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Life Is a Near-Death Experience

Every minute that you spend thinking about what’s wrong subtracts precious time from concentrating on what’s right and good about life and doing your best to experience it.  We die a little every day that we are alive. That’s the curse of mortality. Being alive and living are two individual, separate activities.  Being alive is just a passive existance.  Living is making that existance meaningful.

I have had 3 NDEs, (near death experiences) in my life, one with a heart attack at age 35, the next, a “sudden-death” episode in my early 50s, and the last, 9 years ago when I had a heart transplant.  Each of these episodes served to amplify my awareness of the people and the world around me.  I watch the world and observe the people…, and I feel that there are just too many who are just alive.., and not enough that are living.  I try to fill every day with as much life as the hours and circumstances permit now. Everybody needs realize that every dawning day is a new opportunity to open ourselves to live the life we were meant to live.

Take control of your life and live it, and enjoy it !!!!!

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HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY !!!

Fericita Ziua îndrăgostiţilor ** Všechno nejlepší k Valentýnovi ** Gelukkige Valentijnsdag ** Onnellisen Ystävänpäiväkortin Päivä **

La Saint-Valentin heureuse ** Glücklichen Valentinstag ** वेलेंटाइन डे खुश ** Boldog Valentin-napra ** San Valentino felice **

幸福なバレンタインデー ** Glad Valentines Dag ** Dia dos Namorados feliz **

 Día de los enamorados feliz **عيد حب سعيد ** Srećan Dan zaljubljenih ** วันของแฮปปี้วาเลนไทน์ ** Mutlu Sevgililer Gününde ** یﮦ ايجنسﯽ خوشی کے دن **

 

(from the bottom of me Irish heart)

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GOOD NIGHT EVERYBODY !

Now is a quiet time

A place for verse

A space for rhyme.

What better way

In heart and mind

To end the day.

The day is ended

Work is done

Wrongs are mended.

The evening sky

In star filled dark

Asks not why

We search for love

‘neath silver moon

And stars above.

In this blissful peace

We find solace

(and) all else will cease.

The spirit inside

Finds its release

And no longer hides.

Words flow easily

The dream begins

And the page is filled.

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Sweet Dreams

Sleep doesn’t come as I close my eyes

I still see the moonlit starry skies

And hear the faint melody of the band inside

As we dance on the beautiful balcony outside

Another slow waltz, as we glide ‘cross the floor

And quietly slip away through the veranda’s back door

Was not in our mind to spend the night at a dance

When under the moonlight we dreamed of romance.

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I went to sleep…, and as time passed all seemed well

Then came the morning light and I was awoken

To find that the world that seemed so well

Was all around me….., broken !

Broken governments

Broken schools

Broken society

Broken people

Broken toys

Broken glass

Broken dreams

Broken hearts

Broken lives

I felt paralyzed.

I could only look upward to the skies

Only to find sad grey clouds filling my eyes

Looking around me to realize

That I too was broken…

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It was a cold and dreary night

All hint of warmth was gone

Just one candle for warmth and light

It had to last until the dawn

But that candle is you

And it is enough for me

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May the New Year bring you joy and happiness….,

And may all of your dreams come true