The woodlands

There is this place I would go as a child and it was better than any hotel room with gigantic flat screen televisions and plush pillows among other amenities

Better than any roller coaster that went so fast you would lose your hat and glasses

Better than any book filled to the brim with adventures to lands foreign and domestic

This place that I went to is deep in the lush green forest in a place called the woodlands

The trees in this place scale the skyline

Removing the outside from your view and thrusting you into a world of its own

At night you would hear many creatures with eyes golden peering through the bushes moving along your path making rustlings you would hear throughout the evening

It was then that the lights came out shining on us as I would take across rocky waters and up the tallest of mountains

It was said that the mountains kissed the clouds and all I knew was that I wanted to as well, and to have many adventures as I could

So I did

To live like a child

I was just looking at the children at my mother’s daycare

They were starring at a fence and saying hello to pig, to bird, to cow, to all the farm animals their eyes could see

They wondered at the simplest things

I can’t even remember what it was like to do such awe of earthly things that seem so pedestrian and commonplace today

The children ran with such glee and are so merry and so happy by just running and playing and calling me to chase them as a monster

They live so purely

I am envious of such days

When I could as they do

To live like a child and be happy without much of a reason and be in bewilderment of the wind

Of the trees

Of the grass or of bees

Mr.Smiles

There was a gas attendant at a shell station on the corner of 72^nd avenue and upper boones ferry rd

He was smiling and singing with the sunshine on his back

To do this is no small thing

A man whom has done this deserves my upmost admiration

Worthy of emulation

I do not remember his name

I call him smiles

Because he did so

So wide that it could not be measured

No matter what happens or how bad it may get, if I can smile

I know everything will be alright