[Personal] I was asked privately what my username meant...

@Grateful4you Cherokee interesting. You would be surprised of the number of American Indian tribes I have met or even once lived with.

@DeWayfarer I kind of had a sense of that. You seem to be a very old soul. Probably on your last earth walk. Or does that sound too "New Age?" lol. I have one foot in the present, the other tends to wander in between "ages" Trying to pick up the tears left behind on the trail of ancestors.

@Grateful4you I have been told many things. And any of them I don't put passed belief.

Another said I had three guardian angels around me. And that could also be true.

I don't tend to open up myself to certain things completely. Least I come across other, not so nice, things. Like certain types of ghosts. They all avoid me because I won't open up to them.

Sorry for deleting your reply, I want to like it! 😔

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@DeWayfarer Not so sure I have guardian angels they would have to be awfully tolerant of my religious skepticism. Having lived in the most haunted town in America, (Jerome Az) Ghost and Wiccan women are all old familiar friends, the veil between life and death is so thin it doesn't bother me to take a peep through now and then. I am mostly about love and empathy "evil" energy isn't much attracted to me.

@Grateful4you Something is guarding me I believe. What I don't know.

The ghosts of the past just don't effect me! And I do believe there are other ways to access the unseen.

Like a blind man can walk and still know where he is going, that is how I travel this world of ghosts.

@DeWayfarer Deleting my reply? Of all the noive you cad!...And I just told my best friend here what a fascinating, interesting person you seem to be. Now I feel like just one of the pedestrian ilk of SW kicked to the curb. (Kidding) I think you are exceptional bud.

@Grateful4you but I reposted it before I refreshed it! 🤷‍♂️😁

I do try to make up for my inadequacies. Sorry for my imperfections. 😔

@DeWayfarer I really don't seek those who have passed. I'm far more interested in hearing from the "Crazy lady on the bus" random people who have happened by and for some reason have shared a few words that made me pause and think. When I was losing my little restaurant such a random man came by, and shared something that changed my life. Made me realize my little business and losing it was of no real consequence.

@Grateful4you they do tend to change your life in the most unexpected ways. Such as this unknown person I spoke of a few days ago!



Yet sadly not even them I see around any more.

My vails of void isolate everyone now. 😔

It's what guards me against the ghosts of the past.

@DeWayfarer You have such a great gift and flair for language. Yes, sometimes we meet someone who touches us deeply then leaves a little void that makes us sad. It's how I've learned "Moments matter" I've become grateful that people will continue coming into my life some for awhile, others just for a time. You have so much to offer, I hope you won't isolate yourself too much. There are many here who NEED to hear you. Be kind and gentle with the person you are, I got short with a woman this morning, snapped without thinking, she was trying to be controlling and those types tends to shorten my tolerance fuse.

I've been feeling guilty how I snapped so quickly. I will apologize when I see her next time.

@Grateful4you the thing about voids is when you touch and don't get touched back!

That lady in the image is just one of hundreds if not more that never stick around to touch back.

And so the Vail of the void continues to thicken.

@Grateful4you that's a good option. Hopefully you will see her once again.

@DeWayfarer As a former employer/manager I know for a fact, you get much better results from people by actively empowering them, NOT attempts to control. It angers me when I see such character defects that belittle others. She talked to me like I was a five year old. Thus, I responded in like behavior.

@Grateful4you I'm most definitely not a controller of any type. If I should get angry I get angry at myself.

I do try to live by example, and that is a small part of the problem. For the examples I set are so abhorrent to those that need them.

Never was nor wanted to be the boss either. I avoided that trap easily.

So the vails grow ever thicker though.

@DeWayfarer I never sought for a "boss" model. I too strive to live by example. I used my so-called power to delegate many of my own responsibilities so employee's could learn my job, many of whom became managers of their own depts. One of them once said, "David is the kind of boss who can tell you to go to hell and you actually look forward to the trip." Being a manager for me was never about control. I won "Best Practices" by the Ca. dept. of health because I was able to dedicate myself toward the hospital district's mission statement. I can look back and feel proud that I had a staff I considered "family" and the brass plaque in our lobby that implied our dedication to excellence and quality of care. In my old age, those thoughts make me feel a modicum of a life fairly well spent.

@Grateful4you You accepted where I respectively declined purposely.

The boss is always the trap of society. Those higher up expect it.

You initially said:
Ask yourself what happens when the coyote looks back in the mirror. 😔

@DeWayfarer I see a man both foolish and aware of his own folly, but too, I see a man who sought to make magic, creating a medical environment that in spite of suffering and pain, was able to provide some quality of life in an otherwise dismal environment. I managed to integrate the local community into a place most folks avoided by hosting special events. The kids interacted with the patients teaching them it isn't all that fearsome, the patients forgot about the pain for moments participating in what they remembered as "normal" If that is a foolish folly, I gladly plead guilty. 😜

@Grateful4you and there by full filling the hopes of the higher ups.

Who is the boss in that situation? Who is the wolf that shows the coyote the mirror?


BTW those are wolves in the picture as mentioned in the caption below it. Cover of the book "The wolves" ! 😜

@DeWayfarer Of course, it pleased the "higher-ups" I meant to do that. I kissed ass admittedly, by doing that they increased my monthly budget which enabled me to purchase more elaborate decorations, funding food vendors so that instead of the regular hospital fare, patients sometimes enjoyed a REAL Luao, with paid entertainment.

Wolf isn't bad medicine for a coyote they sometimes enhance each other, they both sing songs and more often than not do so in harmony. I could be wrong and welcome criticism of course, I learn something new each time I log in.

@Grateful4you yet you still don't see the bigger picture.

The vails of void grow ever thicker! 😔

A council tribe member once said that I'm too smart for my own good. Sadly I agree with him now.

@DeWayfarer Sorry for being inferior. I won't waste any more of your time. Best wishes. David.

@Grateful4you added edit.


Never said I was better than him either. 😔

I'm just different.

@DeWayfarer Having been a dullard all my life I wouldn't know the pain of "too smart" Being slow takes more effort trying hard to appear normal to you smart people. Kind of like Alice down the rabbit hole.