We are caught up in a network of mutuality. Sometimes it is important to know what for and how you can count on a fellow-human being. I can be counted on, not for everything, but definitely for the twelve things on this list. Count on me ... count me in.
So you want to know me -- count on me. Sometimes I am asked to introduce myself. As a practice, I avoid responding, as some questioners expect, to trivial questions such as, 'How long have you lived in this city? Where did you live before coming here? What do you do, presumabley, for a living? etc.
Frankly, I have not been able to see how my answering these questions would help the questioner or myself. Should we converse with each other, you will learn about me, maybe, even come to know me, without the interrogation.
I have nothing against a person knowing about me, more importantly, knowing me. Sometimes I say, "My life is an open book." Or, as the comedian Flip Wilson would say, "What you see is what you get." I am still discovering things about myself.
Knowing these twelve things that you can count on me to demonstrate with conviction and consistently will help you to know me:
1. You can count on me to be myself, nobody but myself.
2. You can count on me to be responsible to and for myself, to others and God.
3. You can count on me to be kind and just.
4. You can count on me to be honest.
5. You can count on me to respect everyone but not to idolize anyone.
6. You can count on me to freely express myself.
7. You can count on me to share myself.
8. You can count on me to freely give and receive.
9. You can count on me me to manifest, even exude, spirituality.
10. You can count on me to be here now and now here.
11. You can count on me to be open to experience something new.
12. You can count on me to be happy.
Yes, you can count on me -- count me in.
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Lead sheet music for these lyrics can be obtained by sending your request and seven regular postal stamps to:
Uriah J. Fields
P. O. Box 4770
Charlottesville, VA 22905
I met Jerome on a busy city street in Baltimore, Maryland, when he was forty-five years old. On that particular day, I was out and about, enjoying a much-needed day off from work.
I wanted to purchase a sukiyaki sub. I parked my car in an area of
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