Leap in Faith

I often laugh, I seldom cry
tears of pain cut sharply
washed my face, accepted grace
replace them with tears of happiness, tears from answered prayer
change of location, change of place

I am a product of my experience
the culmination of choice
I have been many people, switching roads, lowering my voice
who is right is not the key
rather the resonance in myself, truth to me

I use the word peace so often
how I think, how I project
peace means something different on the sea
if you carry it you can share it, yet we all choose
Unless my path is my own, the word has no worth

I may drift, I might loose direction
not every moment is filled with zeal
adrenalin charged moments cannot last
look to the future and run back to the past

Healed with forgiveness, in unison with self
maybe it all does make sense
I did not start the war
OK I'm ready ... turns the handle, opens the door

Small bench to hurdle, massive leap in faith

Intelligent Beavers in the Yukatoawachie Valley

On my recent trip to "Canabeva" Canada, my wildlife safari group discovered a band of intelligent beavers in the Yukatoawachie Valley.

(Okay, it was not really a safari, but it was an excursion)

Wearing my protective head gear, I was adaptive and assimilating with nature. My beaver calls and beaver tail flaps were well received by the nomadic group of mammals.

Slowly I crept ever closer to one of the giant bongo beavers .... he was playing "We will Rock You" by Queen. Another member in my party was able to capture the picture (left) of his performance. At the end of his rendition, we all clapped, and the beaver took a bow.

I wanted to try the bongos, but the wild Canadian animal lashed out, and tried to bite me. Note to self ... never reach your hand out at a beaver.

After the concert, our group walked down along the river banks to examine the dams. They were quite elaborate, and I was immediately aware of the dam builders stick assembling prowess. They sure can do miracles with those fat tail of theirs!

To aid in the construction, I offered a chainsaw to one them (the smallest and weakest of course). With a keen sense of adaptation, he was at home with the Stihl 5000 dual blade tip in no time. Here he is testing the throttle, and getting a feel of the saws balance.

After a long day of cutting, fetching, and mud caking ... our safari group was ready to head North to the hotel and say goodbye to our new found friends. I hear Drowsey Monkey lives around here!
Maybe I will stop in and say hello.
Until then, I will forever carry great memories of the intelligent beavers in the Yukatoawachie Valley in my brief case.


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Coconut Ranch in Hibbing

From SPEEDCAT HOLLYDALE PAGE

They all scoffed at my ideas, and even claimed they were implausible. That simply grew my misguided efforts. I lie in bed every night contemplating a million scenarios and sequences searching for that elusive epiphany ... the grand Tee Tahn if you will. Just as life surprises you, so did my bowl of raisin bran. I counted the ratio of flake vs raisin
and found the equation right there before my eyes floating in aged 2% milk.
I hopped out of bed and pounded out the new theory with expeditious fingers and pencil. The pencil had no eraser, so any mistakes were striked, or struck, err - stricken from the record maybe? ( grammar is not my strongest tweed suit )
3.7 hours in and there it was. My formula was sceaming out riches, fame, and Nobel Prize. I did want a Nobel, even if they gave them out to insider baffoons and con men, because a Nobel would look great on my mantle.
Next, as you might expect, was the real and true test of conceptual realization. My efforts were diverted to engineering what mathematical thoughts were documented on tree pulp pressed very thin. I like college rule, but buy wide margin at the dollar store. Why? ... because it is a dollar.
All was moving along well, as test after test proved positive, but my project was cut short of completion. I invested all of my time and money into a coconut ranch in Hibbing. That's how shit happens here in Hollydale.