We Were Going to Sarajevo Again

Somebody was in town to play music and we needed to be there.  Four of us from Gornji Vakuf with no car to get there.  We would split up much easier to hitch hike and we would go different ways.  Logic was in the water in Bosnia not the words.  Through Kojnic or Turbe didn't really matter we were going around.  About three hours each way from the cross roads of route Diamond.  Most of the ways on the Balkans were like this.  In Mostar we were driving for the coast and the signs said Sarajevo was the other way, but it didn't understand it was also the other way around with this beautiful drive up the coast.  Was always better driving.  I liked to tell people how  I watched individual trees grow.  Takes longer to get a ride for four and we would be on different roads different opportunities.

We got our first ride to Dornji Vakuf and we walked across to the other side to find the next.  In the middle there is this river which usually is crossed by one bridge but today was joined by another temporary one.  Ifor they were called then were fixing the bridge.  The army took this town back the last months of the war.  Made our journey a bit shorter opening the road to Turbe as well.  It isn't strange newly recaptured territory because it is your people.  Nobody is from there recently so it has this unique feel that surprises you and feels completely comfortable.  He asked me if I knew why they put another bridge.  This moment I never forget.  He said so our people wont throw trash in the river.  It would just go on the next bridge.  It was a trip.

Thing is not that long ago there was no garbage in Bosnia.  There were three of us traveling this way I think and three traveling the other but I always remember him and me alone on that bridge.  Math was usually fuzzy there.  The last ride into the city was not long but odd.  It was a car from Serbia which I had never seen with an old license plate I only saw in movies.  The communist one which they didn't change till I later lived in Serbia.  Some times in life you see physical things from your future.  No one ever calls it time travel but we have a built in machine for it.

I don't remember a word he said.  I spoke ok then.  Like those Americans who couldn't see the ships when they first arrived.  Just didn't cognitively relate that it was possible this experience.  The car was carpeted.  And there were three of us in the car with this guy going to Sarajevo.  The thing is I'm not sure right now.  I felt safe because I wasn't alone; no one was.  We walked the early morning eating the first bread sticks.  We got home somehow in a day or two.

We Can Talk Soon

Certain signs send us in our direction diligently different
Here heading into the future
Unaware and hopeful
Our minds can be changed
Our hearts are made from different things

Your diet your disposition
We have this ability to talk soon
Lives can be rearranged life no notice
I sometimes am lost in a glance
Life can be of such things we dream

We can talk soon
Circle around at any moment of thought
Share a destination a continuation of this now
Now an entire world of possible before me
I love most of the things that happen to me

Trading degrading
Everybody has their own
I have this something I would like to describe more
These words fall
We will talk soon

 Things can be mistaken also repaired
Life will go wrong and right
Change comes in a moment
Through the turn of a phrase
Not that it has to but it tends do does

In any direction forward is hardship and forbearance
Peace and tranquility bloom in every field
Certain possibilities only I root for
Some no one else can see
A process continues

In ten days perhaps we will talk
I am doing many different things
And find myself listening already now and then
Somethings are easier to identify than others
Couple things you know the first time you see

Nothing to lose
Everything everyday

What schools do best

Making a place safe is what schools do best.   Kindergartner and freshman have similar looks in their eyes.   They feel they must be here.   Sometimes I think they find this contentment.  I know nothing else really occurs anything else to be doing.   Their care givers are mostly busy.   They aren't missing anything.

Safe is the first great thing you need to work with children and this is what a school needs to do best
   Create an atmosphere of freedom and support

The hardest thing schools do is teach that the world is dangerous

Priorities as they are more kids feel safe than do not
More kids than not believe adults will always bother them
Instruct them restrict them search for them upon absence

What we know as very soon the teen ager sees an event horizon
Time slows to a crawl
It is the gravity of the situation for them
Collapse would be predicted they do ok

Failure is natural success is the mystery of life
School is a multi variable problem
And there is a reason they teach so few of them
People every day show up to figure this out

K through 12 schools do very well teaching that we are safe

They hear each other first that is what kids do best
We need to join their conversation maybe let them sleep a bit longer in the morning

Beautiful

She had Eight kids and she always had their number
You had to there was no other alternative
Makes sense

Certain things contain an infinity of them
Other possibilities
Those best possible our hope

People see things differently
Different things hold beauty for us
It is something you feel before you recognize

Unto Ceasor

Jesus wants your time not your money
It only looks impossible
So few try

Lost in willful ignorance
Somehow doesn't bring you to tears
Simple answers difficult decisions

Write truth and still play along
Coding the bioshere for the better

Pixie of the externalities
We are internalities