Rick Reiley's Blog (57)

'Summer Already?'

Christmas Eve, New Year's Day, June first.....wait a minute....what happened?

Gets more noticeable every year. Time has a way of slipping up on even the best prepared among us.

Now, today, we have the whole summer ahead of us. And before we know it...Halloween, New Year's Eve all over again.

Where did summer go? Where…

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aW5WPA9Uhw

A brief video and narrative about the place I learned everything worth knowing: my alma mater- Hillside School, D-108, Cushing, Payne County, Oklahoma.

Written a few years ago when faced with a simple task for which I felt ill suited to carry out. It served and continues to serve it's purpose.



'Empower Me Jesus'



(intro)

Be kind, be merciful

Feed bodies and souls

Don't fear the madness

That sometimes takes hold

The greatest power you'll know

Grows from within

When you open your heart

And let Him come in.



Empower me Jesus

Embolden me Jesus

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'Let Ignorance Be Bliss'

copyright 2010 by Rick Reiley

Did you ever get the idea or the notion

That you really don't…

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'Big Dreams'

I read a story the other day about a relatively large lady who has high hopes of being able to claim the Guinness world record title of the 'world's fattest woman'

in the near future. She weights 560 pounds now and hopes to weigh

1,000 pounds in the next couple of…

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'A Revelation'

by Rick Reiley

It came to his attention

As the bullets splintered wood

Things were not as peaceful

As he had thought he understood…

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I am posting this to see how this portrait compares to other parts of the country. This is not predominant here but we don't have to go too far to see it.

“Dirty Town”

copyright 2010 by Rick Reiley

(in A minor of course- what else…

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'The Kansas Painter'

They made love in the Eiffel tower

Back in 1959

He was pushin' 80

When he told us of that time

We were young why shouldn't we…

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'It's Above Freezing Can Spring Be Far Behind?'



Okay ladies and gentlemen the sun is up , the pipes have thawed, I'm in a better mood and Spring is just up ahead. Things are on the upswing. I'm lucky I had no burst pipes. And I'm also lucky to have had plenty of clothes to keep me warm. Some folks laugh because I dress in many, many layers this time of year. I figure if it gives them entertainment, let them laugh. I have yet to suffer much from cold weather even when I'm in it. I… Continue

'My New Year Airline Security Plan'



Okay so we end the new year with some guy lighting his underwear om fire on an airliner. Sure it could have been a catastrophe. But it wasn't, thanks to some alert passengers. The government had been warned about this man but no one thought enough about it to put this guy on the 'no fly' list. Thanks to alert passengers neither they nor the airliner were grievously injured.



I think the safeguards put into place at airports around the… Continue

I wouldn't mind spending the day with Abe Lincoln, Carl Sandburg, Jesus, my grandpa, my uncle Larry, or maybe aunt Trinna. But I think if push came to shove It would be a toss up between Jesus and great uncle Bert Lockwood. Uncle Bert was the black sheep of the Munday clan. Died on the streets of Wichita - an alcoholic wreck or so we're told. Died 44 years ago.



Uncle Bert was a poet- his only published work a very intuitive and wrenching portrayal of war and war profiteers.… Continue

'Here's To Us'

coyright 2009 by Rick Reiley



Here's to the people who make things happen

Workers of body and mind

Those who tote barges and lift up bales

And hang their lives on the line



Here's to those who accomplish a little

And those who accomplish a lot

Those who make breakfast and pour morning coffee

And paint lines on the parking lot



Here's to the others, the culprits and misfits

The ones who don't fit at… Continue

No earth shattering revelations here. Just fell out.





'Guilty Parties'



I am surrounded by guilty parties

And sometimes the guilty party all night long

It's hard to sleep when these guilty parties

All break out in song



I am surrounded by conflicts of conscience

Or maybe just good intentions gone astray

I am surrounded by guilty parties

Guilty parties either way



(chorus)

When I was a baby the world was… Continue

'Old Dogs'

I've got an old dog in my backyard. Nothing new about that scenario but this is an old dog that's new to me. He's lost and is looking for his home. He's a shepard mix of some sort and old enough to have met Columbus when his ship first arrived- at east that's what I'm guessing. He's blind, partly crippled and deaf with a tumor on his right hind leg. But he's a good old dog.



He was wandering in heavy traffic out on W. Main Friday afternoon, looking helpless when a lady… Continue

Field of Dreams.......I saw the movie many years ago. My interpretation of the movie Field of Dreams is that our dreams...are often times are far more important to us and to others than we realize. (I emphasize others in this case). Sometimes we have to let the dream have a life of its own in the real world and let it play out. Many times it's not the reality of the dream coming true but the process that unfolds that is the most important reality. I separate dreams occasionally from idle… Continue