Greatest Gift ~ by Karrlin Bain

Greatest Gift
By Karrlin Bain ~ August 2012

Once upon a spring filled time
There was just a little girl
Her life was moving forward
Most times in such a whirl

At three ~ off on an adventure
She wandered (four houses) away
Across Stark Street
Over near Tom Field
Guardian angels she met that day

Mr. and Mrs. Tutt lived there
In their sweet little house of white
A retired principal and teacher they were
This little girl knew all was just right

“Mungry” she said
Short for “I’m hungry” he knew
Right then their love for her sealed
You see they’d no children of their own
Through this friendship
Their hearts were well healed

Mrs. Tutt taught her to read
All by the young age of five
With her they shared
Their hearts and their home
Forever impacting her life

Through all the rest of her days this girl
Read her way right through thick and through thin
She loved books, poems, writing and words so much
The rest of life barely fit in

They had given the greatest gift 
Imagination, Dreams, and Hope
Wings of Exciting Escape
The most Magical Mind and Scope

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The Journey is the Dream ~ by Karrlin Bain

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”

John Steinbeck (Thinkexist.com) Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. ~ Robert Frost ~ excerpt from The Road Not Taken "Don't stop believing"  by Journey (Hey... that counts!  ; ) "Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. But I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey — reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived." Jean-Luc Picard (13 July 2305 -) is a character in the Star Trek fictional universe                             The Journey is the Dream                                                       by Karrlin Bain

A dream just out of reach

Is of course the dream to chase

Stretch and grow and then just know

That you have won the race

Remember also what they say

As you move through each new day

The finish itself makes not the win

It is the journey on the way

So then I ask you this my friend

If that dream in very end

You did not quite achieve

How can it be an all-out fail

If in the journey you believe

The only fail there could have been

Was to give up on the way

And now your journey is achieved

Today is a new day

Believing that

These new days face

With hope and ease that dream erase

Then don’t give it a second thought

And now with

Brighter dreams

Replace

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