Winter Vantages

Winter Vantages

Various Pictures

1/2 Full and 1/2 Empty

In the time that I have not been online is some sort of wholeness that I have been ensembling during this time. Aside of work there are so many things that I have been thinking about.

I have thought about love in my life, I have thought about my goals, I have thought about the past, and I have thought about the future.

Where does this lead me? I am not sure what the future brings, but I am assured of what good things do happen and CAN take place. Life is a complicated mess at times however sometimes for myself I look at it in a manner that is with regard to emptiness. I am not empty but I have the time in life to have much more water to fill within the glass. We often look at a glass as half emply or half full, to me if you look at it from several directions and vantages there is something more that you see within in the glass.

Everyone has a different priority, I spoke to a lady from Jamaica. If only I could tap into her thoughts as she never stops taking but when she is determined she has some of the most profound and valid thoughts.

WE are what we are - we can't be anymore than whom we are. Regardless of color, creed - when it all comes down to it we all are human beings on this planet.

Thank you very much to one person off here that sent a Christmas Card. For she is a good friend and to have opened the mail tonight and seen this card was one word "TRUST" and the meaning of what this is all about to myself. I have a few new people on my  blog, thanks I am finding that I have come to a halt with my writings as I am busy....however I certainly thank you for visitng my site or being reffered to it.

As we go into the last weekend of this year - peace and good will to each and everyone.

Jack

 

Not a long story but a short version one...

I have tended to my family for the past few years. It never really was within me to do that type of thing. but I did.  Sometimes there are things in life that do happen and you hold on tight and hope. And you plan.

I have rebounded with old friends and after having as situation whereby you were more of a "butler" during the time of christmas this year I am alone - but not alone.

To be honest, I am much happier with being able to be my own self and to take on my own independant tasks.  But for me this years I am not spending it in a hospital watching my father nearing his death - he is alive and well. So for me - I am not leaving back home from christmas, but I am celebrating it here.

This has taken more work, and has been an effort (mentioning in brief) and to move on with my own life, in my own way without an obligation for family - is normalcy within life. 

And most of all within my trail - I am able to not pick up from where I left off but go forward. I can and will come back to this as there is a story to this but time does not permit.  However, within a short period of time I took on the challenge of what was best for myself, and I set out goals and ironically here it is at this time of year and I don't have the worries as I did with my family. Nor do I have any worries. I am in movement with life. Althought this is wrote in a very short manner - I can tell you one thing. When you have that second chance to do life and live it out in your own manner and obtain some of the dreams that you have set out. For myself that is my celebration of this year. And it's a much different one in comparision to the ones that I experienced in the past three years.

Not many of you know me. Most knew me only by way of my old blog and without a messenger. And maybe just maybe in a small amount of time I will have the enjoyment getting off this laptop and being able to have this work in a manner that is easier to "blog" to.

So it's like I am a kid all over again, I have the choices of what I wish to do for christmas. And the ones thereafter. For me in a general manner that is my christmas and in the background on the radio I hear the song " New York, New York". For me - this is what life and the season is. And I can certainly say that it's a rebirth of my own self not in a religious manner just in a very human manner.

Jack

• Merry Christmas - and to those that have sent me thier address the card is coming late, but nevertheless a belated card will come - Promise.
• I truly wish I could get to all the blogs and I can't - as I recall three months ago when I mentioned that I was heading off line I did not expect to be on till the new year. And now I dont know how people get around to writing that much but again I wish you a merry one.
• Since most have often referred to me as "padre juanito" while in all honesty I have accomplished much in my life (along with the above) - am I jaded - no, have I made a choice and taken on challengs - yes. Have I done decent things for others - yes.
• Maybe now it's time for me to life life and find friends - and a companion - as I missed much - but I have not missed a thing as I have just started my own life again. A quick right - but for all that write books. I am not a writer. When I retire I could tell you what I wish to do - you would think it's way out there but you know what?  There isnt a thing one can't do when they have the opportunity to entirely DO IT.

Merry Christmas To YOU

As we are approaching a very significant time I just arrived home and I wished on this afternoon to make a comment to each and everyone that is on my blog. I wish you a great christmas. I wanted to make mention that so often I wish I could talk to you and know so many treat this like yahoo and having the messenger open at the same time. For me I love to write and do something. I am not good a doing a vocal audio to people that I don't really know but there are some on here that I do know. Regardless of all there is an attachment in audio and from here where I live, and as a man, I wish to say to each and everyone - regardless of the gender, and regardless of the race - A merry one. We all blog in our own way and in a decent manner by way of voice - I say

THE BEST OF THE OCCASIONS TO YOU.

Attachment: Merry Christmas.mp3

Mixture of Different Vantages

All kinds of photos I have taken in the past while. There is always something that is captivating within photography.

Time

Can you believe how time has gone so fast recently?

 

 

 

It just seemed like two weeks ago I had left and went on a bit of a journey. Time - there are many concept to time. Just a thought. Peace, Jack

Imagination Combined with Free Will

There is no disputing the existence of a free will. 

We all have a manner of making choices.  Indeed, we all are in a continual state of deliberating and choice making within our lives.  I don’t think this is about free will versus predetermined destine, but look carefully at how you have chosen to rely on your ability to will your self toward whatever is the desire.  Having and strong will and being filled with the resolve to accomplished goals is seeking within the ego to be the guiding force within your life.

I know my willpower is so much less effective than my imagination. But with that being said imagination is the movement.   I find that the imagination and creativity within my life is linked in with the will regardless of how strong it is. The two are intertwined in a manner that allows me to have that inner picture – when then allows me to participate in the act of know where to direct my will.

I see it this way. My will is that ego portion of myself – that understands that I am different and not entirely separate from everyone, but yet unique. As we all are. My ego will believe that acquisitions, achievements. It’s works in that manner. On the other hand my imagination works within concepts.  If I go back to willing myself to do something when my imagination indicates otherwise – I come to a conclusion of no.  However if I take my imagination I have a well-routed mix of how I shape my life, and lifestyle.

There are so many times in my life that I took the time to imagine where I would be, and then I mixed my ego into it.  I blended the two. What did I do and where has that lead me. It’s leaded me to several levels of wealth. Not in a monetary manner – in a manner of doing things in which others would think I was going out on a limb.  I never existed, I thrive on success in a manner that I mentioned above and I am not sure if this comes across correctly – but when it comes down to it – it’s about the will to work in a harmony that brings about in all times of life.

All that said – Season Greetings to everyone that observes the time of Christmas.

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Last one and I have no idea if there is audio. But it does work for they eyes.

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I have a couple of these left - So I thought I would place them on - Why not.

Life brings lessons

If we learn the lessons we move on. Within our own free will we decide to connect within that inner most self. There is a recognition of many things. As with the image of the door - the door never will completely close.

We all have doors in our lives. Doors never completely close. With a regard to that we have that choice how how many doors we have. For within each door there is an opening. Some doors we can manage on when to close it or when to open it. Then when you think of all the doors that are within your life right now - there are many. Each one has an entrance. And there are the doors that we leave behind and we come back to. But each door has a choice. A choice of intent. We all have that human quality of knowing what each door opens up towards.

Imagine that there were no doors whatsoever. If you could - there would not be life. Or maybe there would. As life is about the doors that lead us back as that is apart of whom we are, and as well there are the doors that lead us towards the challenges. We manage our doors as we realize the lessons that one gives us. I can open one door and recall things that were most pleasant, and then I can look at the doors that have steps to walk upwards towards.

Understanding the doors of life is something we all manage within our innerself. I It's a human thing and yesterday I was played out. Not to the blogging but with the time of season and all my efforts - I went back in time. 

However - this leads another aspect of not logic - but emotion. Everyone has emotion.  (not just one style of emotion but several - if we didnt there would be a problematic situation - the one that bares no emotion if faceless without a soul).

While you live life you filter the lessons that have taken place. And as well there may be some that are still there. Is it a process of understanding. It's a process of allowance.  It's a practice of free emotional will. What I find very relaxing is writing on it. In a continum of a journey one understands the placement of all the doors and within the synchronicity of how all the doors of life interplay within a persons own soul and spirit.

All that I know is that is blog is my inner thoughts which is only part and parcel of whom I am. But it's a format from which to write. Do I have a free will? Do you have a free will? The truth in how I see it is that we never create anything alone.  Some will try to but only in a rare circumstance can that happen. So the question I often will ask myself is am I in sychn with what I am doing. Meaning am I regarding everthing in a manner of cadence that allows worth to shine in through that doorway.  And regardless of whom we all are - we all do have areas that bring about the joys of what is unvieled with certain doors -  and we do have doors that we tend to regard with another emotional value.

Value comes within the value of what we allow rather than deny. There is a term in Aikido that relates to this.  And that is  道 which does not translate well in english but the meaning basically is within the way.

Time for Cadence

I have been working in so many areas right now - getting settled in and then at the same time trying to get it all done all at once. For myself, I know where to find that synchonicity.

So I find that tomorrow I am going to look at things from another perspective. Christmas is a difficult time for me. I left my family (parents) to go on with my life. For reasons that are personal. There is no hate it's about creating a life that you can move in a manner that is without somethings that come along with parents getting older and one especially sick with Cancer.

I know as of the last week - I try to do so many things at the same time and I am not going to cover everything that needs to be done in one day. Knowing this I have to think in a manner that works for me. As that is the best that one can do for "self".

Tomorrow is a new day and a new way....but in life - things never automatically change - the progress. But not overnight.

Life brings lessons. If we learn the lessons we move on.

Freedom of Thoughts

With no need to do anything more nor anything less...I would rather progress than regress.

 

In a world with such a wonderful variety of different beliefs and/or cultures all of a sudden I find that the life I have lived has now been ruled politically incorrect by people unknown to us. It illustrates suppression of  majority by a minority.  Rather silly if you ask me. Whom is that proud and that needy? Maybe I am off on this one, but I don't place much weight in it.  Although it does illustrate something to only those that are mature enough to understand it.

 

The process of the the thought of the "thinker" is one that shows and illustrates it's self withing the writings. What is the worth? Minor reigns by major only when there is insecurity.  Have a friend that wrote on this and I had to amend it and write as I see it.

 

I have traveled and in each home that I entered everyone was on multiply.  The one that postures are insistent to have a consortium in which manipulate others to have everything to their own accord is redundant. To blemish other people is something that only the small-minded realize.  I truly believe in multiply we are writing in our own manner. For those that render others to create an infrastructure base only according to their own points of view. Kudos to you. As that is not what freedom of speech is about.

 

Freedom is about the individualistic power to write on ones own terms. Is merely nothing more than what this platform does allow – but should have a thread within it where by each and everyone within talk.

 

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Christmas at the Legislation Building

Roll of Honour to those that offered service in World War II. These were people from Alberta that were not in the miltary but offered their professions to aid and support the WWII effort.
I think the date says something to any historians.

The Legislature Building

On March 15, 1906, Alberta’s First Legislature opened its First Session. There was no Legislature Building for members to meet in, so the opening ceremonies were held at Edmonton’s Thistle Roller and Ice Rink just north of Jasper Avenue, after which the Assembly moved to nearby McKay Avenue school.
In these modest surroundings, the members dealt with the first item of business for the new province: deciding on a capital city. Because Edmonton was the centre of Alberta’s newly booming agricultural sector and a Liberal stronghold, it won the honour.
Choosing a site for the building was easy. The high-cliffed bank of the North Saskatchewan River was both physically commanding and historically significant. Here was the site of Fort Edmonton, a major fur trading post of the Hudson’s Bay Company, around which the settlement of Edmonton had developed. ~ Beaux Arts Style ~

Alberta’s Legislature Building was designed by provincial architect Allan Merrick Jeffers, a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design in the United States. He was probably influenced by the state capitol building there, which was in the popular Beaux Arts style. This style is evident in the design of our Legislature Building: the T-shaped floor plan; the building’s entrance, or portico, supported by massive columns; the dome rising above a spacious rotunda.

Materials suitable for the building’s lofty design were shipped to Edmonton: granite from Vancouver Island for the exterior of the first storey, Paskapoo sandstone from the Glenbow quarry near Calgary and sandstone from Ohio for the remaining four storeys, and marble for the interior.
Construction began in 1907, and in September 1912 the Duke of Connaught, Canada’s Governor General, declared the Legislature Building officially open. The interior’s grandeur was obvious from the moment the front doors first opened. The main entrance leads directly into the rotunda, which is encircled by marble columns. Its walls rise from the main floor to the vaulted dome, a distance of 55 metres (180 feet). The rotunda connects the east and west wings of the main floor to the great marble staircase that leads to the Assembly Chamber. The Chamber has its own dome and is lit by stained-glass skylights and about 600 light bulbs.

The Legislature Building has undergone many changes since its 1912 opening. Richard Blakey, provincial architect until 1923, added the dome-within-a-dome you see when you look up from the rotunda. In 1932 palm seeds, a gift from the state of California, were planted in pots in the gallery ringing the interior dome; these are now five large trees peering down at the rotunda's fountain. The fountain itself has come and gone more than once. The first fountain was constructed in 1939 and removed shortly thereafter, while the present one was built in 1959 to commemorate the first official visit of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The mahogany panels that grace the walls of the Chamber were added in 1987, as was an elegant pale green carpet and new gallery seating.

The building also houses images of our history and political traditions. Inside the rotunda are two bronze statues, one of Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, after whom the province is named, and one of Chief Crowfoot, a Blackfoot Indian leader whose policy of co-operation led to the peaceful settlement of Alberta. Portraits of Premiers and Lieutenant Governors adorn the walls of the third floor, and you can view portraits of Alberta’s Speakers one floor above. Decorative hardwood carvings include coats of arms above the main entrance to the Chamber, above the Speaker’s Chair in the Chamber, and in the Carillon Room on the fifth floor. The building also contains the offices of the Premier, the cabinet and other government members, the Speaker, and the Lieutenant Governor.
Aside of this there are things that have been imported from Virginia from back in history as well the palm trees that are in the very top of the "dome" of the building come from Latin America.

Busy time of the Year

I have been very busy. Most of you know me from my other blog, and it's been very busy. Perhaps I will get into it and have more time to do so, but to each and everyone of you, I sincerely wish you the best. I miss Y360, as I had a closed blog and I enjoyed the meaning of writing in a collaborative area. And I did write on some areas that were more with regards to several different things but they homed in on a few things in which I came to find that we all share things that sometimes we do find the answer amongst each and everyone of us.  Recently I was asked by two good friends why do I blog? I can't put a finger on it. But there is some reason. I am not much for explaining everything within my life. I am rather reserve with that. Never the less, we all write in a manner (some) that we answer each others questions. Regardless of if we respond or not - we all walk away after reading a few blogs (if one has a few hours to go through and read them) - and we find something.  Maybe it's our inner most self.

The one thing I do enjoy most about Multiply - is the manner that one can place on pictures. I have not had that time for it. But will find the time.  So don't drop me - I will be over to see ya on your blog as soon as time permits.

The Seven Wonders

Do you remember the story that made the rounds about the group of students asked to write down what they thought were the Seven Wonders of the World?  Tallying up the votes, the top 7 were as follows:

1) Egypt's Great Pyramids; 2) the Taj Mahal; 3) the Grand Canyon; 4) the Panama Canal; 5)the Empire State Building; 6) St. Peter's Basilica; and, 7) the Great Wall of China.

While gathering the votes, the teacher noticed that one student hadn't finished her notes yet.  So, she asked her if she was having trouble with her list.  The girls replied, "Yes, a little.  I couldn't quite make up my mind because there were so many."

The teacher then said, "Well, tell us what you have and maybe we can help."

The girl hesitated and then read, "I think the Seven Wonders of the World are:

1) To see

2) To hear

3) To touch

4) To taste

5) To feel

6) To laugh

7) To love

A reminder that the most precious and wondrous things in life cannot be built nor bought but rather are the simple and ordinary things we take for granted.

Have a great Monday...

Mondays are those days that we start back to the routine of the usual five day week. We all have our rituals and things that we have to get done. Regardless of where we are - we all have things that we do and need to get done.

That all beings said - think of Monday as being Tuesday and then fit Monday into Wednesday. Somewhere in all that mesh - sometimes it fits. But sincerely, Have a great week!

How Much do You Need

The pace at which modern culture at times rushes and races leaves us breathless...

 

There is next the menace of consumerism that has become part and parcel of modern culture. Like a raging forest fire, it devours all in its wake, and us as well, so that far from being the masters of what we possess, we are in turn reduced to being its slaves. Instead of possessing, we are possessed by the things we own.

 

We live and thrive in a manner in which we talk about so many things but really when it comes down to it – at what point do we have no beneficial factor of all that we want.   

 

We have divided the world into classes and categories: some belong to the first, others to the second, and still others to a third world.

Possibly, there might be categories and grades lower than these...And what is the prime criterion for this discrimination and classification?

 

Are human beings higher or lower in the social layer mainly because they pertain to different economic levels? Is the stature of a person gauged by the size of his or her pocket?

 

While The City Sleeps

Nearing the time of Christmas within the city these are some of a few vantages of only one part of the city. They say a city sleeps, however some of the most conceptual photography is taken at night.

Various Pictures

Variety of pictures...

Within A World of Being Proud

Pride is the energy level aspired to by many of our kind in our times. In contrast to the various levels of energy levels within that nature of mankind – pride is far enough removed from shame, guilt, or fear.  Pride generally has a good reputation and is socially encouraged.  Yet pride is only distinguished due to its contrast shame, guilt and fear.

The problem, as some may know is that “Pride goeth before a fall.” 

Pride is a defensive and very vulnerable.  Due to the nature of how pride is dependant on being dependent upon external conditions.  The inflated ego is vulnerable to attack.  Pride remains week because it can be knocked off its pedestal back to shame, which is the threat that fires the fear of loss of pride.  The downside of pride is arrogance and denial. These characteristics lock the growth pattern of any culture, person.  I thought I would write this as all to often we all have something to be proud about, yet within the growth of being proud of what we have done. We never wished to become locked into an area where by we find ourselves hindered by our own making.

I met with a person that I knew recently that knew me. He knew me in business from some years ago. And we sat down and were talking and his desire was to get the inside of which I knew with regards to some people that are rather successful in business. And as well, he was inquisitive as to where and what I was planning on doing. As he asked me about these men, I just listened and moved around the questions in a manner that didn’t really tell him anything regarding them.  As for myself – without being arrogant, or coming across this way, I laughed to myself as I understood that this person merely wanted to know more regarding whom I was – what I was now, and where and what I intended on doing within business. 

How I have changed since the times in which he had not really known me but had seen me speak and as well ironically worked with some people that worked along with me.

Coming back to the area of neutrality…sometimes one reaches a point of maturity, which brings about a change and growth within what they do, and how they do it.  Am I the same person I was – no. Am I the person I am now? Do I enjoy things in a much different manner than I did before? Will I bring about a change that I find to be of satisfaction without the need to be noticed in life?  In my own manner and in my own way I know the answers to my own questions. Why? I flow with areas in a manner that I didn’t earlier in my life.  And I am not in the same "rat pack", I am different in some manner. It’s not about pride - it's about something more.

I think that when we hang up the pride factor, we continue to learn and we move in a manner of “quality surplus”. We collect things that support what we are doing within what ever we are embarking on and we don’t need to tell the entire world. Business is pride based, to a large extent position is everything. How many times I have seen men – aspire for titles and younger men look to aspire for that title. However when they retire, they don’t know what to do with their life. Still to this day there are two older gentlemen that are competing with each other to see who takes the most with them. They are very proud, and as well their son’s have come to be very proud.  I wonder what would take place if their entire empires fell down.  Would they be able to survive?  Would the second generation be able to bounce back up? Some would and some wouldn’t.

Within a world of so much pride – I think that women generally don’t thrive on this pride factor.  Men often thrive to have a worth that is based on many things – but most of all pride.  I am a man but I enjoy life more than I did one year ago. I am not a people pleaser, but I do find the satisfaction in stepping outside of my own realm and mixing with all different people. Of course I have the same basic needs and wants as any person. Everything in life is not based on entirely on titles, or too much pride.  Maybe it’s more about understanding the value of life while continuing with what we all do in life. A high energy level would include love, friendships, aspirations, and understanding.
Yet we all are proud to different extents. It’s the nature of a person, but perhaps all to often we get so caught up in our own selves that we forget who surrounds us – during all times and occasions within our lives.  For we each have our own prerogatives, and we all have the ability to be so into ourselves that we can’t enjoy the areas that are of importance to ourselves.  Thriving on pride seems to be something that would bring about a downside.  Living with a variety of things within life – give way to something more than thriving on pride.  Efficiency is doing the thing right.  Effectiveness is doing the right thing.

~ Living within A Neutral Manner ~

Energy becomes very positive as we get to that level we term as neutral, because it’s epitomized by release of the areas that typically have us function at lower levels.  Our consciousness tends to see dichotomies and takes on rigid positions where things become more complicated in a complicated world that is with many factors, rather than black and white.  We thrive on things being exact. But is there an exact to everything in life. I would say that while I write this in no manner could that be however it’s the level of neutrality that we adhere to which leads to a manner that is simply neutral.

For myself I have come to some neutrality, I have actually carried it out the past month and a few weeks. So often I refer to it as just “going with the flow”.

In the last month and some, I can honestly say I have rendered a neutral manner – a flow. I do believe that people living within a neutral manner render something more. They render something that is contentment. Contentment leads to happiness.  I was content to merely just go and get shopping done in the morning and then to just finish up things as much as time permits. I just flow with it.  I had met with a business person that I didn’t realize that I had know early on in my late 20’s and he knew me from all that I had done within my work. However that all being said, he was trying to get more of the “inside news” on a few people that are half retired now.  And silence is golden.  I find that there are areas that are viable to break, but within it all I maintain that cadence.

The level of awareness comes with age or perhaps it’s with maturity. But I have literally been able to get to an area that took two years of obligatory and now as I know from a distance that my father will be having another CT Scan. I function in a manner that is acceptance.  Acceptance is not something that is about passivity, which would tend to lead towards apathy. To the contrary, acceptance leads to one enabling engagement on one’s own terms.  But is life complicated – yes it is however there is always a manner from which we gain, change, and re-arrange our own cadence within our own flow.  Nothing within our lives stays consistently the same. Tomorrow I have another meeting and what will come from it, I am not sure but I flow with it. 

We determine our own human behavior I suppose.

*This picture was taken while I was driving throughout the city yesterday and I wished to bring along the camera and catch some shorts that have a vantage and angle that represent something, but my focus was not exactly to do it – if I was not able to do it, that was all fine. Ironically there was a small marriage going on and security allowed me to go up into the balcony area to take some pictures.

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While downtown today I thought I would go in and take some pictures of this historical Church....

St. Joseph Basilica Cathedral

The Edmonton Catholics who built what is now called St. Joseph’s Basilica know all about tradition and patience. The grand building was erected some 45 years ago, but the dream actually began nearly 50 years before that when St. Joseph’s parish was founded. Early in the 20th century, English-speaking Catholics worshipped with Francophones at St. Joachim’s, which had been founded in 1854. But as English newcomers poured into the booming city, the need for another church became increasingly evident. And so St. Joseph’s was formed in 1913 by Most Rev. Emile Legal, first archbishop of Edmonton.
The following year, Father Alphonse Lemarchand, (brother of Rene Lemarchand, who was later to build the fantastic mansion apartment building on 100th Avenue and 116th Street), began to plan for a new church building just west of St. Joachim’s. A large basement was excavated and concreted over, but the First World War intervened and the project had to be abandoned.
It wasn’t until after the war, in 1924, that work began anew, but this time at a new location just south of Jasper Avenue and 113th Street. The cornerstone was laid November 4th, 1924.
A year later, the basement of the new cathedral was completed the cost of $140,000 and, services were held beginning March 22, 1925 in what came to be known as “the crypt.” It had room enough to seat 900.
That year, Archbishop Henry Joseph O’Leary chose St. Joseph’s as his cathedral church and it was also to become the cathedral of the Roman Catholic ecclesiastical province of Edmonton, which stretches from the 49th parallel to the North Pole. Plans for a $250,000 grand stone cathedral atop the original structure were prepared by Edmonton architect Edward Underwood, who had also designed the Misericordia Hospital just a few blocks away. The building contract was awarded to Edmonton’s Poole Construction.
By November, site preparation was underway for a structure that would have been the largest in western Canada, with seating for 1,000. It was to feature twin towers and steeples 190 feet high and a central tower reaching 220 feet into the air.
But the Depression of the 1930’s and the Second World War again intervened to postpone their best laid plans. It wasn’t until 1957 that the church commissioned Montreal architect Henri S. Labelle create a new vision for the cathedral on the site.

Labelle and associate architect Eugene Olekshy of Edmonton came up with a Gothic-style building.
The intention was to extend the crept upwards but, as it had been built on what had formerly been a slough, cracks had developed, especially on the north side. In early 1961, the superstructure started to rise from the crypt. It measured 265 feet wide and 142 feet long and rose 90 feet in the air. There was room for seating for 1,239. The floors were ceramic tile, laid in patterns reminiscent of the early Roman basilicas. Interior walls and pillars were clad with a synthetic stone called “Haydite” to subdue sound.
The finished architectural masterpiece featured some of the finest materials available, including $300,000 of stained glass windows and $15,000 of gold inlaid stations of the cross, all imported from Germany. The gold ceramic backgrounds of the illustrations of Christ’s walk to Calvary were originally ordered by Hitler as decorations for lampposts for one of his rallies in Nuremberg.
The exterior was clad in Tyndall stone from Manitoba, the oak pews and panelling from Quebec, the marble altar from Barcelona, Spain, the tabernacle candlesticks from Dublin, Ireland and the carved wooden statues from Oberammergou, Germany. The crucifix was made by a German immigrant, living in Edmonton at the time and working out of a converted garage on the south side. The gallery organ was built by Casavant Freres of Quebec.
With furnishings, the final construction cost came in at just over $2 million. The church was officially opened on May 1, 1963, the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker.
A fire, deliberately set in 1980, destroyed the altar and a large sculpted wooden cross, blacking the walls and stained glass windows and causing total damage of $500,000. Four years later, in honour of the visit of Pope John Paul II, the cathedral became the first designated Basilica west of Manitoba.

Among the many noteworthy events at the Basilica was the July 16,1988 wedding of Edmonton Oilers Wayne Gretzky to Janet Jones.

Thus it's Friday

Well I have finally settled in and an hour ago have moved into my place complete while at the same time I had a meeting and I just wish to say peace to all of you and I look forward to reading and writing a for within in it all is love and power and force.

 

A great Friday & Saturday to all,

Jack

Everyone Wants To be At Home

We all do take responsibility for charting our own course in life, we may well go in an entirely different direction from the one laid out for us by society and familial expectations. Mine was one that was an open ended direction – without an exact location, but some cadence and networks. This can be uncomfortable in the short term, but in the long term it is much worse to imagine living this precious life without ever taking the wheel and navigating our own course.  In all this said I am in the midst of a move and I have been traveling of around six weeks now. Sure we all take responsibility with what we do and we do have obligations. In coming to this city I was determined to settle down in a new city. I found that the last four days have not been that easy.

 

Finessing so much can be a long day to say the least but finally I will have accomplished my new goals effectively this weekend.  As I have a new place in a new city. I will have to go and rent our or sell my other place – but that won’t be till the New Year.  I am not sure how many people have lived in hotels but I can honestly say that regardless – it’s going to be nice to get settled in. Two meetings to day and then some work, then two trips for furniture as well as then ending up at the dentists office with an infection in my upper gum.  I am on an antibiotic and I can wait to just get into my own home.  At least I have not major situation with my teeth, but what I found amazing was that I met a few new friends – as the dentist is from Peru, and most of his staff are from the middle part of latin America. 

 

After I left yesterday, I was told to go back as I am on two medications for the infection and I can’t wait as there is an entire Spanish community here. Most are from Colombia, Argentina, Chile, and the middle portion of Latin America.  I certainly look forward to this.  But meanwhile, with the things taken place this week it’s been rather hard and much multi tasking. I look forward to just getting in my place and putting my feet up.  The reason – you can be yourself within your own home. 

If there is one thing that I can say - I planned last summer to go to Latin America and then I was side tracked. So all in all, aside of the infection, one more day and then I can be within my home.

Existence On This Earth

Perhaps co existence would be a better title...

 

The earth is not all the old really when you come to think of it and how you relate to it.  It’s amazing to me I remember since I as five years old how I would be at my window in the evening gazing at the stars and wondering what all is out there.  It created a curiosity that has carried on ever since.  Many ancient inhabitants based things on the stars and the skies.  The aboriginals, the Chinese, and some other cultures based their life on the ways of the lands, the skies and as well the stars.  For myself it’s incredibly interesting in the way it all started. Some would say it was an inspiration of a force. An energy that would bring together all ideas and religions of what we base our lives on.  Maybe just maybe, we are missing out on something due to the reason that we think in according to one type of thought. Or perhaps we are not.

How long it took mankind to accept that the earth was round. That was a conquest for some to have to look at things from another angle. And more importantly how many conquests and lives it took to prove this theory.

 

Look at our other inhabitants of our world – the animals. Animals will act differently during a full moon, as there are gravitational pulls that for some reason they notice instinctually. 

When a storm comes our other co inhabitants realize some things that we need technology to understand.  Is there something we miss? Perhaps are we as a society so self involved that we are missing something?

 

I don’t think mother earth is missing the forest for the trees.  She’s missing the forest and the trees. Meanwhile we are thrive on more wants than needs. It mimics history in so many ways, however the world does cycle - in our own way, and maybe we will come to learn that life is not just regarding what was mention in my previous post, but now and then we think outside of the box.  However a box can't fit into a circle, yet a circle can fit into a box...

THE FAIRMONT HOTEL MACDONALD

Vantages on the first day of Snow. In a city that is Canada most multicultured city from this year as declared by the Prime Minister.

The Fairmont Hotel Macdonald has long been known as Edmonton's most elegant hotel and is lovingly referred to as 'The Mac.' After four years of construction, the hotel, named after Canada's first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, opened its doors on July 05, 1915 and was destined to become the centre of Edmonton's social life.

Situated high on the bank overlooking the North Saskatchewan River valley, the seven-storey Grand Trunk Pacific Hotel (faced with Indiana limestone and roofed with copper) was built and furnished at a cost of about $2,250,000 (over $35 million today). The characteristic Chateau style, an adaptation of French 16th Century castles, was first brought to Canada in 1892.

In 1953, a 16-storey, 300-bedroom addition was built to meet the pressing need for more rooms and convention facilities. The very marked change in architecture from the original Chateau-style of 1915 caused Edmontonians to refer to the addition as 'The Mac and the box it came in.' The addition was demolished in 1986.

After more than half a century of glamour, The Hotel Macdonald closed its doors in 1983 after the Universiade Games, as it had fallen into a state of disrepair. On January 08, 1985, the City of Edmonton designated the hotel as a Municipal Heritage Resource (and thereby saving it from the wrecking ball!) and was the first building in Edmonton to receive this special designation. Five heritage areas are included in the designation: The building exterior, the Confederation Lounge, the Lobby, the Wedgwood Room, and the Empire Ballroom.

Over the next several years, the owners debated how (and if) the hotel should be developed. Canadian Pacific Hotels came to the rescue in 1988 when it bought the chain of CN hotel properties. A total commitment was made to restore The Hotel Macdonald to its former elegance and to re-establish its importance in the community. In 1999, Canadian Pacific Hotels merged with Fairmont Hotels to create the largest luxury hotel management company in North America - Fairmont Hotels & Resorts.

Restored, The Hotel Macdonald, exuding a feeling of Victorian elegance, re-opened its doors to the public on May 15, 1991. It's one of 10 "castle hotels" that were built throughout Canada. The first of these hotels started in Quebec and then went on throught the rest of the country. As there is nearly one in each province with the exception of Newfoundland.

Separation and Division

Separation and division is the central key as to why there are so many problems in the World. The Ego is looking out for some reason why they alone are somehow above the crow so that their own personal experiences are better than the average common rabble.

Individuals want to feel special, as if their own life experience is something in which no one else can understand or relate. In fact, most people are almost in shock when they bond with someone else who seems to "understands" them as no one else can.

 

Some take pride in the fact that they view themselves as misunderstood as it is somehow glamorous to be so tragic while others go into another extreme and brag of being so popular as if there is no other place to be. Like-minded individuals can get together for a common purpose and when ego takes over the group feels as if it is misunderstood by everyone else and they are somehow above the people outside of the group. Categorizing can form to be cliques, clubs, churches, gangs, and armies.

No matter what you label it, the group will somehow feed into the common ego that their life experience, happiness, heartaches, pains, and joys are somehow different than anyone outside of the group. Anyone outside of the group is somehow wrong or bad or someone to be avoided.  Such thinking is the core as to why people fail to connect to other. One group believes it is supreme and the others have no rights as they do, in fact they believe everyone outside of the group as somehow inferior and not deserving of the same merits of humanity.

 

This can quickly turn to prejudice, hatred, intolerance and lead to acts of war, violence, aggression and cruelty. This kind of thinking keeps hungry people starving, abused people in fear, and poor people in poverty. It enslaves your mind, even if you are in the group, which deprives others of equality.

 

Just look. We do have our own unique quirks and ways to do things among our peers, but chances are somewhere in the world you will find a few dozen people with all those exact qualities. It is inside, where it really counts, that we are all equal.

 

The color of our skin, weight, height, shape and other outside features do not make you who you really are, it is your reaction to how people treat you because of your features that make you who you are. Twins with identical features could be subjected to the same

rude comments from people who want to find a way to discount their importance by calling them on a physical feature. One twin could get offended by such remarks and adopt and attitude of hatred for those who don’t look like her. The other twin could forgive those and live life in peace, waiting for those who will accept her as she

.

 

Your religion or spiritual beliefs do not make you who you are - it’s how you practice what you preach. Some like to beat a certain faith as hypocritical because they know members of that church who are sinners according to the beliefs they claim. In fact,

there are hypocrites in every faith who hide behind them for various reasons. They have nothing to do with those who truly believe in that faith. To discount all faith on behalf of the handfuls of liars in a slap in the face of those who are doing what they believe.

 

There is no one correct way to review life. Just as 10 witnesses to a car accident can come up with 10 different accounts of the scene that would be correct in their own point of view, the over 6 billion people the world make their own correct judgment of life most likely as a great abundance and the other might see life as harsh and both would be correct.

 

We are all creatures who want the same exact things in life. That is the humanity within us that make us equal. When the Ego takes over, we neglect the fact that others have that same essence of life and quests we do.

 

We all want love. When we become balanced within ourselves and learn to love ourselves, we want love, not false dependency. We want respect. We want to achieve our goals. We want to walk through the same path. We want to be remembered according to title, but most people live and pass on with title, those that have testimonial have a continuum in which thrives on. We want to feel special. We want our basic needs to be met with the least amount of resistance. We want peace. We want a quality in our lives. We want health and mental well-being.

 

No one really wants to live in FEAR and conflict. No one wants to feel physical or emotional pain. No one wants to get hurt, harm, hated, neglected, abused, starved, enslaved or disrespected. There are some twisted minds too caught up in the ego that have warped the essence of humanity that they would debase themselves and others.

That is not the true nature of mankind. That is a sick mind in control of

a runway vehicle.

 

Ironically, it is also human nature that brings out the best of humanity in a time of crisis. Our own need for self preservation can come out when we see our safety and security threatened, we tend to band together to help each other. Many people like to describe an end time scene where man will turn against man and kill each other in a quest to survive. History will point out otherwise. During times of earthquakes, acts of war, terrorism or any other disaster, People generally will help others in need when and how they can. Of course there will always be the losers and people who are able to render

their own true essence of humanity, but for the most part you will find honest, caring, decent people who will help another person in

need if they can do it.

 

If we ever want to live in a world of peace, we are simply going to have to get over just looking for a title and rather have a manner of understanding. Which would require the ability to have confidence and yet enjoy life without the need to posture, or make things up - as life is what we feel and what we have a conviction for without closing the doors to others.    We all have an ego, but with that said, I find that there is a need to not only be true to ourselves but true to our own valid nature of being. We must also learn to respect and allow others to be instead of controlling how we think they must be. We are all looking at the same world from different angles with the same inner needs, hopes and desires. Some do and some don't.

 

We all will make mistakes as we learn hot to play the rules in this game of life. Just because we do not see eye to eye does not mean we won’t come to our own right way to live, to think and to be able to have the ability to think outside of just our own notions of what makes our world happen.

Awakening The Inner Warrior

There are certain personality archetypes that we all carry within us, such as the inner child, the lover, and the mother. Some of these archetypes present themselves strongly, while others lay fallow. For example, there is an inner warrior in each one of us, but in some of us this warrior is underdeveloped to the point that we are unable to stand up for ourselves, even when necessary. There can be many reasons for this. We may have grown up with a parent whose warrior aspect was overdeveloped, and we responded by repressing ours completely.

On the other hand, we may have grown up with parents in whom this aspect was dormant,so we never learned to awaken it in ourselves.

A warrior is someone with the strength to stand up for what he or she believes; someone who perseveres in the face of challenges and obstacles; someone who speaks and acts in the service of an ideal; someone who protects those who are too weak to fight for themselves. Regardless of the reasons for an underdeveloped inner warrior, you may begin to notice the lack of its fiery, protective presence and wish to awaken it. You may need to stand up for yourself in a certain relationship or situation, or you may have a vision you want to realize, and youknow you will need the courage, energy, and strength of a warrior to succeed. Succeeding is not in failure but in faith and determination. Regardless of what it is - how small or how large everyone is determined to find that they have accomplished something that they alone find worthwhile. 

The Next Step

There are a few picture in here. Two are from Drumheller. The city it's self and then the others are picture of the international airport here and then this room I got that I needed so much after a long trip. I have never had a hotel room with a jaccuzzi in it. I am not breaching or posturing, but that foot felt good!

To the Next Journey

I left the old town early this morning, and well the first portion of it was great and then the last portion of it was ok. I got here and I am not sure if I wrote about my friend Gary but I am in his city now and I am staying at another hotel. But thank god.

So I was there and now I am hear. The first portion of my trip to meet an old friend came to being full of situations. But I leave it at that. I enjoyed the nature side of things and now it's back in the city.  Not the one I live in and as well in one that the the hotel does have....well, ummm...it's great and I am going to be very conservative with all the staff as this is a less pricey place - but what comes with it is what I need!

Gary is an air traffic controller so he is working the night shift and from a small town to a large city - for right now I feel great. As long as the "room service" does not call me after work. As I don't wish for anything more than to embark on my mission.

Here it is Saturday and just to relax after getting some amenities.

I feel good!

 

So Long For Now

I am leaving in the morning for another city and I wish those of you all the best. I hope you enjoy your weekend as I will be travelling to another city.  There are some very dynamic people in here.

So this all said - in the ideals of doing what is true to you - never waiver from what you desire and wish to do. As well, if I may say, I have not been to many blogs in which I used to and the reason is that I have been very busy.

So I am not a nomad, I am just like you we all are united in a manner regardless of where we come from. It's more about the insight.  This all beings said take care and all the best to you. And as before, I shall be connected once I have booked in to another hotel. Meanwhile I look forward to the trip.

Peace and Take care.

RETURNING HOME ~ VOLVER A CASA

VOLVER A CASA El viaje ha sido largo y peligroso. Queda un puñado de montañas de ciudades y ríos, el sonido de unos cuerpos, ciertas noches configurando con las manos las galaxias, miles de palabras y unos rostros. También unas cuantas tardes mirando el mar. Volver a casa y en la valija apenas unos libros, varios poemas inconclusos, y un itinerario de trenes y ficciones. Volver a casa al poblado de techos rojizos donde ya no estan los amigos ni los bares de antes y corroborar que todo es lo mismo en todas partes que no hay que tomarse las cosas tan a pecho pues al fin y al cabo nadie sale ileso de este fragil camino hacia la nada. Para qué volver a casa Si ya me encuentro en ella?

RETURNING HOME The journey has been long and hazardous. There is still a handful of mountains of cities and rivers, the sound of some bodies, certain nights configuring the galaxies with their hands, thousands of words and some faces. There are also some evenings looking at the sea. Returning home, with just some books in the suitcase, several unfinished poems, a schedule of trains and fictions. Going back home to the town with red roofs Where the friends and the bars of the past are now gone and to confirm that everything is the same everywhere that there is no need to take things too seriously since, anyhow, no one is left unharmed On this frail path that leads nowhere. Why return home When I am already there?

Thriving With Patience

I will write this as we always thrive on results.  I certain I am not alone on this thought.  Sitting here after a day of several things unrelated to the Internet. I sure that there are people desire to have things take place quickly.

In my previous writing I mentioned about contradictions. Well, perhaps I am writing a contradiction or the way it is.

In deciding to hold on with my plans to go to another city and yet while at the same time extended my stay for good reason.  There are a few very delightful people here that are from this small town. As well there are some most interesting people that I have found coming here from different places of the world and as well as the folk that work and live here. 

After a full day I had a call from a friend that is sort of reliant on my going to visit him soon. Meanwhile, I extended my booking here within this hotel. Based on waiting for a few things to arise. 

So the decision comes to be do I go to a city to visit a friend for one day and come back as there is one gem of a situation that I am waiting for and after this weekend my intention was then to go onto two other cities. I am not certain of this, however it will be necessary to make one tomorrow night.

One side of myself that is thinking stay till the end of my booking as I have planned on. Then there is another side that has that obligatory area of making a one day trip and come back.  Upon getting the telephone call tonight I mentioned to my friend that I would give him a call tomorrow. This will give some time and allowance to making a decision that allows me to decide on if I will go. I already feel I should stay put and then thereafter go thereafter. But it gives me time to let him take it all in and re approach it and then there is an understanding. 

I had a call from my mother today and she indicated that my father had a good treatment 3rd treatment of therapy with his cancer. She mentioned that his words for her to tell me are that he is very proud of me.  This is good, it’s of value, and it’s family.

What does this all come too in conclusion? I am neither sure nor certain.
I know or realize there are several things that I am working with and in some manner – there is always a way. There is always a manner to multi task in a method that brings it all together without no hard feelings.

I guess we all require that timetable to be working on our side but sometimes I remind myself that moments seem to change each and every day.  And with that being said change is good, patience is a method to a means.  But the meaning never unfolds till the journey is completed. But in having patience gives way to not requiring immediate results, rather adapting to working time in a manner that is working with you rather than against you. Well this is a banter, but that is my write and as well for those celebrating the holidays of Thanks Giving - enjoy!

One important value of sorts is living within the day and understanding that if you don’t succeed first, try again…

Meaning and Significance

The attraction of all relationships is within the art of attraction and return. Attraction can be several things – a writing, an image, we would be contradicting our selves if we said that image does not play a role on what and how people appeal to each other.

The means of allowance is a philosophy whereby relationships flow. There is something that is significant that we all do see and can relate to within some manner. Life does have its flaws. And no one is perfect.  Have you ever had that certain feeling with regards to something and it just did not feel right. I think that is something that is an area within our abundance that one makes a choice on what to do in all realms of life.

Do we contradict ourselves at times? We do, even the noblest people have been contradictions at times. Relationships, and the relevance of self worth so often require a need for not only just self. Right? I could be wrong.

Which leads me into a few areas...

Relevance is only as important as we wish it to be. Some will have more of an open mind, some will listen more, and some will look the other way. I think you all know what I mean. Within life we all have our choices. Is that convenience, no? Do we wish to have others that we can rely on in life? Yes. 

In the midst of my journey of recent I have learned more with regards to taking the time to meet up with old friends.  For some reason with these friends of mine each one of them is going through something. One has a marriage that he works hard for and is now seeking family counseling. It took one to act and others to abide with the counsel for families sake. I would think this is a good thing. How many leave it off for too long and then jump out.

Then I have another one friend, that is working so hard that he never is home and yet he loves his wife very much. They made it through bad times in which he had went bankrupt within one of the largest lounges in a city.  As well, he is now facing situations where he has some medical problems that may lead to something with regards to his entestine area. I didn’t know that till last week. 

And then here for myself, I have left on a vacation or getaway with the challenge of breaking back into the a "mens club" within business. As business is a politic when it come to dealing with a few that are second generation to three older gents that were very successful and started from scratch.  Within it all, do I care, at first I did. Then as time went on I didn’t. The relevance was not that important to me if there was a need to do anymore than be me. I am still on my vacation while working in a hotel which I am extending.   Not due to anything but I find that it is my own prerogative and I have other passive involvements that don't require me to play the game with a few second generation that were fed by way of their father's spoon. They are human and I just think to myself, if they had to do it on their own could they. Meanwhile I know what I can do. Arrogance no. I know what I can and can't do. As if I could do everything and not be reliant on something then I guess I would be very arrogant. (No contradiction)...yet I still maintain my cadence. As I am in sync with myself.

I have found within this small town something that I had never seen before. And in some manner I came to understand it.  Perhaps I totally changed the dynamics and looked at what was relevant within the now and in the future. Which is much different in comparison to my friends.  But still it's come cohesive relevance that one finds in times where they come to understand that life has to be productive and somewhat abundant.

I could say I have been through hell and back, however that would be self pity.  As many goes through things and I can truly say that in some manner everyone goes through contradictions – dysfunctions – along with something that brings about the weeds within the most perfect garden. Mentioned so well by Marc.
Within this area of peace – I find that peace is the ability to make decision, choices, give allowance that there will be contradictions – as nothing ever in life does stay the same. But what is relevant is not about how others find that you handle it, but that your comfortable within the manner that you handle it. And everyone has some ethics to the way in which they do this. Attraction is more than just image, it’s about several things. Most important is what it is that attracts you within you.

Everyone wishes to be the most ultimate of what they can be. And if I may add a person aspires within the values of understanding that we all are not created equal – it’s told to us that it’s so, but we are created substantial in whom we are and what we do. 

Even the gardener had to take time to sit and rest, while looking how they desired to go about creating and cleaning up the garden. When they came back to it, they had a different view – it was green, not work...

Horseshoe Canyon.avi

It's an exceptional place. I took this at it was the third time I have ever done something of this sort - however it gives a feel perhaps on what the surrounds of the lands of this area of the world are like.

Various Pictures

New Vantages

Various Vantages

I know that this small town of wonders will not last for long however I thought after a morning of work that I would have some fun. Pictures share whom we are in many ways. I love photography and actually it's my enjoyment to photo blog. This was on one area in which I forget the name of however it's all a very interesting area.

~ What does Peace Mean to You ~

 

What is Peace to you, if I can kindly ask?  What do you imagine as a better world in a manner that can be ideological, or straightforward.  Here is where some will partake and some won’t.

I really don’t know why. Do we live in a society that is only based on “I”? Everyone has his or her own ideals and perspectives. And I certainly know that everyone is tired of this area to even be discussed however each and everyone of us have something that we desire. Some have more some have less. I think that within the dynamics of a world being one that so desires for peace this is Iraq has become a sensationalized issue now – within politics. Yet we as ordinary human beings do have our own vantages on how we would deem to be a better world.

Not going to say it – but I think that no one will even touch this write. Why – I don’t know. With a few I do know why.  “No one can achieve anything in this world without the mankind.” We are not an island onto ourselves. We are who we are. That renders somthing with regards to how we see a better world - from our own vantages.

 

Valid Video Taken With Iraq.

Honestly this is not from utube nor anyother device. It was taked two years ago. What is Peace to you?

~ There Is No Doubt ~

Some find Multiply a tad to much glitter and have stayed the test of time with Y360.

 

There is no doubt they are different.  I think that is great I find that at least getting back over there and writing definitely is a self write without getting to other peoples pages and reading. And right now I don't have much time. Not saying that you do, but I have been very busy. In several ways while living in hotels.  But with regards to Y360 - It was never about being anything than authentic of course there was the click and delete and some posturing that goes along with any type of society. Within the writings you could come to realize who was genuine with what they were writing. I know there are some on here that don't know me at all. Aside of that I don't have the time to write as much as I did in a "bilateral blogging manner" which I read once from a friend on my Y360 blog.

I wanted to place down a few testimonials, if only I could place in the "send messages" as some would come out with some of the most tremendous writings by way sending a message on some subject matters that were a tad touchy. However within my manner I find that while embarking life. There is always something that turns on the light bulb - as I found the significance within the writes. I say this done and I as I never knew 99% on my blog I have left out the copy from my y360 that if one would click they could email them. Privacy is always respected. 

These are a few of people that were from the United States, Australia, Iran, Iraq, and Guyana. Does it matter where we are from. No it doesn't. Not in any manner.

A few testimonials I was reading that came from no where. And within it all, I found some tremendous writers that wrote independently. And when I closed it up they certainly wrote for themselves in there own way. I took off the jpeg images and id names to ensure their privacy so it's just words from a variety of people.

Testimonials came to be something of a reference code of authenticity within the writings. I guess on this multiply it serves for a reference point as to the person behind the writings. Now I don't know 99% of them - but I have gained from them and from there vantages.  It's like when you have read a book and there is something of substance and the person has their own ideologies, thoughts, way of writings that as time goes along you know that it's not fake, it's genuine - and not twisted.

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Thoughtful, insightful, vivid, true and a lot more! I am most fortunate that our paths have crossed. From the bottom of my heart wishing you much love and many blessings!

 

Fri Aug 24, 2007

Initiative Stain, is really smart and honest, I noted that in his style of communicating with others. His making me smile and laugh, thru his entertaining blogs and witty messages, which are open to new ideas and new ways of thinking. I feel honored to have him as a friend in my Y360 family.

 

Thu Dec 21, 2006

Visiting Jack’s page is like sitting at your favorite café or coffee house with a group of people having a great discussion. Jack’s unique creativity with his blogs tends to pull me in leaving me to think and ponder well after I’m gone. He is bright and articulate and I'm blessed to call him friend.

 

Sat Aug 25, 2007

Jack, a man I've come to know through his writes. My instinct tells me he's caring to most of his friends and a caring son as well. His blogs reveal his true and honest self; a man who loves diversity, has an earnest quest to learn more about other cultures. A man w/high regards on integrity and honesty!

 

Sat Jul 14, 2007

Los sueños se hacen realidad... Gracias por ser parte de mi vida todos estos años...Con amor.

 

Mon Oct 15, 2007

Life allows us to cross paths with people who enrich and encourage us. Thank you for allowing me to see through your eyes, to feel your passion and love for life and for having such a gentle spirit. There is only one success- to be able to spend your life in your own way. HE DOES AND CAN.WHY NOT!

 

Sun Jul 22, 2007

Jack...Jack...the dearest friend you will ever know! Always they’re to lend an ear, and try to help! You know I thought I had already written one.hmmm...old age damn it sux...:) never change Jack.no matter who, no matter what is said...be you, as you are the best!

 

Tue Sep 18, 2007

Jack, I am so happy to have met you here, I find you to be honest and forth right and so enjoy your writes! I look forward to a continued friendship and exchange of your wonderful words .You is a beautiful spirit and I am honored to know you. Keep the beautiful writes coming, and never change!

 

Thu Oct 25, 2007

I haven't known Jack long but from the first blog I read from him I recognized a human being. He's come to a point in his life where he recognizes the importance of experience of life while he is here and he shares that life with thoughtfulness and depth.

 

Thu Sep 21, 2006

Jack, you are incredible person rarely to find in these days, caring for ur family and friends, ur friendship is a precious thing, u have inspired me in so many times, every time when I feel down u lift me high, thank u, even I know thanks is not enough.

 

Wed Nov 29, 2006

I've known Jack for three years via the Internet. We have chatted and I have come to know him well. The funny Jack and the serious Jack. He is honest, intelligent and caring with respect for people from all over the globe. He says it how it is. I'm so glad our paths crossed my friend.

 

Sat Sep 15, 2007

Sincere, honest and open with a genuine interest not in cultural 'differences' but cultural 'likenesses'. This is how I have come to know Jack. He is a man of integrity and good character. When he writes about his day you will feel as though you had been there with him.

Thu Sep 27, 2007

Jack is a terrific friend to have, very caring and a very interesting man.

 

Sun Feb 25, 2007

I met Jack here and I find him to be a man with full of wisdom. He's blog entry covers all kind of topics and goes beyond any border. It’s nice to know such a nice man. Have a great life man and hope all your dreams will come through.

 

Thu Oct 19, 2006

Jack is a highly intelligent man who I am proud to call my friend. I may not comment a lot, but I do read his blogs. May not understand them all, but love reading them! Hugs, Jack!

 

Sun Oct 01, 2006

I believe Jack is highly talented and full of wisdom.... I really appreciate his peaceful spirit! Thank you for being my friend Jack...!

 

Tue Jan 02, 2007

Real Gentleman... good friend.... I think one day sky give him to us as a gift from the heaven.

 

Sat Sep 22, 2007

Aware. Thoughtful. Responsible. Dedicated to family. Generous. Gentlemanly. Easy going. Talkative. Open-minded. Just a few of the qualities that make Jack an interesting person to know and a terrific friend to have.

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I can honestly say without any doubt - they were genuine. And it was not about anything than the substance of what we all wrote. Of course there were the people

that wanted to have the largest blog on the face of the earth. But for me and still with time allowing it's more about the substance than the glitter.

Perhaps integrity...