♥
Steady is the hand keeping balance in the land
as it measures the cost of freedom on demand
.
A hero’s song unsung off the tip of a silent tongue
reminds us of the place where only the good die young!
.
With red roses near, blue skies that stretch for years
those broad stripes and bright stars prepare our youth for tears
.
“Left, right, left…” we stride to breach the great divide
We must march together or risk this nation’s pride
.
If In God We Trust, but for more loot we lust
the Golden Calf we’ll praise half buried in the dust
“About face!”
As one united nation, let us move in the same direction →
towards a day worth remembering, and a history worth repeating!
♥
Uncle Tree
Uncle Tree's House 
HOOrrah!
Hip – Hip –
Freedom Inside
Living in natural abundance
In the magic of the moment
Bending down
Stretching up
Being the backbone of my land
My land, where every cell
Is feeling well
Is working well
Together perfectly
Serving one another unquestionably
It happens in the outdoor land
It happens in the indoor land
Soul holding it perfectly in hand 🙂
Or Unified Force or Life Impulse 🙂
You are doing great Keith! Love from Mieke
The Ground Force allows
the positive
and
the negative
in the equanimity
of its sacred receptivity
The Neutral Force of a Yogi
*
Hello, Mieke!
I thank you for your contribution, and
I hope you and yours continue to work and be well together.
Peace & Love & Hugz! Keith
Hello Keith,
You are very welcome. Me and mine doing fine. Working with my husband on the hobby-farm of friends of ours at the moment, which gave inspiration to the above poem. I thought it matched well with yours 🙂
Weather is outstanding and kitchen garden has an abundance of vegetables and fruits. Wish I could send you some 🙂
Love, peace and hugz to you too!
Mieke
Sounds like Life is treating you good, Mieke, and that’s good to hear. 🙂
What a great poem, I missed reading your texts, you are such a great writer, both in style an content. You expose deep thought with beautiful words.
Send you my love, your niece that never forgets you.
Thank you, Mariana! 🙂
You probably recognize this one from last year.
I changed a few words here and there, and renamed it.
It’s good to see you again. I usually worry a bit when I don’t
see you around for a month or so. It’s good to know you’re
alive. I surely hope you’re okay, and well on your way to
better days. Luvz and hugz to you too, sweet niece!
Hi UT
I know it’s a few weeks since the 4th, but I hope you had a nice one.
B
Hi Bonnie!
We did have a nice-n-hot bang-up fourth of July!
How was yours? How are things goin’ down Atlanta ways?
Hope all is well with you and yours during these
blistering summer days. Peace, Keith
Hey Keith
Our holiday was great.
Yep, dog days of summer are upon us here.
Heat index today was 110 degrees.
I haven’t had much work this summer, so have been staying
at the “farm” tending my garden. If it gets any bigger, I will
have to buy a tractor. Suuure I will. 🙂
Wish I could send you some of my watermelons.
This year I have blueberries to go with them.
Be well,
Bonnie
Glad to hear that all is well, Bonnie! Gardens can be a ton of work.
I can’t imagine you on a tractor, but if you do get one, I want to see
a picture of you sitting behind the wheel. Okay? 🙂
You have watermelons already? Oh, boy! And blueberries, too? Yum!
My upside-down tomato plants are being kind of slow (disoriented?),
but we do have a couple of small juicy fruits beginning to turn red.
Be good now, and take care! Keith
P.S. I currently have no further plans for this here blog. I found myself
wanting to read again, so that’s what I been doin’. I read a couple of
Ken Kesey’s books, and now I’m reading the late, great George Carlin.
Finished “Last Words” (a semi-autobiography) and am now on
“When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?” Funny, funny and mucho witty.
Just so you know what’s what, dear lady. Hugz! UT
I sure hope we will be able to stay in touch. I haven’t posted anything on my blog in a while, but am leaving it open just in case I get the urge to blog again. Derek and I communicate there from time to tme.
My garden started small and just grew and grew. I am now planting more perrenial plants like berries and grapes. Once they are established,
they don’t take too much effort to maintain. I really like the physical effort of gardening except when it gets as hot and humid as it is now, then it’s awful.
I have been reading some of Cormac McCarthy’s books this summer.
“The Road,” “No Country for Old Men,” “All the Pretty Horses,” etc. His stories can be disturbing but he is one hell of a good writer and story teller. I love Carlin. Maybe I will read that one next.
Hugz back.
No need to hope, Bonnie, for I will be here for sure.
I can’t imagine not checking my stats every day,
however low they be and go. But that’s just me.
I’m like that. Always longing for attention. Sigh…
Open Thread — insert foot — and eat my own words. 🙂
I wish my blog was like your well-established garden.
But around here, low maintenance equals low attendance.
Perhaps, I’ll get used to it. Ha! Please, do keep in touch, yes.
I wish you the best of harvests. All in good time, your friend, Keith
Powerful. Really good, UT. It is such a treat to read your words. -Martie
Thank you very, very much, Martie! 🙂
Best wishes, Keith
It is a beautiful poem
in a beautiful key Thank you for sharing it Tree.
You have a wonderful family, all traveling together
in the same direction
this planet is always flying forward, and freedom is one crazy direction
Hope your Holiday Weekend keeps you smiling Uncle Tree
thanks for making me smile
dusty
Glad you liked it, Dr. Who. Thank you! 🙂
Have a great next one, yourself.
Who dies in vain? No one, I say! No one!
Nobody dies for nothing –
for we all live for something worth dying for.
Every time I see this it brings tears to my eyes. Freedom is never free, there is always a price.
Truly said and heartily felt, Teri. Thank you! Have a great 4th!
Bravo, I love how you wrote your words in regards to a soldier. Happy 4th To You Keith!! Enjoy Your Day!! 😄
Thank you, Alisha! 🙂 Isn’t Union what we want?
Dems and Pubs obviously don’t, and that’s too bad.
Have a great 4th yourself, my friend! We always mean well. LoL
The United States took over the mantle of greatness from a disintegrating and divided British Empire (Great Britain). In both cases it was not only hard work, perseverance and the loss of many lives that achieved that greatness- it was a PROMISE (covenant) made in the past.
However, although that covenant was unbreakable it did come with conditions – we are seeing the consequences of not abiding by those conditions in both contries!
Well then, John, let us break the old covenant the way Jeshua did.
It’s a new millennium for Christ’s sake! Love your neighbor, dammit!
Without independent thinkers, how do we expect to know
what independence, liberty of opinion, and freedom of thought mean?
Every move we make seems to feed the War Machine.
The only thing left that even slightly resembles civility
is our war of words. “Got oil? We got your back!”
The only game left in town is the one we must outgrow.
Lord, help us.
Lol, You are so very welcome my good friend Keith!! How does that saying go…can’t we all just March and get along!! 😄 well I added a couple of words 😄 I will definitely have a Happy 4th!! Blessings To You 😄
Do people act differently in a pretty flower garden?
Is it easier to love in a gorgeous forest?
What sort of peace might we find, if we fought beautiful wars?
Thank you so very much, Caro! 🙂