Enlightenment...

This came to me after I talked with a passenger in my taxi. They have a girlfriend who wants to know EVERYTHING about them, and the girlfriend insists on telling EVERYTHING about themselves. After a few questions about their relationship, and I was thinking that she sounded very controling, he suddenly said; "You know, I don't think I can live with this rerlationship, she seems like she wants to control EVERYTHING. I will wind up living the life she wants me to, not my own. I am going to break up with her. I hope that he finds happiness, and that he lives. ~ Gee P.S. Thanks for the Blumenthal poem

be able to discern the smooth and untroubled path from one that is rocky and full of woe. ~ Gee

Nice to see you here. I will look for your work. ~ Gee

related to this, and took the time to let me know. Isn't it a grand thing to have people and things to connect with? Especially when they have lasted for more than twenty years. That is the kind of thing that you look back on, and say; "I lived." I will look at losing [time]. Thanks, ~ Gee

that you have been busy. Hope things are going well with your continuing education. Love to read that poem close to your heart. I haven't been writing much lately, but trying to be more thoughtful when I do.
Been a real up and down period for me, the last couple of weeks. First, they wanted me to work nights again at the taxi co. then they changed their minds,[ largely through the efforts of one of the dispatchers, and my best friend] and I caught a cold from one of my fares a couple of weeks ago, and was fighting that, [which almost turned into pneumonia, and sent me to the E.R.] But things are starting to turn around for the better. Quit smoking AGAIN, [been two weeks], and have Doc. appt. this am. Motorcycle will be ready to put on the road, by the end of this week, just need to get up money for insurance and registration, and I will worry about the paint on the new tank later, I just want to ride it a few days before that. Send me that poem if you will, Love and higgest bugs, ~ Gee

I haven't been writing much lately, or even reading much, but I will try to catch up on things. I especially want to see what you have been doing. So glad to see that you are still here with us. Say hello to the missus for me. ~ Gee

I like to see. That people identify with what I write. It is enough that you read and like my work, I'm not sure that it is fine art, but thanks for saying so. I just like to take the thoughts that occur to me as the result of communing with other people, and try to make poetry with them. If that is art, or what passes for it, I'm glad to make some. Thanks Mona, love ya, ~ Gee

Cat [& eddy], I appreciate your saying that those are your fav. lines, because they are mine too. I hope that you and yours have many peaceful pauses in your lives. Love ya, ~ Gee

a chord with anyone so as to play some music. Thanks for the read and comment. ~ Geezer

I changed eroding to eroded, and moved the line. It does look neater! Thank you. Artifact= [according to my Webster's New World Dictionary]. I hope that someone some day will look at something I wrote, painted, photographed or left behind will say; " Hey look at that, there was an interesting person." Love, Sir Gee