You’re not alone. Somebody is there. Isn’t it comforting to know you’re not alone in times of trouble? Just knowing somebody is there can oftentimes make all the difference in how you get through it. Or even if you get through it intact. Can I get an amen? In recent weeks I’ve been sharing a lot of my writings from way back in the 1970’s. … Read the rest…
Category Archives: Rhyme and Reason
A higher power with no on/off switch When I was 22, I was still ridiculously naive. I believed Americans were all on the same side. Old people never did bad things. Pretty girls were all saving themselves for marriage. Yes. I believed those things. And I assumed most anybody would know I was talking about God when I wrote “higher power” in a song. … Read the rest…
Take time to open up a little You’ve probably been in a relationship at some time or another where one person needed the other to open up and share what was on their mind. Right? Sure, we’ve all been there. Or if you haven’t, you probably will be some day. But have you ever thought about why we need people to open up to … Read the rest…
Things are bad. And how long can it go on? You might have notice a couple of bad things happening in the past few years. Right? Yeah, a couple of bad things every second of every day. There seems to be no bottom to the abyss of evil people are willing to climb down into. Just when you think you couldn’t possibly hear anything … Read the rest…
How can you fight the feeling when it comes so naturally? When I was in my early twenties I wrote lyrics to songs with hidden meanings. I can’t tell you why, exactly. Even if I told you, it probably wouldn’t make any sense to you. And as I look back into my old notebooks, I’ve gotta admit something to you…I hid the meaning to … Read the rest…
Time flies away…no matter what Yep, you can take good care of yourself, eat right, get plenty of exercise, fresh air, and sunshine. But no matter how healthy (or sick) you are, time flies away so quickly. There’s nothing you can do to stop it…or even slow it down. But there IS something you CAN do to make the most of it. Love. That … Read the rest…
Two choices are almost never the only choices When someone says you only have two choices to choose from, take a little time to think that through. Very often, the reason they’re telling you that is simply because that’s what they’ve heard. And the people who told them that heard it somewhere else. And so on…and so on…and so on. Giving yourself only two … Read the rest…