Do we ever really have a sense of
PLACE. . .
Usually it comes to us in moments when we’re at a
PLACE
or we’re sitting there reminiscing about all the
PLACES
and all the things we’ve done in those
PLACES
or better still
PLACES
to go. . .
All of this
PLACE TRAVEL
taking
PLACE
in JUST A MOMENT
Be more than a BLIP on an overview. . .
MAKE YOUR SPACE
SOMEONE ELSE’S
P L A C E
SNICKERED
Y U M S
A simple SNICKERS Candy Bar
in the supermarket
is worth about $0.50 on sale. . .
The same bottle in a bar costs $1 in a vending machineIn an airport gift shop or hotel it can be worth up to $3 or maybe even more. . .
The SNICKERS bar is the same, the only thing that changes is the
P L A C E
Each place gives a different value to the same product.
When you feel like you are worth nothing
and everyone around you belittles you,
CHANGE PLACES
DO NOT
stay there. . .
Have the courage to change places
and go to a place
where you are given
the value you deserve. . .
Surround yourself
with people who really appreciate
YOUR WORTH. . .
Don’t settle for less!
and ABRACADABRA
You will find
YOUR MORE
will add to Some One Else’s
L E S S. . .Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. . .
SNICKER
SNICKER
OFF THE TRACKS
We always seem to be looking for the way. . .
or at least a new way,
A R E N ‘ T W E ?
A path. . .
In search of some wild and promiseful destinations. . .
And what do we find?
Just exactly W H E R E do our searches take us. . ?
What discoveries have we made when we set off for such a destination?
Could it be true
Is it even vastly possible
That maybe the greatest destinations
The greatest journeys
Are not those that we’ve set out for;
not those that we have tried to be in search of;
B U T
P E R H A P S
J U S T M A Y B E
P O S S I B L Y
The ones that took us to a place
we absolutely had no idea
we had no way of knowing
we had no intention of going
And yet F O U N D
r e c e i v e d
what we could’ve never gotten
any other way
from any other place
or any other person. . .
Now that’s the
A D V E N T U R E
of life
and living
if it teaches us nothing else
it most surely must educate us to the possibility
that some of our best lessons
are those we never signed up
and learned anyway just by going
O F F T R A C K
C H O O — C H O O
AAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL AAAAAAAA — B O A R D
Hearing the SILENCE
What exactly do you call
S I L E N C E
that s p e a k s. . . ?
Some call it
C o n s c i e n c e
Some call it
I n t u i t i o n
Some call it
S i x t h S e n s e
Some call it
E n e r g y
Some call it
S p i r i t
Some call it
S i l e n c e
I had just finished a funeral
it was a little 3:30 in the afternoon
and my first thought was to go and finish charting;
but then
I T
happened. . .
As I pulled out of the funeral home parking lot
and began going down the short road to home
I saw there was a lot of traffic
and at the one light
where I would have gone straight
I turned left and got on the road
that took me to
Ames Family Hospice House
one of our inpatient units. . .
When I walked in the front door
there she was. . .
I had only met her once. . .
y e s t e r d a y
and we had talked about
the decline of her father and
. . .and his funeral. . .
and now I walk in and actually see
her being picked off the floor by some staff
and her husband
after being told
“You’re father died,”
after sitting vigil for him with days on end
and just leaving for a few moments
to pick up her children from school. . .
When she saw me, she looked in disbelief and said,
“There’s the guy who’s going to do my dad’s funeral; how did he know to come?”
After I sat with the family for a while
and we made some preliminary funeral arrangements
and I was walking away from them
I heard a voice from a gentleman
who’s uncle I had a funeral service for
two weeks earlier. . .
“C H U C K !”
. . .and when I turned to see who was calling my name,
his wife asked,
“How did you know to come here. . .my mother just died.”
H O W. . .
h o w i n d e e d. . .
was it
c o n s c i e n c e
i n t u i t i o n
s i x t h s e n s e
e n e r g y
s p i r i t
s i l e n c e
The World takes us down so many, many
d i f f e r e n t r o a d s
and one of the biggest secrets in the World
isn’t that they are all in our hands
and not that they all lead
t o a
p l a c e
b u t t o a
d e s t i n a t i o n
w h e r e
s i l e n c e
s p e a k s
that can be heard
in crystal clear
precision
with no misunderstanding. . .
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
l i s t e n. . .
There’s a big difference
between listening to the
s i l e n c e
and actually
hearing
e x p e r i e n c i n g
it. . .
That’ll take you down roads that will have you and people asking,
“How did you know to be here?”