There are moments
When I feel
Like such an amateur
Then the payments come
So much more
Than I could ever hope for
The only falling short
Is ever thinking
That life
Is fated to be
Any won thing
Except
Well
Spent
Surpassing awe
In deed not
Buy miserly prose
Dying with more
Than a pauper attitude
Lein-ing on the everlasting alms
That train to glory
Bound
Less debt
Eternally
Life is good. The gift of life offers so many great things and awesome possibilities. Gratitude strikes me as perhaps the most fundamental human attitude toward life, if reality is seen in a large enough perspective. Maybe I’m just lucky. I prefer to view it as grace. Either way, I have experienced the bounty of serendipity on countless occasions — and I count these occasions as priceless! Hopefully, such a beautiful predicament engenders paying it back and paying it forward. I see life as an invitation to more life. I view vitality as best served by generously overflowing, by joining in and continuing the perpetual cycling of giving. Miserly attitudes can stunt this wondrous cycling. Greed is a parasite on plenty. May gratitude and generosity carry you as a living antidote to miserliness and greed.
