Life With Dignity

Life in our homestead

works way better for me

than working for money.

Those times when I think

I know everything are when

I can learn nothing.

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There’s much that I 

can not do now.

Barbara will

tell you that is true.

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When I think of doing

community service,

first I think of home.

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I avoid hateful news.

I do miss some things,
like snark to snark combat.

Getting Idesy

With my back, my legs, my age,

I’ve slowed down.

I have not, however, stopped.

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When painful headlines arise,

I try to consider 

the Greater Good.

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Words, words, words, words.

Talk, talk, talk.

Scowling, sighing.

More words.

More talk.

Alas.

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She held my hand,

simply, lightly, with trust.

I’ve since aimed 

to deserve it.

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I read a lot but

I prefer listening to

a wiser person.

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My dear friends:

I will love you forever.

But not a second longer.

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I’ll care for myself

as the unique and special

person that I am.

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Before I seek

magical solutions,

first I listen

to my heart.

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I do what I need to, 

then what I could do, 

then the impossible.

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Today,

I am choosing

happiness,

ecstasy if 

I can find some. 

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My poems are stories

which could be songs.

Now, wouldn’t that be 

just a hoot?

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The disease is 

fear, anger, hate.

The prescription is 

a little faith.

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New Thought movement 

challenges those 

with challenges.

God makes no mistakes.

One Direction

There is nothing I would change
about my life, even if I could,
because it all brought me to you.

There is nothing else I would build,
not from paper, stone or wood,
except that which created me and you.

There is nothing I could say,
even if I should,
that speaks louder than the me in you.