Big Happy Sign (better than tiny happy)

April 10, 2015

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Some people know when they are 21. Some people know when they are 24. Some people, like myself, don’t know much until way on down the road. You look back at people changing the world at 21 or 24 and wonder with awe at how they did the things they did. Only through the green glass of time, and in reverse, can you really appreciate with a slight bittersweet taste what you haven’t yet done or learned too late.

So what shall we do about it?

I propose that we work our asses off. I propose that we don’t worry about what others will say. I say we don’t wait for permission to be granted. I propose that we do it now and do it soon. Change your name. Do what you been meaning to. Be a tad rebellious. Do what you say other people do and wish you did. Leave those behind that drag you down and fill you with discouragement. Tell God you want to make a difference in the time you have remaining. Walk out on an appointment because it doesn’t feel right. Sometimes it takes a push to get started.

Now, I don’t have all the answers. I don’t know all the correct things to do. I’m in a turmoil in my head most all of the time. I just want to give it a try.

Time moves fast and people you knew are dead and others are on their way. If things are to happen they must happen soon. Either way, in a number of years, the Earth will take a deep and drastic exhale and our beautiful bout of creation and expression (whatever that might be) will be absorbed into the blue ball spinning through the nothing we call space— all gone but a memory. It is that futile existence that drives us! That and some strange thing called L.O.V.E.

I made the Big Happy sign for a friend that lives on a busy road with lots of traffic. He sees lots of crazyiness on his street. People honk and cuss and yell and some pass out in the neighbor’s front yard. His yard is also on a civil war battlefield too (sometimes it is easy to forget.) After a talk we decided the folks could use some Big Happy. I know I sure could.

Why go small when you can go Big Happy?!

Thanks to Maria for the photos.

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– kyle




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