Hi…. Thoroughly thinking Thursday?

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Anyways, it is another day.  Planning for peace and wellness to better deal with chaos and illness in the world.

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Nearly the weekend which usually provides more free time, or at least more time for recreation. rest, or to work on endeavours other than the full-time workload and job. 

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I hope that you have a good balance and are making progress in all endeavours!

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Just another day

We have to find a way

To get through

Be well

And get ahead to stay

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Just another day

It’s best to work And play

To be true

And tell

The things that we should say

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To help more of life feel okay

And make our world a better place

For everyone

Every day

To get through

sooner for the best

In one way

This is not just another day

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If it is just another day

How come we have to pay

For all we do

And sell

Our time to go through hell?

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Just another day

While many lives decay

Except a few

Who fell

Into fortune where they lay

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While many others hope and pray

To live in a much better place

With everyone

Every day

What we do

should be for the best

In that way

This is not just another day

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As the sun shines 

Billions of rays

Earth still stays a hospitable place

Help everyone

Every day

It is not new

that we all want the best

In some ways

We think it through

In all we do

for

Just another day

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A surge of adrenaline in those moments

A blur of all our vision for an instant

Then we realize

The magnitude of the situation 

And we feel a hot rush of energy

Pins and needles

As the hair stands up on our arms

And shivers run

down the back of our neck 

Flashes jump into our

peripheral vision

Our heart speeds up fast

and starts pounding so heavy

that we can feel it in our head

We breathe with purpose

Like we can put pressure

back on the world

As we prepare for anything

While our fate is unsure

Winding through reality

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A complex day can have impact

Take us for a ride

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We can’t hide

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Unless we can unwind

And ease our mind

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At home

Well known

Or somewhere else 

intact

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A complex world is for the cats

And the dog inside

 or outside

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We live with all their kind

We share good times

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Their home

Our home, we share quite well 

in fact

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Climb into the bold sunshine

Explore a simple design

Where there is nothing more to prove

Live happy more of the time

Under the sun or stars and moon

Having never lost the truth

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A complex life can still give back

We will need a guide

We need time

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Sometimes it is a grind

To ease our mind

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Find home

We should know

A complex life is simply stacked

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Spirits live in skin and bone 

Hard facets of a pure gemstone 

Experience that fits the groove

Events that are better known

For elaborate built-up views

That we chisel down to truth

Because we always do

Find better angles than before

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Simple to complex or

Complex to simple once more

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Mellowing store-bought

All the things that we have won

There’s something that we rarely view

That’s how we get

what we have got here

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But in those freaky moments

We really shouldn’t rush

If better goals have gone askew

Then we should turn

things right around here

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Rushing world

Rushing communications

No wonder

We might stumble and fall

I’m not talking about everyone anymore

I am talking about

Many of us

Over all

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Telling all our thoughts

At the tip-top of our lungs

It’s something that we rarely do

Since it matters

how it is sounding

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So in those fleeting moments

We really shouldn’t rush

Better ideas always brew

It is something

that I have found here

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A better world

Better communications

More clear goals

Understood by all

We can’t forget to

reach out with thoughts anymore

Help ourselves with

Consideration by default

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We find victory for hours

By growing strong within

We can savour

Every day but

Must know where to begin

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We can get lost in stress

And lose the way to win

Even fall further down

Feel emotions that wear thin

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My tolerance may dangle

When stress comes from every angle

Like a jack hammer pounding

On the edge of a mountain

I remain resilient 

We are still on the hill yet

No cracked dam or fountain

If anyone is counting

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If the toll is too much

Then we should get back in touch

With core values

That we all use

To protect life and all of us

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We find victory for hours

By growing strong within

We can savour

Every day but

Work for a better end

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Don’t get lost in the test

And lose the way to win

Know it all comes around 

Learn to feel good again

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Nice sunset Wednesday night, even when the foreground is not the most profound (taken from the mall parking lot)

In many ways everything depends on our point of view…

FRIDAY !!!

Long weeks with so much going on.  It is weird.  They go by so fast in retrospect but getting through, they can definitely seem to drag in some hours, and even seem grueling.  It doesn’t need to be that way, but sometimes we either do it to ourselves, or someone else, the environment or the system inflicts it upon us…. OR we avoid feeling stressed  altogether for a while, if that’s possible.  

The greatest mental health should enable us to deal with any situation without getting “stressed out.”  IMO Achieved through physical health, social health and cognitive strategies, including in some ways, the ability to transcend.

There is a great deal getting accomplished, despite the less than moderate level of success to some eyes.

Starting poem now.

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A mundane day with shades of grey

Denies the supernatural 

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A cold wind plays

as low clouds stay

Comprised of rain drops that still could fall

Might be

No magic

Now or at all

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Then in moments

Barely minutes

an actual spirit crawls

Below past the horizon

Now we all have our eyes on

A sight quite surprising 

That then disappears until the night is gone

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The clouds briefly remember

the winter rays

Bright visions remain for moments

In an otherwise long

Ordinary

And down to Earth day

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Instantaneous change

As the door opens

Vision all comes in range

Now we are coping

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What’s new on this campaign 

On our soap boxes

Mission might seem deranged

Now might be toxic

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When we are abrasive

With no good options

When we can’t relate and

Will not be cautious

About other people’s clear feelings

We need to get real and

Co-exist 

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When we need some space but

life’s right in our face

Sometimes it is best to cut our losses

We can stop carrying all those crosses

Lower them down

With peaceful sounds

Grounded perspectives won’t miss

We can

co-exist

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Attitudes in our brain

Can give us hope but

At times we can’t restrain

Now take a moment

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When we are complacent

And it seems awful

When we can’t keep pace and

Start to get thoughtless

About other people’s clear feelings

We need to get real and

Co-exist 

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When we need some space but

life’s right in our face

Sometimes it is best to take some pauses

We can not defeat all of the bosses

Wear our own crown

Help peace be found

Around decisions in this:

We can

co-exist

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The freak show is real

So what is the deal?

Do you still feel nice?

What is your vice?

And how is life going to feel?

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Masquerade appeal

An image we steal

Don’t cross the line

We still have time

And now we should learn to heal

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Monsters and angels

Not just in appearance

But down to the bone

Deep in the soul

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They can have you and hold you

Free you and be you

Save you     Young or old    

We must be bold

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Our mind and time seal

This every day deal

Keep hope in sight

Strong spirits fight

And now life is much more real

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Heroes and villains

In more than appearance

But not etched in stone

See how we roll

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Time can grab you and hold you

Free you and be you

Save you    Young or old

Or turn cold

We dig dirt or gold

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Flowing through the situation

Just because we have

that dynamic energy

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Sometimes waiting in anticipation 

Then jump in

and react fine

because we have

that chemistry

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Haters hating us down

Because they don’t think that we

have what it takes

to get through the way we do

The way we did

With consideration

Surprisingly great

No matter what the stakes

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They may say that we are not equipped

As if we are corrupt or fake

Then they can’t handle it

When they have made a mistake

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If they are on the good side of things

They find a way to make it okay

To share a better day

If they are mired down in their world

Opposition will stay

Until they find a new way

Or they may not admit that it’s there

And then think that that’s fair

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To each their own

but we could work together

I will hold on to that thought

And try not to sever

Our ties

unless that would be more clever

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We each have a part

Of the world

and forever

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Flowing through the situation

Just because we have

that dynamic energy

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I will say what I say

If I think it’s okay

Sometimes fast responses

Get in the way

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We need our fair time to react

And keep our visions intact

We desire adequate time

To share accurately

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To keep understanding on track

We may cut straight to the fact

It happens purely by design

So immaculately 

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Which is as it should be

And the rest falls into place 

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I will say what I say

If you think it’s okay

Sometimes my last response

Gets in the way

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We have just one time to react

And have a greater impact

We require infinite time

To share passionately

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