Writers Corner for August 19, 2011
Coeur d'Alene Press | UPDATED 15 years AGO
HORSE SENSE
By Keith Sargent, Mullan
Horses and people have more in common than you think. Have you ever seen a horse fed sugar? Once a horse has tasted the sweetness of sugar, it will do what it takes to obtain more. Dangle a sugar cube in front of a horse's nose, and I guarantee the horse will go for it every time. Humans are much the same. Once they have tasted a certain degree of success, a burning ambition is created within them. They will do whatever it takes to obtain more success. They never really find true satisfaction through ambition because ambitions are ever changing. They literally chase the wind until they die. All of us have an internal drive, however we have a choice. We can either control our ambitions or let our ambitions control us. Humans and horses are not that different from each other. Some will chase the wind until the end of time, even at the expense of life itself. I suggest we control our sugar intake - maybe the world would be a little sweeter for all of us.
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I hate to make a list
Of things to do
I've never seen one
I could get through
I made a list just yesterday
It's right by the one
I made today
I just found a list
That is six months old
It says to fix the furnace
Before it gets cold
I wish I'd read that
Back in September
Too late now
It's mid-December
Of all the lists we make today
Do any of them say
Take off to play?
Is there a list
That says go fishing?
Or to just take time
For wishful thinking?
No more lists
Not for me anyway
Except just this
Throw your list away.
- Marvin Wayne Tyacke, Post Falls
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what matters
it matters not,
how successful you are
according to your neighbor.
What counts is that
you fulfill your dreams,
and enjoy the labor.
though the search for gold
is a worthy endeavor,
finding your soul
will endure forever.
- james a. arras, Post Falls
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