Message from Gramps

I keep bugging Toddy to tell you I'm with you all.

Sometimes he hears me sometimes he acts like he don't. So finally he's listening and I'm glad he's taking this chance to tell you what I'm wanting to say.

First, you know I am with you, right? You know I talk to you when your asleep or awake?
I try to stay quiet and let you learn on your own but I can't help myself sometimes and have to let you know.  

So when your alone and you think you hear my voice in your mind.  You are.

When you think I am in your dreams.  That was me.

Stay strong and know that  you have family all around you.  Keep in touch with your brothers and cousins and mother and father.
Don't let time go by because it will and it'll be too late.

Before you know it you will be an old fart like I was.
  
Time.  

You only have so much time and God doesn't tell you how much.
So thank the man upstairs each day for everything you have and pass along our family teachings to your family.  

I see you guys. I do.  

When your scared and unsure of what to do because life isn't going your way with your job or career.  

When you have decisions to make that will effect your wife or kids.
You need to really think about those things and do what is right.  The right thing to do is sometimes the hardest.  But if it is right than everything else will take care of itself. 

Remember how we would sit with each other in the living room or dining table?  

How I told you that your Grandma deserved all the credit because she put up with me and raised your dads.  It was true. 

Your Grandma is stronger than any of us. Sweeter and stronger.

It is a unique combination that God only grants very few souls.
Take time to call her.  Take time to call your Mom, your Dad, your brothers and sisters.  It doesn't take much time to pick up the phone

Pray
I used to pray every night as I lay in bed. I would pray for all of you.  It took me so long to get through all my prayers that I didn't get to bed for an hour or more.  Can you see me smiling? 

I'm smiling right now and everyday.

I'm standing next to Toddy as he writes this .  Toddy don't cry its gonna be alright   Tell your Grandma and the boys it will all be okay.  No matter what comes their way, it'll be okay.

And make time for each other --is the message I send today.

The Eyes of James

If we could see the world 

      through the eyes of James

We'd realize his truth
we are all the same

Known only by our different names
and his just so happens to be
James

No lies flow out from his mouth
a hug and a smile is what he's all about

This world would be such a different place
If only we all could love like James

No desire to wear the latest fashion

  His style is love; he wears compassion

Loving comes easy 

  no need for motive or reason

When you see through the eyes of James

We're all the same but with different names

His just so happens to be 
James

Honest eyes, pure at heart 
No Jealousy nor deceit

One thousand times better the world could be

 If we could all see through the eyes of James

Have you ever seen that Famous Jamous smile?

Genuine, warm--a visual treat

Like those hot French fries

his favorite treat 😊

No jealousy or petty lies; a genuine life of truth

So no gossip or mistrust about who said what to who
(Better than me or you)

Every day's a birthday! 
Imagine seeing life that way?

We're all the same, with different names

His just so happens to be 

James

How much better our world would be 

If we could see each other
through the eyes of  my brother 

JAMES

SCREENSZZ

A Million Messages loading In2 
Conscience SUBconscience HEART MInd SOUL

 2 SIEZE them all; The Goal
Through Screenzz

Screensz ISOLATE
Screensz spreading HATE

Distracting from real life
Push husband 2cheat wife

Block out the CNN  The Foxes the WGN's

See things with a fresh pair of eyes

Agenda free  No Bias  

Propaganda being fed @ these Divided States

Comes in scoops, double chocolate mmm.. VANILLA 

Influence/confusing minds, at worst creating killas

Train of thought stays hazy : Biologically lazy

Shut down those screenszz , the ones in your head, the flat screenzz too

Got U walking head down --all the while they pollute 

 Screenz Seeking 2 eliminate

The basics of human decency

 a smile  a laugh  a hello: "greetings"

The basics of humanity 

It's easy 2 understand

Let go the hate you harbor ,

Just see me as a man 

Faults  to fire and free will empowered

Just human beings: aren't we?

4got Im gonna Die

4Got I’m gonna Die

4Got it'll all be over

In the wink of an eye

Death will tap my shoulder

Those days when I’m at work 

Just sitting  passing time  

unmotivated at best; trying not 2 try

4Got I'm going 2 die—

When I’m stuck in traffic 

Or telling a bold faced lie

This fact still slips my mind

4Got my time will come

They’ll speak about my actions

Did he love? Did he give?

What were peoples' reactions?

Whether I’m lying 2 myself
or lying 2 my spouse

Ignoring the ones I love

At odds with God above

It's just another time
When I
4Got I’m gonna die

And people will remember

The way I lived my life

So got 2 do things better

But I wash it from  my mind
like all the other times

And the clock just keeps on ticking (4Got I'm gonna die)

My behavior can still be sickening

Sitting staring in the mirror
(4Got I'm gonna die)

All the while it's moving nearer

So....

Don't 4get Ur gonna Die
And find the reason why
U were born 2 be alive

It's up 2 U 2 find
Until it is your time
2 say that one goodbye

Don't 4get Ur gonna Die

Year gone by......

See how things have changed and why. (Sigh)

Knocked down with a single stroke

And a year gone by (sigh)

I took talking and walking 4 granted

So speaking my mind or holding my tongue and dancing

Took eating for granted or simple things like a shower

Now I’m fasting; hoping some way- some how, it'll empower

her 2 eat

Still figuring  a way 2 Give UP my Strength
Just 2 transfer strength to her

Year gone by (sigh)

I can hear the wheeze  
She's talking to me ...
Breathe ..   sigh..   wheeze...  speak..

Year gone by... (sigh)

Thinking about how she spends her days
Brings haziness 2 these misty eyes.  

 Sit, Pray or Meditate --either way...
It's the hope for change

Year gone by (sigh)

And things still not the same

Will they ever get much better?

Still spending nights trying to make deals with a God who doesn’t make deals

But far be it from me to stop wishing 
In hopes of changing her condition

One year gone by (sigh)

keep up the fight.

Sleepwalking

Sleepwalking while I'm sleepwalking

During the night? No during the day

You'd think it'd be the other way

Texting -- not talking 

4 anything I need 2 say

Communication is coming 

2 an end in this new age

Far from your touch 

Your far from mine

Hold my hand, not much

Cant recall the last time we hugged

Something's not right

Sleepwalking through life 

But not much at night

 Sleepwalking past my wife

Is that my wife? I wouldn't know

Somebody teach me what it's like 2 show

Love

Comes easy 2 some

4 others it runs

Sleepwalking right past 

The chance

You

R so opposite from me

Not the Yin and the yang

more like

Thunderstorm meets Cool Breeze

Sleepwalking through life

Out of fear of reality

Safer to sleep than be me

Lie

2 U more than U me

Lose my grip, hastily

One day I will learn to sleep 

Until that night

Sleepwalking I will be

U dont want 2 be like me.

MEME

I could make a Meme

That will make it seem

Like u and I sit in between

Heaven and hell

oh yes, do tell

What do you mean

When U make that Meme

Poking fun at little ol' me 

:-(

No that's not a frown

Ur just looking at it from upside down

Or inside out

u sit and pout 

or laugh at me 

with your MEME

What if a Meme could make a sound?

Can we make a meme soft or loud?

Can a Meme have taste?

Run, or Chase?

Instead of a Meme

Just talk 2 me

Atleast it's a bit of humanity

Look around there are Memes

-- in every aspect of your life

Your perspective of the world

-- is the origin of your strife

 Ok Thats a Meme I like to see

But maybe I take things 2 seriously

Not electric tones 

From sonic phones

Sending messages thru the airwaves, 

Where photos float and letters roam

I'll say it again 

Don't be so mean 

With your Memes

Even the ones that I find funny

The world today is quick 2 say your being discriminatory

The mere acccusation of hate speech against me

Is hate speech too 

When your standing where I be

Put that in your Meme  

Or in your text or On your wall  

Your Instagram, Your virtual world 

Which means nothing 2 me.

This Meme 
U read
is 4 u 2 see
Something else
U didnt see.