No Looking Back . . .

Don't look back. Work straight ahead. You know what you need to do. So set your face on it and get to it. Don't look back. Stop checking to make sure you're doing it right. You'll get better as you go. Stop checking to make sure you're straight. You never will be. Just work. Work towards the goal. Get to it. Move straight ahead with abandon. Stop caring whether or not you mess up. Because you're going to. When you do, DON'T LOOK BACK AND GRIEVE THE MESS UP! Just move on, move ahead. Don't focus on what's behind. Just get to work on what's in front. If you hired someone to cut your grass and they always looked backward, worried their rows weren't "straight and narrow," they'd be forever frustrated at their crooked job and missed spots, their moral would sink, and they would never know the joy of GETTING OVER IT and finishing the job. Frankly, you'd fire their tail and hire someone else. SO! Get to work and stop worrying about the mistakes you've made and the crap that's happened in your life. Focus on your job. . . on who you were made to be . . . AND GET TO IT!

God talks to me when I'm outside. I mowed the grass today. . . and I messed up - alot. But I got it done. I finished. And that's what counts.

So . . . how 'bout them apples.

Netherportal

Sometimes I see things that others do not see . . .  like shadows and living emotion in the landscape. Sometimes they are frightening. Other times, they are just there. . . like a story that needs to be told but no one living remembers. I'm not sure what it is that I'm seeing, imagination, latent emotional energy, spiritual communication. I don't know. Maybe I'm crazy. Sometimes it's so powerful, I can remember it long enough to capture the scene with my camera and piece it together with other images-just to get a feel for what it is. I'm introducing some of these images now. Like I said, maybe I'm crazy . . . think what you will. I just have to share it. They're not perfect, but you'll get the idea.

Buzzers