"Never stop being a kid, Richard. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. Wear your little mask if you must to protect you from the world but if you let that kid disappear you are grown up and you are dead." …
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Wide Blue Sky
"Wide Blue Sky", a Haiku by Gregg HakeIn the wide blue skySo much is plain to the eye-Will you meet me there?
Adversariality
The dynamic social order in which we live today is formed largely on the basis of adversariality. Political and economic life is cast and recast daily based on shifting adversarial relationships and institutionalized competition keeps the whole thing running at a feverish pace. Political parties fight one another, businesses strive to best one another, and …
The Day Begins
The Day Begins, a Haiku by Gregg Hake When the day begins What do you raise to the sun- Complaint, fears, or peace?
The Battlefield of the Heart
Last evening was too beautiful a balmy winter's night to pass up a brisk walk to settle my heart, loosen my body, and clear my mind, so I put on my walking shoes after dinner and hit the pavement. As soon as I began I felt my feelings about the day's events line up like …
Who you are
who you are changed me,awakened me to life as it should bewho you are opened my eyeswhere once were clouds, now are blue skiesWho you are made me morethan what I thought possible beforewho are you? you know who you aremy love, my love, you're never far
Love Comes
"Love Comes", a Haiku by Gregg HakeLove comes like thunder In winter - unexpected;Yet marking spring's birth
Face Up to Awful Things
"We face up to awful things because we can't go around them, or forget them. The sooner you say 'Yes, it happened, and there's nothing I can do about it,' the sooner you can get on with your own life. You've got children to bring up. So you've got to get over it. What we …
Credit
The Ass Carrying the Image An ass once carried through the streets of a city a famous wooden Image, to be placed in one of its Temples. As he passed along, the crowd made lowly prostration before the Image. The Ass, thinking that they bowed their heads in token of respect for himself, bristled up …
Right with Yourself
My youngest son made an interesting observation when I put him to bed last night. He said, "You know there is nothing better than going to bed feeling that you were right with yourself all day." He then went on to enumerate the many things he had handled well, and highlighted those which he handled …
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