the start of a day....

maybe it's cause the holidays are comin....
maybe it's cause i'm a knucklehead...
but i started thinking about how fast
the time goes as i walked this morning.

sometimes that can totally freak me out.
felt the freak out comin' and just relaxed
a bit. told myself to work on the gratitude.
appreciate all that has filled that fleeting
time...

i did pretty good.

and then i walked back by the place where they're
cuttin' all the trees down.
wow.
first time i went by it this morning, it was such
a shocker i just kinda put my head down and kept
walkin'. didn't want to see what they were doin'.

on my way back, i looked over.
i couldn't believe how quickly they have teared down
that beautiful woods.

and the memories started in.
the kids and i played a lot in those woods.
i even got us all lost in them once...
i started remembering.

and i looked at how they just came in and plowed
it all down.

the tears started fallin' down my face.

the whole thing......the destruction, the greed,
the taking away, the time passing so quickly,
everything changing....

as i walked back to my house i reminded myself
that nothing ever stays the same. it's always
changing. all you can do is go forward.

and live every moment fully.

zakk was in the kitchen when i walked back in.
'ZACHARY!' i shouted.
he turned towards me and started swingin' those
fists.

his way of sayin' hello.

i swung back, slugged him a few times and smiled....

all you can do is live every moment fully....
and appreciate what you've got.

i've got a lot.
i'm gonna concentrate on that....