“If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right” (Mary Kay Ash) on the path least traveled..

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… 🙂

Hello Diary,

Thought I would briefly stop my venture down the path and share a few thoughts.. it has been a rainy, foggy and thundery past few days and add to that the negativity of today’s world and it does make for a gloomy day indeed… a day when doubt starts to creep in and has one wondering if one is doing enough to help make a better world, is it all worth the effort…  🙂

 

And while sitting here with a cup of tea other thoughts come to mind… like last spring when two young deer made a rare appearance on the path (one under the tree, the other near the flag pole)… were they telling me not to give up the ship?.. 🙂

And then there is Mr. Possum, doesn’t say much, quietly goes about his business and leaving everyone else alone, is he telling me to keep up the needed work?… 🙂

And then there are my friends, the birds, who greet me with a song every day…if I stopped would I no longer hear their lovely melody?.. 🙂

And, of course, there is the backyard’s furry tailed knucklehead, Mr. Squirrel, who lives each day like it may be his last..don’t believe he has an opinion, one way or the other… 🙂

There are the people of the world who I have been working with to help make this world a better place, don’t believe it would be right to leave them now, would it?… 🙂

There is the wonderful children of the world, whose minds have not yet been polluted by social ideologies “To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.” ( P. T. Barnum)… if I stopped would it be the end of their dreams?… 🙂

And there are my children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren (Kayla & Mackenzie, twins), I helped bring them into this world, cannot turn my back on them now… 🙂

And the words of Theodore Roosevelt came to mind;  🙂

“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, the man who at best knows achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”    (Theodore Roosevelt )..

And Captain John Paul Jones (when all appeared lost in battle)..  🙂

“I have yet begun to fight” (John Paul Jones)..

And Mark Twain..  🙂

“It is not the size of the dog in a fight that matters, it is the size of the fight in the dog” (Mark Twain)..

Sooooooooooo, I toss doubt to the winds, put away the white flag and I decide to follow the example of Mr. Ant and Mr. Ram… 🙂 And if progress is slow today, well, as Annie said, there is always tomorrow… 🙂 And when my mortal days are over, they can say with certainty, that even with life’s challenges, he not only talked the talk, he also walked the walk… 🙂

Well, I had better quit rambling for now, there is much to do, many dreams to help save  “We may not have it all together but together we have it all” (Author Unknown), and many adventures lie ahead, but I shall return again one day, Fate be willin’ and the creeks don’t rise… 🙂

Hope your path has blue sunny skies and is paved with peace, joy and love 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)

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