TIME UPON THE EARTH IS A BLESSING AND AN INCREASE IN AGE INCREASES WISDOM.

I GUESS THAT IT MAKES SENSE TO NOT WANT TO SEE ALL YOUR YOUTHFUL STRENGTH FADE AWAY WITH THE PASSING YEARS. BUT WITH AN ACTIVE LIFESTYLE, MEDICAL ADVANCEMENTS AND THE GRACE OF GOD, YOU CAN GET OLDER AND NOT GET 'OLD'. AND IN ANY CASE, YOU ONLY REALLY HAVE TWO CHOICES IN THAT AREA

GROW OLD OR DIE YOUNG

Hate is the idiot’s potion which allows him to hold fast to his ignorance
It is simple for the simple to say “I hate,” because hate costs them nothing

No involvement
No effort
No time

To know someone costs bits of yourself
And to love someone may cost everything

I once heard a white man say—I hate all blacks
A black man—I hate all whites
A woman—I hate all men
A man—I hate all women

…idiots
Fools all

Then, the word all is beyond a single person
One person can never know all of anything

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Let me sit here
5 more minutes, let me sit here and look

I remember the coffin’s weight
I almost dropped it
It contained my mother’s body
I’d never drop it

Let me sit here in the still
My mother loved the winter here,
Quiet

4am… 5, 6
3 more minutes
Maybe 2
Maybe less

I love to watch the flurries flutter
Slowly, softly flutter, fall
White silence; Black morning
My mother’s pain; black as ice
She’s gone and all is now so quiet…
As silent as discs of snow falling upon a crypt

--Kevin J Bates J… Continue

Such a glorious thing; light
The recrudescent splendor that makes all the world passable

It is all that glows, all that glistens, all that shines
It is light and isn’t it glorious

Without the light, we could not see to see
Without the light where would we stand in the scape of the earth

Such a marvelous, sparkling, dazzling, miraculous thing
It is light and it is glorious


--Kevin J Bates Jr--

Over the last little while, I have had some insights into myself. I think back to when I was in high school and how terrible I have always been with women. It seemed like I was always alone; like everyone I know had a girlfriend and none of the girls I liked even knew I was there. More times than none I would say that I was the odd numbered human being; like the planet earth was populated by 6,000,000,001 people and I was that 1.
Every girl I liked seemed to be taken so I looked down on myself.… Continue