''My LOVE AFFAIR'' - A Resident/Patient at LHH + RC

 ‘’My LOVE AFFAIR’’

A Resident/Patient

Laguna Honda Hospital +

Rehabilitation Center

A Place That Is Kind To Me,

As I Am Kind To It.

A Place That Appreciates Me,

When I Need To Be Appreciated.

A Place That Treats Me Well Most ALL The Time!

A Place That Teaches Me Creative Ways 

To Deal With My Emotions.

A Place That Helps Me To Express Myself 

In Ways That I Will Best Be Understood.

A Place To Give Me Value

When The World Seems In Short Supply.

A Place That Helps Me To Get My Needs Met

When My Needs Are NOT Always Clear To Me.

A Place That Treats Me Kindly

When The World Shows Me It Is Running Low.

A Place That Is Willing To Hear Me

When I Need To Be Heard.

A Place That Helped Me To Physically Adjust 

When I Had My Strokes.

A Place Willing To Help Me Quiet

After My Heart Attacks.

A Place That Is Very Willing To Work With Me

As I Battle My Anxieties.

A Place That Takes Me Seriously

And Laughs With Me When I Need To Laugh.

It’s A Place That Helps Me To Be A Me

That We ALL Can Seem To Deal With.

Please Don’t Close Laguna Honda Hospital

I Don’t Know If I Will Find A Place

That So Readily Accepts Me As I Am!

SAVING THE WORLD IN TWENTY MINUTES

Saving the World in Twenty Minutes

I think all of us are hitting rock bottom in this whole affair—
I mean the bullying of Mother Nature, of course.
It was even on TV as I recall. You can’t fool
Mother Nature, but, of course, that didn’t stop us.
Nature has no rewards or punishments, just consequences.
What’s going on now is causing many of us to become very serious.
It’s difficult to be as frivolous as we once were.
These times don’t call for it.

I still maintain that being kinder to each other
and kind to the earth itself will turn things around completely.
Don’t deprive anyone or anything of kindness.
Everyone and everything needs it. We are ALL in this together and the need to be treated kindly runs rampart! 
I know I said in 20 minutes,
but eight letters will do: k-i-n-d-n-e-s-s.


Paul Hendrickson

KELLER WATER, ''SHE KNOWs''

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The PHOENIX FORTH TO FLY!

The PHOENIX FORTH TO FLY

Don't Be Afraid To Make Mistakes

Don't Be Afraid To Follow Your Passion

Don't Be Afraid To Follow Your Grit

Don't Take Things Too Personally,
People Can Say The Nastiest Things

Though, Easier Said Than Done

Accept Yourself As You Are

Of Course, With So-Called Faults And All

You Have Nothing To Prove To Anyone

Fear Is The Great Inhibitor

Love Is The Great Unifier

Through - Trial & Error,

We Learn To Be Wise.

ENJOY!

APPRECIATION - The POEM

APPRECIATION:

A Process Of LOVE

When We APPRECIATE

We UNDERSTAND, We ACCEPT

We Do A FAVOR To Those

We APPRECIATE

And Vice - Versa

 They GROW and We GROW

There’s APPRECIATION

There’s GROWTH

A FACT

APPRECIATION Is A

Win - Win

SITUATION

In ''GIVING'' And ''RECEIVING''

There Is NO ONE Who

DOES NOT COME OUT ON TOP

To Focus Properly -

To FOCUS PROPERLY

I Spent Much of My Time

Thinking My Parents Were Right

Most of The Time

Everything Said by My Teachers,

My Relatives,

People I Knew to Be Older,

And, At One Time People in General.

I Was Much TOO Gullible

I Didn’t Think for Myself

And, Believed Everything I Heard

I Had an Awful Lot to Learn,

I Thought!

The Years Have Gone By

And My Eagle Has Died

That's When I Began To Open My Eyes

I Finally Could See I Was Living Their Lies

I Realized Being Paralyzed

By My Fears

Was My Way of Life

 Free Movement of any Sort

Was Becoming Uncommon

There Were Many Things That

Weren’t Necessarily So

That Didn’t Involve

Living in a Whale

Or Being Called Jonah

I Learned the Importance of Unlearning

I Learned You Could Strike with the Cover Open

At Times

Some of it did Hold Water

And, Some Still Does

But, There Are Things That Should Have Been Sent

To the Preposterous Department

Many Years Ago.

Like Removal of Certain Tags on Furniture

That Will Result in Immediate Imprisonment,

That People in Authority Were Always Honest,

The Easter Bunny & Santa Make Their Way to My House

Once A Year,

And, I Could Go to Hell for

Practically Anything!

I Realized Good Judgment &

Knowing Thyself

Were Actually Good Things to Do

Everything Has Come Into question

At One Time or Another.

I’m Feeling Much Better Now

And It’s Almost Lunchtime

I Have That Going for me

And, I Guess, Other Things, TOO,

When It Comes Right Down to It!

The PANE CLINIC

The PANE CLINIC

This is NOT the PAIN CLINIC

That We’re Used To;

Nevertheless, It Is The PANE CLINIC

It’s Called THAT to Bring up

The Image of Windows…

The Cleaner It Is, The Clearer It Is!

Sometimes, When Spotless,

It Is Hard To Tell

There is a Window, There!

We Liken This To The MIND

When It Is Clean, and Clear

And as Spotless as can be

When Things Are Seen That Way,

Resistance For The Concept...Is Low

Pain Is Hard To Find!

We Can, Actually, Say

When The Pane Is Clean + Clear

The Pain Is NOT Found!

The PANE CLINIC Has Done It’s Job!

In ALL Actuality

The PANE CLINIC RESIDES

In The THIRD EYE…Itself!

OUCH! A Smudge -

 There’s The PAIN!

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