Pupper

Think about you lots these days girl. Your birthday passed by again with Christmas. You would have been 16. Miss you.

One day we'll run together again pupper

Live your life

Live your life so that at the end, you can say to the Universe ... with sincerity and gratitude ... "Thank you for the excellent adventure."

Green

This banana is so green I think it was picked tomorrow.

Lucinda Williams

The Universe 'finds' patterns that work, and uses them again and again, in different contexts, scales and resolutions. These are the things it becomes.

The Beatles were wrong. There IS something you can do that can't be done. Figure out what that is and do it. Because if you don't ... no one will ... and the Universe will eventually end with that thing un-done. Maybe it's a poem, or a painting, or a song, or a theory, or a motion, or a thought, or a view, or a sound, or a way of being. Figure it out ... do it ... no one else can or ever will.

It is easy to get mad. Getting mad comes naturally. But set an example for others in your compassion and understanding.

Everything is at once bigger than you and within you.

Metal Heart

Together We Will Live Forever

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.

The Last Man ~ Clint Mansell

cerulean

West ~ Lucinda Williams

Ashes

Hey Java. Yesterday your mom, Kiira and I spread more of your ashes on the beach, just north of Yachats. We spread Kayla's ashes too. On the sand and into the surf. The way you liked to play there. Miss you girl; think of you every day.

M83 Outro

Why is there anything at all?

Heroes

The Main Man with Adrian Belew and solid support.

My Immortal

Into Dust

Lift Me Up

Dante's Prayer

Take these crumbled hopes, etched with tears.
We'll rise above these earthly cares.

Emeli Sandé - Read All About It

Hey Now - London Grammar

Hey girl. It was a year ago today we said goodbye. Still miss you so much pupper. Think about you all the time. Always will. Your little sister is still the mischievous little rascal she ever was. Your empty crate sits in the same place.

For you Java

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God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.
These are the words we dimly hear:
You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.
Flare up like flame
and make big shadows I can move in.
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don't let yourself lose me.
Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.
Give me your hand.
~ Rilke

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Live in the
present moment as best you can.
Keep in mind that the
present moment
includes everything ... everything that ever was and
everything that will ever be.
Use everything that you were and
everything that you will become
to help you now.

Goodbye Libby. We will miss you. Thanks for the good times and memories. Will always cherish them. I will imagine you and Gary sitting in a really nice theater with good stadium seating, watching a good movie, with your big bucket of popcorn. Save a couple of seats for Marilyn and me.

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Two Steps From Hell; Freedom Fighters

Tell me that we're more than okay

18:07

Never Cry Wolf
'In the end there were no simple answers
No heroes
No villains
Only silence'

Carry On

We will leave our footprints behind ... and carry on.

Song for Sienna

Have You Forgotten

Last Day At The Beach

Hey girl. Missing you.

For you pupper.

Several years ago,
Java and I were running a trail at night near Bald Hill.
We were in an open area, but approaching a stand of trees.
As we got near, coyotes that were in the stand started howling loudly.
It sounded like there were a lot of them.
This worried me, but didn't phase Java, who was leading our run.
She kept running, and we got closer to the stand and the howling.
If I were alone, I probably would have turned around.
I asked Java if she thought it was okay if we entered the stand.
She answered by keeping a steady pace.
In we went.
The howling suddenly stopped.
It was all so quiet.
Surreal.
Though I couldn't see them, I figured they were on both sides of the trail, watching us.
Java kept moving as if this were her domain.
Maybe it was.
In a minute or so we had passed through the stand.
And as we did, the howling, now behind us, began again.
I miss you girl.

Thank you. For everything.

Ocean waves
The beat of a heart
The motion of breath
Eyes closed
What are you dreaming little one?