Walls and Fences

By Birri Sangha

We are all bricklayers of some sortSome of us join things and some of us separate. And its all down to the mindset behind the planning

I know that we all have to play a part in life and its construction
We may need to build the odd wall and fence that protects us and separates us but if life and the situation allows you any tolerance and choiceDear Life

Build only those fences and walls that build sanctuaries and homesand not those that create separation and distanceemptying the heart, eye and soul of nearness.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Oct 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9781491878149

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Published by AuthorHouse 09/25/2013

ISBN: 978-1-4918-7813-2 (sc)

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Contents

Acknowledgements

1. We All

2. Days of No Walls

3. Islands

4. Details

5. Some Nights

6. Jake

7. It’s all in the Mind

8. The Out Things, The In Things

9. Who Built?

10. Berlin Wall

11. Its Not Here

12. Some People

13. I’m a Man of Eyes

14. Too Much

15. Soul Lovers

16. You do

17. Redemption

18. Missing Pocket

19. When it happens

20. Come see me Often

21. Our Morning Together

22. Apart?

23. Kindness in his Heart

24. Some Walls

25. Revision and Refreshers

26. Halfway

27. Wasted

28. Come

29. Wrap me up

30. Hey

31. Rise Again

32. The Light

33. Fences

34. Shutting

35. Reason to be

36. Born

37. It’s Not Here

38. Bricks and Pointing

39. Florence Nightingale

40. 6 Million Candles

41. Unsure

42. Do you ever look back?

43. The Secret

44. The Cook and the Broth

45. The Distance

46. Expectations

47. Oh Boy

48. Curtain Fall

49. No Spare or Jack

50. Three Meals a Day

51. Frank, Paul, Alicia knew best

52. Centre

53. Who… ?

54. Dear Grandfather

55. Osmosis

56. Breath of Life

57. Locks and Keys

58. I am Here

59. Convergence

60. Fragrance

61. The Gel is Gone

62. Dear Heart

63. Intensity and Intention

64. Closer

65. Zero Sums

66. Essential Spice

67. Connecting

68. Saddest Wall of All

69. Wall of Thoughts

70. How Long?

71. Drunk

72. Whispered Prayers

73. Cast the First Stone

74. Prism of Love

75. Will the Walls

76. Passion Dies

77. Don’t

78. Circles

79. An Afterthought

Epilogue

About the Author

Acknowledgements

Dear AJ and Gaurika

Thank you for keeping me grounded long enough to get the foundation right . . . all the walls decay with time . . . Both good and bad but the foundations survive longer

1. We All

We all build walls and fences . . .

Keeping what’s outside them . . . out

And what’s inside . . . in

We measure distance to remove closeness and nearness of each other . . .

We divide . . . build individual islands . . .

Only a few lucky chosen ones are given the job of bringing them down

I think I’ll start on the ones I built first before I head out to the streets

and fields

2. Days of No Walls

You stay on your side and I’ll stay on mine . . .

We can still hear each other . . . though some words are mumbled too quietly . . .

Did you say . . . ?

Did I hear . . . ?

"Yes . . . I did . . . And I hope dearly you heard . . . I miss the days of no walls"

3. Islands

We all live on islands . . . personal islands

Some small . . . some large

Some built on shallow waters . . . some on deep oceans . . .

Some bridgeable . . . and some accessible only if you compromise personal safety and welfare

We all reach out . . . some of us do it in a small way . . . some with heart in full view . . . missing . . . needing . . . reaching out

The question I often ask: How do we choose where we build our island?

What criteria of desired distance . . . far enough and yet also near at all times . . .

And on call when you most need it?

If it turns out that my island is in an ocean . . . will you still reach out to

find me?

What if one day God