Thank you Thursday thanks for learning lessons

Hey 

THANK YOU THURSDAY —ON LESSONS

You ever try to start a tradition?  I want to make EVERY Thursday— “thank you” Thursday, however it seems either I have to speed up my writing schedule or slow down time.  Guess which I’m thinking I might have more success with?

Anyway, of all the things that bring me joy, I think learning might be right at the top (or near )the top of the list.  

Over the years, I have often commented about my Catholic school education.  I believe I’ll dedicate an entire  week to that soon.  I’ll say only this...the nuns were  both kind and brutally dedicated to their  teaching and students.  I only wish they might have been required to announce on any given day which tactic they were planning on implementing. 

That being said, I have learned  so much from  so many and the lessons have finally started to make sense in a way that is  becoming  very useful.  In fact I wrote a song about it—big shock right.  Since I’m on a train I don’t know if I can load it up, but I ythought I’d share the lyrics and then pull up the song/video later today or tomorrow.

Here’s the lessons I am thankful for and wonder what lessons you may be thankful for?

LESSONS

 I’ve learned great lessons from professors and books

Graceful half-drunken women and burned out fry cooks

I thought it was time that I passed them along

So I sat up one night and I wrote down this song—here itgoes

Well the wiser I get the more that I’ve found

Your body just carries your spirit around

And there’s a new circus around every turn

The best  you can do is pay attention and learn

And pass all these lessons to the next passers by

Try to enjoy life and understand why

But if why eludes you don’t wallow in frets

Don’t let let your butterfly wings get weighed down with regrets

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And breathe and stretch, and dance your own dance

And laugh and smile when life gives you the chance

You’ll rarely  finish but you’ll often restart

Take your brain with you, but follow your heart

Don’t compromise on the things you might change

Understand normal but celebrate strange

Don’t chase the chaos, nor worship control

But run it full throttle when you’re on a roll and...

Chorus

I’ve heard sermons in bar rooms  and in churches learned shoulds

But some of the best prayers I’ve ever heard were whispered in woods 

And don’t be afraid to believe in forever

But be careful with words like always and never

Don’t shake your fist in the mirror when your patience  wears thin

Every dream has its time 

Don’t let apathy win 

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You’ll try to help many 

but You can’t walk in their place

And you can’t fight their demons

Especially ones they won’t face.

These are my lessons nearly all that I know

But if you learn half of these then you’ll find your glow

and once you find this well you will go far

To sum it all up you’ll become. Who  YOU are and you’ll know how to....

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