My Love For You by Timothy Gerald Franklin Lawrence

My love for You
is bigger
than a shoe
 The End

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Look after yourself...without health
you are of no use to anyone.

If I owned this company,
would I hire someone like me?


THREE Angels!

THREE Angels!
Angela, Ash & Janelle

Ab's ( REALLY GOOD) Joke of the WEEK!

A great example of Flawless Male logic —
This is a conversation between a husband and his wife. Please note that she asks five or six questions which he answered quite simply; but, then she is speechless after answering only one question.

Woman: Do you drink beer?
Man: Yes.

Woman: How many beers a day?
Man: Usually about three.

Woman: How much do you pay per beer?
Man: $5.00 which includes a tip (this is where it gets scary!).

Woman: And how long have you been drinking?
Man: About 20 years, I suppose.

Woman: So a beer costs $5 and you have three beers a day which puts your spending each month at $450. In one year, that would be approximately $5400, correct?
Man: Sounds Correct.

Woman: If in 1 year you spend $5400, not accounting for inflation, over the past 20 years puts your spending at about $108,000, correct?
Man: Again, sounds about right.

Woman: Do you know that if you didn’t drink so much beer, that money could have been put in a step-up interest savings account and after accounting for compound interest for the past 20 years, you could have now bought an airplane?
Man: Could be true. Do you drink beer?

Woman: No.
Man: Where is your airplane?

for Kenneth Mayo

Hope AND SWIM !

When I fall into an ocean, I know with certainty


That I am wet and startled will at once be plain to me


But will I sink or will I swim...to the depths or to the shore?


Perhaps a log will come drifting by, or a boat out on a tour?


I could hope as I was sinking, but I’d still drop to the floor


And hoping would I be, for logs and tour boats evermore


So I think I’ll set my sights on land and give my legs a kick


And stroke though I am weary, my decision will I stick


While Hope sustains the helpless whose outlook is often dim


Hope also fuels the Faithful, giving Strength to those who swim


So even if I falter against this fearsome tide of health


The shores of my fulfillment rise beneath me in my stealth


I’m hopeful for the strength and the courage not to give in


I thank the Lord for Faith and my resolve to hope AND swim!


My prayers and God’s Blessings be with you my friend!

Timothy Lawrence

Abraham Stainer Esq.

Abraham Stainer Esq.
a.k.a. "Ab"

Tinker-Timmy & Friends

Tinker-Timmy & Friends
Jan'l. Angeela, Ash and Ab

Monday, December 8, 2008

Powerful Music -17


Morning Friend,
If "classical" music has absolutely no interest or value to you, then my "Thought Train" will probably pass you by today.
However, if music GENERALLY has an influence in your life; whether as an exclamation point to your mood, as a background to relaxation or as a motivational tool, then by all means, CLIMB ABOARD!
If you're a musical "fanatic" like myself who has music "ON" all the time, ( either physically or "in my head") then you are already aboard and will likely be nodding agreeably as you read, or else nodding to the beat of something on YOUR Monday "playlist".
Since my Monday mornings have now become Creative Writing adventures, my playlist often includes music that has been SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN to stimulate LEFT BRAIN ACTIVITY.
Scientists have proven the stimulative merits of music not only for creative inspiration, but for enhanced learning capability ( a "study aid" if you will ), and for the treatment of cognitive impairment as well.
Several studies even identified certain TYPES of music for their "brain-friendliness", with "classical" - specifically "baroque"- as the genre of choice.
HOW music written in the 16th to 19th centuries by such wondrously gifted geniuses as Bach, Correlli, Vivaldi, Mozart, et al...can have such a profound effect on the 21st Century's Stainer, Lawrence, Dandy, etc. is a mystery???
But speaking for myself/we, as I can only do... it DOES work.
I can't say what it does for the QUALITY of the writing, but there has been a few "magical" occasions where a stanza or two of the "Four Seasons" has BULLDOZED a case of creative impediment or when a harpsichord sonata will trigger the filling of a dauntingly empty page by a previously empty head.
Like "magic" you say?
Well, as one who has witnessed music's "magical power", from the delighted dancing of children, to the energetic life-force of teens, to the backdrop of love and romance, to the connective link in the mentally challenged, to the kindling of joyous memories in the aged, and the comforting refrain to the dying, I have no difficulty in describing its' role in my own creative process as WONDEROUSLY MAGICAL !
Today my friend, I'd like to share a TRADE SECRET! - a particular favorite tune of mine which I have found unerringly efficient in kick-starting the old left brain and which has become MONDAY MUSING's unofficial SOUNDTRACK.
You won't hear this song; on someone's boom box at the beach, roaring out of a gang-banger's car stereo, or echoing loudly out a drunken house party at three in the morning, but if it's playing at my house....there's some "writing" afoot.
It is Ludwig von Beethoven's Piano Concerto #5 in E flat major. In October 2007, this concerto was voted listeners' favorite in the ABC Classic FM Classic 100 Concert Poll.
Now I know I'm treading into the "grey area" of subjectivity here and this particular "tune" may simply "inspire" some people to go to sleep, ( at which it is also quite effective in doing).
You may already have a favorite song or genre of music which enervates your cerebral motor and if so, all the power to you.
Music with LYRICS is quite difficult to WRITE to, so I do recommend INSTRUMENTALS, or music in which you can't understand or comprehend the lyrics such as OPERA, or Bob Dylan?
I've certainly discovered that the old Train of Thought, indeed LIFE in general, rolls easier with a "musical" Conductor.
Love tImMy :/
“Laugh as much as you breathe
and love as long as you live." ( in harmony)
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Life Stories

Life Stories by Tim Lawrence

The end of life…is not!

It is the end of a Chapter in a Grand, Spiritual, Novel !

These chapters called “life”, are enriching, engrossing
narratives of one’s earthly adventures.

In them, are an abundance of supporting characters and
supplementary plot elements, often curiously overlapping
and mysteriously intertwining.

Their length and depth varies from person to person;
from protagonist to protagonist.

Some people who have “died” in chapters ended many years
ago, are still quite “alive” today!

Their SPIRIT; their influence, their charisma, their wisdom,
their character, their enthusiasm, their joy, their ESSENCE....
continues to fill the “life pages” of all they’ve touched.

Their frail and finite physical chapter is ended, but the richness
of their story flourishes, and enhances God’s Novel!

Like timeless passages, indelibly marked in our hearts and
memories, to be re-read and forever treasured….
their lives never truly “end”!

When through God’s Mercy, the earthly narrative of someone
we love, ends….their life does not!

And for that, we are truly blessed!

* Dedicated with gratitude and love to the enduring Spirit of all who transcend fear and inspire faith by truly living God’s gift of life to the fullest!! T.L.