NAPKIN WORDS #63 2011 - Dedicated to Mike Prevor

1. YOU AND TOMORROW
Live life as you wish it lived.

Not as others tell you how to live!

2. QUIRK OF LIVING
Nothing allows us, but everything makes us.

That is life.

That is our time!

3. IN THE POLITICAL GARDEN
When laws are enacted and satisfy all, they
become flowers of our being.

When they fail this test, they become weeds,
choking us all.

Remember this well, you gardeners who are
elected by us:

When weeds are abundant, blooms fail, the
garden is abandoned, the gardener is done.

The greatest of gardens must be nurtured by
plants that will survive over time, instead
of blooming once in a great display and then
quickly dying in a topsoil of lies!

4. FAIR PLAY
Within us all is ability.

How we use that ability is what makes us
different!

5. MISHAP
Accidents are damages of living.

They happen.

Just part of living.

Whatever the accident, clean up, heal well,
get on with life!

6. PENALTY TIME
When all worry about being correct, all wrongs
get hidden, all rights go missing!

7. FACE OF PHILOSOPHY
Wisdom is like a smile, you can have it, but you
must show it, so others know what you have!

8. CASINO VITALITY
How you deal with life always depends on who you
allow to be the dealer!

9. THE TOMORROW THING
Nothing lasts forever, not even most of
our expectations!

ON THE QUESTION OF GLASS

I thought of all that I knew, at last admitting
how little I know.
We drink from it, admire our curious image,
offer love and laughter, from those bottles of glass.
Miracles of wine, our witness praised, truths told
within a fragile beauty, such wondrous reflections
of the human soul.

From a million windows praising God, catching light in churches of awe, human spirits, in religious temples of all existence, made of that material we have named glass. Sand upon beaches, radiant substance, we swim our lives in a birthing of silica. History, from ancient past, is reflected, witnessed, in mirrors of time.


Creative, bold, I now wonder why I never knew glass. That magical reflection of each human life, images of love as a mirrored wonder, a telling tapestry of all our time.


by Edward Hunter