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The Simple Life
Simple but not simplistic, this life
Time, not to be wasted,
is forever fluid and relative
we are all one, everything connected
the Universe is the most wondrous web,
more vast than we can yet fathom
knowing this, I feel comfortably small
For now, I find myself delightfully contented
to feel the sunshine on my face, to laugh,
experience love.
Forever grateful I am to still have mysteries
left to ponder and a single cup
of good green tea well within my grasp.
7-1-2009
Eric Vance Walton
Finally Forgiven
The Kindness of Strangers
My Great Biking Adventure - Adam Sandler-Style
Natural
is so blissed-out
blessed, like a Taoist monk
without at all trying
a balanced being
perfectly beyond
with eyes that see through
making him the wisest
one I know.
The Amazing Shrinking Automobile
A Trip To The Farmer's Market
looking back at 37
Sometimes I can't deny
that every so often
I feel as though
my prime is passed
But these thoughts are fleeting,
merely a mistake not worth repeating
as I realize that there are always
new goals in which to strive for,
so many more fears to slay
before I lay down to rest
life has brought me far
but I know deep within my soul
that in this journey there will soon
be a quickening that will take me
well beyond where I am today
the year past has forged
me strong and sharp,
like Damascus steel,
light playing off its edges
from the long dark night
my ego is shriveled like
a raisin in the sun
yet my soul has emerged unscathed
and ever more hungry
so here I stand before you....humbler,
a little more weathered, a bit wiser
and much more brazen,
with an unfathomable and deep
appreciation of the gift of life
and my time here with you.
alarm clock dawn
Focus is hazed as
wing-tip dreams come calling
softly, persistently
those starches seams
of material obsession
trite expressions that seem
to echo so endlessly
I've left it all behind this time
left it all behind in my mind
The alarm clock dawn
methodical in it's wringing,
starving, stealing time
so stealthily that you hardly notice
until one day you wake up faded,
to a jaded, gaunt and hungry hue.
I've left it all behind this time
left it all behind in my mind
So this is how it feels to be free?
To be set adrift like some Coltrane riff
When need's an endless song
Can't tell you where I'll be tomorrow
I may be drawn back into the
Yawn of the alarm clock dawn
Balance is my only hope to end up
Somewhere in the middle......
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