The Kiss

 It's been around 38 days since I lost my wife Natalie, to some she was a mother, to others
she was a best friend, to me she was my best friend and soul mate. We were together over
twenty years, and in that time we rarely had a harsh word between us. She was always doing
something for me all the time, people would tell me how much she loved me, hell I new that,
it was no secret how we felt toward each other. Natalie had this thing she started from the
first time we started going together, lets call it Natalie's rule, we would never part for the day
without a kiss, on arriving back home a kiss, when we went to bed a kiss, even if I went to
bed before her, she'd wake me up for that kiss, and of course there was the morning kiss.
On the day she passed, she drove me to work and before I left the car as always there was
that kiss, I remember that kiss, she had on dark lipstick, I gave her a peck on the lips and
then one more and got out of the car, and that was the last time I saw her alive. A long time
ago when I met Natalie's mother she asked me to take care of her, I promised I would,
the truth is through the good and bad times we took care of each other. She always said
that she wanted to die before me, because she didn't want to be left alone without me.
Well I tell you being left here alone without her is really hard, at times the grief is almost
more then I can handle. I can remember the first time we kissed and where, and now
the last time, life as come full circle.


              

Worth Living

What makes life worth living for you? I'm sure we all have different answers to
that question. As I pondered the question to myself the other day, and after
eliminating  a lot of very good answers, I came up with this one. What makes life
worth living is not being able to answer all the questions. If we new all the answers,
then life would have no meaning. As said in a quote "Life is a journey, not a
destination." and so the journey is the question and the destination is the answer.
I love finally getting the answer, but the question was the journey, on its away to
an answer.

      Bruce Knipp
 

The Unfairness of Life

Been a lot of talk lately about fairness, so I thought I'd just
add my two cents into the conversation. So here it goes, Life Is
Not Fair, it's not supposed to be, what life is, is a challenge.
A set of obstacles to be overcome, some of us have enormous
difficulties to overcome, while others seem to just skate through
life with not a care in the world. A case of the grass being
greener on the other side. Fairness in life doesn't exist, it's
against the laws of nature, it's a dog eat dog would, where only
the strong survive.

Now some in government talk about try to legislate fairness.
Try as you may, you can not legislate fairness, because it can't
be done for long, sooner or later it will revert back to the laws
of nature. Life is just not fair, deal with it.



Bruce Knipp

The Little Things

When things seem to get overwhelming in your life, its time to take a
brake, and start to look at the little things in life that are all around
us. Things we have seen many times before, now its time to see them with the
eyes of  children, its time to see the wonder and magic of it all. A sunrise
when the dark of night fades into the light of day, and your day starts with amazing colors spread across the morning sky. If its spring or summer you can watch
the erratic flight of a butterfly as it crosses your yard, or the air show
put on by dragonflies or the wonders of the hummingbird as it hovers at the flowers edge.
The rainbow after a spring rain, lighting chasing itself across the darkened sky. In fall the colors of the leaves or in winter snow flakes on the window pain, a dense fog that makes the familiar, unfamiliar.
The Sunset, when light races to meet the darkness of the night sky with bold colors bouncing off clouds before its demise, the sound of crickets closing
out the day and the small lights of fireflies blinking through the night.
Time travelers called star light that not many stop to see anymore. All
these things and many more are free, they only need a little of your time,
in return, they will cleanse your mind and restore your soul.