You make it easy to be me,
Limbs get shaky at times in my tree,
Daring comes easy holding your hand,
Embolden am I with you as my Valentine!
Together we’ve seen a life void of privation,
These visions generate shared sensation,
Exploring the others heart with relentless seeking,
The true nature of love’s safe keeping.
Forever yours
Wint
A disciple must believe. He will know the right and proper action to take in all circumstance.
By virtue of an examined life the tenets of a well lived life are well known and shame is the result of deviations. Shame is the prime motivator of change in the disciples life for he will fail at times, as do all mortals.
“To thy own self be true.”. This is the key to satisfaction.
“Praise God, from whom all blessings flow.”. This is the key to happiness and salvation.
Wint
With regards to happiness, the most impactful thing a person can do is slow down and take a look.
Perspective is everything. Don’t be taken in by F.E.A.R. (false events appearing real). When looking into a mirror you are not playing to a crowd. Embrace what you see, change what you will. Your capacity for joy is metered by your capacity to embrace all emotions that emanate within your heart.
Love you Squid.
Dad
As much as I would like to say,
As a dad this is my day,
Let’s look at how all was begun,
And how proud I am to be your son.
In my life there was another,
He was married to Grandmother,
How different we all seemed back then,
Today I look and you are him.
In myself I see a father,
That loves his child like no other,
The love I give to my daughter,
Was taught to me by my father.
For a friend and father on this father’s day 1999.
Your loving son, Winston Lee.
Well … that’s my plan this morning.
After having planted my dementia consumed father awhile back and yesterday having to move my dementia disabled mother from the nursing home into our home, my plan is to live such that my daughter does not have to … hey, I am the author … I do not have to finish the proceeding thought.
So you know that I am not just a whiner, my plan also includes significant saved cash, long term disability insurance and daily execution at www.lumosity.com
God is Great, God is Good. He provides all I need to live a life of abundance. While my mother may not know who I am, she is delightful and easy to laugh. Count your blessings Wint!
Wint
What is the price when naïveté is lost?
What is the currency and who allays the cost?
The new wise pay the toll for emergent fears,
For wisdom is dear and paid in tears.
Few things piss me off more than when someone tells me a story that is meant to solicit a particular response from me. Seems more times than not the response they are soliciting is help of some kind. No matter why they are not able to come right out and ask in simple language what it is they need or want, it is dead easy for me to spot their manipulation. And manipulation it is. Something prevents them from speaking plainly to their need or want and they know if they skirt the edges long enough the other person (me) will intuit where they are headed and pity them by jumping to the conclusion. I refuse.
The reason I refuse to save them? Shame and guilt. My shame is they are me. My guilt is I am a liar and conniver. In my day I was able to manipulate those who loved me into doing my bidding by leveraging their love and by putting them in the uncomfortable spot of feeling on some level their intuitiveness telling them what to do in order to get out of the their comfortableness.
I cannot tolerate a liar or thief and these behaviors are reflections of both. My guilt and shame are not platforms allowing support for such behavior in others today.
Typically it takes a certain desperation to knowingly be so manipulative. For me, it was a matter of life or death. My only defense is that I always chose life, though to the detriment of relationships with most who loved me. The upside is I am here today and, where there has been no risk of further damage, have made direct amends to those folks. Where the risk was too great I have done my best to make a living amends. This post is part of my living amends.
Some of you out there know me and know where of I speak. You know the man I have been and the man I am today. You have likely been a target of my manipulations. To you I give thanks for allowing me to fall from your grace such that I was able to receive the Grace and succor such as my Lord and Savior provides me daily.
Love
Wint
Having on numerous occasions attempted to ice a double layer cake I can tell you it is no easy task. This however is not the reason I write today and not what you came to read.
My Mother could ice a double layer cake like nobody’s business. Knowing my mother I know she did not double the icing recipe, though this would no doubt make the task ever so much easier, as we were too poor to be so frivolous with the monies required to do this.
My evidence that she was an awesome cake maker is not rooted in the appearance of the cake but rather in the fact my brother and I knew we could count on getting an iced graham cracker as a treat each time she baked a cake.
So if you have kids and you make cakes, this is how you should do it. Your child will grow up knowing that you are the world’s best cake maker and this is definitely how to ice a double layer cake!
Wint
No moon, cold, no wind, perfect conditions for opening morning. Gun shooting straight, nothing missing from my pack. On stand well before day break, prime time.
It is now 9:20 and I have seen no game. Not even a crow. What could have gone wrong? Could this have anything to do with it ???
It is said women aught to be naughty,
I say I might if you weren’t so gosh darn haughty,
You claim I am not that kind and couldn’t,
Who’s to say if you weren’t I wouldn’t?
You say you know me oh so well,
And holding doors and the such is my tell,
You claim I am not that kind and couldn’t,
Who’s to say if you weren’t I wouldn’t?
Well you ain’t kno’ed me my whole dang life,
There’s lots happened before you were my wife,
You claim I am not that kind and couldn’t,
Who’s to say if you weren’t I wouldn’t?
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