Still wishing you were here (From The Woodsman’s Notebook) Here I stand head in hand with my back to the wall. I don’t know why but it sure feels strange my life seems like an old Beatles song. I don’t know why I live this way; I don’t understand it at all. I remember there was such a day I felt I stood over ten feet tall. I want to remember just how good I felt but now I can’t remember a thing at all Now I just sit here by the phone waiting for your call. It has been over twenty years actually thirty-four since that day we got the news. For five years after I put my head in a hole some call it alcohol abuse. I wish I had you to talk to, I wish others could understand. The way of life I used to have, before I sealed it in a can. Christmas comes and the New Year goes only wishing you were here. I’ll take my time to get it right but then again there’s always this time next year.                                                                                                                     The Woodsman 12/28/07			Philosophies of the Woodsman ( From The Woodsman’s Notebook ) One thing I have learned in this mans life is that when it comes to comparisons, this fact of life is the truest of all. Electricity and a fine woman are created exactly alike . . . If you treat them both with absolute respect, tender loving care and understanding. Should you do so, they will brighten your days unlike no other sun combined with our own, they will also bring a safe warm glow to fill our night, that could make a hundred moons jealous. But, treat either with disrespect or selfishness, they will leave you in the dark without any moments notice . . . So you idiots out there with the fire in your eye of who's boss, and who's got it made and look at me I'm great. Well look again; because in your meaningless lives, pushed back in the shadows of your silhouettes of greatness, remember the Lady who is standing there behind you holding you up. Treat other the way you prefer to be treated, unless you enjoy getting beat up with disrespect, which I doubt very highly, Show the respect to others, which they deserve. And the little things, like caring, trust and understanding, well . . . they couldn't hurt either . . . Enough on head bashing . . . Oh I almost forgot, work all the overtime you can . . . Uncle Sam could use the capitol gains . . . They were under bid on another drug deal . . .                                                                                                                                                                                     The Woodsman 4/03/97
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