1.) For my birthday last year, Mrs. W purchased an E-Mail course for me on The Tao Te Ching. I scored one hundred percent on the final exam!

 

2.) Robin Williams is my favorite comedian/actor.

Followed closely by:

Bill Cosby

Billy Crystal

 

It amazes me when people can be such hilarious comedians as these guys are, and then switch gears so suddenly and do dramatic stuff and be good at it.

 

3.) “The Wizard of Oz” is my favorite musical.

 

4.) Favorite contemporary author, fiction; Stephen King

      Favorite classic author, fiction; John Steinbeck

      Favorite play write, ever; Tennessee Williams

      Favorite poet; Robert Frost

 

5.) My all time favorite song is “What a Wonderful World”, by Louis Armstrong.

 

If you read up a little on Mr. Armstrong’s history and then view the words of the song from that perspective, it becomes such a poignant and powerful statement about just loving the world as it is with no expectations.

 

peace, wayf

 

      

Where is peace found?

The future where you are not?

In the past where you can no longer tread?

I think it can be found right where you stand

If you focus on being who it is you need to be

Should the question be

What is to come

Or what has passed

Or should we simply ask

What is happening

Right now

 

peace, wayf

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I would like to think of something new

To match that certain color blue

That lingers there in the mid-day sky

Such a beautiful and placid hue

 

It outlines the birds in it just so

They really almost seem to glow

As passed my line of sight they fly

I watch them come and then they go

 

Puffs of white float through blue

And I sit and ponder it all anew

As all this wonder fills my eyes

This world is full of lovely hues

 

And as I sit I see the glow

There is no color that I know

That seems as pleasing to my sight

As that blue sky that I love so

 

peace, wayf

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell, and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”

 

- William Saroyan

 

“Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.”

 

– J. Krishnamurti

 

peace, wayf

 

 

 

Upon digging through the old pictures I came across this one.

 

Apparently in my younger days, I was a super hero known as "Diaper Man"!

 

peace, wayf