Obnoxious

I love to write and probably I have hit some threads as in writing online my intention has never been to hurt nor dispel anyone yet it does happen.

I enjoy to write on things that are interesting I have passed back some as I find that I think so many things come out the wrong manner.

But that being said there are decent people on here and I love to write I have purposely placed my camera down for a while but I do believe that the manner you treat someone is the manner in which you wish to be treated. Sometimes there can be rage on here and in no manner has that ever come to be my intention within what I write.

Certainly, as many of you I do have my own reservations as to what I write as one does not know what whom they are writing too.

I feel that discussions can be something that are with respect and for only my own reason’s I have taken some off.

The reason I have been on here was to share thoughts and ideals as well. Nothing more and nothing less. That sound defensive but all in all really when it comes down to it we are sharing things in our own way. And I think that is something that is with regard. We all have our own thoughts and our own ideals and thought in life. I find that online I am more of a privater person - but I have never done anyone wrong. I have a huge list where as I have been away from blogging I can see that it's nice to have a huge list but at the same time most all that I am connected too have a smaller one and then write out to everyone.

Somethings withing the words things do not come out right. But this is not who is the best of the best. This is truly about just whom we all are and, for myself I have shared much.

Yet in doing the best as you can within your own manner is the best that you can. Certainly there will be the people that gossip and then there are the ones that speak in accord to there own term.

 

I truly believe that one does write with the intention of a good merit not otherwise. However, behind a computer we all know that that is a feat within itself.

 

To be obnoxious is that uncourteous manner if just if I can say giving one the finger. In no means nor manners have I ever done that but I do believe in validity of the things that we do write.

 

Certainly so....

A low profile seems to do best….

Why Not

It’s a nice wind here tonight and I love writing and in no manner am I perfect. Yet we all write on a variety of things. If one does something that is informative and then it takes on another slant I guess it comes to being something that does rise up some fury.

I do believe in the independent choice of each and ever person doing as they wish. As well I love to read many different writings. One may see something in another manner than another. However that all being said it does never have to come into a situation where by one is flagged.

I love to write but at the same time I love to read, and within the previous writings anyone that does know me to some extent knows that really never shun that many people yet we do have a host of people that we do enjoy reading there blogs.

This is fun and the expression that goes along with it is something that surpasses many things. But each person has that independent right. As this is a very small world in which we all live within.

So we all write when we have that time and that all said I blog my way and everyone has there own way. I think that is each persons right.

Health Care Reform...

Can Obama reform America's health-care system?

By Henry Champ

I was a guest recently on a CBC Radio show from Montreal and one of the callers asked: With so many people losing their jobs and their health-care plans, wouldn't this be the right time for the U.S. government to introduce universal health care?

President-elect Barack Obama talks about the influence of health-care lobbyists in this campaign photo from 2007. (Charles Rex Arbogast/Associated Press)

"You'd think so," I replied. "But the opposition will be ferocious."

I remember well the first Bill Clinton campaign in 1991. I was with NBC News at the time and travelled almost non-stop with the Arkansas governor. In fact, I still grab for my travel bag when I hear his Fleetwood Mac theme song, Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow.

That song serenaded Clinton when he arrived at a venue and served as the signal for the press corps to get back on the bus when it was time to leave.

On that campaign, Clinton's main message was universal health care and the audiences lapped it up in towns big and small, morning and night. The health issue and the economy won the election against an incumbent, the first President Bush, George. H.

Health care was also the first big challenge the White House took on after the election and, yes, the Clintons bungled it.

Hillary Clinton was given the leadership role and she refused to bring legislators on Capitol Hill into the negotiations early enough to give them some real political ownership of the cause.

But the real knockout blows were delivered by the private health-care industry, the medical profession and the drug manufacturers. They bombarded the country with a misleading campaign about costs, efficiencies and the existing level of care, which they described as the best in the world.

What's best?

All these claims were made despite the fact that 37 million people in the U.S. had no health insurance at all at that time.

The emergency wards were also being overrun by people seeking fairly standard treatment because they had nowhere else to go, while those who had insurance were paying ever-increasing premiums for ever-shrinking care. But so brutal was their political defeat that the Clintons never went near the health-care issue again in the remaining seven years of his presidency.

As for Democrat Barack Obama succeeding where the Clintons failed, I'm not an optimist and that's what I told the Montreal caller.

The very next day in Chicago, the president-elect introduced his proposed new health and human services secretary, the former Democratic Senate majority leader, Tom Daschle.

Daschle is no pussycat and Obama said the health-care fight will be joined and that health care is a key ingredient of economic recovery.

"Year after year, our leaders offer up detailed health-care plans with great fanfare and promise, only to see them fail, derailed by Washington politics and influence peddling," Obama said, adding, "the runaway cost of health care is punishing families and businesses across our country."

By the numbers

Obama's aides rapidly handed out releases to reporters about the state of the health economy. Among them:

• Polls show four out of five Americans are dissatisfied with health costs.
• Health-care premiums have risen at four times the rate of inflation in the past decade alone.

Jacob S, Hacker, an authority on health care at the University of California at Berkeley, told the New York Times, "Most Americans are troubled by the lack of universal insurance, but what really frightens them is the prospect that their own insurance won't protect their health or family finances.

"That's a fear that more and more Americans are facing as health costs skyrocket and job security plummets."

Adding to their campaign, Obama's team is circulating a Georgetown University report that says 4.1 million people lost their employer-sponsored health insurance over the last year and that two million of them have been unable to come up with a replacement program.

The cascading impact of this, the report says, is that states are facing unsustainable increases for public insurance programs and are cutting benefits, eligibility levels and provider payments simply to balance their budgets (which many must do by law).

Health insurance is also being portrayed as a drag on struggling U.S. manufacturers, like automakers where employee health plans are said to add $1,500 to the cost of each vehicle, more expensive than the cost of steel.

An opportunity

There is no question that Obama believes there is an opportunity to sell health-care reform to the public as a necessity to bring about economic recovery.

When president, one of his first tasks will be to sign off on a $50-billion program to help states with their health budget struggles.

He is clearly hoping that effort will gain support for the next step: the establishment of a Federal Health Board, which would "reduce or deny payment for new drugs and procedures that aren't as effective as current ones." (Obama argues the FHB "holds great promise" for "giving this nation the health care it deserves.")

A third expected proposal being studied is the creation of a separate government-run health insurance program that would compete with the private sector. Both Obama and Daschle favour such an effort and it has strong Democratic support in Congress.

The presidential push will come early in the administration and may well be spelled out in more detail in the inaugural address on Jan. 20.

As Canadians, we will inevitably be drawn into the debate.

Supporters will say Canadians live longer than Americans and that Canada's infant mortality rate is lower. The American media will search for Canadian doctors now living in the U.S. and making more money, and for Canadians who can't get their hip replacements as quickly as they do in Seattle.

The political fight may not be pleasant for Canadians living in the United States. Like most of them, I want the Canadian system improved but not replaced and, after living here for many years, there is no doubt in my mind Canadians are better served.

But going back to my Montreal caller and his question, I would refer him to Jonathon B. Oberlander, who teaches health politics at the University of North Carolina.

I agree with what he told the media here, that the pressures of a recession have raised the possibility of health-care reform here from nil to possible.

The question, he said, is whether Obama and Daschle can harness that new urgency and marginalize the opposition that will inevitably come. "The history of health reform is replete with instances of reformers believing this time it is inevitable," Oberlander said. "Those prior tipping points all turned out to be mirages."

That's certainly what I saw in the Clinton White House. This time won't be easy either...

 

Canada again cast as villain in U.S. health care fight

The Associated Press

A recent television ad against health care reform in the U.S. shows Canadian Shona Holmes staring straight into the camera and telling the audience a brain tumor would have killed her had she relied on her government-run health plan, which would have provided treatment far too late.

"Now, Washington wants to bring Canadian-style health care to the U.S.," a narrator says darkly.

The TV spot from a conservative group is dramatic but deceptive.

In fact, U.S. President Barack Obama and the Democrats pushing to overhaul health care want to create an optional, government-run plan to compete with private insurers, not replace them.

As Obama told a health forum last week, "We're not suddenly just going to completely upend the system. We want to build on what works about the system and fix what's broken about the system."

The ad with Holmes, who says she borrowed and saved money for a crucial operation in the United States, illustrates how groups are intent on bending the debate toward their agendas.

It is one of a handful of commercials that are expected to grow in number and criticism this summer as detailed health bills emerge from Congress and dozens of interest groups, companies and labour unions tussle to influence lawmakers.

The sponsor of the ad, Patients United Now, is an offshoot of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation, a privately funded, Washington-based conservative group that believes in limited government and cutting taxes. Among its directors are businessman and conservative activist Art Pope and James C. Miller, a top Reagan administration official.

The group says it has spent nearly $1.8 million US running the ad in Washington, D.C., and 11 states with senators on committees writing health care bills or ones seen as wavering on the issue.

Patients United spokeswoman Amy Menefee says the ad is fair because giving government more control over health care would be a slippery slope toward increasing the federal role and because some Democrats still favor government-only insurance.

Through June 27, $31 million has been spent for roughly 47,000 TV ads on health care this year, says Evan Tracey, president of the Campaign Media Analysis Group, a firm that tracks issue advertising. That's double the roughly $14 million the insurance industry spent in 1993 and 1994 for the famous "Harry and Louise" ads, credited with helping kill President Bill Clinton's attempt at health care reform.

Tracey estimated that $250 million will ultimately be spent on the campaign this year.

Hoping to shape the early debate, the initial ads are "really being aimed at some people in the administration, some people on Capitol Hill, a whole bunch of reporters, a few bloggers," Tracey said.

As Congress's direction becomes clearer and interest groups seek public support, "then I think you're going to see the spending go on a hockey stick curve straight up," he said.

Dueling commercials from left and right

So far, Tracey said about $15 million has been spent on ads favouring the Democrats' push to revamp the health care system and $4 million to oppose it. Another $12 million has gone to ads generally favouring better health care, nearly all of it from the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, representing drug makers, which hopes its market will expand if more people have insurance.

These figures might be too low, with several groups reporting higher figures reflecting costs Tracey doesn't track.

Ken Johnson, spokesman for the pharmaceutical group, says his association has spent tens of millions of dollars on television ads since late 2008, thanking lawmakers for supporting previous health initiatives or urging them to support a comprehensive effort this year.

"It's conditioning the environment, it's setting the table for the debate to come," he said.

Dominating the spending among opponents is Conservatives for Patients Rights, led and largely financed by Rick Scott, who was ousted as chief of the Columbia/HCA health care company during a fraud probe that ultimately saw the firm plead guilty to overbilling charges.

Spokesman Brian Burgess says the group has spent over $4.5 million on TV ads that have run hundreds of times this year, mostly criticizing public health coverage.

On the other side, progressive and labour groups have not been shy about using ads to assail Democrats viewed as insufficiently loyal in the health care struggle.

Health Care for America Now says it plans to spend $11 million on TV ads. The group is funded by labour, liberal groups and the progressive Atlantic Philanthropies, an international grant-making foundation whose president, Gara LaMarche, worked previously for billionaire Democratic donor George Soros.

Its latest ad: a $1.1 million campaign aimed at prodding senators of both parties from 10 states to support a public health insurance option. Targets include Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Orgeon who HCAN says has not shown strong enough support for the government-run option.

"Tell Senator Wyden, it's your health; it should be your choice," the ad says.

MoveOn.org and other liberal groups began airing a 60-second ad on Friday in Louisiana criticizing Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu for not yet embracing a public insurance plan. They dropped plans to run ads challenging Kay Hagan, a Democratic senator from North Carolina, after she expressed support for a bill containing a government insurance option.

Last Tuesday, the Laborers International Union of North America began airing ads in the home states of two Democratic senators, Max Baucus of Montana and Kent Conrad of North Dakota, criticizing them for considering a tax on workers' employer-provided medical benefits to help finance the overhaul.

Union spokesman Jacob Hay says the ads, which had been scheduled to run through Friday, were pulled after a request from Baucus aides. Baucus has agreed to meet with the union's president, Terence O'Sullivan, to discuss the legislation.

"Ads really do get their attention quickly," Hay said.

Just Reading Some Blog...

There seems to be some witty and as well a vast array of thoughts that are wrote on a variety of blog. I love to read some of them as you do learn something and then at the same time it's very interesting to get the insight of a variety of people.

It's so interesting with those that have the open mind from which to share by choice. Right now I see that there are several writes with regards to Health Care Reform within the Unites States.

Hmm thinking...the way I see it is there is no perfect right nor wrong within what we write. We all have our own opinions of things and as well as one friend mentioned indeed it is a very small world.

Seemingly many feel that Obama is pushing a socialized medical plan onto American's. I have not been keeping up with the news, but will look at it but the manner that I see it is everyone ethically should have the same health care.

It's not an easy task but it's a probably one very humane one...

Summer Breeze is Just Fine.avi

Windy as it was but a very special place that I did wish to share.

A Sunday Mix If you will.

Well I had intended on heading out to what is called Cranberry flats and I finally found my way there. How the city has changed with the different roads now in comparison to the summers I did live here yet it was the same.

It's a very untouched place where you have to walk a good ways before you are there but it's well worth it's while. As within summer this is the only time in which it is open for the public.

I love this place and many people ironically don't even go here that much. It's sort of a place where some do and some don't. Maybe that is because it's nature and protected by what is called the Meewasin Authority.

While heading there after a swim at the gym, I ran into this person with a bike which I tho

ught was was a Harley Davidson, but it was built right from scratch. Now that is a craft indeed. Apparently after talking to the chap it cost him a total of $ 25,000.00 dollars to make all within six months. I have never drove one of these ever within my life except as a kid doing motor bikes.  But the city was alive, the gym was a just the beginning of and excusion on a Sunday that was well worth it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thereafter I headed when I came back into town there was this one house that has always caught my eye. Without a doubt I rang the bell and there came a lady whom was in the midst of a shower and she said that by all means I could take a some pictures not of her :), but of the house as to me it looked very latin american and then she did explain that many years ago the original owner did go back and forth to Mexico and obtained drafting plans and ideas in the 60's for creating a house as such. This did surprise me to sa

y the least. As if you were in my shoes and someone was in a towel and explaining all of this to you, you would kind of ...well you know what I mean.

Here is one of the pictures of this house. I have never been able to place many pictures within the same post and I hope this does work.

As today was one of those very nice Sundays to say the least.

 

 

And if I may add I love the hues of green that come into play at this time of year as the city is so lush.

 

I love this time of year and if there was only one thing I would love to change it would be to have winter take place for two months and it could be as cold as can be and the rest of the seasons would be what is seen here. As I literally love it.

Summer Sundays

It's an array of photos taken today.
As I just arrived online I will come back and place down something with regards to these but within this there is Cranberry Flats which is a tremendous place.

Aside of that it certainly was a great day - hence the ensemble of pictures.

Peace...

Saturday Part Two

I forgot to mention that I while I was doing lapse this morning I ran into a gent that was asking me if there was a steam room within the gym. Which there is. He came from Calgary and I was just finished doing my lapse and as soon as he started to talk I knew that he was within the military. Young but that was the case.

While we were just on the sidelines of the pool, we got to talking and it ends up that he had just returned from Afghanistan. This usually is not the case here within this city. So as we went on he had mentioned that he came here to just unwind as he had served for five years over there. As the discussion went on he indicated that he received an honorable discharge. He loved what he did within the army yet he was certainly glad to be back on "home soil".

Shortly thereafter one other joined in and we all were talking with regards to the war and yet it was light talk if you know what I mean. I asked him if he could would he wish to go back, and he then stayed rather reserved and you could tell that he was glad to be back yet had been over there for too long.

In my own humble opinion I really do believe that it's an endless case with the war over there. I think most know what I mean. It's a time in which we wish to enjoy and tend to our own backyards and just live within peace.

There is a friend of mine that certainly writes some very interesting blogs and I thought I would place on her write as Heidi is very informative and this was one post that I found all to interesting. It's not politics it's with regards to life. For each man and woman are paying prices especially now in Afganastan and my feel is it's time to manoever them out. Not entirely but this shall never end.

http://starfishred.multiply.com/journal/item/1541/WILL_HISTORY_REPEAT_ITSELF_IN_AFGAHNISTAN

 

Saturday

Well it's hot to say the least and I went about my heading to the gym and then thereafter I went walking around an area that I often do. Thus far it's been going good and then I headed to a place I wished to go to but I ran into a person that had just moved here on the outskirts of town.

Amazingly she came from a small town where I went to for my last two years of high school and she invited me in and showed me what she was doing with her new place, which had much land. Here for myself, I was just trying to get the directions of Cranberry Flats. All in our entire visit was rather nice. A surprise indeed and we exchanged emails and telephone numbers and I will go back out there again.

Amazingly she had three horses and as well several dogs I forget their name but she was a very pleasant lady indeed. It truly is surprising the people that you do meet.  Aside from that it's been hot and humid.

This is probably the hottest day we have had thus far.

Simplicity

From the morning of swimming which is not within these picture to then doing a
round about hike this Saturday was simple yet it was superb.

Once in a while there is....

Someone that is truly remarkable within the craft of photography. Keith is one that seems to be a very humble gent and when ever I see his pictures they totally amaze me. I did not ask for his permission as I kinda know that he would not mind for within each of us we do have certain things that we are good with by way of a computer I could name a few names in all the what I read.

Keith is a tremendous photographer to say the least and I thought I would place a link to his page.

http://cleaunz.multiply.com/journal/item/100/A_different_kind_of_Friday?replies_read=4

Swimming Can Be Fun...

Today was a great busy to say the least for myself. I had headed to the gym and although I have never been much of one to be a swimmer I got in the pool and just did lapse. I enjoyed it so much feeling for the first time refreshed and the cardio went along with it.

So often I thought of doing swimming but never really considered it but I will be the first to say that doing lapse is not as easy as it seems. So I realized how much time had been lost within my cardio and how much there is to be gained.

Several were there fortunate for me there was still one empty row and I did just did my own thing and I never found it to be such a great workout without the gravity. So here I did have my camera but I did not have the time nor did I really wish to take any pictures at this time.

I just was to do...and within the cadence that is what my goal is and for every goal one does make regardless of where it goes at least one is challenging themselves in a good manner. I am not one to brag but I have never been so out of breath at the end of each side of the pool.  Yet it was very enjoyable after it all and for the rest of the day.

Cadence...maybe cadence is within ones step even when not on the ground but within the water.

 

McCartney Return's To New York

Paul McCartney's return to the Ed Sullivan Theater for an outdoor performance on the theater's marquee yesterday captured on The Late Show With David Letterman drew a crowd that packed Broadway from Times Square to Columbus Circle.

Fans were treated not only to "Get Back" and "Sing The Changes" taped for the Late Show broadcast but to a veritable mini-concert, as Paul and the band thundered through "Coming Up," "Band On The Run," "Let Me Roll It," "Helter Skelter" and "Back In The USSR."

Facebook breaches Canadian privacy law: commissioner

Facebook shares its users' personal information with developers who create games and quizzes in a way that breaches Canadian privacy law, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has found.

The popular social networking site, which is used by 12 million Canadians and 200 million people worldwide, also keeps personal information indefinitely after users deactivate their accounts, contrary to the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, says the report released Thursday by assistant privacy commissioner Elizabeth Denham.

The office's main concern was that users could not always give "meaningful consent" to the use of their personal information due to a lack of transparency on the site.

"We found that, although Facebook provides information about privacy issues, it is often confusing or incomplete," Denham said at a news conference.

Users should be able to opt out of actions that could lead them to lose control over their personal information, she added. In some cases, that information could then be used for marketing purposes or even identity theft.

'For a hangman application ... there is no use for the developer to know where the person lives or have their personal email address.'— Jordan Plener, CIPPIC

Facebook declined interview requests Thursday, but issued a statement saying it is about to introduce new privacy features that it believes "will keep the site at the forefront of user privacy and address any remaining concerns the commission may have." It added that in the meantime, it will continue to work with the commissioner's office and to raise awareness about its privacy controls.

4 areas of concern

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner's report found that Facebook continues to breach PIPEDA in four ways and it made recommendations to correct the problem. It found:

• Facebook doesn't have enough safeguards to prevent 950,000 third-party developers around the world from getting unauthorized access to users' personal information, nor does it ensure users have given "meaningful consent" to allow their personal information to be disclosed to the developers. Recommendation: Developers should only get the information needed to run the application. Users would have to specifically consent to the release of that information after being told why it is needed. Information about anyone other than the user would not be disclosed.
• Facebook keeps information from accounts deactivated by users indefinitely. Recommendation: Facebook should have a policy to delete the information after a reasonable length of time, and users should be informed of the policy.
• Facebook keeps the profiles of deceased users for "memorial purposes" but does not make this clear. Recommendation: Information about use for memorial purposes should be in Facebook's privacy policy.
• Facebook allows users to provide personal information about non-users without their consent. For example, it allows them to tag photos and videos of non-users with their names, and provide Facebook with their email addresses to invite them to join the site. It keeps the addresses indefinitely. Recommendation: Facebook should only keep non-users’ email addresses for a reasonable, specific length of time and should make its users aware that they need to seek consent of non-users before posting information about them.

Mother Teresa...

Mother Teresa once said, “If you judge people, you don’t have time to love them.” If we are quick to pass judgment on others, we forget that they, like us, are human beings. As we seldom know what roads people have traveled before a shared encounter or why they have come into our lives, we should always give those we meet the gift of an open heart. Doing so allows us to replace fear-based criticism with appreciation because we can then focus wholeheartedly on the spark of good that burns in all human souls. Mother Teresa was a noble person from Macedonia - that certainly had some impact on the world in more ways than one...

I think we all do judge people to some extent however I find that the less to be judged is the more to be enjoyed. And thank you for all those that have made posts or recent, it's nice to write back and forth in a meaningful and enjoyable manner.

Just So You Know

I have not had any conclusions with my tests I think this is a good thing as for the longest time I really did not know what the outcome would be and I do aspire for the good things. And I have always rendered this ideology of authenticity.

Yet sometimes I will write and I think that one can be self involved too much and for myself I have been just doing things without a camera and merely just walking and well getting things intact.

Within everything there is a will as well as a way. So I just wish to write on things of interesting and that inspires me as well. I may delete a few blogs as I think that they may have been something was is not for the public but for my own self to deal with but if I may say it's been a trying time and and then there have been those good days.

I am human

~ I ~

 I 

 

I'm a resister of classifications

And all the list of societies' possible labels

I'm a medley, a mixture, a collage of colors

A cultural challenge, yet a positive one  

I'm my own integrity within no category

For I don't classify

I'm inventor without having to fabricate

My identity merges and mixes with many

I am not one to point the finger

I'm not about denying

Nor to I have to define it

I'm not about trying to pass

Certainly not an ambiguous

Wanna-be, stereotypical type

That conjures up who is who

Or what they are in life or online

That's just not possible for me

If anything, I'm just another hue of you

I rather would be genuine

Ambiguous shades of grays

Never render a return rate of exchange

That is "I"

I'm no less of one thing, than I am of another  

Life too short to get in tidbits as such

I'm not about trying to be better

Different in some ways, yes as we all are

What I'm about is being all of what I am

For I am a question 

Continually learning...

That is "I"

 

~jgs~

 

"If you want to be exceptional, then be the exception. Forget about what most people would do in a given situation, and do what is best, what is right, what makes the most positive contribution. Exceptional performance is the result of exceptional thinking.

Instead of merely reacting to circumstances and events, use the awesome power of your mind to develop a thoughtful, effective response. To be exceptional, be yourself.

You have something valuable and original to contribute to every situation.

 

Exceptional accomplishments are authentic accomplishments. Allow your priorities and your actions to be based on the values, purposes and vision of life that you feel most intensely at the center of your being. Exceptional performance is meaningful performance. Look beyond the temporary and superficial, and put your energy into creating lasting value that serves a real purpose. You were born to be exceptional, to blaze a trail into territory where no one has ever gone before.

 

Choose today, and every day, to let your own unique, exceptional light shine brightly for all to see." ~ Ralph Marston

 

I thought I would post this again as I love the writing so much....

 

Well Hello...

And how much is changing now within this Yahoo and when I brought it up my "new profile" that is I had over 255 contacts. Hmmm.

I think I deleted most all and how things change so fast. Whom ever was connected with me I just wish to say if your other there and those of you know whom you are - as I don't use messenger much at all I do wish to say that I may have by mistake clicked on nearly everyone. Now 255 people as contacts goes way back and I thought I had cleaned it out but I guess I hadn't.

Anyways doing good here and I have been a little tired of blogging over the past while. Yet there is always something that one wishes to write now and then.

 

Things are Done and Over With

I am glad that today is done without no doubts. And I look forward to reading other's writings.

I certainly never thought I would be on here but at the same time it's something to pre occupy the mind.

I am sure that some know what I mean.

 

From within the Hospital.avi

I did it and it's now done....

I think that all of us can understand of medical things that come our way. I have done what is now necessary.

I am not down I just feel drained if you will.

Nothing more and nothing less.

 

Sunday Summary

Tomorrow is the morning in which I have this last testing and if I was to say that I am not nervous about it I would be in denial. But in some manner I just leave it be and each day I do my best to manage everything. I am not sure about any of you but this is the time where I do tend to worry a little but I know that after it’s done – then I go on from there. My hopes are that there is some good news that comes about. But there is nothing like the day before.

I find it hard at times to say anything regarding it but I know within it all where there is a will there is always a way.  So I just leave it there. I will not surrender within what I wish to do and the largest hope that I do have right now is just to have it were things work out. I am sure that they will.

Sometimes writing about it all is overwhelming but I find that calm and I understand that after tomorrow morning is finished then things shall work out fine.

I guess it’s a surrendering of self – with the hopes that there is good news that comes about with my matters. Tomorrow I will have my final testing and gosh I will be glad when it’s over with.

Acceptance is the key, but sometimes the ideals are hard to think about and put into placement, as you want to be able to do all the things that you have done before. But for now I just accept it and do it.

Thereafter I will take it from there in a positive manner.  Sometimes you just have to think in a manner that is productive regardless especially when one is waits for the next day...

 

A Quick Write...

Today the weather changed for the best in the morning it was still cold but then by around 10 it was favorably warm. I went to get some groceries and then some. And while getting to groceries I was talking to this elder man that was speaking of the weather.

It was obvious this is not a typical July after all. But hopefully it remains the same. After that I headed to do some other things including an easy going Sunday where one enjoys the walk with a camera and if there is something within what we deem as summer. We just look and then take a snap of it.

Thereafter I fixed a few things and as well took care of most all that people do on a Sunday. So it has been a good one. I will be back on later and will read a few posts in the mean time as I know we all are on different time zones and as well are living within our own ways. Love and light and abundance is delight!

Enjoy!

Jack

Within A Sunday of July

Today the weather was tremendous as the afternoon proceeded. I went to a few places with my camera.

Literally these all were taken today. I had went back to the head of the university's home and I was able to take a few pictures and there after I went slightly out of town as I wanted to see how the crops were fairing.

As well I was over at the riverside and then after it all along with going out to a farmer's crop of mustard. I arrived home to just enjoy this.

The last time I posted this I do enjoy the shares. With those that understand the decency as I am sure you all know.

In comparison to last night which was 4 degrees celcius - today reached a high of 25c.

Now hopefully is will stay this way for the next two months!

A Wet Clammy Saturday To Say the Least

Well I ended up going to visit my cousin whom was working today and we grabbed a coffee and everyone was wearing coats and all. I for the life of me can not stay in all day but I am sure many have seen today as one that is atypical for this time of year.

It's a Saturday which feels very much like a Sunday or maybe Autumn for that matter. Weather there is not one thing you can do about it...

All that I know is at least it's not winter...

 

Picture Perfect ~ Seasons Colour ~

 

Seasonal Colours is the theme within Picture Perfect. This was a seasonal storm of recent and we have had three tornados touch down within the province which is a first in my life time. So I thought within the array of what I could post as I don't wish to compete but just merely share. I thought I would submit this picture by way of choice.

A great group that is done not at as group but as a contact. So this is my submission as it does show the season and not that many colours but I thought it was something worth placing in.

The sky is something wonderful even when it rains...

 

~ I ~

 

 

 I 

 

I'm a resister of classifications

And all the list of societies' possible labels

I'm a medley, a mixture, a collage of colors

A cultural challenge, yet a positive one  

I'm my own integrity within no category

For I don't classify

I'm inventor without having to fabricate

My identity merges and mixes with many

I am not one to point the finger

I'm not about denying

Nor to I have to define it

I'm not about trying to pass

Certainly not an ambiguous

Wanna-be, stereotypical type

That conjures up who is who

Or what they are in life or online

That's just not possible for me

If anything, I'm just another hue of you

I rather would be genuine

Ambiguous shades of grays

Never render a return rate of exchange

That is "I"

I'm no less of one thing, than I am of another  

Life too short to get in tidbits as such

I'm not about trying to be better

Different in some ways, yes as we all are

What I'm about is being all of what I am

For I am a question 

Continually learning...

That is "I"

 

~jgs~

 

"If you want to be exceptional, then be the exception. Forget about what most people would do in a given situation, and do what is best, what is right, what makes the most positive contribution. Exceptional performance is the result of exceptional thinking.

Instead of merely reacting to circumstances and events, use the awesome power of your mind to develop a thoughtful, effective response. To be exceptional, be yourself.

You have something valuable and original to contribute to every situation.

 

Exceptional accomplishments are authentic accomplishments. Allow your priorities and your actions to be based on the values, purposes and vision of life that you feel most intensely at the center of your being. Exceptional performance is meaningful performance. Look beyond the temporary and superficial, and put your energy into creating lasting value that serves a real purpose. You were born to be exceptional, to blaze a trail into territory where no one has ever gone before.

 

Choose today, and every day, to let your own unique, exceptional light shine brightly for all to see." ~ Ralph Marston

 

The First Week of July

A variety of pictures still to this very day I find that it's difficult in placing pictures within one's own writings especially if it's more than one.

But these are a few that have been taken some of which were today and others from earlier days.

A Gratifying Friendship

I had a call with a good friend of mine the one that I have mentioned now and then that was from Iraq. We talked for an hour and then she was mentioning to me the transition that she had made and how she feels from moving from Iraq to Singapore.

 

We talked about a few things that were going on within the world and then at

the same time a few other things. Basically I am glad that she is now out of Iraq. I know she misses her family but for now she is out of harms way.

 

She had tried to get on with the Canadian Press as I had mentioned earlier in a post that I met her well I aided her while she had a few people that had passed on around her while all was happening within the first term of the war in Iraq. She works for Reuters News and now she has been transferred to Singapore. She is not using her camera as much but she is getting adjusted to a new smaller city and all that goes with it.

 

We spent time in talking about several areas that were happening within the world and I have known her for such a long time that she is a great friend. A man and a woman can be friends as I see it.

 

For myself I am so glad even though she is adjusting to this small town in Singapore and she wanted so badly to be on this side of the world. But with what she is doing it will lead her over here. For one that was terrified in Iraq to now being out of harms way. It does give a calm, as before you would always ponder on if she was alive or not. For the past five years I guess if not more we have always kept in contact once a month.

Within our discussions it's tremendous. I can't even begin to explain it. But the merit of a friendship as such is very gratifying to say the least now at this time.

 

Within the Moment

The each and every moment we are blessed with is limited and tends to be used up all too quickly.

 

 

How we utilize that time is consequently one of the most important decisions we make.

 

Yet it is far too easy to put off until tomorrow what we are dreaming of today.

 

The hectic pace of modern existence affords us an easy out. So often we shelve our aspirations so we can cope more effectively with the challenges of the present, ostensibly to have more time and leisure to realize our purpose in the future.

 

Or we tell ourselves that we go for our dreams someday once we have accomplished other lesser goals. In truth, it is our fear that keeps us from seeking fulfillment in the here and now because we view failure as a possibility, our reasons for delaying our inevitable success seem sound and rational.

 

If we ask ourselves what we are really waiting for, however, we discover that there is no truly compelling reason why we should put off the pursuit of the dreams that sustain us. Within life there is that certain area that we all get around to but the cadence of how we do it is within our own choices. 

 

Everyone has some dream regardless of age from which they do wish to fulfill.

 

~ It is the way of life ~ 

 

 

 

 

The Gardener

We all have that secret garden – the one that we tend to and perhaps sometimes we don’t allow other within.

 

Sure there is the fence and every day we tend to that garden and we make it the best that we can. Yet there is that wall that is all around the garden and we keep the door up and yet at the same time – now and then we will allow it to be open.

 

 

Why is it that we do this? It could very well be due to previous situations that have occurred within our life such as divorce or other wise. However within it all the garden does give one some substantial meaning as we are apart of creating something and within that everything that we do within every day has some meaning. Some will have days that are not that great and then there are some are perfect.

 

Ironically one day the gardener allowed that doorway to be open and what came about was someone that stepped inside.

 

This of course was to the gardeners surprise as there came about something as for years that door stayed closed. After a period of time, the gardener found that there was more things to just gardening and enjoyed the new things that unveiled. Certainly the garden was something that was never left go but other things came about.

 

 

The merit of the story is that the gardener found another level of actualization within what was abundant. For the gardener was never alone yet there was more than just the garden. I think that is something that we all can relate to in some fashion.  One can’t come from shortage, nor from scarcity or from wanting. The attributes the define us is what allows us everything within our own way.

 

 

Knowing

I have been going through testings for Parkinson and nearing the finish. I don't feel bad about this when I first had such trouble with my legs I did find that it was stress and I have several appointments right now but for myself - the average person would not even realize that I have something of this likes however I have had my body go entirely into convulsions and I thought it was stress but according to the professionals it's not stress it's something more ingrained if you will.

Right now I am not on any medication with regards to this so I just work with it. In an authentic manner I look at the best in things and I don't worry with regards to other matters.

It's actually funny how I have been pushing myself and then coming to realize that there is something that may be much different but within it all I keep my chin up. I am privy to some other areas that will leave me with the privy to do what ever I wish to within life.

I don't think about this day and night - certainly when I had this mentioned to me - I was felt that all that was possible at the age of 42 was gone but as many I then rendered the positive. Something that may very well be diagnosed does not mean that it's a disability unless I allow it. Do I worry about this - no. I actually have come into a calm and am slowly telling a few good friends within my realm of life.

Have I had family situational problems with a sibling that suffers from a mental illness certainly. As well have I attended to my family most definitely. As it's a very wet day, I just arrived home and know where my placement is. When I know definitely where this all is then I can work along with it.

So within it all I know that where there is a will there is always a way.

No doom and gloom here - I leave that for others to work out - but if I need to vent I do have a very good friend offline and as well some very good friends now that are here within the city that I live as well as I know the word gets around quickly within all the friends that I have known. And with all that said - smiling - we have a tornado warning again.

But I love it when it rains and as well when it shines!

Peace,

Jack

Now that I have said this I do hope that you don't cast me as a disabled, my hopes are that each and everyone of us from Annette, Hiedi, Charles, Byron, Kieth, Mia, Cal, Lyn, Jenna, Danette, Dani, Doug, Lynn, Anna, Rosie,Karyn, and Cheryl and so many more as well as the moderators of Picture Perfect...My hopes are that this does not change the manner in which we write. I have been authentic here since nearly the inception of this blog and I see this as something positive rather than negative.  Where will I be within the future. I don't think about that right now I just think about what I wish to do and create in my life on my very own.And there have been some newcomers of the likes of Tony and a few others but I don't need to names all the names but I guess I did. We do have exchanges and everything does remain the same except that I have just came home as it's very terrible weather and right now I have to just wait till next week with all of this but it's all fine. Everyone has something or another and well this may very well be mine. I hope to explain it in a much more better manner in time.

 

 

The Essence of Giving Part Two

Naturally everyone wishes to enjoy their own life and to live life within there own way. I find that as a society in a general manner we are not much like our parent’s and grandparent that would do more within their community. In my earlier write I was writing with regards to what one has done within life for another.

 

Some are more within into themselves – I guess that goes along with freedom of speech but at the same time there are those that do have good recollections where they have done things for other people.

 

I myself have done some worthy things for some people I can say by way of fact. One of the greatest pleasures is within assisting others within family and outside of family. I had one friend that was in the serve and he had completely fallen and I not only helped him with clothing after he had a downfall several years ago. As well, I have helped people within oncology – ironically as it’s not my profession as for some reason it came to be that there were some that just wished to talk. I was the listener if you will. I will never forget one wife with a husband that was on his deathbed after speaking to her I found that she had no idea of how to talk to her husband of some 23 years. I went to see him on a weekend. Mind you this is some time ago and after with the allowance of his wife I went and took him a paper and then I just talked to him and after our discussion he said that he was most pleased that he could talk about what so many did not wish to talk about including his family.

 

To my surprise after he had passed on, as that was his wish, the family invited me to his funeral yet I had never know them before.

The old motto of doing good for others applies in so many ways. And as well there is a very good friend of mine that I assisted in Iraq and she went on to become a great photographer and now is living in Singapore.

 

I don’t know where I am going with this but I think that abundance is a combination of many things. It’s doing the right things within your own life as well as within those that some people do walk past and will either be scared to approach the situation but in some manner in how we approach things. The merit is in doing good deeds with others. And then I recall going seeing back some years ago outside of a gym on the streets of New York. It was a Vietnam Vet that life had seemed to pass him by. I had a very good police friend by the name of Orlando and we found him housing as well as we found him treatment.

 

The merits of what we have done and so often are so decent that one has done something sometimes without the person in need never knew that you had anything to do with it. I think there is merit within that. And I am sure that I am not the only one that has done things as such.