"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do…" (Pope John XXIII ) on the path least traveled…

DutchIl

Nov 17

Diary of the journey on the path least traveled..just letting the heart do the talking while the fingers do the walking while being different, being me… 🙂

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Hello Diary,

Woke up this morning to a world still in turmoil of one kind or the other, "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom" (Isaac Asimov)… just spent a bit of time browsing to learn and gather knowledge and then return to the path least traveled and do what I can do to help make this world a better place for everyone… will not dwell on what I am, or have been, doing as I may repeat myself, instead will let poetry and song present the attitude here on the path…. 🙂

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." (Michelangelo)…  🙂    When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,  When the road your trudging seems all uphill,  When the funds are low and the debts are high,  And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,  When care is pressing you down a bit  Rest if you must, but don't you quit.    Life is queer with its twists and its turns,  As everyone of us sometimes learns,  And many a failure turns about  When they might have won, had they stuck it out.  Don't give up though the pace seems slow,  You may succeed with another blow.    Often the struggler has given up  When he might have captured the victors cup;  And he learned too late when the night came down,  How close he was to the golden crown.    Success is failure turned inside out  The silver tint of the clouds of doubt  And you never can tell how close you are,  It may be near when it seems so far;  So stick to the fight when your hardest hit,  It's when things seem worst that you mustn't quit!                                               (Wade Watts)

"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other." (Douglas H. Everett)…  🙂    Hope is a feather floating in a bright blue sky  Hope is that sparkle that shines in your eyes.  Hope is a butterfly fluttering on the wind  Hope is good times spent with family and friends.    Hope is a newborn baby's cry  Hope is a Mother's lullaby.  Hope is the rainbow after a rain  Hope is the harvest of golden grain.    Hope is the light that keeps darkness at bay  Hope is the breeze on a hot summer day.  Hope is ever present and free of cost  Hope is the last thing ever lost.    Hope is staying positive when the going gets tough  Hope is seeking help when you feel you've had enough.  Hope is recovery from simmering sorrow  Hope is believing in a brighter tomorrow.                      (Linda Hotger)

"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right" (Mary Kay Ash)    Winds of Change…     I watched that heavy door begin to close,  all the while the winds above me rose.  The years whisper and whistle back into my ear,  the memories haunted by sorrows and fear.    With a new day it finally dawned on me,  the past needed locking and I had the key.  Leave it behind, leap and fly away free,  let the winds of change blow and carry me.    Feel them lifting my wings now able to soar,  up to an open sky and caged no more.  Flying so fast to where no hurt can find,  a place of peace now inhabits my mind.    This heart full of courage never ceases to beat,  knowing my history is not destined to repeat.  Clear paths now lead me to a new destination,  for my life, my future and the next generation.                                    (Kelly Deschler )

Well, I had better close for now, need to ask my heart "when is the right time?".. But I shall return again one day, Fate be willin' and the creeks don't rise…. 🙂    To climb a mountain  To fly a plane,  To hug a friend   To run naked in the rain.    To stand up tall  To make your thoughts known,  To blend with a crowd  To go it alone.    To till the field  To sow the seeds of peace and more,  To pen a poem of love  To write a musical score.    To take this path  To maybe take the other,  To open ones heart  To  share it with another.    Today, tomorrow perhaps?  The answer is in the heart, you see,  So when is the right time, one asks?  When your heart wishes for it to be..          ( Larry "Dutch" Woller ).    Hope your path of life is paved with peace and love, your dreams are coming true and until we meet again…. 🙂    May your spirit only know peace  May your heart only know love  May all your dreams come true  May your life's journey be filled with happiness  And life is all that you wish for it to be….                         (Larry "Dutch" Woller)