“Your thoughts create your reality.”~Burt Goldman, The American Monk

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience." ~ Pema Chodron

“ People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”~ Albert Einstein

Ring the bells that still can ring

Forget your perfect offering

There is a crack in everything

That's how the light gets in. ~Leonard Cohen

Life is my major influence.  I admit freely that I am a recovering public school graduate.  At times you may see my sense of humor peeking into my poems.  For the most part, I do not write about myself or anyone in particular. I have an active mind, and I make things up, as do most writers, I believe; so don't take my writings as my personal life situations, just my take on what I see going on around me.  People I admire most for their spoken and written words: Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, Eleanor Roosevelt and Katharine Hepburn.