She is here to light up the world
Make it move and marvel
Shake and Stir
2011-08-13
2011-07-18
2011-04-18
2011-04-03
The Motorcycle in Me
The Motorcycle in Me
There's something about a motorcycle
That fits so well with me
It lets me feel the cool night air
And sets my wild side free
The more I ride
The more I see
This excitement
This freedom
This passion
Is the motorcycle
inside of me
This foto is on the same field outside of Dayton, Ohio where the Wright Brothers taught themselves physics and engineering, failing over and over, AND LEARNING FROM EACH ONE.....UNTIL THEY SUCCEEDED and PROVED THE IMPOSSIBLE WAS POSSIBLE.
MAN COULD FLY!
2011-04-01
Grandma Bette's 92nd Birthday
This is the link to the book I wrote for Grandma Bette's 92nd birthday
http://www.wattpad.com/1213941-over-the-years
2011-01-03
Love-Drenched Rhyme
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty/that is all
ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
. ~ John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn, 1884
Literary warriors like Keats had it right.
The poet must fight
and he must write
The truth is here
We hold so dear
Yet throw it away
In meaningless ways
Pick up your pen
You women and men
Who write from the heart
As if it were art
And before you depart
Will offer your life
One day at a time
The courage to find
The best of yourself.
And offering it up
In love-drenched rhyme
~Adam Stuart
January 3, 2011
Grateful to have taken the time to get to know a spirit such as Keats, and find out they shared the same Spanish Steps in Rome before they died.
2011-01-01
So Long As I Have This
Thinking of SofiaMissing of Sofia
Found myself watching this clip
Remembering watching it with her before she went on her trip
Feelings of happiness tap tapping in my heart
Then waking up with a jolting start
These two dancing are really she and I
With her for me Heaven is brought down from the sky
Life isn't about trying to become famous and rich
It's about being internally rich while making this life-long trip
And when I'm holding Sofia underneath the same sky
We are both more rich than any money can buy
This has special meaning to me because I've been approached with an opportunity to become a writer for a new television show and make a salary in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
This would require I leave teaching and possibly not being able to see and have Sofia in my everyday life.
The truth is......I already am rich and famous.
Every morning when I pick her up for school I am rich in the love the two of us share for each other.When she puts her hand in mine crossing the parking lot I am famously alive and happy.
Breakfast in my classroom before school starts is time reserved just for her, and right now all this 8-year old wants is time with her Dad.
And every love note signed, "Love, Dadddy" she finds in her classroom mailbox means more to her than seeing his name up in lights for the rest of the world to see. And then there's the day spent seeing every student for all the good they already are and all the great things they can so easily be.
As teens and adults we spend so much time searching for and chasing success and happiness. It's always out there in the future when something outside ourselves is achieved or happens.
As children we simply are happy and successful. We are richly and famously alive in the here and now, fully appreciating and treasuring the moments we are in.
And it is in this pure appreciation of each moment that we powerfully become the truest and highest versions of our selves.
We live and die in the blink of an eye
We can choose to use it to say, "I'm going to get mine"
Or we can choose to be our most powerful selves
Jumping up and pulling Heaven down from the sky
Sharing it with others
And telling the world of limits, "Goodbye!"
I haven't said yes.
I haven't said no
The events of 2010
have left me broke and alone
Unable to trust others
and more-or-less homeless
A friend's free spare bedroom
my few possessions rest
But by refusing to be broken and developing my gifts
2011 has arrived offering to make me famous and rich
I haven't said yes
I haven't said no
But the real meaning of lifeIs what I truly know
So long as I have love
And love has me
Together we have it all
And after all...
This love is what gives life
and lasting meaning to thee
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