On Pain

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses 
your understanding. 

Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its 
heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. 

And could you keep your heart in wonder at the 
daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem 
less wondrous than your joy; 

And you would accept the seasons of your heart, 
even as you have always accepted the seasons that 
pass over your fields. 

And you would watch with serenity through the 
winters of your grief. 

Much of your pain is self-chosen. 

It is the bitter potion by which the physician within 
you heals your sick self. 

Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy 
in silence and tranquillity: 

For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by 
the tender hand of the Unseen, 

And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has 
been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has 
moistened with His own sacred tears. 

Khalil Gibran

REST tank

Bought a REST tank ... Restricted Environmental Stimuli Therapy. Think "Altered States" . Also known as SenDep or Sensory Deprivation or Floating Pod.

Can't wait to get it.... But it's gonna take a few weeks to get ready to move it from seller in Indianapolis.

Gpop and Jamesy

Smiling as always :-)

The last word is pronounced both ways*

Smooth and well polished,

Tough and thick calloused.

Nonsense, all of this!

Because when the shell shocks,

And the mind starts to rock

Then the insides can be seen 

Through the tears *

(C) 1990 Gary Overman

Always smiling James!

Happy baby James !

Me, hair, guitar I made

Easy Rider

BIB- Baby in Basket- Baby James to be specific :-)

The long walk!