Stop. Breathe. Remember God's Simplicity...

Salinas, sister of Escondido and Elsinore. I am with you always. No matter where my nomadic feet wander off to, you draw me in, and I feel that comfort I have not felt since I was a child. You are my home. My center of gravity. The street fair musician's drum beats rhythmically with my heartbeat. I breath in tune with the childrens' laughter. It's remarkable how happy a community is without money or earthly treasures holding them down. My ears bleed at the sound of your name stripped of genuine welcome and battered by drivers and pass-byers. The bubblegum scars and aged beauty does not fool me. You're beautiful to anyone who stops to learn. You may not be perfect, but you show true contentment. Show me the sweet majesty of imperfection, Salinas, and I'll inhale deeply.

Childish pastimes were always this in my eyes, the lies he and she buys came to no surprise, and I never sympathized with their ties to immature ogreism because at one point they all do and one day if they're lucky they see and agree there is an irony, life is not care-free, but a symphony of let-downs and devastation handed down from one shmuck to another via debris we call words  I may have a chip on my shoulder, but know that I knew at 5 or 6 years old that life was no cartoon comic strip, to carry a stiff upper lip and prepare for it one hardship at a time and if you let one iota of optimism slip, your heart gets ripped out of your chest with no courtesy warning, that's life. Get a grip. I wish I knew what it felt like to wake without apprehension, to not pay attention, or have retention of the consequences my actions and to live in this alternative dimension and I wish this conversation was not condescension , but I can't ...

Courageous. No one could take that title away from her. She's afraid, but that does not dissuade her. She has the profound gift of in-depth vision. She knows this world is much bigger than she is, shadowing over her like a wave superiority, but instead of fighting it,she accepts it and leaves the world in a state of perplexity. This makes her stronger. Battle won.

When I'm sad, can't make me glad, Not when all I've had is gone, you'll just make me mad. Nothing can alleviate the porous pain I have. Don't punish the young that resides in my eyes with belittling words from the tongue swung like dung, SMACK, to the wall. self-value is low, although, the slow blow, should be seen from a mile away like a crow's eye view   With that known, I retreat alone, secure on my personal throne, feelings unshown, and the heart on my sleeve,OH so carefully sewn I abhor, ripped off my clothing, no longer a part of me, suited to battle this turmoil war, I still can't ignore, still unsure, I let out a roar, to release the sore,  from the crevices of  my disappointment. Take rest and know, that he is not yours. Someone else's someone. I have not been crossed. I have not lost. Eyes glossed, this future future embossed, there is a cost to loving, and being loved, and living.

How quickly we're entitled. Justice will prevail. Osama must die, and don't you dare cry; the bastard did not deserve jail. How quickly we're entitled. Jesus showed us love somehow we can  hate, and don't have to relate or know what sin is made of. How quickly we're entitled. In no way are we the same. With a bullet to the head, Osama is dead, and we can walk without shame.

1. The only person that can ever truly make you happy is yourself. Stop depending on everyone else. 2. People lie, stuff happens. Don’t take it too personally. 3. Want people to think you’re amazing? Start believing you are, and then they will too. 4. Smiling is the ultimate anti-depressant. Smile and laugh out loud, it doesn’t look stupid, I promise. 5. The world is never just black and white, right or wrong, one way or another. Try and see things from as many points of view as possible. 6.  "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter, don't mind." - Dr. Seuss 7. Have empathy. 8. Gossip, problems of the past, events you cannot control, negative thoughts and negative people; time spent on these is time poorly wasted. 9. When you're jealous or find yourself filled with hatred for someone/something, stop. The only person its hurting is you. 10. Although the newest, most expensive material items may make you fe...

My heart is light. My soul is bright. And who can EVER says this? Life kicks me down. When I'm on the ground, It's nothing I will ever miss. Anger inside, born with too much pride, but I know my Lord exists. Therefore I'm content. Therefore I relent. soothed by Lord's blissful kiss.