Hello everyone , this month is really flying by , just as time often does.

What a winter we have had , not all that bad unless you are a fan of snow , I am not .

It is mild today , for the middle of winter. 40º weather is not the norm for New England , but I will take it and leave no complaints in the box this year , at least so far.

We still have one of the longest months of the year ahead , March always seems longer than it truly is.

I think it is because most of us so long for the Spring to finally arrive , so we can get out and explore our blossoming world that was safely sleeping the winter away.

Much can come from a new season , and as the seasons change , so does life. 

Life often mimics the calendar with its various seasons of life. We need not travel this journey alone.

It is important to understand solitude from the human need for companionship , we as humans often get frustrated by others , but so often we truly need to have others in our lives.

Choose wisely , we need to have kind and caring people as our companions , the world is full of adversaries and we need not have the extra baggage to bare.

With all this talk of Spring almost in the air , I would like to share with you a brand new verse entitled  , ‘ Traveling Roads ‘ .  Like so many verses , it came as a whim , a need for expression , the shear wanting to write. 

I hope you will enjoy , and until we meet again , stay safe and well .

Dreamer 

Traveling Roads

How many times have we said , ‘ lets take a road trip ‘ ?

Did it really happen or was it just a whim or a dream.

I have been on many road trips , some happy , some sad.

While traveling it is important to go prepared and ready.

Often that is lost in the haste of youth.

Many travel ill prepared for there up coming journey.

Planning and charting a course should be just as fun as the trip itself.

However I have found spontaneity can be a grand traveling partner.

We do not always need to know where the road will lead or even when it will end.

All we truly need to care about is how are we traveling right now .

Life is a Road-Trip !!

Like planing the ultimate road trip , we also need to plan for life.

Unlike the road we choose , life does not often allow us the chance to plot our course.

Many time our course is charted by unseen or unplanned events that precipitate the journey.

That does not mean we need to head out ill prepared , quite the opposite , 

we need to prepare and then plan , yes we do need to do both. 

We often confuse preparedness for a well laid plan , it is close enough for the confusion.

However when we prepare for something then a course of action has already been planned.

Or should have been !

Life is filled with many roads and like ‘real world roads’ , 

the roads of life have many twists and turns and we really never know what is around the bend.

We have in our mind all things to be good , 

but what of the uncertainty of something blocking our way ?

Would that not need consideration ? , well of course it would.

So as we plan for the wondrous road trip of life 

let us not forget to enjoy the scenery along the way.

We need not travel hard or fast , but we do need to travel .

Setting out on the road parked alone the way is hardly a worthy road trip is it ?

Nor would the road trip of life , we need to keep moving.

The learning process is never ending , for when we cease to learn we cease to live.

Explore with greatness !! 

Enjoy all the road has to offer , it can  , and in most circumstances be a grand trip.

Caution must also be taken for the unknown and with proper planning

the unknown may be our friend in hiding.

So with this I would like to say to all 

Travel safe and far , travel with heart and love.

Travel as if life depends on it , it just might.

Remember when the journey is nearing an end , there is always …

The road yet untraveled .

Let youth and zest for life be your guide and you will 

travel safe and well , 

always.

© Gary Stanton Ingerson

February 22nd , 2020

Hello everyone , we are half way through the month of February , flying by as usual.

Is it me , or has this winter been odd ? The weather seems a tad off , not that I am complaining .

I suppose some will blame this unusual winter on something other than what is really is.

`O it is global warming to be sure , in reverse. 

This winter causes concern on many fronts . We have lost polar ice on both the north & south pole , way to much. Where there was once a sheet of ice is literally becoming fertile farm land. That might be a good thing given the population does need the for sources that may come from the added farmland , but what of the earth itself ?

Are we to continue down this path ? or will the next sitting president really bang the drum , and get something done.

What is needed is truly not known , at least not yet , but we might be able to slow the destruction 

long enough to garner the intellect to someday bring the ice packs back. 

Until then there is just you and me and them  , the ones who run the show , the unseen faces behind the curtain of what used to be the truth . 

Let 2020 be the year everything gets counted , for something left uncounted might lead to further unseen dangers , catastrophic events our minds could never believe might be lurking in the darkness of uncertainty . 

I ask each and everyone of you to take a stand , you have a voice and a chance to use it , please do.

In honor of the holiday before us I present to you ‘ Presidents Day ‘ , thanks for stoping by , until next time take care and safe journeys where ever they my find you. 

Dreamer

Presidents Day

What is the price to be paid for the highest office in the land ?

Should a common person be given a hand ?

We celebrate the office or the man ? , 

there has yet to be a lady to run this land.

Torn away or torn apart , best destroyed none the less.

We take what is not ours and are not allowed 

to have what belongs to us.

We are asked or told  , `cause it doesn’t  really matter.

What is mine is yours and what once was

can never be again.

Have we found the answers we seek , or just more questions ?

A day to give thanks or a day of peaceful reflection ?

The highest office in the land , 

that meant something once , a long time ago.

No one needed a hand , so none was offered.

Today more than ever help is needed , 

but rarely offered.

Our world is torn , left for nothing more , 

just ramblings of a shell of nothing left to give.

We have one thought , one glimpse of hope , 

vote in November.

Save for nothing more , we spend for nothing less.

Theres is the vote , they want , your lives 

and leave nothing more.

It will not matter , but needs to none the less.

How we continue is anyones guess.

Just the thoughts of a human soul on this eve of

Presidents Day .

Think , remember , don`t let go , not ever.

God be with thee.

© Gary Stanton Ingerson

February 16th , 2020

Hello everyone , all most the biggest dating day of the year ! 

Does it have to be ?  

Why not make every day and every night a loving moment for you and your partner ? 

Humans , we are a breed apart. We have this system in place that tells us of our past .

It speaks to our intellect , as if we could not know ourselves. 

It is there for public view , our most sacred times of life , exposed for all to examine.

This all mighty piece of paper that states we have worth.

What happens when an educated person decides to hide there past from view ?

Are they without thought or wisdom ? 

Have they lost all that once was , because society states , ‘ we do have a need to know ‘ ? 

Society today is a mass of broken pieces. We watch as people scurry around  , all but failing as they try to put the pieces back together , in order to prove there is worth in another human being.

This all seems like a lot of work to me , does it to you too ? 

Perhaps the world needs a new way in which to judge another persons worth of intellect or value.

Maybe that piece of paper will have less value once a new way is found. 

If that is the case , what will happen then ? 

Are we all to be equal when the day is done and twilight as begun ? 

As you think about my preface to this weeks verse , please take note of your own worth.

Until next time I offer you  ‘Why Can`t We ?’  , a verse from the fall of 2018.

Thank you all for visiting , I hope you have enjoyed your time here.

Dreamer 

Why Can`t We ?

Why can`t we hug ?

It cost no money , takes little time.

Why can`t we love ?

I don`t mean sex , I mean caring , 

it does not take money , often takes no time

Why can`t we care ?

We see someone in pain and we

choose to look the other way .

Why can`t we offer  what we have , 

to help others that suffer ?

It would take so little.

We are all human , we are all the same.

Somehow we are all treated different.

If our pockets are smaller or our skin a different color , 

our hearts beat , just as the most beautiful 

of people , the richest of people.

Will someone please tell me why ?

Can someone please tell me why things matter

and people do not ?

If I am to help , how can I help those who do not believe in 

total equality for all ?

Soon I must sleep , before I lay my head , 

can someone tell me please ?

Why we can`t ?

We need to try , don`t we ?

Sept. 15 , 2018

© Gary Stanton Ingerson

Hello friends , another month is upon us , where `O where do the days fly by.

This entry is a hope , a much needed suggestion for our world. 

I wrote this piece a few years ago and it is preferable to start a new month 

with an uplifting new post. 

I offer this as a ‘road map’ , a suggestion of action to be take by all.

If so we can change the world for the better , all we need to do is care.

What I am asking take very little time or effort , but the effects can last for an eternity.

With the preface , I offer for your reading enjoyment , ‘ I Will Today ‘

Use it , live by it , thanks , I appreciate you stopping by , please revisit anytime.

Until we meet again , enjoy the gifts , take care , 

Dreamer 

I Will Today

Today , means that yesterday is long gone. 

We shall forever morn the empty chair , but let us not morn ourselves in doing so. 

Think of them fondly with love and admiration , and what they did to make your life and my life better.

Today , is new for me and you , we have not seen this days end.

  We know not if it will end in happy or sad terms , only that it will end.

Today I will be thinking of tomorrow only that it will come , but not at at the expense of the present. 

For today I will live.

Today , one person maybe more , will receive my gift of free help. 

It will be given graciously and without self pride.

 The fact I have done so out of a personal love of myself , 

and that of the person I have helped may go forth to help many.

Today I shall harbor no ill will towards those whom have lied or stolen from me.

 I will hold a place in my heart that someday they too shall know of many tomorrows.

 Perhaps they themselves shall show kindness towards there brothers and sisters.

Today I will realize I am not perfect , I am human , with the same faults and frailties as others.

Today I will find a road not yet traveled , but I will travel the road in peace. 

We know not how any of our todays will end , 

so let us think of the new road we are on at the present.

 As we gaze at the turn in the road ahead let us know we will find peace and good tidings.

Seven Todays , Seven Ways …

© Gary Stanton Ingerson

November 14th . 2017