SKILL SET

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SKILL SET

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The fastest runner in the world

Started out learning to crawl

The smartest person in the world

Started out learning to say Mama

We each need unique skills to live our unique lives

Skills learned, developed, perfected

Over time and trial

We can learn how to be peaceful

In our hearts and minds

We can learn how to express ourselves clearly

And respectfully to find common ground

We can learn how to allow others to be 

Very different from ourselves

The stranger, the oddball, the nut job

The criminally insane might also have

Some redeeming wisdom or talent

Or they might just need to be shut out of our thought life altogether

Another valuable skill we can learn and develop

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YOU SHALL PASS

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YOU SHALL PASS

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What I need to know

Might be quite different from

What you need to know

I must trust and honor your process

As you must trust and honor mine

Each student of Life has important lessons

Taught by that greatest of all teachers

Trial and Error

In the School of Hard Knocks we all attend

The world being what it is

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SAME OLD SAME OLD

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SAME OLD SAME OLD

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While I can't say anything new

I can say something true:

Your very best friend

Will be you, in the end

So honor yourself in all that you do

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BUY THE BOOK

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BUY THE BOOK

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Biblio biblio biblio mancy

A simple idea that sounds rather fancy

Just open a book, any book will do

To a random sentence, read it through

It might contain wisdom or it might not apply

But you can't bibliomance until you try

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KING KONG KRAZY

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KING KONG KRAZY

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Rudeness is a weapon

A dramatic show of agitated threat

To disguise the lack of intellectual skills

They resort to a display like a gorilla beating his chest

Hoping to win by intimidation what they can not honestly come by

Using information and negotiation

This display of aggression has no traction in society

Where manners and mores are the grease that lets the wheels of progress 

Turn, baby, turn

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DESPAIR NOT

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DESPAIR NOT

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Goodness can use evil

For the ultimate purpose of good

Goodness can not be contained nor stopped

But evil has an expiration date

Wickedness is unsustainable

While goodness, found in so many hearts

Lives forever, is the very fabric of society

Evil is trampled underfoot

While goodness rises on the wings of an eagle

And blesses each moment with liberty and kindness

For all

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BOB BOB BOBBING

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BOB BOB BOBBING

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Spring, spring - What will it bring?

It could be about anything

Snow or a heat wave, rain or drought

We must wait to see

How this spring plays out

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I have Spring in my heart

A spring in my step

This could be

The very best Spring yet

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I first saw one robin

Then the whole flock

All is working flawlessly

On our Mother's clock

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