What’s something you’ve done that you never thought you could?
I compromised for a time, so that I could become. ✅
The Storm, in its sea, accuses me,
“What is the point of poetry!”
With no need for applause, I look upward and nod,
“Museless soul…inquire of God.”
What’s the weirdest movie you’ve ever watched?
“Watched?!?
Define, “movie.”
I was there for it.
I was always there for it.
I was told I was not exactly enough.
Exactly.
Enough.
What’s the best way to meet new people while traveling?
The best way to meet new people while traveling is to redefine, “traveling” and to redefine, “new people.”
When we open our eyes, we are able transcend so, so much.
No reservations
Good company, silent words
And a window seat
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What’s the most underrated life skill?
The most underrated life skill is mastering temperance — one cannot know, unless they’ve exercised it, precisely how peace-giving it can be.
Mystery
Uncertainty
Would that these were a joy to me
The heart-drop ache
Steals breath away
Long last — night yield to long-lost day!
If Universe
Has done its worst
The path is clear, the last is first
What’s the best way to explore a new city?
The best way to explore a new city is to explore an old city with a new amigo.
Once upon a time, in Chicago…I studied law and poets…time felt both right and wrong.
Are we not asked to seek
What we are built to find
Love the Author of love
All our heart, soul, and mind
With hope and sound resolve
My plan? To stand my ground
Oh such life yet to live!
Time neither lost, nor found
Warrior, you — agreed
Set aside, I — indeed
Sacred, your grail…now go!
Conqueror, yes…I know
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What are some life hacks that you practice?
I hack life by observing — both subconsciously as well as intentionally — the widespread race to the bottom…the race to the path of least resistance. The hack in this: I cannot help but to move in the opposite direction.
In Tennessee, once, for example,
I noticed, then thought:
Oh, West Prong of Little Pigeon River, I see your courage, embracing the pit downstream.
The cowardice flow
O’er which I navigated
As I swam in truth
If the salary was the same, what job would you be doing right now and why?
It took me a less than a split second to answer this question. Regardless of whether the salary was the same, I’d go back 40 years and become a member of our U.S. Air Force, rather than have allowed myself to be talked out of it. The reasons are for God and Country.
I see you
Shrouded, but standing
Never for naught,
Reminding me
All I was taught to do
Admonishing
There is still more that is true
I pray for you
Storied…strong, be
Herald in healing,
I ask for thee
Glory, revealing the fight!
Unfolding
Until all know The Light
Describe a random encounter with a stranger that stuck out positively to you.
…that time Saint Logic showed up and I didn’t keep walking, tho’….
Hear, hurricane,
Once perfect calm
Find once again
The Summer balm
Such stormy sea
‘Tis all a lie
Follow the grace
Of the mind’s eye
Logic, the friend
Protectorate
Whose docent-light
Truth, bezel-set
Aegean green
Ambient air
And stalwart scent
Will find you there
What book could you read over and over again?
Less of a mere book, and more of a sacred text, I do read The Bible over and over again — sherlock that I am.
It will be by fire
Becoming by burning, lo!
Refined…so, ready
When you were five, what did you want to be when you grew up?
When I was five years old, I wanted to be protected — both then, as well as when I grew up. God has seen to it. And, He’s provided poetry, too. ✅
