Charles Bukowski "Bluebird"

There's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too clever, I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody's asleep.
I say, I know that you're there,
so don't be
sad.
then I put him back,
but he's singing a little
in there, I haven't quite let him
die
and we sleep together like
that
with our
secret pact
and it's nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don't
weep, do
you?

~~ Charles Bukowski

Apple Cake

Ingredients:
2 eggs
1 3/4 cups sugar
2 heaping teaspoons cinnamon
1/2 cup oil
6 medium Gala or Fuji or Honey Crisp apples
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda

Directions: Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, mix the eggs, sugar, cinnamon and oil. Peel and slice the apples and add to mixture in bowl (coating as you go to keep apples from turning brown.) Mix together the baking soda and flour and add to the ingredients in the bowl. Mix well (best with a fork) until all of the flour is absorbed by the wet ingredients. Pour mixture into a greased one 9x13 or two 9″ round pans. Bake for approximately 55 minutes.

I don't need a thing

I think about my soul but I don't need a thing, just the ring of the bell in the pure clean air. — with Keith Stretchko in Castle Hill, New Zealand.  

photo by Julia

The Whole World is YOU

The whole world is you, yet you keep thinking there is something else.
~ Hsueh Feng ~ — at Rocky Mountain National Park.
photo by Julia

Two Ways to Live

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.~Albert Einstein~
On the trail to Long's Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park
photo by Keith

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Let yourself become living poetry.~Rumi~
photo by Keith at Ankgor Wat, Cambodia

There is Magic in YOU

There is Magic in You, so LET IT OUT. — with Julia . photo by Keith