There is know place that one can reach… that is unreachable by others… there is a walk we take as a singular entity and return as one coupled or grouped… We begin the walk as one… inn rare cases as multiples… but most as one… a singular entry… from that point we begin our journey to be more then the one… yet we are in many ways defined as one… one family, one neighborhood, one community, one religion, one political belief, one school… one couple… one ideal in witch we live our lives… we grasp hold of this as a divining rod… a way of leading us along the path we choose… Some where along the line we are walking we are shaken… and for a time we are confused with all the choices we have made… we review our life in circles… our choices in retrospect… we go over in our minds the steps we have taken and the ways we have traveled to get where we are sitting… we face the paradox of us… the person we truly are behind the person we present to others… it is then that life begins to take on a new challenge or new frame of reference… at first tit is simple things… small steps that give us pleasure… small wonders we do for ourselves… the giver takes time to open up and receive a small bit… and while the joy of giving still is the driving force you begin to see the pleasure of receiving… it sparks the creativity of the kind to open to possibilities that still can exist for you… that there are opportunities to be more… to have more… to create more… and to sit in wonder as they float past your mind… The more we work the less we play… the less we play the less we are able to imagine beyond the realm of this routine and the less we do that the easier it is to just work… work to live… work to provide the means to in joy walk the gardens of your dreams… to travel to the far reaches of the world… to bring forth form you the glow that burns inside… Work so that you can play with all the passion that stirs within you… work so that you have time to write the poetry that you are inspired now to create… work so you have the time to listen to the music that lifts your heart and soul, work so that you have the time to in joy the company of strangers and to listen to your heart speak openly… Work for the joy of pleasing the one that you are and then take that joy and spread it over as many as you can find to embrace…
Many consider being a realist a problem… for them the alternative is a dreamer… you are one or the other… I believe we possess many styles of thought… reality is a concept we embrace when we fail to take the steps to our dreams… life is an illusion… if we allow ourselves the ability to create desire… passion and love… by doing the small steps necessary… Reality is what exists from our point of view… it is pour perception that gives it meaning… Life to me is a dream… what more could I want… and yet I still dream of more… I still desire more have passion for more… I have dreams beyond the dream I am living… this is my reality and while it is far from a perfect reality it is my reality and it is my dream… one does not “work†on themselves… or their dreams they live with who they are… they embrace who they are… and when they embrace their dreams… well magic happens… I am a realist in the sense that I over stand that reality for some is not what they desire it to be… to them I say do… take the steps one at a time to reach beyond what you are dissatisfied with to remove the dis… it is not another or a situation that stops you… it is you who stops you…
The fires within me burn hotter now then at any time in my life… for that is who I am now… a beacon for others to seek out… to reach for… the fires consume me and I rise from the ashes each time a stronger and more vibrant me… I have a long way to go before the I sleep within the fires… before I allow them to purge me completely from this earth… this place in time… I may have the time… or I may fail to see the end before me and Miss Step will lure me away… The fire is a shared flame that is passed from one to another… at first it drives the desire, the passion the love that each has to places dreamt of… in the beginning it is a lure that tantalizes the mind… that calls the soul forth and fills the physical with cravings that are deep seated… so much so that we think of nothing more then the satisfaction of those desires… The fire burns knot only for the physical… it burns mostly to light the way for the spirit to walk forth and shed its coverings… to step out of hiding within the shadows of where it has been and to let the warmth of inspiration fill it once more till it over flows with the need to create… the need to express what is locked within ones heart and soul once more… The fire burns for the creative hue… the passion fuels the words we share… the pictures we exchange… the hands we sculpt and the images we embrace… if the fire heats you and makes you sweat… if the fire burns you… and makes you want more… if the fire lures you to the edge… if the fires calls you to jump in and embrace the flames… if the fire ignites your desire, fuels your passion and feeds your love of life and those you wish to be in it… then the fire becomes you and you the fire and you become the beacon for others to embrace with all their hearts and souls… it is here that we walk… a shared and winding path… wrapped in peace… stripped of pretense… the fires burn white hot and glowing the light takes us… I am taken by hue…
Taken I am to places I should knot go… but long to go… tempted in ways I have knot been tempted in… I am wrapped in an image of you… that I play with the possibilities… I wish to be taken by hue and washed in the waters that flow from hue… bathed in the warmth of that one embrace…
Fall is a transitional time of year… it is change… glorious in its colors and celebrations of harvest… fall is the time when the work of the year is reaped and stored away for safe keeping over the next few months to come… Fall demands that we embrace change and watch as nature turns over a new leaf and colors our world… Fall is nature’s celebration of life and the wonder of rest… it is the party before the long night’s rest… within the blanket of winter’s glow… Fall is a wondrous time of sitting by fires in the glow of the evening light… of wrapping oneself in the blankets of friendship… of sharing the bounty of ones harvest with all that we love and adore… fall is a time of giving thanks for all the good years of the past and to look forward to the good years before us… each day of fall reminds of the many seasons of our lives… We are about to start over… we are about to step forth and bring new delight to the world… the sleep of winter awaits… and the promise of spring blooms just beyond but before that we must walk in the rustling leaves… jump in the piles…. Roll in the hay of rides and feel young once more… fall is the circle coming to a close around us as the music rises and the songs within our hearts come forth… it is fall that is the fruit of the years harvest… savor it… let it drip across your face and smile deeply… breathing in the crisp air… the cool temperatures and the warm embraces so richly deserved… Welcome to Autumn…
Having said all that comes before there is an after… an after that rises from the ashes of the fires that have burned one so completely there is nothing recognizable left… from the pile of emotions jumbled and jangled and raw with intensity rises a new hue… released and free of the old and ready to embrace the new… to move away from the past that has trapped you… I am the gate way to that… I over stand the porpoise of such gateways… they are transitions in time… opportunities or possibilities that alter a person…