consider "reality". Our ability to "perceive" is a marvelous differentiator that allows our unique individual perceptions to be blended into various forms of collective perception, emotion, and overall "utility" in all forms of our individual and collective cultures, religions, arts, and sciences. Love is the ultimate form of perception as it is our connector to our creator and through the energy of "gratitude" Poetry is a profoundly powerful gynmasium of the mind that demands courageous exploration in to "gray" areas of perception, of "gray" areas of all forms of the arcane sciences and religions, and human species itself. The brain is the "gray" mass that houses the the vehicles of thought that carry us on these journeys, seeking the pure light that I believe is the homestead of God and that is that which keeps the "grayness" of possibility out of the pure,desperate, black and deadly wasteland of darkness wherein the true demons of humanity live in hunger of the light...of love. My hope is that my "grayness" will lead others into that light of positive creative ambition and endeavor to the intended goodwill and precious GRATITUDE that results thereThe founding imperative of this work proposes that the actual purpose of human life as intended by GOD is "Creative Endeavor". (I would imagine that it would actually be positive, good, and meaningful works that would benefit mankind) The underpinning logic of this is that GOD is the ultimate and original creator of what we know today to be our total universe of life in all forms. The fundamental mechanisims of human creativity are engineered into each new human within their DNA (author's belief) and as such we are separated by other forms of life as being sentient or consciously aware of whatever we may from. Through the last few years approaching this work, I have been working with a brain actually a bit more than gray and much more black as I have been suffering with Alzheimer's disease and the acknowledgements from my doctors that my death therefrom would be forthcoming for certain. I have joyfully proven now years thereafter that it is indeed possible to come out of the Grayness, as well as the Blackness of Alzheimer's as I am today, the first person to ever have survived the certain death, thereof, as my Alzheimer's disease is gone and I am now and hopefully for the rest of my life, working from out of the Grayness and also very hopefully will be able to guide my pen to deliver rich and meaningful perspectives that will meaningfully help others find a richer and more joyful life filled with continuous GRATITUDE!. Vance Seagle. 8,26 2018
Let me begin with the assumption that anyone reading this would by nature seek to find new enlightenments that would bring them Joy!
First, I sincerely believe that no human can achieve the richness of joy in life without being well acquainted with "GRATITUDE"! as it is positively the richest state of mind a human can achieve! Sure, we all find difficulties, challenges, threats, and downright horrific events and circumstances in our lives that immediately demand our attention and often ugly or uncommonly nasty actions to defeat them. If they are not so threatening that we can ignore them, we can shrug them off and be grateful that they are dismissed but typically, we are engineered to be !

prompt in responding to any kind of threat, and the blood pressure is immediately spiked, eyes expanded, blood pressure rushed and some level of anger exercised. Sure, if someone pulls a knife on you, it's not likely that you are going to be celebrating your good luck unless you might be holding a loaded pistol in hand in your other pocket! In that, this actually happened to me on a dark street in New Orleans many years ago, I can testify to the fact that watching that thug run like hell when I stuck it in his face, actually did spike a serious thanks to heaven, a magnificent glass of expensive wine in the nearby bar and a rapid visit to their rest room! I also remember some very serious prayers that night actually giving thanks that I was glad to have scared him off rather than taking his life and having that hang in my memory for the rest of my life. Of course, I'm sure he also got a heck of a good lesson on the power of GRATITUDE once he got well out of range that night