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The Candle … by Bob Chipman

The flame is lit, the candle stands strong
Yet the candle starts to cry …

The fire burns hot and the candle endures,
And the candle cries on …

The flame is bright as the candle grows smaller,
The wind blows and the fire crawls higher…

And the candle cries harder…

The flame weakens as the candle grows older…

And the candle feels its flame sputtering …

soon it will be gone,
And the candle weeps softly …

A wisp of smoke,
And the candle dies …

With its purpose spent,
a life of light and warmth,

It leaves behind a frozen puddle of tears,
Not of pain, not of sorrow,

But of Joy … and Completion.

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Brightest Blessings :-)

As you have probably noticed, if you have been reading my posts, that many of my days are just plain ordinary days … and there is nothing wrong with that … except you may all get tired of me posting went to work, came home from work, ate a meal, was a good day ,etc.

My daily life is very ordinary, now and then broken up with the extraordinary … and sometimes I don’t think to remember something I should maybe write in the blog … so it’s been a couple months and I have posted “A Day in the Life of a Bob” enough times I thought I would change how I post …

instead of posting every day like I’ve been, I think I’m going to post every few days so I have more in my head to draw from :-)

I have active days and passive days, thought-wise … sometimes the brain works fine and sometimes it just coasts along … this winter has been a little worse than others between the season affective disorder, illness and the yearly tendency to damage myself in some way at work ( it is becoming more apparent that as I get older I’m becoming a bit of a “klutz” :-) and my brain feels like it’s just now coming out of hibernation.

So with that, yesterday was a good day, today is shaping up to be just as good if not better :-)

Brightest Blessings :-)

Brightest Blessings :-)

Tonight I made chicken croquets and noodles for supper and now settling out and catching up on e-mails and such :-)

Brightest Blessings :-)

Can’t wait to be home tomorrow to get back online myself (neither can his wife!).

Brightest Blessings :)
As dictated to the wife (Thank the Goddess he’ll be home tomorrow!)

In a way it’s kind of nice. In another way I feel like I’m in rehab… starting to get cold sweats and shakes. My hand keeps moving across the desk like it’s holding a mouse but I only have to hold out 2 more days.

Brightest Blessings :)
as dictated by the said wonderful wife (Goodnight everyone!)

Still, I made us a nice lunch with rotisserie chicken ( I LOVE our rotisserie ! ) , carrots, corn, stuffing, potatoes and green beans. I can’t help it … I love to cook ….

now back to resting and fighting off the cold …

Brightest Blessings :-)

Sandy has a cold so I spent most of the day making sure she was resting enough. Now we are just settling out for the night, probably going to watch some old episodes of “Land of The Lost” :-)

Brightest Blessings :-)

Tonight we had homemade chicken pie for supper and settling out and watching “Wipeout”

Welcome to the weekend !! :-)

Brightest Blessings :-)

For the main course I made prime rib rubbed with butter, garlic, onion, basil, thyme and salt with au jus, mashed potatoes and homemade gravy and fresh carrots …

For dessert we had some wonderful fruit dipped in chocolate from Edible Arrangements.

It was a good day :-)

Brightest Blessings :-)