it seems that it is just something that I am wrestling with, but even that does not seem to be enough.

I know that I should not be taking this all so seriously, but it seems that this is all that I know or that I care to know. There are times when it all really doesn’t seem to matter, or at least that is what I am letting myself believe, but it just seems that there is no getting away from it all. I guess that there is no getting away from yourself.

What does all of this mean and where it is all going to, well I do not know? Sometimes I just have to put it all out there, and see where it will all take me. So far I have not gotten anywhere yet.

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 I find myself always running up against the clock, or so it would seem that I am running up against the clock. Wishing myself to be somewhere else. Something or someone different. It all never seems to end, but the idea that I still need to write, is always out there somewhere, and the world that I need to create for myself, is still under construction. I wonder why that is? It’s just a thought. So it goes. Press on regardless.

​Friday, September 7, 2018

I still find myself believing in the good old days
when things were really good,
or at least that is what I am being told about it
and that I was
through some strange twist of fate
born in the wrong time
and the wrong place
that the modern world has become too big
too overwhelming for me
that I need to try and keep it simply
at least for my own sanity
but sometimes
trying to keep it simple
makes things a whole lot worse then what it needs to be

Good Morning Everyone,

I seriously do look forward to the day, when I will finally be able to live out all of the dreams that I have and have been talking about, at least to some of you, for God knows for how long now. That I will be able to do all of the things that I have thought about doing and to go to all of the places that I have ever thought about going to. London. Paris. Rome. I can picture myself sitting in a café somewhere in Europe writing about how I have finally made it and how I am taking all sorts of notes and pictures and whatever else it is that I need to be doing in order to save the moment.

It all sounds very nice, and it is something to work toward, but is it something that will happen, or is the reality of it all ever live up to the dream of what we think that all of it should be, well I pray that someday that I will be able to find out, but the way things are looking right now, I doubt that it will be happening any time soon.

The one thing that I know for certain is, that if all of this ever does happen, I know that I will have a whole lot more to say then what it is that I am trying to say right now, because there will be another perspective to look at all of this from, this being the thing that I am calling my life. Of course, the only thing that I know for sure is that saying that you are going to do something, and being able to do something can often be two different things. What’s the old saying, don’t tell me what you are going to do, show me what you are going to do, so talk, or in this case writing is cheap.

In the end, though, the only thing is that our dreams, whether they come true or not, are one of the few things that I know that makes life worthwhile, and gives us reason to get out and face the world every day. It’s all good.

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

Faithfully Yours,

Lee

​it’s just a thought

it’s just a thought, but sometimes it is still true, that silence is golden, and that the best thing that I can do right at the moment, is just sit back, and let the gold pile up. It’s just a thought. So it goes. Press on regardless.

​what to do

sometimes
the best thing to do
is to simply step back
and let things work out
the way that they are 
going to work out
sometimes
we just might be surprised

​Tuesday, August 28, 2018

sometimes
when the going gets tough
we focus too much on what
we cannot control
instead of stepping back
taking a deep breath
and being thankful for what we have
sometime
a little humility can go a long way