Provolone and Pretzel

When a pretzel looks for love, beef jerky tries to come aside

Nothing satisfies a pretzel’s need, nothing makes it come alive

Beef jerky is salty and tasty too, it even has pepper that makes it better

A pretzel wants more than pepper, it doesn’t like hard leather

The gnawing and biting doesn’t cut through it

Just a little zest of love will do it

The more a pretzel looks the farther it seems

But then came a slice of provolone cheese

No more looking needed to be done

A pretzel found provolone, THE one

Emily Jepson

You have mononucleosis, boo

I’ll hop in the Mystery Mobile and visit you

Have you got the clue?

I’m Scooby Doo

If you get enough rest

And you want a guest

You can fight with the best

I’m Jonny Quest

I Surrender All

With my face down cast

The self wound runs deep

All from the recent past

It is so hard to sleep

The Word is my spiritual cast

When trouble begin to heap

Putting You first and me last

The road seems so steep

Your way is always right and true

As hard as it might appear

You will guide me through

Placing mistakes to the rear

Allows intimacy for me and you

I need to keep you near

Make your will what I do

This prayer is sincere

Yackety Sax

Not knowing what you think

Helps me even though its hard

It keeps us out of sync

And keeps us from being scarred

As I work in preparation

I still do not know

If I’ll have your dedication

After my love flowers grow

Even if I become capable

Of holding you more dear

You may deem me unable

To protect you from your fear

All I hope is to love God more

And that you would do the same

It is Him and you that I adore

I pray this all in His name

Gatorade Generation

This is the song that doesn’t end

It goes on and on, my friends

Some people started singing it

Not knowing what it was

And they’ll continue singing it forever

Just because

(Repeat)

R.I.P. Lamb Chop

JC Loves JC

Only 20 minutes between you and me

You once wanted me dead, give me another chance instead

With what we once began, it was cut short, my mistake

Your interest on my mind, I’ll do whatever it might take

I felt forced to refrain, even though I wanted to maintain

That is all behind, only the future lays before

It’s not over yet, there is still more

Lets make amends and see how it all ends

Six Million Ways To Live, Choose One

When you are sitting at a table and you have a feast of a thousand options you never know where to start. There is no way you will ever be able to try all of it. Even if you only take one bit of everything. You try some and realize you are stuffed. You will still wonder about most of the foods and how they might have tasted. You also see that you like some of the dishes but you don’t know that you could eat just one meal while the other ones are still on the table. They are just too numerous and tempting. You might try to taste another while trying to commit to finishing just one plate. But, you can’t. You have to stop eating off of the one plate to stick a bite of another into your mouth. There is no way to have both at the same time. That would be a completely different taste and you really couldn’t enjoy the satisfaction that either of the bites would give you if they were consumed individually. You don’t know what you want.

Now you are at a table with rice. What do you eat?

Call It Torture, Call It University

The simple victories are the ones that make day to day life enjoyable. Recently it was guaranteed to be a good day if the toilet flushed all the water down instead of just swirling everything around. Thanks to 30 years of deuces the toilet struggled to function everyday. It seemed that the stars had to align in order to get that suction noise to occur similar to the sound of a milkshake being finished. The toilet has been on life-support for what seemed like an eternity the past two years and we finally pulled the plug on the guy. It was a difficult and emotional decision but we know it would have wanted it that way. It was so painful for Adam and I to see it live like that. We know it is in a better place now (the front porch.) The replacement has robbed me of the simple joy of a flush by doing it every time. It works like a charm and for that I am obscenely grateful. I think the toilet is actually the most comfortable seat in the house. There is something about the seat. Is it the perfect contour? Is it the no-slam technology that lowers it silently to the porcelain? Or is it the easy to remove attachment that allows for quick and effortless cleaning?

As It Stands

The voice asked what the little star wanted to be, it hung there suspended as it does and thought about the infinite options it now has as a purpose for being born as a star. It remained silent for some time. “Should I ask again some other time?”

“No, I don’t know what I want to be. I just want to be a star and stay right here.”

“You don’t want to do anything except stay right here!? All the other stars are in constellations and are traveling to great places all over the universe. Why don’t you do something like that? I just gave you the option with endless possibilities and you choose nothing. Of all the things you chose the one thing that is actually nothing at all. That is what you did. You chose nothing.”

“I don’t know what I want to do so I chose nothing,” said the star.

“Well, you now are what you chose to be,” the voice informed the star as the voice vanished.

The star hung there suspended as it does and pondered its permanent but familiar situation.

(Some time passes)

Word of a planet that has other beings inhabiting it reached the star. The star began watching the planet as many of the others did. The star was in awe of this planet and it watched the planet constantly because of the curiosity and amazement that the planet generated in the star’s mind. The star began to realize the inhabitants of the planet were watching the star.

“Why are the planet dwellers watching me?” the star asked itself.

The star felt a little embarrassed by all the attention but continued to focus on the planet to understand why it was getting all this attention.

(Some time passed)

The voice returned to the star to ask what has come of its earlier decision.

“I have come to find out how you feel about your decision from the last time I spoke to you. Are you pleased with your decision?”

“I do not know whether the out-come of my decision is good or bad. I would like to know why the inhabitants of the planet continue to watch me? They watch and study me more than the other stars, even though they are pieces of beautiful constellations,” the star reported.

“I have been to the planet and I also noticed that they found you more interesting than all the others. I asked them why they look at you so often. They noticed that you do not move like the others, that you are stationary. Your nothingness has become very important to the planet’s inhabitants’ lives. They use you as a directional standard. Without you, navigation on the planet would be very difficult and the inhabitants would not be able to find their way.”

This brought great joy to the star. The star shown brighter from its new found purpose.

“I know what I must do now, I must continue to shine even though I do not move. I want to remain here, for the planet and its inhabitants.”

The star hung there, suspended as it does shinning bright for the inhabitants. The inhabitants named the star to signify its importance, The North Star.

Gear Up Play Hard

Nope that is not what my life will be like. Work work work work work work. Nothing is easy especially with no motivation. My shovel is sharp but my will is diminished.

Where is motivation if it isn’t inside you. Only God knows and he hasn’t given me the map yet. Or I haven’t found the map. Actually, I have the map but it is big and I don’t know where I am on the map.