Reflections By The Bay

Friday, June 8, 2018

June 8, 2018

JUDGING OTHERS

Stop judging me.

You do it all the time.

I know - because I do it too.

But you have no clue why

I like butter almond ice cream

or why I like to put cold butter

with my peanut butter on rye bread.

You don’t know the why of my why’s

and most of the time I don’t either.

June 8, 2018

Thought for today:

“Boredom: the desire for desires.”

Leo Tolstoy

Thursday, June 7, 2018

BOUNCE EFFECT

Of course there is the bounce effect ….

Smiles beget smiles ….

Sound bounces off walls -

echoes in rooms and down the halls ….

Cells, microbes, germs, viruses,

squeeze against each other - as
people do in a a NYC subway car

at 8:02 - on a going to work morning ….

Anger, screams, slamming noises

begets more and more angry noises ….

Every word - all aggression -

doesn’t just happen -

it’s loaded with the garbage barges

of nasty smells from up river ….

So let me place these words

like a paper boat on the water

and let them float till they bounces into you ....

June 7, 2018

Simply some simple music near the end of Spring.

June 7, 2018

Thought for today:

“People ‘died’ all the time …. Parts of them died when they made the wrong kinds of decisions - decisions against life. Sometimes they died bit by bit until finally they were just living corpses walking around. If you were perceptive you could see it in their eyes; the fire had gone out … you always knew when you made a decision against life…. The door clicked and you were safe inside - safe and dead.”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh