journey-ing/ four stories

as you climb your own staircase
remember where it started, how you got there and
to where it may lead

Elemental publishers May 2 '10
An Original Work by Scott Martin Locke
WelcomeHi. This site shares what I believe about life. I have written essays, poetry, blogs, and three books that reflect on my readings. I read the great philosophers and history; I enjoy fiction and science fiction. My job as a fellow traveler on this earth is to explore every aspect of life that is accessible to me. I hope you will enjoy reading what I have gathered for reflection.
Elemental Publishers About the author I was born the 21st of December 1956. I've been through a lot since then just like the rest of us. We've all been through a lot. I began to write after years of thinking about it and finally did something about it. I studied and reflected upon the world and myself and came up with a philosophy that suited my character. I am the worker and I work to live and live to work. Life is an Adventure in Learning and I just suppose that's the way it is. We all at some point have to come to terms with the way things are and how they could be so I started writing and never stopped. Life goes on you know; but if you don't stop once in a while it will pass you by
Literature achievement in line verse, poetry, blogging.To excel in writing and communicating feeling and emotion.To excel in wisdom and knowledge.to seek the truth and find itto know love's cherishingto enjoy the liberty of expression without licenseto enjoy the freedom to readand the intelligence to writeto know the difference between wit and wisdomto see past the fantasy into realityto feel the pain of being human and know the joythat spirit lives


Our Fair World
Our Fair World----July 01, 2010 by Dharma ("sacred duty") t Scott
To be honest with yourself and truthful in your heart to the one who sustains the universe and beyond. Such an intense thought that there is an other side to the universe where it's light and everyone is enlightened to the real truth. No beginning and no end; eternal and forever in a day. Take a nap under a tree and wake up to a world where all is justice, peace, and harmony. Incredible thought I was taught. The question of your state of mind is crucial to the outcome of your environment. We live in our mind in a greater world and then there's more. Haven't you noticed the mundane and cosmic powers that revolve around reality are interwoven into the web of mysterious events that consume our lives with chance and opportunity? As our confidence and faith increase in our wisdom we recognize the omniscience of the magical divine as it unfolds gradually into the spectacle of our cosmic reality. If the light of a thousand suns would rise in the morning sky the Great Spirit would enlighten the world. It’s been the same for thousands of years; heartbreak, bliss and clouds crossing the sky. Stray cloud adorned the blue with white. I felt like sleeping and dreaming but I was too awake to stop mid-stride recollecting these words to play. Don't be mad because we have fun and you having none. Your time will come soon enough to sing and dance and play. Take your shoes off and walk barefoot in the sand, in the green meadow grass beside the highway of life. Take a walk in the park and find a bench to sit still and watch the world go by. At least you noticed. The mountains over there were covered with atoms of dust millions of years old and you still feel young though age has come upon you. Be still in your own glory.


Elemental publishers · Jul 3 '10
Composition "Front Line"
Scott Martin Locke
Front LineLife must be its own objective, its own purpose. Its own concern is to rule itself; but interference will come from all directions. It must govern itself fairly with justice. Its natureis self reliant, resilient and enduring.It must put up with the behavior of its inhabitants while enduring hardship, wealth, healthin addition, sickness. The human race is like a virus and spreads everywhere without concern for itsenvironment, only to conquer and survive. We struggle to live so that we can die, but all of us work to live and live to work to maintain the lifestyle of our choosing.If we do our best someone might say that is not good enough and if we make one mistake who remembers what well we did? When we study and reflect with deliberate intentionwe seek truth and validation without compromise. We pursue inquiry in proportion to its value and importance relevant to our condition. Some propose it’s all in your mind but the real world is still out there; and the real world is still in your own mind. A simple dichotomy of dualism with the consistency of both worlds living simultaneously as one.Things are to be considered as they are, not as they could be or should be. Everything is as it is perhaps even without understanding we must accept and put aside denial. We cannot pretend to understand. We either understand or not by our learned reason and way of logic.The front line is that we live in the here and now and nothing else matters. We may make plans for the future but even they are subject to change by random chance, opportunity and occurrences due to nature or manmade situations. Events will happen and we must accept the things we cannot change and change the things we can.Things get old and we just get older. Sometimes it hurts but no one said it would be easy.A notion, an idea – wonders of the mind. Without intelligence, there could be no creativity.To live in the realm of ideas means treating the impossible as though it were possible. Our individual creativity makes possibilities a reality, though perhaps fantasy, in the mind everything is real. Consider your sleep? Where is the dividing line between the reality of a dream and the reality of the conscious mind?What was once real may not be any more, but remains alive, and real, when we remember or think of it as being so. We can traverse many worlds through history of our own making or the history of what we have learned of through study. Books bring to life more than imaginary stories. Books bring to life more than we can imagine or believe.Books we find are like new acquaintances. They become our friends and entertain us in our idle time with enlightenment or fantasy. Behind the covers are stories to be told, rarely told but hidden in the lines and between them. Behind our presentable image, we are like books and everyone has a story to their life. Some parts are revealed and the secrets we all hold we keep to ourselves until acceptable to reveal. End of front Line


The Day after Tomorrow
An Original Work by Scott Martin Locke

Well it was the same with Meggy as it was with Ginger. Once a happy life here on earth giving us so much pleasure and asking only for love. I remember the day I had to put down Ginger and then those words “lets get another puppy" well one more time I grew old with my dog and now even she is gone and left me with a broken heart. Yea' of course time will heal. Today I imagined they met and talked about me. They went to the meadow of flowers. They went to the stream of pure water. They went to the forest of fun and to the lake of the moon. Sure it's human to cry-crying is love. They well up inside and burst covering your face with liquid love. One day I’ll go too and see my dogs. Life is so tough but remembers others got it harder. Be thankful for what we do have and that is compassion.