THE JOURNEY: So now I'm the voice of reason. That is not something I would have expected to hear from my son, but I will accept it with humility and explain it to you. So, my middle son is riding a bike across the southwest to raise awareness for water aid around the world. I get a text from him and his cycling partner and it says they are in trouble in the scorching heat, with twenty five mph head winds and being harassed by a local drunk where they are recuperating under a tree. So as a parent, what would you think if you got that text. Right, I call to confirm their imminent death. Turns out they are alive....and just exhausted both physically and mentally. I ask where they are and discover that it is in an area that Barb and I took him to as a baby to visit her now diseased aunt. Some how that one realization for him changes the whole picture. He can now sense being there in the secure arms of his mother and the environment suddenly becomes less menacing. Isn't that true for all of us in how we view life. Our perceptions about where we are and how we choose to see it, is indeed everything. I like being the voice of reason even though I just thought I was being the father figure that a year ago was lost in the fog.


WORDS


WORDS REQUIRE SO LITTLE EFFORT
TO SAY
TO FEEL
AND TO MEAN

IT IS THE MEANING
BEHIND THEM
THAT TAKE THE EFFORT
OF INTERPRETATION

WHAT YOU SAY
MIGHT NOT BE WHAT YOU MEAN
WHAT YOU HEAR
MIGHT NOT BE WHAT WAS INTENDED

SO CLARIFY THE MEANING
SAY WHAT YOU FEEL
HEAR THE REAL INTENT
BE GENUINE IN THE GIVING AND TAKING
AND DON'T GET LOST IN THE CONFUSION