"You complain that your tree is not valuable as lumber, but you could make use of the shade it provides, rest under its sheltering branches, and stroll beneath it, admiring its character and appearance. Since it would not be endangered by an axe, what could threaten its exhistence? It is useless to you only because you want to make it into ( Read more... )

"Say, Pooh, why aren't you busy?" I asked ( Read more... )

It's really no secret that I've been spending a lot of time reflecting on the past in hopes for a better future. I've looked back and examined many aspects from my life from as objective a view point as I can muster, from as many angles as I can think of. I've twisted and turned and pondered and pulled apart and reassembled many of the things ( Read more... )

This is the time of year when the weather in Iraq is absolutely beautiful. I took some time and walked down along the Tigris this evening with the cool breeze rolling over the water and watched the sun set. It was amazing. Almost enough to make you forget there are ten thousand ways for a person to die in this country.

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I look around and start to realize that, one by one, the people of our generation are finally starting to wake up. The dark cloud of highschool and adolesence is finally starting to lift and our lives are finally testiment to the pain, heartache, uncertainty and grief, forged in the searing fires of youth. We are growing up now. Little by little ( Read more... )

I don't have anything to say ( Read more... )

The saddest love story I know is the tarantula's. In the foothills of California, tarantulas come out ever fall. Hideous, hairy spiders swarm everywhere. On certain roads a driver can't help squishing them under his tires. Housewives, armed with brooms, beat them to death. Everyone reviles them. But, they still come out ever fall, swarming by ( Read more... )

We are all here to live. We are all here to become something other than what we start off as. We are all here to experience all of the ups and downs that this world has to offer and we are here to grow as individuals and as human beings.

Relax. Live. Breathe.
Become. Experience. Grow.These words are the keys to not going insane and to being ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I got to thinking about mornings spent with that special someone in your arms or lying beside you ( Read more... )