Monday, November 30, 2009

Above the Law ?

Way back in 1977 the already well known movie director Roman Polanski fled the United States because he was charged with having sex with a 13 year old girl.

Polanski’s name first surfaced in my memory as the husband of actress Sharon Tate who was murdered in their home in 1968 by followers of Charles Manson. Polanski has been living in Switzerland, and living well by the sound of it, for all these years in his chalet in the Swiss Alps. The U.S. is trying to extradite him back to L.A. on the 32 year old charge and Polanski has been in jail in Switzerland while the Swiss authorities ponder whether to let the Americans have him. Now he’s been allowed, after he posted $4.5 million bail, to stay under house arrest in his chalet while he waits to find out what will happen to him. If he does have to return and face a trial, just watch the media circus begin.

There are already some Hollywood heavies who are saying that the poor 76 year old guy should be left alone and not prosecuted for something that happened so long ago. Most ordinary folks, including me, think otherwise. If nothing happens, it becomes another sad example of how fame and money can elevate someone to special status so that he or she can get away with things mere mortals can not.

These are areas in which I really find to be amazing with how sometimes things do work. That's if you ask me. I am nor ever have been a large fan of the media nor of all the news one sees. And really when it comes down to it no one should be able to be above the law if you ask me.

 

Thank you to all mean it and here comes December 1st!

Sunday, November 29, 2009

Now and Then

Well now and then we all have "things". Sometimes they take us away from what we intended to write. Here again I guess or suppose it's something to do with the nature within our being. Yet you look at the brighter sides of things and try to attune into something else. It all happens to the best of us but yet one carries on. As there is always that thing that we find from within that seeming makes things workd out. I loved this week writing about love. I certain look forward to writing more on it as that was my intention tonight but I think I am going to read a few blogs and thereafter call it a night.

I love to get around to each persons blog within the evening but now and then you have to think of what is best for oneself offline as well I suppose. So I am going to browse a bit and thereafter logg off but I bid you all a very good evening as well as week.

Sincerely

Jack

 

Hello

Probably most are asleep by now and I thought I would just post a hello and wish everyone a great week. Right now for myself I am on call. My mother seemingly called me and it not doing so well so I guess it's back to that nightly on call thing again. I am not sure if anyone has gone through something like this but it's a task to say the least I arrived home at 4 and then went over and was prepared to take her in and this is where I find that you just bend with it.

So I am on call and thinking of something to write. Gosh I look forward to the new year to say the least. As this is really been a year of tending to many family needs. However in no manner is this a complaint. I guess it's just what it is and how things are at times.

Where will we be when we are 70 something?

 

There is nothing like arriving home and then being on call for a parent that may need to go into emergency....

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Love Is

Many things but when your toes curl up maybe that is

~When there is Love ~

How one could write on this Subject

 

 

~ Love is what makes the world go Around ~

Love....

There is so much to think of this very word called love. I have never been on here to find someone but have you every been touched in a manner in the way someone can write. I have maybe it's me but there is something very profound to this and I really don't know how to write about it unless I thought and gave it more time. Love, I guess I may be thinking to much but needless to say what makes the world go around is this very word of love. Yeah love...thinking to myself with regards to this very word.

 

Compliation with no Name




It's just a mix of the a few of the last few days some were taken this morning.

I really don't have a name for this but it is what it is.

Daylight

How one does go about things within a day and yet it get so dark so early now. You know I never really thought about how day it can get and this daylight savings time but then again this is not way way up. Yet it's day. I am not sure about you but I am a morning person I am up and at it early in the morning and within the evening it's that time where it's not like the summer where the sun stays up till 10pm.  Yet it's only for a while, I guess it's all within compromise. I know that many are celebrating there time or offline around this time but I take the day for what it's worth sure you do this and that for members of a family and then mingle with a few friends but you do what you wish to do and with all that said - I am not sure about you but I really am not so much into the bad news these days but ratherly the good news.

And just imagine withing a few weeks the days again will becoming much longer.

Yeah

 

Gosh it's so day now by 6pm you would think it was nearly midnight.

Friday, November 27, 2009

Ya Know

Well it is what it is as there are today was just a day of final expectations. But enough on that. Literally I will get on here and think of something to write about as well as something that is worthy of sharing. So it's here it's the weekend and this morning the roads were sleak. Yet there is no snow as of yet and this is a great thing.

While writing I will find some thought that inspires one. Last night while I was reading many blogs it truly was enjoying and perhaps this is another one of those day's I guess you could call it dialoge in a manner.

So within it all I just go along with the flow and let things go. I think we all do that to some extent. And lets see where this all leads and I do love it. It's kind of like listening more than talking.

Why not

Blog Entry

One gets over things in just doing that mindshift. Pardon my last write as I found a letter from my doctor that still has of yet to get things in place after this accident and at the same time I am not on for taking med pills for pain. Earlier I was so frustrated as again I am waiting on one thing and now still another with regards to my legs to get on the ball as I am doing my portion but seemingly she has been taking her time and it's time for a shift. Pain can cause so many things. As for my insurance with the car well that is something that will happen - still it's been rather slow to say the least and every day I am out and doing things and in a nurturing way. I don't write just for the sake of writing and I am not a negative one at all but it can be trying but you get over it and you forge on within the eve.

I still have my goals set and they are not just dreams it's just my own expression. In no manner is it fabricated but I thought today would be at least two good words yet I render the positive within it all. I have went about my day but pain, there is no need for anyone to keep waiting and enduring this but I always keeps a positive perspective with it all. I am human and I think everyone is. But you put your mind into something after a day as such and never surrender I just know that there is a resolve - when "they" get around to it.

So it's another wait and this is the third week. However it feels good in getting it out. And now onto other things- hmm is this denial as men usually don't express it. They opt out.

I like to say it within my friends the way it is. So I think beyond it.

For now...

~ Deleted my last blog entry as I am the last one to complain~

 

 

Thursday, November 26, 2009

It's that Season

I have just been reading all the different writes with regards to this day. I have not wrote much but this evening I logged on here just with the intention to read and the variety are truly amazing.

It is a small world.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

~ Thanksgiving in America ~ As an Adult

As time went on I lived here in Canada and then at a certain point I moved back to New York. Literally it was just before Thanksgiving. And yeah I got married there, my ex was American Colombian and I have never seen such an array of people that celebrate. The condo that I bought had so many people from all over there was what would be my Uncles/Tio's and Aunts/Tia's and I will never forget the festive way that came with celebrating Thanksgiving and all that goes with it. I started to come to understand the language much later but most all only spoke Spanish. Yet within the American way - there were people invited that were Polish, Spanish and well it was something that was certainly within what is Thanksgiving.

To celebrate Thanksgiving with such a flavor of people was something all to new to me. But I really enjoyed it. And really came to be immersed within it all. From all the traditional food that go along with Thanksgiving as we know it combined with the spanish element was just too good. I remember calling four of my friends from Canada and I told them, "If only you could see this". As I was not used to all the dancing and spanish food combined with the laughter that goes in a spanish manner. Needless to say within the city you were invited into everyone's home just to make a visit and it was truly something that was to those that have been within the city of New York as it's the largest small town. Meaning people were just well I was within my element I guess.

There was this on rather older Polish lady whom lived on the floor below and her name was Joan. Joan was around 70 years of age but she was one that would call and in here Brooklyn accent, "Jack would you come down here?" Queens was Queens. Actually all of New York City was interconnected in a way. Not all but the most all that I came to know. And the festivities that took place each year for Thanksgiving were something that I find to be America at it's best.

Supper would start and the dancing would go far into the night and then the day after was taking the subway downtown and going to all the festivities. It was something but here too it was Thanksgiving but then some. Seeing the Statue of Liberty the followed day and going to all the places downtown St. Pat's and at the same time seeing the Christmas Tree up right next to the Rockefeller Center. It was just Thanksgiving and something that moves so right into the season of Christmas.

The history of what we know of as Thanksgiving comes from the pilgrims and they celebrated after the harvest season. The history is there and it's good I think that we all have maintained these traditions. And rightfully so as it's the fabric of traditions that we have not forgotten while so many things have been changed. But traditions of any nature and with Thanksgiving that does make up the original history. I think it's something that we certainly are thankful with. And I truly do think as time goes on we don't forget these areas and perhaps we are becoming more understanding of these traditions while at the same time understanding the value of those that celebrate other traditions as well.

I guess that is what Thanks and Give mean.

 

 

~ Thanksgiving in America ~ During my Youth

I have fond recollections of Thanksgiving within America when I was a kid. We would celebrate both the American and the Canadian Thanksgivings. Within October and then in November. It really came to be when other families started coming over with a pie or something that was related to what Thanksgiving meant. First would be the Thanksgiving within October and then the other was in November.

In October, my folks would get us all ready to call the grandparents and I remember having to almost yell as I spoke to them. On my mother’s side they came to learn the English language and often my mother would try to tell us how to pronounce “Happy Thanksgiving" within Hungarian but I could never get it right. And then there was the call to my father’s father – whom was of Norwegian decent. He knew the English language very well actually a very intellegent man when it comes down to it and looks looks exactly like my father and it was all too easy to wish him a very happy Thanksgiving. We were the only ones within my family that had moved to the states all our relatives were living within this small town by the name of Yorkton.

Then our neighbors whom really with many became literally like family – they would show up with something on the Canadian Thanksgiving, which amazed my father especially. Then it became a yearly ritual to celebrate both Thanksgivings.  Mom back then would bake for nearly three days and then on the American Thanksgiving the two of them would make there rounds to our neighbors and do the very same. Now as a kid it was something to have 2 Thanksgivings. The turkey, cabbage rolls and most off all ...........THE DRESSING. I am not sure about you but that was the best of the best and then thereafter enjoying the day with neighbors and playing football or climbing trees in the backyard. Yeah those were precious days.

I remember when my father was deciding to retire and my bother was up in Canada attending the Queens University. We would get up and head up to Kingston, Ontario and bring him back for only the Canadian Thanksgiving as it was only observed in October.  Driving back across the border and through the Adirondacks and into New York State and just turning to come back to where we lived and I will never forget my old man saying, “this really is home isn’t it.”

As it was…

The Reciprocating effect of Generosity

How the evening is so soothing and it's a very enjoyable time to write. What comes to mind is this reciprocating effect. You give and then sometimes you get. Last night while writing there was a few writes that had an impact on me. On was of Mikes with what he does during Thanksgiving. As many I tend to go all over and look to see what many online friends are writing and last night there was some very touching ones.
And then the humour as well. 
As for me I find that time where I really don't have much to say but I will write to others blogs it's something that is really within harmony if that might be the word for it. One goes from one to another and certainly we always say "yes this is great" but I find that there are some that really do hit the mark. You really can feel the write.

As some of you may know I was raised Catholic and I headed to this retreat, I am a moderate and believe within all faiths. So it's that time of the year. There really isn't and large story to it. The other day I went to this place that I have seen many times and I recall my cousin Delvin, whom lives out of town going there during one point of his life. I was en route to go for a long walk but I thought why not. Within this place which is a retreat and hosts many different things I found it to be so many things and with so many varied people.

I took some pictures and while I was leaving it was very touching to see this one areas that was just a silent church - I guess that is what you call it a santuary if you will. It's much like some other places that I have been to and every faith has it's own ritual. But in just walking in and introducing myself, I found that I was walking into something that was truly something much more. There were about five people all sitting in there as I walked in and I met a few very nice peopleand as always it's with a handshake. During these time I thing that this areas of generosity is a value that has been so lost - yet still by way of many faiths is still well and alive. Before I had left I walked into this areas that was much more than a cafeteria it was really many people from all walks of life that were very content. I was merely walking through it to see what other pictures I could get but how I had met five people - not pushy but just simple folk just giving a very nice gesture. Now that does not happen that often within our busy lives.  It seemed like I was there for only ten minutes but from speaking to the head administrator to explain what I was doing to then going all though this retreat I certainly was there for an hour if not more. I'm not sure if retreat is fitting as it seemingly seemed to me more of a way.

As there was more good within it than otherwise...How we come to find such areas so interesting but the human factor combined with several other things so much more.

 

A Collage of Photos




I thought that over the last couple of days I would make a collage of a variety of photographs that I have taken.
So it is what it is. I never have the time to define each one out but there is a within most. I thought that, as it's this time of the year. Vantages would illustrate some areas and then some. It's just as simple as that and a great day as well as evening.

Monday, November 23, 2009

A Monday Closure...

It's funny you know it seemed like just yesterday it was summer and how things fly so fast. The evenings here are nearly dark by 4:30 pm, and the mornings well it's that time of years where the the daylight is less and less till mid December. 

Today I received the word with regards to my car from this accident and now I am waiting for the mail. It's rather funny how slow things can be at certain times but yet finally now there is outcome. Mondays, hmm. I am not sure if they are my favorite day of the week but it's when you just get back into things I really am glad that I have now passed this small hurdle and the first week of December will be a great one. As far as the shorter days within the evenings it's nice, but it would be far better when December 21st comes around. Meanwhile, I kid you not I take 800 IU's of Vitamin D.

So I have been out and not running yet but certainly taking in things and enjoying them. I can see that there is a great theme as well as many shares with the upcoming Thanksgiving...you know it's something different within the United States. I hope this week to write on Thanksgiving from an American point of view. As there are fond recollections.

But aside of all this I am glad that all things now are finished off pertaining to my car and the insurance and all.

 

~Within United States Thanksgiving comes this very Thursday. Wishing all friends a very grand occassion ~

Sunday, November 22, 2009

A good friend celebrates is celebrating her Birthday tomorrow....I thought I would place a link to her page she goes by Peaks. http://peeks2.multiply.com/

Adding People And then Some....

Well I know I am not the only one there is a very fine chap that I have seen on other blogs. I have seen him from other blogs and I found that his writes are much in the same manner or have a manner that you know that the person is fine. I sent him out a pm and he responded back in a courteous manner - ironically it was really the same way that I see things on this blog. I don't just add people, I have found that there are some tremendous people on here women as well as men. Yet the person is a very nice one and as well I know I do write much but as well I know these days are limited and I just literally enjoy it.

Seemingly he indicated all the hassles he gets and well go figure for one I noticed I am not the only one. This morning I had a early morning chat as I don't chat all that often with a friend of mine that I have mentioned and then thereafter I - well it was a Sunday to say the least. You tend to all those things and get things done and then find that self time to write or do we call it blog?Once again I am not trying to build the largest blog I just enjoy the array of writes. If anything during this time I have spent some time in writing otherwise on something that I have put off for a while, but here is where I literally find that I am not a great writer. I literally do have a story as everyone does and since the time that I have returned to Canada I have always been asked to write a book. Now I have a few chapters that I have done on my own time, but where does one find a good editor?

There is one thing that I have to admit and I can't blame them. The university police are always pulling me over when I go to places and take some pics. I can't say I enjoy the hassle but I guess it goes with the territory. Meanwhile this morning I could not resist in this one very picture as here was a person that was obviously up or lived right downtown and was just taking in the weather in a meditation. It's much like writing for me as it as well is just like finding that "space" from which to enjoy your own self time. Meanwhile I am off these pain pills and it's all working out well. As codeine is something that taken for more than two weeks you will get tied to them. So I have been off them and rarely took them and for the past four days it's all going well.

 

Today in History - John F. Kennedy

  1. On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; he was the youngest to die.  Of Irish descent, he was born in Brooklyn, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917. Graduating from Harvard in 1940, he entered the Navy. In 1943, when his PT boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer, Kennedy, despite grave injuries, led the survivors through perilous waters to safety.  Back from the war, he became a Democratic Congressman from the Boston area, advancing in 1953 to the Senate. He married Jacqueline Bouvier on September 12, 1953. In 1955, while recuperating from a back operation, he wrote Profiles in Courage, which won the Pulitzer Prize in history.

In 1956 Kennedy almost gained the Democratic nomination for Vice President, and four years later was a first-ballot nominee for President. Millions watched his television debates with the Republican candidate, Richard M. Nixon. Winning by a narrow margin in the popular vote, Kennedy became the first Roman Catholic President.  His Inaugural Address offered the memorable thought, "Ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country." As President, he set out to redeem his campaign pledge to get America moving again. His economic programs launched the country on its longest sustained expansion since World War II before his death, he laid plans for a massive assault on persisting pockets of privation and poverty.

Responding to ever more urgent demands, he took vigorous action in the cause of equal rights, calling for new civil rights legislation. His vision of America extended to the quality of the national culture and the central role of the arts in a vital society. He wished America to resume its old mission as the first nation dedicated to the revolution of human rights. With the Alliance for Progress and the Peace Corps, he brought American idealism to the aid of developing nations. But the hard reality of the Communist challenge remained.

Shortly after his inauguration, Kennedy permitted a band of Cuban exiles, already armed and trained, to invade their homeland. The attempt to overthrow the regime of Fidel Castro was a failure. Soon thereafter, the Soviet Union renewed its campaign against West Berlin. Kennedy replied by reinforcing the Berlin garrison and increasing the Nation's military strength, including new efforts in outer space. Confronted by this reaction, Moscow, after the erection of the Berlin Wall, relaxed its pressure in central Europe.  Instead, the Russians now sought to install nuclear missiles in Cuba. When this was discovered by air reconnaissance in October 1962, Kennedy imposed a quarantine on all offensive weapons bound for Cuba. While the world trembled on the brink of nuclear war, the Russians backed down and agreed to take the missiles away. The American response to the Cuban crisis evidently persuaded Moscow of the futility of nuclear blackmail.

Kennedy now contended that both sides had a vital interest in stopping the spread of nuclear weapons and slowing the arms race a contention that led to the test ban treaty of 1963. The months after the Cuban crisis showed significant progress toward his goal of "a world of law and free choice, banishing the world of war and coercion." His administration thus saw the beginning of new hope for both the equal rights of Americans and the peace of the world.

 

The John F. Kennedy Museum can be found here >http://www.jfklibrary.org/

 

 

Some Quotes of John Fitzgerald Kennedy:

 

A child mis educated is a child lost.

 

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. A nation, which has forgotten the quality of courage, which in the past has been brought to public life, is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today and in fact, we have forgotten.

 

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living.

 

Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.

 

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!"

 

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

 

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

 

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

 

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

 

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

 

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

 

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

 

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

 

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

 

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

 

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends.

 

Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies.

 

Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

 

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

Sundays Just As It Is




Going down to the riverbank I ran into Chinese person just sitting there and taking in the riverfront. Meditating he was. A grand manner he was taking within the morning.
I walked around these grounds and thereafter I went to the art galore and museum and they had a host of paintings of native decent.
Then I went back to a place that I have visited many of times. It's on the outskirts of the university grounds there were a few pictures that I wished to
gather again. Finishing off my later part of the day was then getting groceries and it's the very first slogan of Christmas I saw today ironically.
Needless to say it was just a typical Saturday one that one just enjoys and takes it as it is.

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Random Nightcap Thoughts...

How we all look at life from all different perspectives. Everyone makes there own choices as to what they do in life. We celebrate what is rather than what isn't. So often we get entrenched within all the "things". Cars, houses, you name it. But really if it was all entirely taken away one would have to start over? In my own opinion, I truly think that we gain much more when we deal with less. All too often children now are given so much more. We all look at life in a variety of ways. But within the meaning of life it's all that we by our own choice choose what we desire. Certainly there are different strokes for all folks but we all express.

Expression it's that areas that we choose in life as well as online of whom we express it to. Intuition does it really exist? Coincidences are just coincidences? I'm not sure on so many things but I never say I believe or disbelieve as really until you have experienced what someone else has you really don't know what there feelings are.

Empathy, Love, the thoughts that we have within each day are just by way of the synapses that go on within the brain? When we were children up to the age of 5 we never presumed anything. They never thought it out but the learned from what the outcome was. Where am I going with this. So often we find that we place up walls and find our own spaces - does that give ourselves the answers? Sometimes we feel that we don't measure up regardless of gender but whom are we trying to measure up to? There are so many things that still regardless of age we don't know all the answers to but we find them when we open the "doorways" of life rather than re framing. I have my own cadence, everyone has theirs. It's much like one at there home will be eating one thing while another eats something different. We are not alike as there are not any two given people that are the same on this Earth. We have things that we have commonalities as well as differences but hey - isn't that what really makes it?

If everyone was exactly the same this world would be a very boring world to say the least if you ask me. But the dialogue in our lives with good folk, makes for a great place. It's not about the age, one can be 21 years of age and yet be much more mature than another, and a 90 year old can be much more youthful than many half the age.The realization of what lays within our hearts and what is precious to us comes from previous encounters.

So really in a nutshell - who is to say? As it's all within the exchanges in life and online life - from what I have encountered as everyone has.

 

 

~ Inner Compass ~

Inspired upon arriving home. I wrote this write and and then I had a call from a very good friend of mine.  I logged on and I had mentioned this inner compass.  I was a kid and I really during my very young years was more not outgoing. My father decided to place me into this art called Aikido. I remember going to the first class and it was taught by too very fine teachers. They both were from Burma of a moderate Muslim background. They were very ordinary as time went on I came to see them as being very rich within spirit as well as within philosophy. More so that other teachers of this art that I have seen yet to today's date.

I was into all sports but I came to find that this was not a sport but was the way for me. It wasn't a religion - Aikido, but within the way I was taught it came to be a mindset of sorts. Well not sorts but it's hard to explain. As I was raised a catholic and we held on to the family religion. However, my father life in a different manner. I guess in some ways we do share that still to this day.

Aikido is an art as I see it but that coupled with the two brother one of which I still keep in touch with were something more. I can't place a name to it all I know is that they did not make money teaching and at the same time I will never forget going to a competition of another art.

I will never forget as a young kid sitting and watching a class. I was marveled at the spirituality and the way that the class was taught. Everyone sitting there in a mediation and then Ariff starting the class and all I remember was something that I left and told my father I wanted to join.

I started and during my first month I remember Ariff telling me that he would appreciate for me to come and watch a demonstration. I was always at the very timid of him at first as I thought of him very highly. I remember going to this competition of kickboxing, karate or something of that nature and then there was the intermission.

Ariff and his brother along with five of his top students sat down in what is called a five minute meditation - called Seiza. Meanwhile everyone was talking and then as soon as the what is called randori started - which is where everyone is around and attacking from all angles - the auditorium went silent. Literally. It was fluid, it was finesse, it was something that was truly amazing to everyone. As the entire place went silent and watched in awe. Thereafter again they all did the five minute mediation and then bowed on the mats and everyone went crazy - yet Ariff walked off not arrogant but just calm. From that day I would at the age of 13 to 17, all I did was practice go home and then I would train in my own gym for two hours - I would ....well I had over 300 books on culture and all that I knew was that within the mind, body and soul this was something that was not about fighting it was something that was a pathway for me and would serve me for my entire years.

Before returning to NYC, I went back with course and I would visit them. I won't say what I did with it but the the foundation of my youth seemingly carried on throughout the years. I had not talked to Ariff in some five years if not more - and the first time I called, his wife recalled me automatically. And then we talked. We have always kept in contact. I find that he coupled with the manner that he taught me assisted me in knowing that one does not have to prove. I so often will be philosophical and it's not contrived, I do have my own imperfections - we all do, but I am not much for those that have to prove in whom they are. I am proud, yet it's not the type of proud. There is another word for it.

Regardless of what happens within life I am attune to it. Certainly on a blog one can't just write about one thing, but you do get to a certain age and you gain a better understanding of the foundations of many things that encompass your life. One of which is the manner that I had a foundation of being centered/centre as well as understanding that there is a thread within life from which we all do flow. Some yes, but for myself, I wrote this short write really that was about knowing your own inner compass. I think we do. Yet I don't think that an art form replaced faith but it goes along within the parts of life that we all do render.

Intuition can one really by way of a blog come to understand others as they write. I certainly do think so. It's only due to the manner that we understand rather than just be self indulged.

Yes as I have always mentioned I am human. But I enjoy reading and writing. That is basically why I choose to be on here and right now there are some that have all the answers, then there are some that express, then there are some that you just know. At this stage of my life I have had my ups and downs - it's a human area that we all have had for a variety of reasons. But I certainly am not going around to everyones blog to be on a roll...

Yes pardon my pun I love the flow of thoughts and writes. 

It's all in good spirit...

The Inner Marker

Every city has navigation antennas as such that provide a marker as such so that planes that are airborne know where they are. It's allows them to navigate in a manner during turbulent weather. This one was a new one that had recently been placed up I noticed it yesterday.

In some ways we all have "inner markers" as such. Maybe it's more like an inner compass that affords each person to navigate there way through the things within life. It was interesting as I went and got take out for this evening. While I was driving down I thought I would take the picture.

Rather deep for a Saturday, it is what it is.

Morning At the U of S




The University has recieved several very large grants this year.
Here it's really a city that is very different to many within Canada
as it's becoming the place where everyone is coming too learn.

All the archeticture is still being done with expansions to keep
the theme of what this university stands for. I had the chance to
sit down with a one student that was making their way from
animal science to veterinary medicine. We sat for a while
talking about what this persons aspirations.

The aspirations and dedication were there. And I really find
this to be one university that when I left it there has been
nearly 3 billion dollars placed into it only by way a small portion
of the government but most are all are independant contributors.

There are three new buildings going up and then the bio research
and light source energy are seperate as they have had international
investments.

Having been to this very university and obtaining my first degree.
I can truly say the CEO by the name of Mckinnon has literally
taken this not to a Havard but on a per capita basis it's a tremendous
University.

To see on a Saturday morning which I did not wish to intrude on there
studies...I feel that the future of our tomorrow is really in great hands.
A good mentor of mine placed over 10 million into this place every year.

He is very older now but he first graduated from here and literally where
the money is being spent is not being wasted.

Hanna Explains the U of S Video.avi




Hanna came here from Russia as I first went back to the centralized library
of the university she was most helpful in the early morning to indicate to
me what had changed since I had attended this university.
So many students were there from all over.

There were now these "think tank" rooms where students
could get together and focus one the exam or the areas
that they were studying.

It truly amazed me as to how many do get up early in the morning
and go right into the library and utilize all that is there.
Ironically when I was attending this university we had no computers
we would work in a much different way but kudos to these new
prospects of the world - as they are the ones that will shape
our futures.

Friday, November 20, 2009

A Friday Flow...

Dear Friends,

Sometimes you have that writers block or one is just too tired to write. I have a few more things to place on this computer but I never back it up. It's a tedious task to say the least. To write without pictures is something that really does take something we all are prone yet there are write that literally are by some that really one jots them down to there own thoughts. So again I am going to browse around and something will hit the vibe. The ~ Yeah ~ within last night was a conclusive, there is something to writing something for me I have to get right into it. Sometimes it comes and just flows and we shall see how this eve goes.

Just thinking of a variety of thoughts and mean. Then what comes to mind is the shoulds. I never believe in what should be done but what can be done. And I may head out and get a movie - we shall see.

So I never think I am on a role, I truly enjoy what is wrote. And yes it's certainly great that it's Saturday. Knowing myself, I will be out Early in the morning again. So this is that time where one just throws on the sweats and enjoys the evening of writes.

The day was one of a medical one early in the morning. Thereafter it lead to tending to family needs, and then I am not sure if you ever have but I had to take a 30 minute nap. I logged on here as last night I thought there was the ability to make amends with one gent that I won't go into. Seems that sometimes something never change and this is where were there is dialogue one does come to understand - yet somethings for some folks never to change.

Time it's a precious thing yet tonight I just enjoy this for what it is. There is always some thought in some manner. Hmm, what to do first...but it just all flows...Most often when I step outside and look at the stars and then come back.

 

Just got Online here....

And this was a very early to rise and then getting things done I will be back on to write and all I can say is that it's a TGIF and then some!

Thursday, November 19, 2009

~ Yeah ~

I've been reading and it lead me to this one word of "Yes".  Yeah it's only a word and it's expressed in such a variety of way. How does one describe the flow of ones words and at the same time reading all write of people. From art, to a term, from a movie trailer, from realizing that things are not perfect yet it's worth it. One has a deadline - whom came up with that term? One has sent out letters as she does with Amnesty International, another writes about the new laws set forth with regards to hanging clothes outdoors, to another that is thinking about a surgery to improve health matters, to another that has had a first. Then another that mentions something in just a few words that has such value.

It's a thread that interconnect within them all

 

Simply one word...

~Yeah~

 

~ Yeah ~

There is a great thing in just reading others writes...

Half Full or Half Empty

Looking Forward and Ahead (46)

 

When there is something that one goes through there is always a way. We never have all the control over everything we just go about things within our own way. Within the evenings I find it especially nice to just write and read as if you think on things too long I find that one makes it worse.

Obviously there is always a manner that we all heal and during this time I have found that there are things that have opened up for me. I guess you would call it a frame of mind.

You can take two people and they will have a different way in which the heal. One will have a mindset that takes them far faster than one that sits and dwells on the negative. Whatever comes into place there is always a choice as the glass is half empty of it's half full.

 

Get Over It

Picture

I went and waited and waited with regards to what the outcome is with my car and then thereafter left. I got a call on my lan line telling me "we think it's a write off but we won't know till tomorrow". I called the assigned assessment agent name Joni and here again it's the government at large. I called her back and the message was "I will be out of the office till Monday".

Hmm, the funny things is that I really still don't know what is going to take place with it but shall on Monday - if we set up an appointment. How long somethings take when your dealing with the government.

Still to this day, I find that I don't recall much from the accident and truly go figure I don't even wish to see it anymore. I guess that is a little post stress that comes from something as such. So I will find out more on Monday.  So here I just keep on waiting for the real outcome.

Tomorrow I my doctor has taken I found that the my doctor has taken two weeks off and here I was supposed to have the results everything but I am not one to complain yet when there is a finality to something - then there is an ending and you can have that resolve. I have never taken a picture or anything from this entire thing but I don't thrive on it I just know after this is all done and over with I will be back on with things which shall be in December. Meanwhile, I have been going for walks, keeping upbeat and just accepting things as they are.

I know it could have been much worse and I wish for it to be all over with but it's a slow process to say the least. I have gotten over with it all but I look forward to Monday where there will be a decisive answer with regards to my car. And as far as the weather it's never been as nice as it has these past three weeks.

 

 

Wise Words From Parrie....

"I am inclined to beleive that there are 3 things in this world that can be debated with different points of views...Politics,Relationships, and Religion and maybe I should include Gossip.All of these can cause and create ill will and has done so among many.People will say harsh and cruel things,out of meaness,simply because what you feel is different from thier point of view,forgetting that we all have the right to agree or disagree.
Multiply has some people that are Spammers that are posting on sites and groups with messages that are not becoming.I have had a couple of them this week and I just delete the messages."

 

She writes in here own manner and truly there is something to be said for one of this nature a friend that I have one here and really sums it all up in a meaninful manner.

 


Wednesday, November 18, 2009

An Idealist - John Lennon

But a great one with a song that resonates in more than one land.

Imagine was probably one of the best songs that John had ever wrote. To this very day all over the world is seems that it translates into a meaning of freedom, and then some.

 

 

If you have a chance it's a good friend Karen's Birthday.... http://krunn7.multiply.com/journal/item/342/Its_official....Im_65

Symposium - Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

This morning I read this symposium that took place last Sunday entitled, “Faith and the Media”. That had taken place here.

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community including representatives from the Christian, Jewish, hosted it, Muslim, and First Nations communities. Reading about how these educated and intelligent speakers talk from their particular point of view was quite educational because it reminded me that followers of the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths aren’t so different.  Obviously there are radicals and extremists in every religion but most of us want the same things such as peace, love, friendship, tolerance and freedom.

 

The Ahmadiyya Muslims, who worldwide number in the tens of millions, are the leading Islamic organization that categorically rejects terrorism in any form. They advocate universal human rights, protection for religious and other minorities, and champion the education and empowerment of women.

While reading -  it was eloquently stated, every Muslim is not a terrorist.

We have to be careful to avoid stereotyping.

 

My Banter....

"Do you ever feel frowned upon" I think that the writer was trying to make mention of several things. How is one to really understand anything than what is obvious earlier I had posted a post with regard to Sarah Paline and Hillary Clinton. It's easy to see why some choose not to voice there own thoughts within politics as it's one that it a debate and earlier even though I blocked this one indysc or what ever his name is some how he got through and gave me the finger.

I love writing within an authentic manner and then writing on several things it does pass the time as well there is always something that one learns form it but it's within our nature that some do think and write things that do get heated. And then there is the obvious but I enjoy this I am not self indulged I just enjoy writing back and reading as well. Do some still hold prejudices or judgments on other yes I think they do and sometimes is a person very misunderstood - yes. Do some think backward rather than progressively - it's kind of obvious.

But there are those that you do "chum" with within the writes and literally I will head outside and come back in as there is always something to share. I know that I will have to reinstall my operating system on this machine again soon as for some reason it's with windows it's hard to see the fonts and well I am going around in circles here but I certainly do enjoy this and I am a real person not contrived.  As I see that many are.....thinking of something to write but reading in the meantime...

There are some that will always gossip but then there are some that seem to share in a manner that is most enjoyable the only thing that I wish that multiply had was the testimonials that they used to have on Y360 if you do recall...

 

The Airport...




While my father was getting this conjure of things, I went out to the airport. I have not posted them all but as I left there was an Iranian woman at the ticket booth. We struck up a conversation on what Canada was about and she was asked me what I thought of Iran...I told her and she was surprised that I did know of there society aside of their government...she was gorgeous to say the least. But at the same time I found it very symbolic to find this Ukrainian orthodox nun to be leaving with the same group that I met just a few months ago at the emergency room....


I will get up to the tower and as well on the tarmac as this is what is called the John G. Diefenbaker Airport and as our economy has literally exploded. It too is going through a variety of renovations and additions. It’s only a city of 230 thousand but the trading area makes it nearly a million.

Medical Matters




I am used to this now...
One does do things for those that have provided for them. My father has been able to stay alive for the last ten years. This was the first time that I had taken him into the chemo area. But he can't take chemo any longer as his immune system has went through too much over the last 9 years.


Yet with only one working eye. One working Kidney, and one a cancer that sits dormant he still carries on.

I think that says something about charater as well as those that understand what it has been to be caring for others. I have not done this in some three years. I as he requested just dropped him off and then picked him up.

When I picked him up and we both left - he gave one of his books that he took to read to another person... Only within the oncology to they know us.
As well ironically some within the Mayo Clinic as well as other areas.

When I first came up with my nick....it was as an advocate for elder people to
obtain the right care I kid you not - that is the meaning of Initiative Stain...

So I just kept with the Nickname...


Picking up My Father from the Cancer Clinic Video.avi




Taking my father in to get what is a therapy that is not now chemo therapy but a combination of things is one that I have not done in some while. Thought I would post this as in no manner am I on a vacation, nor am I on a venture of doing anything but what is what we deem fit.


I have been a care giver on the side for this man which is my father and I do take the time to tend to his situation....so where there is hope there is always a way and means.

He can no longer take normal chemo therapy but at the same time there was a time when this all hit him that he had only two weeks to live. Yet he has surprassed that time and still keeps on ticking...

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Simplicity...

There was this Native Aboriginal Park that I went too. Ironically they were just re opening after two years of being closed. I came back online and was looking at how we all do think within this area of politics. Life is a politic for some but yet that could very well be the nature of our being.

I was taking pictures throughout this place, I recall it from some time ago when I would travel in to see my folks. My roots are not of this decent but here I saw this older lady while I was leaving and I thought about who really was the first on these land. I wanted to talk to here but I thought would not interrupt her.

What did come to mind was whom were the very first people on these lands and how the look at things in a different way - the older and wise elders that is.

How we so often miss the true reason of our being.

 

 

Wanuskewin Heritage Park




The story of Wanuskewin is still being known. Some of the sites uncovered date back thousands of years, making them older than the Pyramids of Egypt.

For more than 6,000 years people have gathered at this unique and beautiful place. The nomadic tribes who roamed the Northern Plains came here to hunt bison, gather food
and herbs, and to find shelter from the winter winds. Walking in their footsteps, examining the evidence of their daily lives, you will understand why people chose this site
as a place of worship and celebration, of renewed connections with the natural world, and of a deep spirituality.

Wanuskewin Heritage Park hugs the west bank of the South Saskatchewan River. Within its 760 acres there are 19 pre-contact sites that represent the
active society of Northern Plains Peoples.

I headed out within the day and I had never seen this place. It was just re opening after being under construction for some two years.


The web address is here: http://www.wanuskewin.com/

Monday, November 16, 2009

Sarah Palin or Hillary Clinton?

Clinton in China.jpg

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arriving at a meeting between President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao at the Diaoyutai state guest house in Beijing. (Photo by Elizabeth Dalziela / AFP / Getty Images)

 

Sarah Palin has a book, Going Rogue.

Hillary Clinton has a book, It Takes a Village.

But on the eve of the release of Palin's memoirs, a day in which Palin is appearing on The Oprah Winfrey Show and Clinton is traveling through China as secretary of state, Palin does not have what it takes to be president, most surveyed say.

But Clinton does.

Just 28 percent of those surveyed by the post-Lou Dobbs CNN and Opinion Research Corp. say Palin, the former governor of Alaska, is qualified to serve as president -- and 70 percent say she is not.

Speculation about Palin's potential interest in the 2012 Republican nomination, following her run at the White House with John McCain in 2008, has been spurred by the publication of a memoir filled with regrets about the conduct of McCain-Palin.

At the same time, only 50 percent of those surveyed see Vice President Joe Biden -- "can I call you Joe?'' Palin asked of him during their 2008 running mates' debate -- as qualified to serve as president. And 48 percent say he is not. Which could help explain that 71-vehicle motorcade that President Barack Obama rode into Beijing today.

(Obama seriously considered Clinton as a running mate, his campaign manager has told us -- see the book mentioned below -- but Obama worried about Bill Clinton.)

Yet Clinton, who was favored to win the Democratic nomination for president last year until someone from Chicago had the "audacity'' to hope -- and "The Audacity to Win,'' as campaign manager David Plouffe has entitled his own book -- is viewed by two-thirds of those surveyed as qualified to be president. The former first lady has the confidence of 67 percent of those surveyed, with 32 percent saying no.

Yet Clinton says she has no interest in running again.

As for the rest of the potential 2012 GOP pack, Palin may have some catching up to do with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who won the GOP's Iowa caucuses last year -- and who, it turns out, will also be making his own appearance in Grand Rapids this week as Palin launches her book-tour there. Forty-three percent of those surveyed say Huckabee is qualified to serve as president.

And 47 percent say Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts who also sought his party's nomination in 2008, is qualified.

The Nov. 13-15 survey of 1,014 adults, including 928 registered voters, carries a possible margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Did she write the book to run for office in the next election?

Monday Evening...

How often things just don't go the way that we desire - especially when there are more than our own things that we do. I know for myself I don't deny anything I write when I arrived home an hour ago I had on my lan line a telephone call with regards to where I wished to have my car taken to to be repaired. Now to be completely honest with you I left a message as I wish to have it taken to Maco autobody shop. Yet I still don't know what the outcome is here. But seemingly it seems that the car is going to be fixed. Seems that it's not in the shape to be fixed but I have never had an accident or went through this process before.

Government employees you have to love them. They have the best hours far better than what we know as bankers hours but that all said I am surprised that the car is actually being looked at and will be fixed. Here I thought it was a right off. Maybe it is or maybe it won't be. Regardless after all of today I am certainly glad that it's all coming to a closure.

Getting things fixed are far better than leaving things undone. So in the meantime, here is another week and I look forward to this all being finalized. All things do come with a little timing but how often we wish for it to be more immediate. As this was a day that was a very busy Monday. Some unexpectedly but I just move beyond it. And just carry one.

 

 

Well for a Monday morning...

I literally did several things and it can be taxing on what we do. But at the same time just arrived home and from tending to things with my father and then to tending to the whole entire things of what I am doing with my own matters. All is now set and is done.

I just arrived home and it's been a day. Certainly, we all have those days that there is so many things that we do. But I must say that in attending to family matters it's on that I am very tired of tending too. As I have to tend to my own needs.

I have a few very close friends here and I do hold them closely. I don't wish to name names but they are very substantial to me. From 7am till now I have done so much. Folks do become a situation while you tend to your own things. For a Monday, I literally hate going into this Oncology area now and I really desire to do my own life.

In no manner does that refect on the friends that I have online or offline. This was a Monday that so many things were all done so rushed. When folks do get older it seems that you just have to do what is necessay and the move on with your own things.

This was a very hectic morning to say the least. More was done within 6 hours than what one usually does within a day.

 

 

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Bon Jovi ~ Living on a Prayer ~

~ Wishing you all a great week ~

These two actually split up and then came back. Sambora wanted to go solo and Jon wanted to go into acting. As time went along they realized that they had something good and came to a compromise.

Truly very good artists and writers as well as performers.

Wishing all a great Monday!

 

Within A Few Words

Having a few problems with this computer - but how would you summarize your Sunday?

A Reasonable Sunday

I arrived home after a few things and the weather today has been mostly sunny and a little warmer than yesterday. Sundays are those lazy days that I just do the wash and then there after I know what tomorrow brings but I place it up on that bookshelf and in the morning I will be attending to it.

My father I will have to take over to the cancer clinic and thereafter I will have to head over to my insurance company and see what there decision is as well I will have a call with regards to my insurance with regards to my accident. But I never look at it till that very day that one has too.

One day leads into another...so it seems.

 

I am more "pro" than "anti" it's just my own manner of authentically writing....`jgs

Just getting back online....

I thought I would just take this Sunday easy...

I went out and then came home and enjoyed the walks and what comes about for next week is not really something that I think much about - I recently updated my picture while taking and nice Sunday walk with a good friend of mine. I know that many people do wish to only shed a part of whom they are.

For me, I truly believe in in being authentic.

But I do not use a cam and I literally still to this very day that this picture was taken by way of a friend it's all within the authenticity...As it's the way that by choice I wish to do it...

Why not

It's nice but just a little colder - but all being said Sundays are those day that you just enjoy them for what they are worth. It's all good and the weather is grand, with the exception to the cooler climate.

I have not updated my picture in a long time but this is literally whom I am and Sunday has been a great day here as there is no snow but it's rather chilly.

Saturday, November 14, 2009

The Coors - Dreams

 

Earlier I had visited Franks site and I saw there a song and I thought I would post this remake of the old Stevie Nicks song called Dreams. They are a band that I had heard before and I like this version of "Dreams".

Now here you go again
You say you want your freedom
Well who am I to keep you down
It's only right that you should
Play the way you feel it
But listen carefully to the sound
Of your loneliness
Like a heartbeat...drives you mad
In the stillness of remembering what you had
And what you lost...
And what you had...
And what you lost

Thunder only happens when it's raining
Players only love you when they're playing
Say...women...they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean...you'll know

Now here I go again, I see the crystal visions
I keep my visions to myself
It's only me
Who wants to wrap around your dreams and...
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
Dreams of loneliness...
Like a heartbeat...drives you mad...
In the stillness of remembering what you had...
And what you lost
What you had...
And what you lost

Thunder only happens when it's raining
Players only love you when they're playing
Say...women...they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean...you'll know

Peace all and good night, and a good day...

 

 

A Simple Yet Enjoyable Saturday

I know that I am on here each and every eve, but in no manner do I feel that I am on a roll. As mention there it's a time that I am just doing what I enjoy doing. I certainly could be watching television right now but all the reality shows just really don't do it for me.

The weather here has been great and it's cooler here right now as it cold but yet this is the first in sometime in this part of Canada that I have seen it where there is no snow. The weekends seem to be those time that you get things done - while doing them you enjoy the meeting up with people. I have to admit I love going and buying groceries. You meet such a variety of people and while your waiting in line, you have such an array of people that you will strike up a conversation.

Today was one of those days where most were still in bed but I headed out and it was cold at -11c to say the least one has to climatize to the change and everyone I came across was wearing a cap of some sort. Seemingly most people just relax and enjoy the time and get on with things around 10am if not later. I met up later on with my cousin, she is going through her problems again. Seemingly, she married a man two years ago that is ten years older than herself.  She seems to never to be happy with things where at a certain time I will talk about other things but she keeps on going on and on. I know there is always two sides to every story so I just stay clear of it. They have come to some situation where she has here own time to do her own life while he has his. If you ask me it sounds like divorce is around the corner.

I enjoyed it when she was single and we had a great time when we would get together. Oh well, marriage it's something that everyone seems to want yet at the same time I feel comfortable when it comes down to stories like these.

There is a large difference between being alone and being lonely. I know I wrote about this before but I am comfortable with things right now certainly they have room for improvement all things considered they seem to be fine with me.

For myself, I am not a big television fan but within the evening there really isn't that many good shows on. However that all said I do have a few that I enjoy some of which are the Joy Behar show, the Mentalist, the Bavo Channel and a few others. As far as the reality shows. I have never been into them since they started. It seems to be a trend but for the life of me I can't get into watching someone place there entire life on television besides that - I think more than 50 percent of it is all fabricated. Last but not least - I enjoy a series called, the Passionate Eye, it's a Canadian series of episodes of a wide variety of subjects.

So right now the writings I enjoy it's a thing I just find to be of interest and I probably write much more but I enjoy it. As the nights are becoming much longer till December 21st and then it's back to longer days.

Interesting enough when it come to the news I love unbiased reporting and last week Lou Dobbs was relieved of his position on CNN. I enjoy Larry but as he has been with us all for so long that you can't help but enjoying whom he has on his show. But I am not that big on television it's usually something that I will watch into the night.

So it's just a simple Saturday and enjoyable within it's own way.

Within Saturday Morning...




I was UP early this morning and I wanted to get a sunrise.

Meanwhile I did the shopping, I noticed that there were still the geese that should by now all be gone but I think they are mixed up as there it's still green. Then from there I headed to the University football stadium and a setup is taking place and it's the Western finals - and I was able to get the local and national broadcasting service called the CBC to allow me UP to take a few pictures while they were preparing since 5am.

The university here has a football team that is called the Huskies and you can see the mascot for the team here. All done this morning between 8am and 10am. Then as I was like the geese - I was mixed up as I was freezing as it was a rather cold morning as well as day - mind you for this time of year it could be much worse.

I got the card from Mark whom is a freelance Audio Visual person and they have followed some of my pictures and I may do some freelance work for them.
But on the weekend it's just an easy going day.

Friday, November 13, 2009

Good night all and have a great Saturday...

~ The Tree Had Branch and It Reached Out ~

This week was has been one that has truly been a busy one. Wednesday seemed like a Saturday and then here we are at another weekend. I guess that is a good thing. Each day how we have so much to do and aside of it all we have that self time. This was a productive week to say the least. From getting things done with family, to tending to things with my own health, and then finding that my insurance covers everything. I can't tell you how much has been taken place. Each one of us has our own agenda's and then we have that time to literally engage within the exchanges.

The story about this tree is one that is precious to me. I came back from NYC. And my best friend Jim took me to this place as he had came to visit me within NYC. He always says to me that he knows the entire story. It's actually a good story as I had left with the intentions of returning to NYC, and then things came up with my wife at the time and he was trying to get a drift of what was going on in both places. My wife's name was Eliana, and he was having troubles with his own marriage at that time but we sat and talked. He asked me how I felt as he knew I was merged right into the spanish/Colombian society and the entire NYC scene.  From that day on after my divorce and my father's first hit of Cancer (which he was only given two weeks to live) I truly at that time felt like I had gone back home and returned back to a place that I didn't know anymore.

Everyone can give you advice but at the same time only those that have seen both sides of the coin would have the ability to understand. So the merit of the tree is that I have always went to it over the years since I have been gone from NYC and I when ever there was or is a time that I have something that comes up. In the summertime especially I will just go and hang out at under this tree. There have been people that I have met there as it seems to be a place that everyone goes to for jogging, walking all times of the year. Now as time has passed - and I came back from a place called Edmonton. I literally enjoy it here. There was this topic of love. And I will always remember, "Jack if the next women that enters your life should be within your own world." It made sense to me as time went on. Certainly when I before I returned here I took a few things into consideration. I had met some women within my offline life and right before the economy went down - this was the place to be in Canada as well my roots started here from my teenage years and some of my adult years.

Today while I finished off with this situation with my insurance I thought that I would return to this very tree. I think often we have certain benchmarks that we look upon as having some meaning within our lives. For me - it's that tree as every time I do see it - it seems to tell me what I already know if that makes any sense.

Within bing UP as I wrote within my last post. There are those good times and the ones that one does ponder on somethings and why they happen. I don't believe there is a reason for everything but for myself what I do believe in is that so often we get past things and then we reason them out.

In all times over the last 9 years now - whenever I look for answers I find that most often the answers come by way of going to this very tree. I have never wrote about this tree within all my writing experience as it's something that I hold close.

Fortunately, I think that everyone has some benchmark of sorts as the world turns we get up every day and we do all the things we have to do, but at the same time there are those friends, those very precious personal things that one does render as it makes our own life of a personal pleasure.

So this tree must be some twenty years old. Now and then it is the place that I find to be symbolic. It's something good, ironically I never thought from sky scrapes I would be lead to leaning on a tree now and then but it's a soothing thing. I am far past the times of my former wife, my father's cancer - but I am not an isolationist, I truly enjoy people and after this week today after I had accomplished what I had planned out but didn't know where all was headed - the outcome was terrific and I went out to this tree. It sound rather different but I knew, I just knew I had to go to this tree. One gets to a certain age and they know more of what is rather than what is not. But yet we I don't subscribe in getting old, as it's just a number. Hence, "we don't grow older we grow ahead".  Where did that quote come from...It came from this very tree.

That all said I bid you a great Saturday,

Jack