A walk with my Grandma!

A walk with Grandma When I was little me and my grandma used to take long walks in Riverland park before they paved the paths. We would take a little picnic with us and simply walk along the paths picking flowers. The water was high back then, not dried up as they are now. When we would get into a clearing where the picnic tables and swings were, we would stop and have lunch and grandma would push me on the swing. It was a long walk but it was nice to be able to forget about the city and pretend we were on some country road back in the 18??'s. My brother Ricky often came with us, so much so we became the 2 musketeers. Walking through the park and sitting on the logs near the river. Afterwards we would go to Strohs Ice Cream Parlor and have an icecream cone before walking home. It was very calming and peaceful. I have taken my daughter on those walks tho now the roads are paved and they opened it so you can go all the way to Dodge Park now without having to go through weeds. And even tho the river is practically dried up.. It's still a nice walk and the Ice cream parlor is still operating for an icecream treat after the long tiring walk... Both my grandma (Oct 23, 2001) and my brother (Aug 22, 1990)are gone now, but I can still see them walking with me on those trails in Riverland Park; now called North Clinton River Park~ Thank You for allowing me to share this memory! ========================================================== From: _KingofHeartsShawn_ - - - - 11/29/03   Very touching....and very moving. Thanks for the post. Shawn   "Stillness is what creates love. Movement is what creates life. To be still and still moving, this is everything. --Unknown

My one true friend you know who you are.

From: AppealingCatherine_49  Sent: 11/22/2003 10:01 AM   Your the one friend I have who is very honestly true, who loves and helps others with all they can, that my friend is you. I have found one friend unlike my other friends I know. Your one person who has help me to learn and grow. You are an important special friend whom gives of themselves unselfishly. You never have asked whats in it for me. You work so hard and are put daily to life's enduring test. I see how you grow weary and tired, but yet keeping doing your very best. I watched how you reach out to others by things you say and do, the gift you give to me and others is a heart so caring and honestly true. You have the greatest of strength as your own personal pain you mask and hide, you never let the rest of the world see the way you feel, and hurt and cry. My friend your the strongest and a  quiet silent hero to me. The best friend anyone could ever have in thier life to be. I am priveledged, so very proud to call you my best dearest friend. I promise and pledge to you always to stand by, you to the very end. For you have taught me in this life roads do not have to be traveled alone, in your arms I find solace a place that feels like home. Though I won't ever use your name here you know who you are, your Caths very best friend her shining golden star. I love you so much with all that I too can give of my own heart. My word is my pleadge I promise to be here to never part. Thankyou for the gift you give to me and all those you touch my sweet dear best friend. I love you cath. From: Ǻήgέ£♥OF♥£oVέ♥ Sent: 11/22/2003 2:21 PM   Cath, no words were truer spoken than these... However sadness appears when some don't realize the true value of that friendship and instead of trying to work out differences tend to cause hurt instead. Hiding the hurt sometimes is the only way to survive the pain long enough to move forward. True friends as you describe seem so few, It's understandable why they are the most special. For they truely are a rare breed indeed. If only more friends realize their true potential.. Enemies will disappear and everyone will be happy...  You brought the true meaning of friendship in your words written here.. I hope many people read them and put them to heart... For it's a sad day when friends allow their friendship to die!   From: AppealingCatherine_49 Sent: 11/23/2003 7:44 AM   Thank you sweet girl friend for the kind words. Yes there is that, one true friend I think or hope we all have who, touches us profoundly for the rest of our life. That friend helps us too see within ourself the best we are. My friend is such a person I am so priveledge to have them as a friend, just as you, and all the friends met from Detroit Adults Room, and cheers too. One thing my father taught me long time before he passed away, people connect through the heart, its how one wears that heart. For thats what makes a person the richest.   From: Dreamwell2 - Sent: 11/25/2003 11:17 PM   To Be held in such esteem..such a special place... as your words say, Your friend is blessed, in a very special way

The following poems written before internet.

Written on 12/6/1994 Where is hope? Where is happiness? Nowhere I say. They have quickly disappeared into the darkness along with the wishes and dreams of the universe. A world of despair. A world of lonliness. A world of fear. Nothing else exists. There's no care left in this world. No one to listen or to comfort. A nothingness of life.   Written on 5/12/1998 There are people who would like nothing more then to destroy hopes and dreams. Sometimes they succeed in tearing apart a heart causing it great pain. Why do they cause such trauma? Do they think a person's too young to decide their own future? Probably. In doing that don't they know they will also destroy happiness and replace it with a loss of all hope in life. By succeeding in their destruction, they can turn a person into an empty soul with nothing left but a shell that knows not how to feel. They can also turn a person into a heartless slave with no desire to live, create, or to be. This is whats becoming normal of late. People wanting others to be lonely, scared, and unhappy forever. Can some really be that jealous? Nobody caring anymore. It's a shame. People trying to rule other's lives simply because they can't understand what brings them happiness? Let people handle their own lives. If they fail it's their own fault. Don't try to turn them into you! Sometimes a person merely wants to have someone listen and share the hurt right along with them when things get depressing. Written 1999 Many say to accept them for who they are yet they turn around and won't accept you! They tell you to grow up and act like a "boring" adult. But watch how a child handles life. Don't they act more adult then a real adult? They don't let the perils of reality get to them like the adults do. Think about it. Who really has a better understanding of the world we live in? The adults or the children? I say the children. They never seem frightened or scared. They speak their mind. They are carefree without worries or fear. They don't panic when things don't go well. They merely put it aside and do something else. Perhaps it's the children who have a better grasp of life. For they do seem the happiest within it!

Where are you?

Where was I when you needed me most?  Was I not there to lend a hug or two?  Did I not make sacrifices for you? Of course I did. I gave up a lot for you! But where were you when I needed a friend? A hug? Or just someone to talk to? Where was your hugs when life was being unkind? Where was your sacrifice? Were were you? You were nowhere. You turned your head and laughed. All I've done for you and this is the thanks I get? Where's the love? If I were to disappear, would you care? Would you even notice? I'm not too sure you would! Even tho I've always been there for you, the space next to me is empty. You allowed me to be sent away to death. With friends like you , who needs enemies? One day you too will ask these very questions... What answer would you get? Think now before it's too late. Take action now. Forgiveness is the greatest give. Don't let this happen to you... Pretend this is the last day of your life, my life. their life and you were asked to make the euology.. What would you say? What will you remember? This is important all... Think on this for awhile... Life's too short to make enemies... Love conquers all..

Questions of Peace

Does it turn , Does it wink Is it real or is it fake What has this world brought my way? Why does the answers seem so far away? Questions that never cease; A neverending valley Of learning; Of beginning anew. Is it just that the world is changing that questions are eternal? Why must questions be asked, when the world in itself hold the key? Wouldn't it best to enjoy the gifts we have then to try to answer questions of the Earth? Life would be happier if there were no questions; Just a place to call home A place to lay our heads  A place to run among the flowers To sleep among the stars Hovering across the darkened sky A place to simply be free To laugh ; to cry; to live to be To just enjoy To be at peace Let the questions die with the storms and the answers flow with the wind Let our lives just enjoy what the World brings

Lover's Flight

Lovers Flight I hear her cries in the still of the night Her lover departed and has taken flight. Her broken heart douses the light. No more will she walk in Moonlight. No more will she feel just right. All she now wishes for is the fight. The fight of love vs hate. What emotions are at stake. Would love arrive too late. Will once again it be all a fake. How her heart can't take this fate. How should she deal with all this hate.   How can this poor Lady survive. Will she be able to stay alive. Can her heart be revived. I hear her say How can she live. Is is possible to again forgive. How much more love can she Give.   I hear her cries in the quiet night. I see tears upon her cheek in Moonlight. Her Heart struggling to fight. If Only she can make it right. To take back that lonely flight. To make her Lover see the Light.