BIRTHDAY BOYS AND FLYING BEAGLES

There is so much to be thankful for in my life right now. I will spare you the Rick gratitude list, but it is a long one man.


I am very happy to be healthy, connected and going forward without any reservations or regrets.


I just came across a poem that I wrote about a year and a half ago. It reveals a state of mind that is just plain desperate and beaten down. Here it is again, for your personal torture:



LIBERATION

SPACES
Between subordinate sunshine
CHANCES
Mixed
The Rain dance Missed
Grace and Humility
Purples and Greys
FLYING

Dirty Waterfalls
Hopelessly
Media free
Hyperbolic Honesty Suspended
Nourishment Abandoned
GLORIOUS BARREN BRAVERY

Digging In
DIGGING THROUGH
Excavating a beautiful young SPIRIT


A Kiss
My Death
Your sweet sweet REBIRTH
Simultaneous and Joyful release

Then FINALLY
The indefinable
TIME
The other, the STRANGER
Spaceless Touch
BURNING and MYSTERIOUS
Forever
On the TIP of our Tongues


RICK LYNN
Jan 22/10




Wow, what a MONUMENTAL PRETENTIOUS DOWNER...HAHA.



I think I was getting some big kick out of a huge pity party for one. Huge ego seems to be floating around between every laboured word. You would think that my whole family had just been eliminated by David Duke or something. Oh well.


Moving back to the glorious NOW.



Took some great Videos and b/w photos of my Cousin Cassandra's beautiful son Ruben tonight. It was his 4th birthday and it was really just a pure delight to be anywhere around his wide eyed joy.


I am very fortunate that he is letting me into his little world and considering me somebody he wants to be around. Near the end of the night, he sheepishly confessed to me that he wished he could wake up tomorrow and it would be his birthday all over again.......Maybe it can....Maybe it can be mine as well.



When I wake up tomorrow, I just want to keep infusing the same positivity into my sometimes wondering soul. The results have been very satisfying, and somewhat remarkeable.



I think it is ok to mention now that I have met a really wonderful interesting woman Julie, with a great big heart and beautiful eyes.etc.......and I suppose she wouldn't mind if I said that we were in the beginning of a new relationship.. How did this happen exactly?


(We are in the Honeymoon phase... she said to me tonight....Yeah...What a truly great place to be I thought...Lucky)



Spiritual elements that I have been working hard on this year and putting out there into the universe.........well I suppose that this connection came back to me as a result of those efforts? (It would seem that way)



So...alright!!No more morose poems for now...... I also want to mention that I got an enormous kick out of sending a 40 year old T2000 tennis racquet (used by Jimmy Connors) that I bought on Ebay....to my old friend Adam who was also celebrating his 40th birthday today. I know he got the inside message and had a huge laugh. To me...the act of sending it in the mail was a genuine blast....



To close tonight.....I also am minding my friends Beagle as she flew off to England today for three weeks with her father.(He won't ever be returning) Kind of strange to have her move there with him, but that's how things work in my life these days I guess.



Change is good and shouldn't be feared but embraced. I hope they are happy there. I know I am going to really miss this cute gentle dog when I have to put her little Beagle face on a plane someday soon.......Do I really have to give this little Asian snoopy up? I suppose I do.



She is a great comfort to me tonight though, as we both sit here, braving the future together. Looking good little doggie.



Rick