A 60-year regression!?

 

School's-out!

 

I spied a young-boy of about 12 walking home from

school this afternoon as leaden skies lowered, thunder-

rumbled and yellow-lightning flashed a warning.

 

The young man seemed oblivious to the inclement-

weather; didn't notice the "old"-man driving by.

 

He caught my attention as I wondered if he would get

rain-soaked; he carried a backpack and wore a hoodie.

Hardly seemed any-protection from the impending-torrent.

 

"He's young!" I thought. "God-bless him!" I added. Lucky-boy!

 

But, I do not lament my place in this awesome time/space.

 

Been-there! Do-that!---Attitude!...Always carries me-through!

 

I wondered what his dreams might be? College? Job? Girls?

 

Sincerely hope the lad lives "Great!" like I have---and...do!

 

Ah!---Precious-youth!...Shame to waste it all on our young! Hmm!

 

It's raining!---I love it!...Sun will come...I love that, too!

And---all-the-rest...come what-may!

 

Be-safe! Son!---Enjoy! Life & Love!...In a "blink"...comes tomorrow!?

 

Amen!

 



Counting diamonds---silver...and, gold!

 

1---2---3---4---5...???

 

 

Lord! I can very quickly count my gold & silver.

It starts with a big-fat "0" and ends the very-same.

 

Now---I confess...the "cold"-metals hold no-value for me.

Had a buck, or two, or three once or twice---maybe...Hmm!

Seems any time I get(s) a quarter, I owe somebody a dollar!

 

Value of "counting" is only in the pure-Virtue of the object.

 

Now, I'll spend myriad-hours counting blue-white "diamonds"!

Those "sparklers" on a black-velvet canvas hold my attention.

 

NO! They are not "rocks" for faux jewelry-adornments! Naw!

 

These "valuable"-twinkles are "free" and hold true-"value".

 

You, too---can "hold" these diamonds...each mid-night showing.

 

Count the "stars" blue-white in the night-sky---Ah!...Virtue!

 

When all is "done" and "is" and "come"---I'll value...Life! & Love!

That "gold" and "silver"-stuff is---heavy...and, voluminous!
And---I just don't have any place to store...such faux-opulence.
(Junk hurts my eyes---'cept...those cosmos blue-white sparklers!)

Whatever happens---and something will...I'll choose to be...Happy!
 

Amen!

 

 

Where I "choose" to live---

Oh! Yeah!

 

I live yonder-south of comfort high sun-noon

A tiny-bit west of an alabaster-pale full-moon

 

 

Rainbow-hues! Flutterby-colors! Unicorn-silver wings!

 

Slide-the-hue!

Absorb-the-pattern!

Soar-the-universe eternal!

 

When thee sense the "comfort-wind"---

When ocean-spray wanes-cool---

When mountain-eagle soars below---

When verdant-forest yields-treasure---

When fish-fly and evil does-good---

When I just "am" one with Truth---

When "Mon-Amie" knows my-Love---

When all has been and is and come---

When the pink-blush dawn caresses---

If I at last am Truth! Love! Life!---

 

Then...

 

Me-soul is truly satiated in sacred-peace!

And---

Life! Love! Laugh! is me eternal-universe!

 

Then---this Rebel! Rascal! Rogue!...reigns-"King"!

 

Amen!

Demon-evil---twin-step sisters..."Worry" & "Fear"!

Worry & Fear!? "NO!"

 

Sure! I worry and fear!?---Wrong!...I refuse to participate!

 

Jeez!---Simple!?...Choices!

 

These "demons" will not "fill" your life---

they will...destroy and steal your life!

 

Choose-carefully! Mon Amie! It truly is your "decision"!

 

How might I defeat these evil-demon twin step-sisters?

 

Truth! Honesty! Justice! Choice!

 

When all the "bull" is spent and done and put-away,

when we "stop" the Lie, when we admit our very near

irrelevance (in most matters), when we accept that the

very-best we can do is "Help-others" with Truth!

 

Before we can become part-of-the-solution,

we must choose not to be part-of-the-problem!

 

My life is "full" and my spirit is "satiated". I choose it so!

 

Commit just one-day to the choice of the process-of-improvement.

 

Try this agenda beginning on the 'morrow:

 

Awaken with a smile to the first pink-blush of a new-dawn!

Embrace the chill-of-day as the sun-orb ascends the horizon!

Let mid-morn's cool whisper-wind replenish an expectant-spirit!

Enjoy nature's warmth-offering under the high-noon comfort-sun!

Have a cool ice-cream cone in the heat of a mid-afternoon respite!

Cherish delicious-supper ushered-in upon the cooling of purple-eve!

Kiss the mid-night respite counting blue-white diamond twinkles!

 

Maybe!?---Just...Maybe!?…

 

The "answers" you claim to seek are really just---simply...Attitude!

 

I wish thee "well" on thy journey! Embrace: Life! Cherish: Love!

 

Good-enough is absent effort!

Better ignites sacred-ambition!

Best celebrates Supreme-success!

 

Live! Love! Laugh! Focus-contemplate!

Vigilant-be! No-one's future is ever late!

 

Faith! Family! Freedom! Might just be all there really---Is!

In one eternal-instant the only mercy-blessing will be...His!

Make those evil-demon twin step-sisters---vacant...orphans!
You choose your destiny!---No-one else!...Just...You!


Got-issues!?---Look in a mirror...see the "problem" and the "solution"! 

 

Have a great-day!---Every-instant..."Your"-choice!

Amen! 

Choose---wisely...always...!

 

Choices!---Choices!...and, Choices!?

 

 

Choices---Faith! Family! Freedom!...Your "personal"-choice!

 

Choices---Bored! Lonely! Afraid!...You "personal"-choice!

"Who"  is responsible for Your-life?---YOU!...You make the choice!

 

That "Truth" is not an opinion---it is "fact"...live with it or do-better!

 

It-is---your...Choice! Start---choosing...wisely! Hmm!?

 

Amen!

I once knew-a-gal...

Once knew-a-gal…

 (A loving”-limerick)

 

I once knew-a-gal from Columbia-city

Strollin’ down Main Street lookin’-pretty

Cool-dude said: Honey! Would you like a ride?

Cutie hopped in and slid it right-over by his side

That’s about all the info you’ll get from this ditty

 

Amen!



Law!?---Me!?...Ha!?

 

"My"-will be done!

 

"She should-a stopped!"

"You" had the stop-sign!

 

"I was in the 'right'! Always!"

"Yup! 'You' are never wrong!"

 

"She's a _____! He's a _____!"

"You ought-s know---takes-one to....know-one!"

 

"They'll do 'what' I say---or...else! Hell!"

"I'd pray for you---but...pretty-sure you'd cuss-me!"

"Hey! The rules (and, laws) just do not apply to Me!"
"Yeah!---I know you!...'Our-Father..."My"-will be done!'"

 

Will "it" ever-end?---If..."I" have any say in the conclusion! Yes!

 

 

The-neighborhood!---Hmm!?...Gee!?

 

A rash of nighttime attacks on "senior"-citizens had the neighborhood

terrorized to the point of near-immobility; no victim ever saw anything!

 

Courage does not come in a bottle---or a gun...only...in virtuous-character!

 

The "good" citizens, even those not yet physically victimized, cowered

in the shadow-of-anonymity, "protecting" themselves from trouble.

 

The crime-scene yellow-tape held on-lookers at bay: We don't want the

"stupid"-untrained public-at-large contaminating our investigation-area.

 

A viewer in the far background wearing a hooded-sweatshirt under a

medium-grey sweater ghosted behind the yellow-line. EMT's helped

the latest victim onto a gurney to be loaded into an ambulance-conveyance

for a trip to the hospital. The detective asked the injured-party repeatedly

if they knew their assailant. "It was dark! I don't know! Leave me alone!"

 

Everybody knew who the perpetrator was by sight, reputation and name.

 

For the cops---another-unsolved...assault! Nothing they could-do!

 

An anonymous 911-call the next morning at 10 a.m. called the authorities

to an apartment familiar to the cops; "shots-fired" went-out. Surprise!

 

The police found the "victim" in a dark-red pool of his own blood. Dead!

On the premises the cops recovered myriad stolen-evidence. Good-job!

No-witnesses!---Nobody saw anything!...Just...Perfect!

 

The "collective"-weakness of the "victim"-citizens remained in full-view;

that "character"-flaw did not keep them from a cursory-celebration of justice!

 

Well!---until...next-time!? (And---there surely...will-be! Guaranteed!)

 

Unless---?

 

Where we gonna ever find a real-man?---"Always!"...I sincerely-pray!

 

"Right" is right---and..."Wrong" is nobody!" (the late-Barney Schmidt)

 

God-bless America!---Land of the "free"!...Home of the "Brave"!

 

Amen!

 

What's-up?

 

And---here-we-go!...again!?

 

I started a new short-story a couple of days ago;

seems the tale wants to be a "full"-novel.  Hmm!

 

Yeah! I know! I'm in-"charge"! Not some "fiction"!

 

A literary-agent (people who represent writers and try to

sell the author's work to publishers) once told me to take

control of my characters and to quit writing so-much.

"Who is going to publish all those books?" She queried.

 

Guess she was right!? 12-books completed and self-published;

four more being "polished" and five new ones being written.

 

My "characters" have lives of their own; sometimes,

they awaken me in the middle of the night allowing an

opportunity to "spy" on them in their conversations and

adventures. Nuts! That's what the literary-agent said.

 

Ever know anybody who had a "house-plan" in-hand and

set out to buy a lot (any-lot) to build the house on? Hmm!?

 

Not every "lot" will accommodate just any ole-house; the

building site will "tell" you what it wants; if you can just listen.

 

We bought a place 10-years ago and it has a vacant lot next to

the house that was all yard. I sat in the filigree-shade of the huge

old maple tree and allowed the lot to tell me how to landscape it.

 

Wow!---I am "nuts"!?...Letting the lot dictate its terms!?

 

Turned out just "Gorgeous"!---Couldn't have done it...alone!

 

So? I'll "humble" myself any-day to His-will! And---so...how?

 

Try---Our Father---Thy-kingdom come...Thy-will be done!

 

Think you are so-"good"---so-"important"...so-"relevant"? 

 

Try putting Him in-control---and...see what happens!

 

So? I'll let my "fictional"-characters decide what the story will be!

 

I sure-enough reckon---it'll be much better...that-way!

 

Amen!  

Morels!---Yum!...Mmm! Mmm! Good!

 

Supper-time!---Oh! Yeah!

 

Daughter-Becky found some wild-Morels;

Lady-Candice prepared the delicacy! Mmm!

 

Worthwhile waiting a year for the tasty-treat.

 

Gotta get back to the woods and "hunt" a little more.

I sure-enough reckon-so!

 

It truly "is" the simple-humble things in life!

 

Amen!

 

 

Book-offerings & blog-info.:

 

 

Faith! Family! Freedom! This sacred-trinity defines the paradigm

of my writing-offerings. I perceive a surreptitious (quickly becoming

“blatant”) assault on these Traditional American-values. My intent

is to counter such evil with a message of Christian-generosity Love!

 

These books and my blog-posts (now totaling 1463 & counting) extol

an example of Live! Love! Laugh! in a modern-world lacking civility.

 

Please! Enjoy!

 

 

Creed of the Mountain-man: An 1870’s mountain-man tale.

 

Christmas Treasures: 3-Christmas-Eve celebrations.

 

Station-Master: A collection of short-stories.

 

…And Justice for all: An American-sniper vengeance-tale.

 

Horizon-Dawn: Case-study of 2-men separated by 150-years.

 

Syncopated-cadence (poetry): General poetry.

 

Christmas Always (poetry): Holiday-poems.

 

Golden Anniversary: A celebration of 50-years of Love!

 

Cookie-Jar Sweet-memories (Book I, II,III & IV):

365-days of vignettes in our family-time.

 

Coming soon:

 

Spanky & Jamie McGhee: A Viet Nam-era tale.

Ambiance: A Maeystown fireside-reader.

Rondo Slade: Western-drama.

 

 

Books are available on-line as e-books & or in paperback:

 

visit: Amazon books; search: Carl Schuler

 

blog: www.rinitytrace.blogspot.com

 



Easter-eggs!

Hunting “Rainbow”-hues!

 

Reckon my old wicker Easter-basket from Lo! Those many

decades yonder-gone to mist and dust and precious-memories

in the sacred Autumn-diaries of true-Hedonist living the dream

in a fantasy-adventure through coming sunshine-warm caress.

 

Yet, though the history is mostly written, now-already seemingly

much too damn-soon I purpose-celebrate Resurrection-Sunday!

 

Maybe I can’t run quite so fast as the “little”-ones anymore?

Maybe they can’t enjoy my “knowledge”-earned perspective?

They know not-enough to give it thought---Me?...too far to care?

 

I’ll sing for sunshine! Smile at holy-Love! Practice-full my Trinity!

 

Faith! Family! Freedom! Sees me safe! Lends strength! Salvation!

 

When “Day-is-done”!---I remember!...Celebrate night’-calling dawn!

 

So!? “Look-out!” Young-Rebel! -Rascal! -Rogue! -Rapscallion!

“Been-there---still…do-that!” Reckon---I’m trying!...very!

I hold the distinct-advantage of “age” and “experience”---but…

with that twin-understanding of now-place, I’ll sure-enough share!

 

Some youngster did not close-watch their woven-wicker color-basket---

I confess! I absconded with the faux-discard…I like the blue-ones! Best!

 

Time and space?---Be damned!...I choose never to grow “old”-in-spirit!

 

(Got 16!---myriad Rainbow-hues!...gave-away…each and every one!)

Just---wouldn’t have it…any other way!

 

Tomorrow!---Dawn!...and…(simple-humble)-me!!! All-over! Yet, again!

 

Spied a Candy-apple shiny-red Mustang GT convertible white-top!---

Couldn’t help but wonder…”Will she fly-me beyond one-60-flash!?”

(They just “gots” to catch-me afore they can incarcerate-me! Again!)

 

Smile! (Pity/Envy)---when thee look me-way…at the Roaring-thunder echo!

 

And---should thee suffer hunger…I’ll search-us up some Rainbow-hues!

 

Amen!



Happy Easter! (2019)

Easter-dawn Delight! (2019)

 

Dawn early-promise hint-of-light

Horizon-subtle a pink-blush sight

 

Ascending-orb glow sunrise-gold

Hear cadence-note celestial-bold

 

Celebration-song Sweet-holy Seraphim & Cherubim

Vacant-chamber Life-triumphant over “evil”-grim

 

Arise-anew Oh! “Glorious”-body resurrected freshly-adorn

Cleansed-soul! Anointed-Spirit! Like Adam-new Breath-born

 

Clarion-call of Gabriel’s-horn sacred-holy Redemption!

Jesus’ shed-blood absolves weak-man sin-conscription

 

Giant-tombstone eschew-contempt of faux-incarceration

Lives-man in God-Faith! Of exalted-spirit true-Salvation!

 

Body! Soul! & Spirit! Trinity-design exceptional-told

Soul be the very Body-life! Spirit! Holy-life of Soul!

 

Rainbow-color hues bright bunny-eggs to celebrate

Blessings-myriad in-Hope! To Thankfully-enumerate

 

When comes a-call to muster Saints up-yonder

Did I-sin to “wander”-so perhaps I’ll-“wonder”

 

But, then---He gave me gift-of-Life…instilled “sweet”-Love!

Pernicious-then---not to excel…”wild” spirit free-white dove

 

Each dawn, like any Easter-morn, vow I-celebrate

Soar-Unicorn on silver-wing beyond any-exacerbate

 

For (simple-humble)-I have been, and am, and ’morrow may-come

Wild-dance! Advance! Celebrate! Sing! Or---just…soft-hum!

 

He loved-“life”---showed how-to-die…proved “eternal”-proud

So! In-Him! “Bring-it!” I’ll shun any evil-black faux death-shroud

 

In His holy-name I embrace holy divine-courage exemplar-shown

Faith! Family! Freedom!-trinity! His sacred-mantra to me known

 

In His holy-image, I, purpose emulate-Jesus’ Salvation-way

“Happy Easter!” Deliberate-dare celebrate! I humble-pray!

 

Amen!



Good-Friday!

Good-Friday!-thoughts

 

 

On the 3rd-hour Jesus cried out in a lost voice:

My God! My God! Why hast Thou forsaken me?

 

Beaten! Battered! Scourged! Crowned with thorns!

 

With a final breath He whispered:

It is done!---and...gave up the spirit!

 

Taking His dead body from the cross, they laid the remains 

in a borrowed-tomb rolling a huge stone into the entrance.

 

Heaven's-fury opened with a torrential storm-of-anger

for what mankind had done to the sacred Son-of-God!

 

When all seems lost---Salvation!...may be as close as 3-days!

 

And, sure-enough!---Upon the Easter dawn-to-come...Salvation!

 

Amen!

 

 

And, as I rested on this "Good"-Friday feast, a jet plane

fractured my respite with its powerful-thrust eruption.

 

Several-minutes later a second plane violated my restful-state.

Different in intensity from the first, this one growled-deeply.

 

Into my attentive-mind creeped long-ago lyrics:

I'm leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back-again...

 

From that plane-incident evolved the Good-Friday story.

 

No!---I am not leaving on a jet-plane...Travel is behind me!

 

Been here and there---a time or two...kissed yon mountain, embraced the sea.

 

Jesus traveled less than 200-miles in His time and space.

I pray that I have "walked" as many-miles in my time.

 

I left some dusty-tracks---Reckon-so!...Pray I did some-"Good", some where.

 

And---on the 'morrow...we shall celebrate the Easter-resurrection!

 

Amen!

 

 

Blog-posts

 

 

Responsible!? Mature!? (Me!?)

 

Well!?---another-commitment and...Failure! (again)!? Hmm!

 

Yesterday, I missed writing this blog-post; spent 7-hours in the

hospital E. R. with Mom; urinary-tract infection! Wow!

Much too late at 1 a.m. to post this blog. Sorry! 1st-omission!

 (1524-posts! 1-missed! No-"perfection" here! Hmm!)
 

She's okay! I slept most of the day! Sorry I missed yesterday's-post.

 

A New-day!---Brighter! (raining!?)...but, Good! (No-E. R.)!

 

Thank God! For the "medical"-people! Angels! (mostly)

So appreciative of their help; "useless" without them, in an emergency.

 

Admiration! Compassion! Grateful! Loving! Thank-you! God-bless!

 

So? That is hopefully behind us, again. No-more! Please!

 

Mom celebrates 92-years June 2, 2019. Yea! Happy Birthday! Mom!

 

Whatever-comes! Whatever is sent! We'll handle it! With-help!

 

Attitude!---Faith! Family! Freedom!...Love! will see us through!

 

Amen!



86*---"Global-warming!?"...Wow! Hmm!---could-be...I reckon-so!?

 

April 16, 2019

 

 

Pretty-warm today! 86*! Wow! Wonder "What's-up"?

 

Oh! Yeah!---duh!?...almost-forgot...Global-warming!

 

Sure did enjoy the day!---and, yesterday...and, tomorrow! Hmm!

 

(MOS) More-of-the-same tomorrow!---Rain!...Thursday!

 

Wonder "What" the geniuses(?) will blame that weather on!?

 

I'm absolutely "sure" they will "think" of some excuse!

(Real or imagined (lie)!?)

 

"Weather---or not"...I'll fully enjoy the sacred-"gift"!

(sans-any-complaint)

 

Amen!

Palm-Sunday-"Monday"!? Is there such a "thing"?

 

Monday-Monday!

 

In one week we will celebrate---Easter-Monday!...Hmm!?

 

Crystal-beauty sun today!---Cool!...Perfect!

 

"Whatever" nature has for us on the 'morrow-dawn---

I'll be awake...waiting for the Great-new-Adventure!

 

I appreciate---and Thank-God...for Life & Love!

 

It is a choice---"Your"-choice...choose- "wisely"! Always!

 

Amen!

Palm-Sunday!

 

Palm-Sunday!

 

Jesus entered Jerusalem riding on a donkey on the Feast-of-Passover;

the crowds laid palm-fronds and cloaks on the street before him. Seeing

this adoration by the people of Jesus celebrating all the good and miracles

He had performed made the "chieftains" angry out of jealousy causing

them to declare that the "people" had chosen to follow Him and

therefore decide that they must kill Jesus.

 

Thus, the stage is set for the "farce" of Jesus' trial and crucifixion.

"Holy-week" tells the history of the trial and suffering of Jesus.

 

Today, we received palm-fronds after mass celebrating Palm-Sunday!

 

A chilly-rain with leaden skies greeted the celebrants!

What a perfectly Glorious Palm-Sunday!

 

Attitude! Seems to be our "salvation"-choice. Choose-wisely!

 

Seven-decades plus a couple-of-years concludes my simple-understanding:

 

Live! Love! Laugh! Focus-contemplate!

vigilant-be! No one's future is ever late!

 

And---

 

Faith! Family! Freedom! Might just be all there really---Is

In one eternal-instant the only mercy blessing will be...His!  

 

(Of course--- my assessment might be wrong...but, it works for me)

 

So...

 

Pray for me!---Be kind to one-another...Celebrate Life & Love!

 

Palm-Sunday!---Holy-week!...Easter!

 

Amen!

Run!---Run!...Run!

 

Time!---worthwhile..."spent"

 

Dawn---I awaken...waiting for the "new"-adventure.

 

And, the "in"-crowd? Hurry-here! Run-there! Plan-more!

 

No-time!

 

Stop! Take a deep breath! Smell-the-roses! Ahh!

 

Running doesn't make life worthwhile---such-waste...

only manages to malevolently abscond with value/virtue!

 

Have a Great-day!---Also...Enjoy-the-life-day! with Love!

 

Money "can" provide some-"fun" when given away!

A sacred-pursuit of life is incidental to silver & gold!

 

Amen!

Bohleysville-property

 

What-a-day!

 

Spent some time with daughter-Becky at her

"farm"-property---but...no-mushrooms! Yet!

 

"Perfect"-day! Great-company! Made me feel "young" again!

 

Came home and decided to mow the lawn; good choice. Nice!

 

Another "Perfect"-day in the history-books!

 

I could not be happier! Thanks for Life! & Love!

I think I heard the 2 1/2-acre lake calling for a "paddle"-boat! Hmm!

And, tomorrow?---Morel-mushrooms!?...or, the next-day! Soon!?
 

Amen!

And---then...what? Hmm!

 

When all is said---and done...and more!

 

After the shock!

When the sirens die down!

When yellow police-tape is removed!

Once the blood and guts are cleaned-up!

When the (real & imagined) memories fade!

After all the accusations! Charges! Lies! Innuendo!

 

Within all that "obfuscation" (purposed-unclarity)---

after the grief and lies...Truth!-prevails! Always!

 

"And, the Truth! shall set you free!" Wow!

 

Truth!---is always present...the query is: Can you handle it!

 

Everybody wants the "Truth!"---until...it hits them!

 

In the end---"it" (the-issue) either is or isn't...Simple!

 

Once Truth is evident---the impossible...becomes evident...and, is solved!

 

Now---we can have a conversation...if you love...Truth!

If you do not---then, simply, and spiritually-fatally...you are eternal- lost!

 

If you think Truth is difficult---just try...lies! (Got a Great-memory!?)

Truth!---reigns Supreme...Eternal-truth...not "your"-Truth!

 

Amen!