Love! Serve! Care!

"You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher."
- Tyler Perry

Today's episode takes a look at me feeling upset and the joy of that experience.

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infrared 7/5/03

short sight
short stuff
i'm as tall as grass
cut down
cutback
you might begin to think  my thoughts
light bulb
lights out
keep a cheery ha-ha gleeful woo-hoo spare
in the birds-eye view
we're watching you
with infrared built into a fish lens

"There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm."
- Willa Cather

Today's episode is the preparation before a presentation I hosted and the ability to navigate the chaos.

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MIXED SIGNALsssss 7/5/03

you're quite a talker
not so much a looker
you're really sweet
your clothes are dirty
i can be myself around you
"locked in a toy cabinet"
you make me feel wonderful.

come on tell another joke
how come your arms are folded
you look awfully dressed up
impressed and primped up
if you weren't yourself
i'd love to be your girl.

what are you writing?
is it another note?
or could it be another song?
man you're a weirdo
i don't feel the same
i'm so cute and plain
you're really swell but i'm not interested
you're not my type, we don't connect
i'm feeling un  com  fort  able
THAT MAKES TWO OF US
Mark the TALLY for my latest disappointment
my life's luck
my return to reality
my cause for insanity.

"No one drives through life with blackout windows; most of us are affected, in some way or another, by the love and hate we encounter in others."
- Mina Kimes

Today's episode is a reflection from a minor blackout that caused some inconveniences.

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waiting for your grandfather to die 7/4/03 : 7/5/03

gridlocked in grid paper
i step over the stepchildren 
the next line in my lineage
an inheritance that will last 
a lifetime
rocking in my chair
with a pipe in hand
graham crackers
a 20-something's fresh and fertile on my face
and soiled man diapers
my brandy has become room temperature
and they hold my hand crying
and dialing the airport
for the next flight to Tahiti
i need white-out for the will
grab those pillows and hug me
like a whore

"I went window shopping today! I bought four windows."
- Tommy Cooper

Today's episode contains an insight that I gained from a weekend of shopping.

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BIRDFEEDER 7/4/03

with my head down  paralyzed in a tub  i can't kill two birds at once  your inconvenience
i make disappear  as i disconnect myself  from anyone around  I'll never make a sound
because a peep would wake me from this sleep  where it looks like amoebas
have welcome themselves  to feast on my dinner plate  healing their hunger
hold your cross these exotic foods have STD's  
and cold sores and cold sweats now belong to them  wet washcloths on the forehead
tubs full of ice  a plastic bag and styrofoam
are wrapped up picnic fashion

 

"The best thing to do when you find yourself in a hurting or vulnerable place is to surround yourself with the strongest, finest, most positive people you know."
- Kristin Armstrong

Today's episode contains some reflections and insights to how vulnerability serves you as a leader.

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A Real Man's Name (that's what ya get) 7/4/03

I like using my noggin more than for bashing on walls
and if i didn't hear from you then i guess you won't call
no matter how good a try
each moment i die
each face i see
adds to the misery
and what's worse than a scream that can fester in me
FOR THE RELEASE.

When my howls fill the air
then there is the proof that i'm scared
not of mortality but the mortuary
that I've carved out in architect time
for crumbling and dynamite
in a giant blast to be talked about for years to come
with high blood pressure, neuroticisms, and confusion

I am in my top form as the formless one
invisibility as the cloak, depression as my guide
anger as the shield, vengeance as my woman
with hands and ears
I SOON CAN RELEASE.

"Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you."
- Robert Fulghum

Today's episode comes an incredible training that Alex Agresta hosted and the insights I gained.

Here's an invitation to the upcoming Thought Leadership Virtual Summit from June 14-16.

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Trade Off

I'll exchange 
the
blanket for
a
carpet with
worms.
that refuse
to
excuse themselves
for 
being nomadic.

I'll give 
away 
the mattress 
for
one day
of
sweet rest
dirtnap
for a
decade
in a rental
cryogenic freezer 
if
i could
then 
i would.

"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold."
- Helen Keller

Today's episode contains some thoughts around the feeling of fear.

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The Point Of No return 6/30/03

WHEN THESE WOUNDS OPEN UP

IT FEELS LIKE AN UPPERCUT

BLINDSIDED AND ALL I SEE ARE STARS

FLASHING WITH THE SPEED OF LIGHTS

SPINNING LIKE A TOP ON TOP OF THE AXIS
the point of no return.

THE PLACE IS VANGUARDED AND HIDDEN LIKE SECRETS

PLACED ON PEDESTALS

FOOTSTOOLS AND ROTATING ARMRESTS

VIBRATING AT 100 SHAKES PER SECONDS

EVERY FIBER OF BEING IN THE RHYTHMIC TRANCE

DROOLING AS THIS PLEASURE IS GRUELING

CAN'T GET UP, CAN'T LEAVE NOW, CAN'T TEAR AWAY
can't return.

"The good old days are now."
- Tom Clancy

Today's episode contains insights from a Facebook Live discussion about creating The Ultimate Experience.

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Happy Ending 6/29/03 : 6/30/03

the airlock is opening
the fire is spreading thru
the train is off the tracks
the sky lands on its feet
so very prone for reasons unknown
i could break like a mind
that has forever to blame
tomorrow to look forward
and more thoughts backwards
when all was well, swell, and certainly better
wakes up to the fresh smell of orange juice
AND TOASTED BREAD
now his briefcase carries his afternoon's fair share as he is voted office earthworm
his adoring wife framed on top of his desk where if you look inside
nudie mags and a business card of his weekly ritual
a drink at the pub
a drive without a sound
the pounding of his horn and he enters the waiting room
smiling and sweating as if he didn't get any sleep

"The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose."
- Robert Kiyosaki

Today's episode is a reflection of my first experience at a Toastmasters meeting.

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The ID and Most Notably THE EGO! 6/28/03

i'm so fidgety
superficially
and somehow a silly saying and action
makes me tiptoe around the topic
must walk in 5 circles before i brush teeth
flicking lights in the same direction
rubbing rabbit's feet
possibly the result of dyslexion
backwards i concentrate
and move like a breath of air
and must dodge the germs
no fungus on my face
I'M TWITCHING
AND HAVE A 3-minute sweat
THAT WON'T SEEM to stop pouring
HANDKERCHIEFS AND absorbent napkins
DON'T CLEAN UP THE MESS that I've made
POURING LIKE BAD luck
A BLOTCH OF Ink and a wallpaper suck me in
I'M SO SUCKED IN I can't chew or spit
STRINGS TIE MY fingers down
AND THEY FOR SOME reason or another call me
THE MAN who is going to die

"Time is the wisest counselor of all."
- Pericles

Today's episode contains some insights about time and value during a coaching call.

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6/26/03 : 6/28/03

this the fire show
where nothing in time ever grows
dead as a bulb
i ain't flashing thru this violent sky
at war and probably more
times I'll have to dodge myself

when those good times roll
BOOMERANGS TWOFOLD
and i'm left with just a glance
in my how the hell did that happen stance
i'm trying to change this empty life
battlefields drawn holding my ground
and if i have to follow my heart's desire
then when it's all said
and when it's all done
there won't be a kind word to say