If dogs could talk They'd say...

Love my friends!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Have the best friends ever!!! Love ya Lisa!!!!!!!!!

LIFE

I dedicate this poem to Lisa!!!.
What nurturer, what kind gentle soul,
she embraces me with all that I am, mistakes and all,
She opens her home, she opens her heart,
she always offers kindness that is gentle,
she's just like that :)

Life
Robust, colorful
Beyond all forms- playful.
Friends remind me that it’s okay
To cry and be sad when our heart fades.
And friends also add laughter and smiles
To reassure us that it’s okay
to go beyond our habitual ways.

Sometimes we’re afraid
To close a chapter
To close a page.

Sometimes we’re open
To renew life
With eyes wide open
Curiously we see
What life surely brings
But then our minds wander back
Again and again, frivolously.

We lose faith in what is here
And our minds go back
And we’re unclear,
Confused,
Withdrawn.
We hear in our hearts
A sad, sad song.

But sometimes the day
Remind us again
That it’s okay to play again.

The day is clear,
The clouds are white,
There is no sadness
In this sky.

When we’re in touch
With what is now,
No past, no future
Can harm the clouds.
And even though the rain
Surely sets in
A rainbow always appears
After the
Dampening.

2/2/2010

Never is there a better time to get the feet full of sand and ocean!!

I am so blessed to have such amazing friends!!!!!! Love ya Luiza!

Luiza
You are like a big kid
For some reason I feel like the big sister
Who always feels compassion to this
sweetness of innocent sharing-
It is fun, jumping in the trampoline
while in the garage smiling
and laughing and singing outloud,
and it never gets old, being a kid with you somehow.


Going shopping,
talking about men,
trying on clothes,
smiling and being silly never gets old.
We both go sort of crazy when we have sugar,
And try to make up for it by having tons of veggie juice
in the next 2-3 days to recover.

Oh how life can be a field of play
when we can be real with eachother in every way.

Love my soul sisters in every way,
and always in my heart they stay.

So happy today!

Things I remember from today:

Little white cap above your little head
You are so sweet, perhaps to most confused
But not to me.
I see your wisdom
You are precious, and filled with reason
Most people would be upset and deny
that no longer can they move their arm
and fly so high.

For many you seem stuck in this bed
without the ability to get up and get your head wet,
your leg can't breathe
the way it did before,
From the stroke its now contracted, flexed,
and stuck forever more.

Yet you still smile and look at me with ease and a sense of kindness that makes me breathe
you trully inspire such love
and such easy feelings of trust.
So I get you up to the side of the bed
and you seem to giggle each time I touch you,
as you are led
to stand up a few given times,
I start to smile for we are both laughing and having so much fun
After 30 minutes of moving back and forth
you kindly say "ok, I had enough".

So I look tenderly into your eyes
and smile as you smile back with warthm, love, and life.
I get you back to bed and cover you up
and enjoy the bond, and enjoy the love.
For all the people that say we need legs to be in freedom,
You proved them wrong because inside your warm heart is the true freedom.

Regardless of where you are or what you do
it is the love in the background of where you are and what you do,
and you have mastered that- my dear 90 year old friend.
I shall remember you again and again.