Light the Dark!

Vol. 1  Chap. 461

            Light the Dark!

Christmas Joy Should Not Be Fleeting!

To Preserve Warm Season’s Greeting,

I Propose We Each Light the Dark

From One Eternal Christmas Spark!

If All Year We Could Spread Its Joys

To All Men, Women, Girls and Boys …

If We Could Keep Our Hearts In Tune

With Christ’s Birth Past Spring, Long Past June …

Our World Could Feel a Cosmic Shift!

Christmas Spirits Could Thaw Each Rift!

We’ll All Feel Civility Lift

Cultivating Our Year~Round Gift!

What’s That You Say?   I’m Just Naïve!

Starry Eyed Kids Of Course Believe

We Just Need a Course Correction!

Then All’s Eden and Perfection!

If For a Day We Can Achieve

Peace on Earth Once, Then I Believe,

If You Light Your Candle from Mine,

We’ll Spread Out … Make Our Whole World Shine!

Happy New Year Everybody!

Your Grampa Sure Loves Y’All!

Love~Grampa

Joy In Deed!

Vol. 1  Chap. 460

          Joy In Deed!

      
      I’d Love to Give All Folks a Gift,

      A Christmas Present That Might Lift

      Most Adults Spirits and Their Kids!

      Wow Their Brains!   Open Their Eyelids!

      Here in the Finest Land on Earth,

      We Often Forget ‘bout the Birth

      That’s the Over~Riding Reason

      For This Joyous Christmas Season!

      We Focus ‘Stead on What We’ll Get!

      It’s Sad, I Think, Lest We Forget

      We’ve Got All We Need to Find Bliss

      If We Could Just Remember This …

      More Stuff is Not What Stokes Our Joy!

      Face It!   We Aren’t So Hoi~Polloi,

      We Could Never Find Happiness

      If We Should Rake In Much, Much Less!

      Joy is Found Doing For Others!

      It’s Found Helping Out Our Mothers!

      Assisting Those With Urgent Needs

      My Gift to You … Find Joy … In Deeds!

Merry Christmas All!

Your Grampa Sure Loves Y’All!

Love~Grampa

Chill~Ax!

Vol. 1  Chap. 459

             Chill~Ax!

I Wish Grown~Ups Could Just Chill~Ax!

Take Lessons From Kids and Relax!

Instead of Being So Up~Tight,

I Wish They Could, I Wish They Might,

Find Times to Gather in Small Groups,

Maybe Gossip and Trade Hot Scoops!

Bet It Would Add Years to Their Lives!

Ease Nervous Twitches and Cure Hives!

I'd Love to Think They Could All Find

Less Pressure in Their Daily Grind

An Oasis of Silliness

That Could Lessen Their Work Place Stress!

Assign a Kid With a Whistle,

When They Hear It, They'll Know This'll

Mean It's Time to De~Pressurize!

Capiche?   Well Let Me Summarize!

Our Parents Live a Cretin's Life!

It's Dog Eat Dog with Tons of Strife!

To Teach Parents This Free Work~Perk,

I Say We Whistle While They Work!

Your Grampa Sure Loves Y'All!

Love~Grampa

Etiquette!

Vol. 1  Chap. 458

         Etiquette!

You Know I’ve Modeled Etiquette

For Approaching Most Every Pet!

Dogs, Goats, Cows and Pot~Bellied Pigs

All Appear on Mom’s Running Gigs!

Our Mom and Friends Run Sylvan Trails

On Paths Replete With Strong Females!

Sometimes Along Their Grueling Course,

If They’re Lucky, They Meet a Horse!

I’ve Shown Mom How With Special Care,

To Greet Any Horse, Anywhere!

See, I am a Firm Believer

Horses Love Over~Achievers!

I Think There’s Something Quite Divine

About Each Tall, Regal Equine!

I Know They Aid Our Sanity!

Horses Teach Us Humanity!

So I Was Thrilled to Discover

This Horse Bonded With Our Mother!

Two Roads Diverge Into the Wood ...

Take That With Horses, If You Could!

Your Grampa Sure Loves Y’All!

Love~Grampa

Post~Thanksgiving!

Vol. 1  Chap. 457

  Post~Thanksgiving!

While Driving Home From Iron Mike’s

Post~Thanksgiving, I Uttered, “Yikes!”

When Bella Asked Seriously

If She Could Drive Our Mom and Me!

When Our Mom Drives Hundreds of Miles,

I’m Awed She’s Awake All the While!

The Arizona Trip For Me,

Means Three Hours Sleep … Guaranty!

One Point Five Years, I’ll Be Driving!

Sure I’ll Get Us There Alive an'

Kicking!   But For Now, I'll Just Try

To Ride That Far With No Shut~Eye!

The Tires Hummed!   The Engine Purred!

Next Thing I Know … Well, It Occurred

To Me That I May Have Dozed Off!

Now Hear Me Out!   Try Not to Scoff!

Next Sight I See’s Our Garage Door!

So Far, OK!   But Wait!   There’s More!

Bella is at the Steering Wheel!
Mom’s In the Backseat!   Is This Real?

Your Grampa Sure Loves Y’All!

Love~Grampa 

Thanksgiving in Arizona!

Vol. 1  Chap. 456

Thanksgiving in Arizona!

We Rolled East Toward Arizona!

Long Treks Do Change My Persona!

Thought Our Journey Would Never End!

Sang, “Are We There Yet?” Lots My Friend!

There’s No Place Better That We Knowed

Than Iron Mike’s Friendly Abode!

Claudia, Wyatt and Zilla

All Inhabit Their Grand Villa!

But Wait!   There’s More!   Each Campbell Kid

Flew West Bringing Their Mom, They Did!

And Mike’s Grown Men Were at His Side!
Cousin Joe Beams Next to His Bride!

Even Zilla Joins Show and Tell!

She Has Two Giant Pups as Well!

Mike Gets Mom and Audrey Braying!

Unseen, Lexi Starts Crocheting!

Inside, the House Smells So Divine!

Distracted, I Missed Ev’ry Sign!

Lexi’s Fingers Flew So Fast That

Lex Crocheted All Twenty a Hat!

Happy Thanksgiving All!

Your Grampa Sure Loves Y’All!

Love~Grampa