The Phoenix Rise trilogy

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My kids and my writing

 Before I had kids, I could sit there some days and write out 5 pages of a book all in one sitting. Now, I am lucky if I can sit there and write out a whole paragraph without being interrupted and lose my train of thought. just writing this I have been interrupted 3 times by my 4 year old and I still need to wake up my 6-year-old. 

Before, I could also spend days just thinking of how the chapter should go and then sit there and write it all out. Now, and I am sure anyone working from home with children as I am, will know that as soon as you hear them yell you forget everything you were thinking and it brakes your concentration as though it's built into our DNA to forget what you are doing when your kids need you to go check on them, I guess from when humans were hunted by other animals. 

In that, I can see why for people to work schools were needed and to teach people to live with each other in a city it was just as important to have them all together in a school to learn the same and grow together. It was this idea of group learning that brought us into this technological age, not the few people that created the technology. calculators were only widely used when they were used in schools, computers only replaced them when they were used in schools for young kids, tablets are becoming the norm as kids are using them in schools now. You could have the best piece of hardware or software in the world, however, if you have not taught a child how to use it, it will never be used. This is how technology is replaced for something newer every 2 years, however, the public is 20 years behind on what could actually be out there. Many people want the newest smartphone, but its that next set of people just out of high school and going into or just getting out of post ED that are actually using the newest functions on it. These are my ideas only and this is not about how much someone knows now, the fact is many people know so much more then I do and are up to date on what is new, this is a message about how much more someone hopefully will know that are in their 20's 20 years from now. 

Kids are the future and a gift but not the present. If you ask me everyone should have one hour a week of free tutoring for their kids to get that real one on one learning needed to follow through in school that week and the future would be brighter for all. 

The best thing I ever heard about how to raise your own children is one day at a time, you just have to get through it, one day at a time!

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The apple tree

 Our new magic forest is a little spot in the back corner of the yard where we use these logs from a tree cut for us all to sit on, there is one that is cut so it looks like stairs that lead into the magic forest and a spider by it that protects the magic forest from evil. 

One of the games my three-year-old likes to play is apple tree from the magic forest where he runs around saying apple tree and I have to try and pick the apple off the top of his head as I pretend to miss him until he is ready to give me the apple as he runs around the back yard. Then my now 6 year old goes on the swing where I have to try and catch him as the flying apple tree to get the apple where I will have flying magical powers. 

This weekend I had to get the apple from the magic forest then the apple from the fire apple tree, the water apple tree, the rock apple tree, the investable apple tree, climb the rock wall to the castle apple tree, then fly in our craft the two-person swing that I pushed my youngest son on until we got to the flying apple tree on the normal swing. 

Once we collected all the apples we went back to the castle and got our magic swords to fight the dragon, whereupon slaying the dragon we received magic wands and became magicians  to fight the evil sorcerer who had become too greedy with his magic powers, so the three Magicians went and fought the sorcerer and saved the day just in time to go inside and enjoy their feast (dinner)

a Magic forest story - the leaf

 in the beginning it was dark 

and it staid dark and cold for a long time

then one day as it began to warm

a small bud formed 

as it began to grow in the large oak tree 

it sat there alone thinking how it was so lonely 

and as the sun stayed out longer the leaf realized it was not alone

It was surrounded by thousands of other leafs 

and as the summer went on the leaves laughed and played int he big tree

They danced with the wind and sang with the breeze

Then as they became old the began to change colour

some red, some orange, some yellow, some brown, and some stayed green

but they were all still friends laughing and dancing in the big oak tree

slowly one by one they decided to leave  

Until the winter came and they all slept 

underneath the banket at night again

Lost

 Don't go anywhere,

Just don't trip

You haven't seen a thing

You still don't know what it means

Those old broken shoelaces

All have their stories to tell

Worn out shoes

Now happy to sit in their room

Scratches on an album

repeat the same old sad song

You still have time to change

before time goes on

Even a job a burger king

Lets you go to a home with pride

to wear your own crown

on your throne or the couch

Cupboards only creak

When they bear no fruit

Like that squeaky old floorboard you would hit

when you used to sneak out of your room

Lean on your friends

that will lean on you

don't follow the ones

that will lead you to your doom

Fall

A leaf falls from a tree

Never to see another spring

the bee flys by without thinking

to the flower before the pedals leave

The cool comfort of worm clothing

around a fire with close friends

The summer is over as is many things

A new year will bring new change

But for now no need to worry

the ant's have collected all they need

The grasshoppers are still singing

the grass is still a shade of green

Find a place to lay your head

In a warm and cozy bead

sleep the night away instead

of worrying about the things they said

cycles of life

 The rain falls

 but never fails to rise again

The water collects with its friends

in the rivers to the ocean

The ocean is a journey

a distant memory

a place to get to 

a place to see 

 Often one forgets 

of its grandness

a sight to see

to relax with the sea

We feel like we are here forever

at the beginning 

but at the end

There are just memories 

that place

 Could I see that place again

the one before it all began 

the door swings open and shut again

time goes on and on my friend

A dream

 

The most simple thing is a dream

Fast asleep not sleeping

In a place far from space

without leaving the comfortable place

 

It takes you away from the everyday

A different view and aspect of the same

So far removed you would not even think

It is what is and is not happening

 

One has a dream one would say

Of how life will be for them one day

If only this our that could happen in a certain way

That dream while awake would become reality

 

The unknown is what is a scary thing

We are here now and one day will not awake

To sleep the sleep of one's ancestors

To be born again in this lifetime or another

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You can’t be everywhere at once

You can’t be everywhere at once,

And your kids know it.

As soon as you change the scenery the first thing kids do is test their boundaries. Just like you have run to the end of a video game play area just to see what happens. They know what they should not do or have thought of something new to get themselves into. This leads up to around 5 minutes of yelling at them until they settle down and play inside the correct play area. This multiplies by the more children you have.

Raising children can feel like the whole world is against you while you have someone wanting your full attention ALL THE TIME. The most neighborly thing someone can do when they see someone struggling raising children is ask if they can help or leave them alone not become a DR Phil. Sometimes it takes that one second of saying hello that helps someone get through the day while they have the song babyshark repeating over and over again in their head

Awaken tonight

As I laid in bed arms folded over my chest

Right foot crossed over the left

With the blanket over my head

My eyes closed into the night

I slipped back through my mind

To a time of musket fire and smoke

Then further back to the long swards

The quest for knowledge that sets one free

Further back I did seek

The raids on Hathor’s temple

After they did leave

To the new lands

 Where a long time it would be

Until it saw Christianity

The burning of the library

A cross burnt into history

The young boy called by his brother

To the land of the three kings

To be taught of mysteries,

Again, a sward in my hand

I did see

With roman legions marching

Across destiny

Each new land concord

Had the same gods and temples

With different names for them

Where one could worship

There I slipped a step back again

As fleeing survivors landed

In what would be Rome one day

As I followed them backwards

I stood on the walls of Troy

Watching the Greeks approach

In their fishing boats

Then a flood not a great one

As Santorini erupted destroying Crete

I followed the young Moses

From Mount Sinai

First into the heavens he did fly

To see one side of the earth a turtle

And the other side a great elephant

Back to Egypt and sat in Hathor’s Temple again

 listening to Hermes Trismegistus

I followed him from the land of the three kings

To the boat of Noah in Turkey

With the three planks

I slipped further back still

Well Enoch left the earth

For three hundred years

Back before the great flood

During the time of the great ice walls

To be born and die again and again

with young Thoth

Who the gods gave life immortal to

For remember all his past lives

Sons of Enki we did live and die

In Atlantis the land lost so long ago

Under the Mediterranean Sea

It is now just a myth to so many

Further back I did travel

To when Anu was a great general

Who conquered the frost Giants planet

As he took on Ea’s mother as his wife to be

But his war did not finish during that night

There I awoke lying in my bed

And the words have not stopped

Ringing in my head

“I call upon the brotherhood of the dragon’s tail one more time

Born of the house of Miles,

Trained by the last of the table of the skull’s

Descendant of the Britannica Druid bloodline

Claim my set last sat in, in 1842”

I will no longer sleep through time

Awaken my brothers and sisters

Awaken to this world hidden deep in your minds

Awaken to the past that can no longer hide

Awaken to every future life