Go west, Go west, Invest! Good advice ‘er it sounds nice But sitting in the office of Edward Jones I begin to feel an awful chill in my
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Go west, Go west, Invest! Good advice ‘er it sounds nice But sitting in the office of Edward Jones I begin to feel an awful chill in my
Brick by brick Stick by stick You have built your life You’ve got a house, a job A baby, a wife The original shelter Is now helter skelter The
Complaints of my life Were a dime a dozen My job and my family The prices and the economy Always got the best of me Someone was ruining my
Yep! It’s a strange and wondrous thing to learn that you can only change yourself directly. Then, and only then, maybe someone else will change. But that’s not
The power is out again The phone is down again No internet No water today The mosquitos are thick this time of year I am remembering those days
The problem is always me But so is the solution — About the poem: This very basic truth escaped me for over four decades. And once accepted, transformed
The steep spires The stained glass The carved statues The old books The unhappy people Posed questions They couldn’t answer When all along The answers I sought Were in
An easy answer But is it the right answer? Can’t ignore the truth Can’t stomach it Knowing It’s a little wrong – About the poem: I’ve found
“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.” – Paul Newman, Cool Hand Luke (1967) Good communication is so easy it’s hard to even pinpoint exactly what makes it