tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-110959857515647669.post6539346277432442328..comments2023-12-30T12:31:36.455-05:00Comments on letter blocks say what?: into the wildZach Medlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14038529550575588115noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-110959857515647669.post-8542149419010146372012-04-26T15:02:32.927-04:002012-04-26T15:02:32.927-04:00love it, gillianlove it, gillianZach Medlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14038529550575588115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-110959857515647669.post-74504896694426954522012-04-26T12:08:57.559-04:002012-04-26T12:08:57.559-04:00Re-posted from a friend's blog:
Food for thou...Re-posted from a friend's blog:<br /><br />Food for thought by James Richmond, Canada<br /><br />‘Why do you do it?’ friends often ask, perplexed,<br />Brows raised, minds sorely vexed.<br />‘The world out there is dangerous!<br />Aren’t you scared? Why do this?<br />You need steady work, a house, two cars!<br />You have only a fourwheeldrive, and sleep under stars!’<br /><br />Dear friend, if you must ask, you cannot know<br />This curiosity that drives me so.<br />To you it is hidden; in me rises unbidden!<br />But one day the world I’ll have ridden<br />By iron steed, then perhaps this need<br />Will have vanished, finally vanquished!<br />That day will find me on deathbed,<br />With no regrets for the life I led.<br /><br />Will you be able to say the same?<br />Or will you despair a life worn plain?<br /><br />I will stake my African memories<br />Against your estate of a thousand trees.<br />Pit my Ghanaian sunset<br />Against your private jet.<br />Weigh my horse rides at sunrise<br />To your Italian suits and ties.<br />I’ll rejoice in friends before I go,<br />Not the figures of my stock portfolio.<br /><br />And, amazingly, there are more like me;<br />They reject slavery, and are truly free.<br />They took the chance we all had,<br />And honestly it makes me sad<br />That you didn’t.<br />You thought you couldn’t…<br />What?<br />Live without the luxuries<br />Of all our modern amenities?<br />You choose the bonds of mortgage, but claim to be free,<br />Wasting a lifetime absorbed by TV.<br />Why watch it? but live it!<br />One life’s all you get!<br />Don’t put off ’til morrow and continue to borrow<br /><br />The lives of strangers; ’tis the greatest of dangers<br />To the soul<br />Which grows old<br />Before its time.<br /><br />Hercules, Columbus,<br />Guevara, Odysseus,<br />Champlain, Agamemnon,<br />The list goes on…<br />What have they in common?<br />Regardless man or god,<br />The soil of continents they trod,<br />Not in search of gold but adventure!<br />Not growing old ’cause they ventured<br />Far from safety; but far be it from me<br />To Judge…<br /><br />The pitiless pity us<br />With souls black pitted.<br />Pray! save it for those less spirited.<br />For us… our horizons are unlimited.Gilliannoreply@blogger.com