NAPKIN WORDS #59 2010

1. 5:15 P.M. – SUMMER NOISES
There is a bird making a click, a tick –tick-
tick, then a tick-tick ending as a whistle.

Leaves of assorted strange grown trees laugh
as they always have, when a gentle gust tickles
their notched edges, the funny bone of nature.

The bright light of day dims, great herds, those
marching knights of ferns, whisper as the eyes
grow weary, lazy, awaiting that black time when
stars light up imagination.

With all its power, a tree stays silent yet shouts,
roots and all!

2. UNDERSTANDING FRIENDSHIP
Never underestimate the anger of a friend, for it
arrives hidden, only later to explode. Study your
friendship, learn where their anger is. Don’t
change your ways, but do understand. That is
the badge of honor when friendship is involved!

3. LABOR DAY WISHES
This time that we celebrate the victory of
time over the enemy of want and need.

Let us each hope that in 2011 we defeat
the enemy!

4. BELIEVE
The only thing that truly prepared me for life as
an orphan, was my optimism.

Maybe that is the secret other orphans should
know!

5. THE HEIGHT
When eyes first open, where toes first touch
earth, there is our road of life, the path we
must tread to arrive at our destiny.

Along the edges of this road are all those
people and experiences that guided us,
advised us, led us astray with enlightenment
which rushed us, yet still held us to reality.

Most will stay with us until we at last approach
that final bridge, that time when our eyes cannot
open, our toes are no longer able to tickle earths
soul!

6. LIFE LIVED AND LEARNED
It takes twice as much time and energy to make
a true friend, as it does to make a true enemy!

7. FACE IT
Better to look at life with a smile, than to
stare at life with a frown!

THE WHY OF WHY

The explorer inside the mind is allowed to

travel to worlds never seen, spaces unknown

to reality, like water seeping into the tiniest of

crevices.

It is an inner eye and just like water, it creates

a magical pool where odd shaped rainbows swim,

pyramids glide as if rafts, birds twinkle the sun,

so

rays may dance upon earth in laughter when it too

was young. That is what allows us, as we get older,

to at last understand why our imagination is there, and

our flesh is

here!


by Edward Hunter