Nature’s Gift

~ Gottfried

People say you can’t live without love but I think oxygen is more important. How would the world react if it turned out that trees were actually harming us? Trees do harm us. They drop limbs onto roadways and houses. They also produce pollen which aggravates allergies. Does the good they do still outweigh the harm? Yes, toilet paper.

I think it’s time for old man Winter to get Mother Nature drunk, and have a little fun making Spring. Nature, she’s a bit of a show off, always putting on a colorful display for all to see. Camping is Nature’s way of promoting the motel business. Let us permit Nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Get lost in nature and you will find yourself. I went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out until sundown. For going out, I found was really going in. We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children. A funny thing about human nature, nobody wonders why they have a healthy brother or a perfect child. Where flowers bloom, so does hope.

We are living on this planet like we have another place to go to. Go to heaven for the climate, hell for the company. It’s funny isn’t it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you can go back to being a kid. Earth provides just enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.

Hiking is actually just walking, only on dirt or rocks, or on uneven surfaces. Or walking where an animal larger than you can kill and eat. There’s a demographic you never see on hiking expeditions. In hiking situations we all know who gets eaten on the one-off occasion. If you do find one, he’s probably the tour guide keeping a fair distance.

Whoever established the high road and how high it should be should be fired. Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt. Time spent among trees is never wasted time. Always hike with someone in worse shape than you. The bears out there will know. If you ever go hiking, bring a compass.

It’s awkward when you have to eat your friends.

©️ Gottfried. All rights reserved

54 thoughts on “Nature’s Gift”

  1. Ah Yes Mr Gottfried
    Now i’M Wide Awake
    Always Woke Hehe Nature

    Is the Boss i’m Just A Pea On
    A Pea Vine GRoWinG Underground

    Does Nature Have to Comply With Human

    Words Just Try Her on For Size Yet Don’t Turn YouR

    Back When She’s
    LeAKinG TSuNaMi’s

    True Rogue Waves Come And
    Go We’ve Really Heated Up the
    Winter Oceans And La Nina Ain’t

    Gonna Blow the Big Atlantic Winds Away

    True the ‘Orange State’ Is Currently in the Way
    of House Insurance So They Say So They Speak

    So They Evaporate

    In Coming Summer Heat

    Melting Melting Like Rudy
    Giuliani’s Face Feeling Like

    Such An Alien to the Truth

    The Wizard of Oz Always

    The Fool Nature Will

    Slay it All NoW in

    Poppy FieldS UNLeaSHeD

    Yep a Watershed MoMent Once Again

    Click Click Click It’s Still Not Safe in Kansas

    As After Cat 6 Hurricanes Come F6 Tornadoes

    i’m
    on my
    Way HAha…

    JusT ANoTHeR
    LiVinG Tree Two or Three..:)

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        1. “Lil Wayne has nothing on you!”

          HaHa Your Brevity of Wit is Amazing
          Mr Gottfried As You’ve Probably Surmised
          By Now i’m A Student Gaining More Human

          Potential
          Paying
          FULL
          ATTENTioN
          to the Teacher

          Thanks For That and
          Regarding Human Comparisons
          to Notable Folks and Memes in Culture

          Just Yesterday at the Mall A Lovely Young Woman
          Who Served Us Sea Food Dinner at a Restaurant
          Notifying me i am a Local Celebrity Back then in

          2019 Yes Did It again at the Mall Yesterday While
          i Was Public Dancing Traveling to Different Stores

          Including The Earth Store Ross Dress for Less The
          Burlington Outlet Store Barnes and Noble Where i

          (What i Particularly Like About the Discount Stores
          is That’s Where the Most Aesthetically Pleasing Immigrants

          Shop)

          Entertained the College Study Crowd at the Starbucks
          Flavored Cafe Finishing A Whole Book Called ‘She Comes
          First’ As the Sweet Book Store Customer Service Assistant Asked

          me Which Book i Finished
          And i Said Don’t Wanna Provide an Oral
          Reply That Might Be A Bit Embarrassing Hehe

          Anyway the Young Woman Went on to Describe Her
          First Observances of me Public Dancing Back in 2017
          That Began All the Way Back in August of 2013 at Walmart
          Dear Lord All the Way Up to 19,793 Miles of Public Dancing Now
          in 127 Months She Said When i Would Come in to Dance the Customer
          Service Representatives would Get on Their Walkie Talkies And Notify

          Each Other
          The Dancing
          Man Has Returned
          Again for Novelty

          of What He Might
          Do Next in the Free
          Dance of the Night
          Generating Free Smiles
          As They also Said i Bring
          Spring to Winter That Way
          Warming it All Up in my Sweat of Course hehe

          It’s Like that everywhere we go Now wouldn’t be
          Much Different if i was the Local Weather Man
          During Hurricane Season at a Store They Will

          Just Whisper
          There He is
          He’s Returned
          to Our Locality Now

          Wondering if and when
          Another Public Dance Will Commence

          (Much Better Than advancing Hurricanes)

          Dear Lord it’s So Much Fun Being Bugs Bunny
          Particularly when ya get to Befuddle Some of
          The Elmer Fudd’s Around the Metro Area too

          Keeping a
          Safe Distance
          As True they
          Come Armed
          With Hunter’s
          Guns and the Such True

          Anyway no one Else Has Ever
          Compared me to Bugs Bunny
          my Wife Says i am Something
          Yet She is Not Sure What Yet Yes

          True Other Interesting Comparisons
          Have Come And Still Do Particularly Interesting
          as they are Still in the Permanent Record Online
          Easy to Find With Just the Right Keywords in a Google Search

          Yep on A Place Called the ‘Wrong Planet’ i Was Compared to a
          Person Who Should Be Tied Down in an Institution And Given
          a Shot of Thorazine as Sadly they Were Rather ‘Left Brain’ Restricted
          And my Metaphors Naturally Went Way over their Head Yet as it has

          Been Related
          Before i Understand
          They ‘Know Not What they
          Do Not Understand’ So i Easily
          Forgive them as Yes I DO UNDERSTAND

          THEM PERHAPS A BIT MORE THAN THEY Me HEHE…

          Nah, They Don’t Have to Worry About Knowing me i Know Them…

          Anyway i Shared That Gif of me that i Once Shared With You in the
          Middle of an Ocean of Beautiful Women Dancing at the Largest Metro
          Area Dance Hall With One of Them Even Giving me a Respect of A Peck

          of A Kiss
          on my Ear
          As Such as Yes
          i Have Several
          More Pieces of
          Photographic Evidence
          of How Folks Accept me
          At Least the Female Part
          of the Species Out in the Wild of Human Nature

          True Let’s Keep This on Your ToPiC of Nature too HAha…

          Anyway Every Human is a ‘Rorschach Test’ For Other Humans
          to Discern Now and of Course Naturally They Project Their Own

          Experiences to What may be totally Unrelated to the Other Person too

          At Walmart One of the Most Uncomfortable Experiences when A Viral Video in
          2018 of me With around 90 Thousand Views a Video Voyeur Took For Their Personal

          Social Media
          Attention of
          Course Dear

          Lord the Young
          Folks Were Actually
          Mocking Worship to
          me on Bended Knee
          With Their Hands Clasped in Prayer

          Of Course i Just Reminded them that i was
          Just A Humble Servant of Handing Out Rental
          Shoes at A Military Bowling Center For Almost

          Two Decades Before After a Handful of Other Promotions
          At the Equivalent Pay Grade Level of a Marine Major as Such

          Retiring Early

          With 25 Years
          of Service
          Almost Dead Then

          True i Haven’t Worked
          For Pay in 16 Plus Years

          Anyway Before the Online Record
          Church Groups Would Come into Bowl
          And Dear Lord The Leaders Literally Compared
          me to Jesus Telling me i Was the Best Example of

          A Christian They Ever met
          During a Hiatus of Not
          Visiting Any
          Church at
          all for 23 Years
          of Work Sweat Blood and TearS Hehe

          Hey i Was Just Being me i Guess That’s Why the
          Sweet Young Woman From Whataburger Working
          There Runs Out of the Back to Give me a Hug whenever

          We Come in And True i Told Her my Wife Wanted one too

          So Sweet She Complied With my Suggestion too Anyway

          Not What the Book i Was Reading Was About Yet in my

          Book Women Always Come First As They are the Ones

          Who Have Always Been Kind to me Most as Here’s

          A Clue Women Do Appreciate Kind Dudes More

          Than Just a Stiff Upper Lip and the Such hehe

          Yes i Find and Found a Free Dance With Nary a Care
          About Who Is Watching Never Seeming Like i am Desperate
          To get Anything From Anyone Else Naked Enough Whole Complete

          With of Course A Poetic Tongue Filled And Felt With SPiRiT HeART and SoUL

          Fires Up the
          Kindness of
          ‘Them’ Towards
          Me Even More
          Where Life Just
          Seems Like Heaven
          Wherever Ya Might Go HAha…

          i Didn’t Come Here to Make Money
          Yet i’ve Figured This Place Out Indeed

          The confidence of Bugs Bunny With even
          More Rabbit Holes to Explore Speaking of Rabbit

          Holes the Most Unusual Comparison of Notable parts
          of Existence Was When a Deeper Thinking More Right
          Hemisphered Dude on the Wrong Planet Compared me

          to a ‘Perfect Definition of God’

          Yet He Wasn’t Suggesting it Literally

          Just Relating That i Had Conquered my Own
          Demons And Returned to LiGHT out of the DarK

          Meh Just the Common Hero Archetype Story Just Common
          Almost Boring in Literature and Other Arts Throughout the Ages…

          (The ‘JeSuS MeMe’ Can’t Possibly Die Human Archetypes Do LiVE oN)

          Yes Other Comparisons in the Permanent Record on the Wrong Planet

          Include
          Yoda
          And Buddha
          And Creative Genius

          And of Course Just About
          Every Mental Illness they could Dream Up Too

          Yet Here’s the Deal i’ve Written my Obituary in
          Permanent Enough Ink Online at Least as
          Long As Servers Freely Serve my Soul Up

          in my Life Women

          Come First and

          Before i Leave Their
          Side i Leave Them SMiLing

          That’s Enough Success for A ‘Real Man’ Indeed hehe
          A Man of the Forest Deep Pan Who Understands What’s Really Real…

          It’s All Flowers
          my FRiEnD

          LoVE iN
          Peace

          Bee i
          Will
          Continue to Be..:)

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          4. PracticAlly Mother
            NATuRE iNSPiRinG
            TSuNaMi’s Yes Like
            The Last Bi-Weekly
            EPiC Long Form Blog
            Poem at 64K Words
            ‘Another
            DaY iN
            The Life’
            Yesterday
            Of 6460 Words
            Resting my Feet
            On Monday From
            Another DaY iN The
            Life on SuNDaY From

            All Day
            Public
            Dance

            Hehe Practically
            A New ‘Drain Field’

            Every
            Day
            With
            SMiLes
            Of Great
            Thanks And
            Praise To Your

            Brevity Of Wit
            Mr Gottfried
            Still Trying to

            Be

            More
            Like me Hehe 🙃

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      1. “Sometimes I feel like I’m a Coyote inside, and I need to run into the woods”

        Don’t Feel Bad Mr Gottfried Hehe i’ve Also Been Compared to A Bear True

        Every Now And Then We Just Get Out in the

        Woods and Do It no Ifs
        Ands or

        Butts

        When Nature
        Calls A Reply
        Is Naturally Expected

        Anyway my Middle Name Arthur
        Means ‘Bear King’ Thanks to the

        Creativity of my Irish Born X-Catholic
        Priest Notable Wiki Bio’ed Author Grandfather

        From Last Century Giving That Name to My Father
        too Along with Frederick That of Course Means Peaceful

        Ruler in German Where my Grandfather’s Father Came
        From Deep in the Black Forest There Yes the Last Name is

        Consistent With Diamond and Watch Makers in Germany
        Yet Actually Means Keeper of the Land or in Larger Way

        Nature
        of Course

        That’S A Whole
        Lot of Responsibility
        Provided to a Junior oF A Name

        Yet Hey Whatever The Challenge
        is i’m Up to Overcoming All Disabilities…

        Because It’s True i Am Born on the Autism Spectrum
        Not Able to Speak Until age 4 For It’s True i Am Born
        on the Bi-Polar Spectrum Non-Specified as in my Version
        i Tend to Exist in Heaven For Decades After Doing the Same in Hell

        For Real
        Within of

        Course REAL

        And True Yep i Was
        Once Tied Down And
        Given A Shot of Thorazine
        After Going Without Sleep
        For Days Coming Out of A Deep
        Dark Depression That as Usual
        Demons Would Even Fear to Tread

        Somehow They Confused me With Jesus
        As i Asked For the Psychiatrist’s Lighter
        Assessing me Putting my Finger in the Flame With No

        Burns True They Tried to Assess my Blood Pressure
        Yet Could Get no Results Sheer Terror on their Face

        Giving me that Shot of Thorazine Barely Able to

        Lift My Head up

        They Asked me if i Was
        Jesus in What They Called
        my Euphoria of Not Even
        Feeling the Pain of a Flame

        i Said No (Didn’t Wanna
        Confuse Them With

        “So You Say”)

        The Drugs they Gave
        me i Was Allergic to
        And Gave me Seizures

        They Wanted to Institutionalize
        me For What They Did to me With
        The Drugs i Was Allergic to my Mother Was
        Poor She He had No Clout Yet Her Beautiful Angelic
        Looking Niece Had A Mother-in-Law on the City Council

        Who Had Worked With me in the City Youth-Council And Knew
        Who i Was as the Dude Selected For the National Honor Society
        Along With the Dean’s Daughter as a Sophomore As They Changed

        The Rules From Junior to Sophomore in Recognition of Our Human Character…

        Yet Here’s The Thing
        After That Experience
        i Eventually Came Back to
        Life took Another Two Seasons
        For the Natural Heaven to Return

        i Ended up finishing 3 Degrees all at
        Once With a Full Load of School and
        3 Part Time Jobs too When i Get Knocked

        Down i Get
        Back Up i Got

        Plowed Over

        By the Weight of The
        Entire World And Went
        to Hell for 66 Months at
        age 47 Yet i Got Up Again at 53

        And i’m Still Dancing And Singing At

        Almost 64 Since 6.6.60 And i Don’t Give an
        iF You C Kay Or Not Who Ever Hears my Life Story or Not

        When We Fall Down Far Enough We Witness our Stories
        of Heaven And Hell to Help Others Up It’s What Humans Do

        When
        We
        Are
        Really Real

        No Matter What
        Any Naysayer ever
        Says or Does We Do
        ‘JeSuS’ Man and or Woman

        The Good Cop Version for Real

        (Or The General Hero Archetype
        CaLL iT Whatever Works for ‘Them’)

        ‘Communion’ is More Than Just
        A Wafer of Bread And a Sip of Wine

        Communion
        iN LoVE iN

        Peace

        WHeRE
        i AM
        From
        For Real at Least..:)

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  4. Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.

    This sums up why challenges are necessary. Struggling with eating your friends or whatever. At least we’re consoled by the thought of this too shall pass.

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