These things in my mind

There are catepillars everywhere.

They are squirming, crawling, and rolling around.

So fun to watch and admire.

I count the days that I smile,

Oh so fun and alive they make me.

Happy is this feeling I feel.

Then one day they disappear.

My dreams are shattered and I cry.

My catepillars are all gone.

I trusted them, they were always there for me.

What shall I do now?

I count the days that I frown.

But wait, what is this

Emerging from my catepillars tomb?

Green monsters with wings I see.

Thy fly all around my head.

Back and forth they race.

My friends are back again.

Days go by and once again I smile.

Every day is better as new life begins.

Bright colors begin to appear,

and happy I am once again.

Page Corner Bend

I was looking online for an image that looked as if the corner of the page was bending.  I couldn't fine one, so I made one.

Here it is.  I hope it helps someone.  Just right click on the image and save to your computer.

Here is how I am using it:

.fillertext{

text-align:justify;

line-height:30px;

text-indent:1.5em; 

}

<div style="background:url('images/paperbend.png');  border-left:1px solid #cccccc; border-bottom:1px solid #cccccc; background-position: top right; background-repeat: no-repeat;">

<div class="fillertext" style="padding-right:50px;">

Content

</div>

</div>

I like it with a greyish page.  It looke better on lighter colors.  I can send the PSD file you want to adjust to your liking.

Letter from God

The other day I was going through a pile of books that I had acquired over the years.  Most of them I hadn't read and I was weeding through the ones that I thought I might never read. There was one particular book that I kept picking up and putting back in my pile to go through.  I had often left my pile of books, which occupied my staircase, only to return and find this particular book back in the "to go through" pile.  Several times I knew I had thrown it down the stairs to "get rid of" pile.  This was the last time, I conciously picked it up to throw it down the stairs.  As I did, an envelope fell out of the book....a sealed envelope with no name, no stamp....just a sealed envelope.  I fumbled through the pages of the book to make sure there was nothing else within except for what one would expect to find in there, paper and black ink.  There wasn't, so I threw it down, picked up the envelope, held it and stared at it as if it might open itself and then out of anger for no longer being sealed, give me a papercut.  Who seals an envelope, forgets to write anything on it, and stuffs it in a boring book?, I thought to myself.  I opened the envelope with great anticipation.  It read:

 "They that wait upon the Lord

Shall renew their strength;

They shall mount up with wings

as eagles...."

Isaiah 40:31

That was it.  Nothing inside, nothing on the back.  No name.  

My life had been very overwhelming up to that point.  It was in that moment that a huge weight had been lifted off of me; for I realized, that for all my seemingly unanswered prayers, all my sleepless nights, somewhere, there was a God who had someone put that letter in a book for no apparent reason, knowing that I would need to find that letter on that day, in that hour, in that moment.  It wasn't too soon, and it most certainly wasn't too late.  It was the perfect timing.

I like to think that the person who put that letter in that book, still wonders where they might have placed that letter.  It makes me smile to think they were used by God and didn't even know it; in fact attributes it to their old age :)

That's not my Job

This is a fairly well know story.  I ran across it as I was going through some papers in my house.  A friend of mine, Al Game, gave it to me during a performance review.  I'm pretty sure it had nothing to do with my performance and was just something that he gave everyone.....I guess I'll never know.

I thought it was worth sharing:

That's Not My Job

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody.  There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it.  Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.  Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job.  Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it.  It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.