Sunday, January 31, 2010
Just a few Songs
Well I am off to bed here but I am not one to do many utubes but now and then why not as it makes as music makes the word go around. I thought I would place a few in a small array of some....There is Paul McCartney, Micheal Buble and Rod Stewart, Sade and the Corrs...
~ Peace and Good night ~
The End of January
The end of one month leads into another. Tomorrow I don't know what all it brings but I did wish to say that I have been in hospitals with family so much over the last few years and now I am going back to where I was and I hope that it's just a day I really do. This is where one renders that acceptance and after I have many things to tend to with but I wished to say that I wanted to write more over this weekend but time seems to be a factor. So I may be back on sooner than later but not with a camera. I was given this one from a good friend named Jan and I appreciate it. I wish you all a great week and as well a great month as here we are at the first of February. So the way I see it is that there are some good things that have come out of this and I hope I really do hope that this is just a one day affair if there is one thing that I really dislike is hospitals as I have seen so many within my family in there. I actually used to love them as I was doing something for others. Now I feel very different with regards to it. But that is human. I have never been behind a computer as much as this over this weekend and my intention was to do several writings but seemingly that never happened. But I was able to talk with a few today by telephone and it was nice. There truly is an appreciation with it all. My hopes for tomorrow is that I am in the hospital and out as fast as can be. I don't know anyone that enjoys being within one. And I have a bit of insomnia going but that is ok it's only 9pm here. I truly am grateful and at the same time this will come back to being something that I enjoy in a much more balance manner. And as well, I will have to tend to somethings but we all do but first things first.
Peace to you all and here were are at the beginning of February. Sometimes you don't expect things to happen but they do and you just simply deal with them. As it's a part of life! Goal I do have and so do all of you. Before we know it February will lead into April and then spring is finally here. As well, a very Happy Birthday goes out to Mike, he writes on politics yet he truly is a very sensible person that I was privy to talking to today > http://wellhell2.multiply.com/.
It certainly is a small world...within what can be "New Sensations"...
~ I thank Jan for the picture above ~
Well....
I have been reading around much and as well I have enjoyed this experience there are some tremendous people on here. As well, there are those that will go the route of the contrary however here is a question what is your favorite song?
Sunday Introduction
I will be heading back into the hospital tomorrow for some more testings I hope it's just for one day as I am not a big fan of hospitals I don't know anyone that is and I have spent much of my time there before this accident took place. I feel comfortable with you all. I do. And I know that after this time I am going to pace it. As I have to tend to things and yes I have been on here all too much. But after this with all going well I will be going back into my retraining program and well I will write on this but there are several subjects I would like to write about and as well if there are some that do wish to give there email address I would love to talk to you if you wish...Lets see how this goes. After today I am probably not going to be on here for a week pending all that takes place and today I do wish to enjoy this along with you and it really would make my day if some of you would join in. There are several topics I would love to address and I guess it's an option. There is some friends on here that have been friends. One can say they are but they really are. I was reading a blog the other night on on friend that was writing on how we have come to be a "me" society. Maybe this can be a "share day" where we break away from our clans from which we hang and...................well now and then you have to say why not. I know, I know I deleted a few people one of two of recent but I think within the voice you can hear whom I am. I am not some jerk or narcissistic person. There was a valid reason back some two weeks ago when I place a note asking "what is integrity". So it's Sunday morning here and if your online today please do indicate if so....as well I am taking off all my blocks. Some will love ya, some will hate ya, and some are in the middle. Meaning they never do anything but gossip but I look at the brighter things and probably I should be playing scrabble instead but you all are my people, your my internet neighbors and I do ENJOY IT...So if you are going to be online I would love to hear from ya as watch and see how this one goes. So with that all being said and for some of the new people that are on my blog (as others roll there eyes :) ) I am a dual citizen....Americanadian if you will. And don't judge me within these times as I love where I live mind you it could be more tropical as well I love America/USA and I literally love all corners of the world. What I despise is the gossip, but it does take place. Then for many it does not take place...
So with that all said and like you I will be going out for a tad but wish to enjoy this throughout the day and hope we all can. Now and then as I have always mentioned you have to ask yourself why not. Secondly to that all the single women that are out there....come hither. (joking). I am not on here for that I enjoy the exchanges I truly do. Ok I have made a Sunday introduction and good morning of good day pending where you are!
What is your favorite post within the last six months - if you have the link to it bye all means place it in, but please keep it clean....
Maybe lets leave this - yeah it really breaches the manner that we blog. Regardless a good day to ya!
Jack
Saturday, January 30, 2010
For this Clyde is a King
For this Clyde is a King
At night he wanders about
With a vision
That he only sees
The eyes glitter
Under the starlit sky
Attune with the winds
He is free
Roaming as he wishes
For this Clyde is a king
As he rears and snorts loudly
He warns the sky to flee
Only when need be
For it does know his power
Yet he is the humble
For this Clyde is a king
The tail swishes
Within a powerful yet
Humble manner
His mane lands
Upon his elegant neck
For he is a king
With his grace and beauty
And the vision that is
Obvious when he sets
His own stance
Run with the winds
Romp with the sun
Majestically as he does
For this Clyde is a king
~ jgs ~
Within Family Clydesdales
Within my family my cousin breeds Clydes.....he just sent these too me and they are from a prep for a competition in 2007 as he had all his other photos on pdf files......this is a follow up to my last post of "My cousin's clydes".
http://initiativestain.multiply.com/journal/item/941/My_Cousin_and_his_Clydesdales
Tremendous horses they are.
My Cousin and his Clydesdales
I just arrived home after a jaunt out in the snow and then I had a call from my cousin. He lives in a small town here in Canada. I was never raised with him he is 13 years older than myself, but his younger brother is my age. Delvin is a farmer as well as a breeder of Clydesdales. It's unbelievable by way of technology now in how many horses he has sold. He and his wife just arrived back from Milwaukee and they sold this one. He took on everything after his father passed on and was not sure he could do it. He married at the age of 50 - I kid you not and he and his wife have does some remarkable things while his brother whom had the very same chances seemed to go another direction. Now he was so against technology and then now when he found some of the top companies many came up to see all his horses and he is one of the leading breeders of Clydesdales within the world - I kid you not. And the only reason he has been able to build these contacts from such a small town is only by way of the Internet. The picture above is one of his horses that he sold for over $50k to a gent in Milwaukee.
They are tremendous horses and hopefully before the end of the day he will have sent me a few more. They are tremendous horses to see, the strength and the size of them is truly amazing to say the least. Who would have ever thought without technology that this cousin of mine would have a secondary area to his farm and render more than what he makes on his farm. Secondly do we still trade between nations as of today's talk on the phone I would say certainly so. He just arrived back last week and so often companies will fly into see his horses and then there after he and his wife will decide if they wish to sell as they never really thought of selling but rather just competing as a hobby throughout Canada. Now they have been to more states in America as well as Canada.
Yet the beauty of these horses...
Friday, January 29, 2010
From a Grand Friend
Our Strongest Muscle
Listening to those around us
Those that see our soul,
In their words of experience,
We Will ourselves, our Wisdom.
People and Nations rise and fall,
Strong ones rise again,
Brush the dirt off and move on,
From them,
We Will ourselves, our Strength.
Watching with admiration,
The tenacity, gentleness and discipline,
Of those that know success,
We learn what we need, while
We Will ourselves, our Goals.
The ones that earn our Respect,
The ones that walk the talk
Doing the Right thing, no matter the cost,
From them,
We Will ourselves, our Character.
As we move through life,
Realization dawns, that
Our mind is a lever,
Our intentions form the load,
Our actions are the effort,
Resting on the fulcrum of our Will,
Nothing will seem impossible,
Where there is a Will,
There will always be a way.
Our Will is the strongest muscle,
Our Mind could ever hold.
No matter what the adversity,
Our Will, will carry us through.
This is not my write but from a grand friend. It's of tremendous worth.
A Few Pictures
A few pictures that I took before this ordeal/accident. I have been trying to figure out which I had and which I will never have but well it is what it is.
Life is Precious
Gosh there are so many things I wish to write about tonight. I will be heading back into the hospital on this coming Monday. I hope that the writes do come out alright as we are on a social network but at the same time as I just had a nap a while ago I am really pondering on things to write about. At this time I wish to mention that with regards to the friends that are our there I did have a larger accident than before but it all works out. Unfortunately the new camera that I had was ruined in the accident and well that is the last thing that one does need to consider. We survive. It's a basic instinct of mankind. We are challenged regardless I know that there is that time in which we come out of it looking at things in a different manner. Some could have much anger yet I don't. I literally was going to make a few new songs here but I will get to it right now just using this new keyboard might just be enough for me. I could be all worried about the outcome of all of this but I am not I literally find that when things happen and I am sure that set oneself back, it's only temporary. So I guess I have my work cut out for me but at the same time it's a challenge. Seemingly, I thrive on them and there may be more to it as I do have my own structure of faith and integrity.
When I left my last write just before the 18th in which the accident happened I remember we were talking about Haiti. But I wished to than each and everyone that has been a friend here. I do mean that. Some will like you and some won't I have learned that all too much within live but what I enjoy most of all is the embarking between people on here as it's an enriching thing. Some might think that this has all been a hoax however no it's not as far as what has taken place but I do wish to write on a few things over this weekend and if - big if - I can place together a song I shall but I am pretty much home bound right now but before you know it I shall be forging ahead in a great way. So lets see here...I might need a new car, I might need a new camera, but I do and will have my health.
I was on the highway heading out to take some pictures and some young kid rammed into my car from the back end at a speed that again totalled off my car as well as ambulances and paramedics were on the scene. With that all said, I have been offered a walker but I won't take it as I am working my legs and wish to do my part in bring back my health. There really is something to be said about the drivers especially young drivers these days. However where I stand is that it did happen for a reason as I am making good reasons for it.
Authentically,
Jack
A Weekend of Writings
That is my intention here as I will be returning back to the hospital come Monday. I see that PP has a grand concept after the passing of a great member as well as I finally got the right keyboard.
There is nothing like being able to write within a flow and as well touch on several things. I went back and forth today and all is fine. I will say that my legs are not well, and as well as my neck and my left hand. I could say why? I could be angry. Or I can look at things within a positive perspective and take this time to do what I enjoy as there is no going out running or is there picture taking as my new camera was as well damaged within all of this. So with a nice keyboard it's great to be able to flow along and write a few writes that I have not in some time. I guess I don't have to worry about the price of gasoline at this point in time!
Thursday, January 28, 2010
You Have To Laugh
Well I figured that I would clean up one of my too laugh here I was cleaning my computer in a much different fashion as right now I hooked up an old ps2 and I gave my keyboard a bit of too much a cleaning as I thought I would clean it up with some a little water and my gosh the keyboard works with the exception the the "H" and the "N" print together so it's been a long time in working with a old keyboard and just getting used to it - my it's noisy in comparison to that nice soft touch. I feel like I am typing on a type writer...so tomorrow by way of a friend I will have have to get another keyboard as I did wish to have a few things to write I will see how it goes.
So this is my funny for the eve as there is nothing like the flow that goes with a nice computer much like a piano. But this "think" feels much like a old typewriter to say the least.
If there are mistakes within my writes you do know why! (smile)
The State of The Union Address
U.S. President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address on Wednesday. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) U.S. President Barack Obama vowed to make job creation his top priority in 2010 as he urged Democrats and Republicans to work together to face the country's "big and difficult challenges" in his first State of the Union address to Congress on Wednesday night.
"What the American people hope — what they deserve — is for all of us, Democrats and Republicans, to work through our differences, to overcome the numbing weight of our politics," Obama said in his 7,000-word speech.
"For while the people who sent us here have different backgrounds and different stories and different beliefs, the anxieties they face are the same."
Obama bluntly said he "hated" the bailout of Wall Street but supported it to prevent a deeper meltdown of the economy.
Obama says he "hated" the Wall Street bailout. (Tim Sloan/Reuters) "I hated it. You hated it. It was about as popular as a root canal."
With a national unemployment rate hovering at 10 per cent, Obama announced a Robin Hood-like job creation bill that would take from the rich and give to the needy.
The plan would use $30 billion of the money that the country's biggest banks have repaid to the government "to help community banks give small businesses the credit they need to stay afloat," he said.
Obama also announced a new tax credit for small businesses that hire workers or raise the wages of current employees, and proposed eliminating all capital gains taxes on small-business investment.
With his prized health-care overhaul in jeopardy following the election last week of Republican Scott Brown to the late Ted Kennedy's Massachusetts Senate seat, Obama pleaded with Congress not to walk away from reform.
"Not now. Not when we are so close. Let us find a way to come together and finish the job for the American people," he said.
Brown's stunning win in a Democratic stronghold, which Kennedy had held for almost 50 years, gives the Republicans 40 senators, enough to push Obama's legislative agenda off course.
"If the Republican leadership is going to insist that 60 votes in the Senate are required to do any business at all in this town, then the responsibility to govern is now yours as well," he said.
"Just saying no to everything may be good short-term politics, but it's not leadership. We were sent here to serve our citizens, not our ambitions. So let's show the American people that we can do it together."
Obama proposed monthly meetings with both the Democratic and Republican leadership in Congress to help boost bi-partisanship co-operation.
Among the other highlights:
Economy
- Said it's time to slash tax breaks for companies that move jobs overseas and extend them to companies that create jobs in the U.S.
- Set a goal of doubling exports over the next five years, contending it will support two million jobs at home.
- Announced an initiative to help farmers and small businesses increase their exports. Promised to reform export rules.
Financial Overhaul
- Urged Senate to follow the House and pass a financial overhaul bill to protect consumers from industry abuses and make sure they have the information they need to make decisions about what to do with their money.
Federal Spending
- Proposed a three-year freeze on most domestic spending, beginning in 2011. Spending on national security, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security would be exempt.
- Announced he will issue an executive order creating a bipartisan task force to recommend ways to reduce the deficit. The Senate recently blocked a similar proposal.
Open Government
- Called for requiring lobbyists to report each contact with his administration or Congress.
- Called for "strict limits" on lobbyist contributions to candidates for federal office.
- Urged lawmakers to pass a bill to undo a recent Supreme Court ruling that allows companies and labour unions to spend freely on campaign ads that promote or target particular candidates by name.
- Called on Congress to publish on one website all special-interest spending known as "earmarks" before bills are voted on.
Iraq
- Reiterated pledge to remove all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the end of August.
Gays in the military
- Pledged to work with Congress and the military to allow gays to serve openly in the military.
Education
- Urged Congress to eliminate taxpayer subsidies for banks that provide student loans.
- Proposed $10,000 tax credit for four years of college.
- Proposed capping student loan repayments at 10 per cent of income and forgiving all student loan debt after 20 years, or after 10 years if the student enters public service.
Immigration
- Said the government should continue working to fix a broken system by securing borders and enforcing laws.
Energy
- Urged Senate passage of comprehensive energy and climate legislation to help the country shift toward cleaner energy sources and help create jobs.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Hi and Hello
Hey to all those I have not been blogging at all since my last post. Several things came up. I thought I would just let everyone know as it had nothing to do with blogging but in good time I shall explain as this is the first time I have actually been back at this computer. So a brief hello and all the best to everyone.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
A Sunday of Savings
The weather usually at this time of the year is rather cold. This year the feeling is that we may get some more snow before the winter is finished but regardless it was a fine day. I am so glad that Friday I did the laundry and all as time seems to go so fast yet I find that there is that area where one can just enjoy that timeless time. Which reminds that for most here comes daylight savings time. We go back yet we go forwards...
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." ~ Dr. Seuss
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Haiti Nears 200,000 within the Death Toll...
I have been reading and you know there is such a situation that is taking place well the largest catastrophe that has happened within the last 100 years. I was reading a friend's blog by the name of Doug and it brought me back to thinking about Haiti and within our countries one would think that we do have an obligation to take action at least faster action for the medical needs within Haiti. Right now it's approaching 200,000 thousand within the death toll. All nations have invested so much money within so many areas that will our countries be able to get this done faster? It amazes me where we have gone and I really ponder on what will happen with this. As it seems that we have spent so much money in the last ten years that we really don't have the same abilities that we did post 9/11. Yet one would think that we can do this. And I am unsure if within all industrialized countries that we will. I find that to be rather sad to be honest. If it was within our own countries we would be so much faster to act - Yet it seems that it's beyond apprehension.
Seemingly we have come to be nations that are based on investing on things that have a rate of return. Just my own thoughts here as I have been doing some reading and it just amazes me where we have come to within the last five years - did we go forwards or have we become a society that is so self indulged.
I would hope not....
A Tribute to John
With the allowance of the administrators of Picture Perfect I thought I would write something with regards to one man that had an influence offline and online with so many.
In Dedication to John O
The smile of the retired tar
The humble one
Yet one so embraced
Your passing seemed
All to soon
It's not very far
To where you are
Your passage
Left many with a void
Of grace
As you shall be missed
Sleep in peace dear John
Your character shall certain
Live on
Little would you know
How much it did matter
That vibrancy of yours
That certainly still continues
The world is less one hero
One in which
Several if not many
Looked up too
Perhaps you
Didn’t know
Sleep and rest humble one
Those that you have touch
Are now coming to closure
With your passing
The smile that you rendered
An illustration of such
A man that lived his life
With a fine style and
A certainty of grace
Rest John 0
Smiles will form and return
As did yours and they shall
Never be forgotten
Rest John
As you fostered plenty especially within a
Human capacity
That shall never be replaced
Nor be forgotten
~jgs~
Friday, January 15, 2010
This Man of the Sea
I am not on here to write about a blog but about a man there is this gent that surpasses something I think the word would be integrity. I have partaken within this one group as well as I have promoted it but within it I have never seen anything like what has gone on within exchanges I was talking to a friend earlier this morning and I really felt sorry that this one person had passed on. I never knew him nor most within this group/blog but this person obviously did something different - from what I can see he was retired from the Navy and as well he literally travelled and met some of the people. Integrity comes to mind. I thought I would post this as I have seen the one picture that was placed on with regards to him and unfortunately he passed away from a stroke at a rather early age. I would have like to have met him and it's unfortunate that I never had that chance. So often you can see the variance and the mannerisms of a person. I have been doing some wash here believe it or not but this John O. It seems to me he was a very ordinary man yet extraordinaire which to me equates to integrity....What so often is understood never needs to be said and I think he probably lived within this manner. A link from a good old friend of mine and just one example of a story of this man.
There was a man...
There was a man that passed away in a group/blog called picture perfect. I was out for most of this after noon. I have never met the man but yet at the same time my hopes are that with his passing that the administrators of the group do send these off to this gentleman's' family. I partake in this great group as time does allow.
It's been warm here and entirely a great warm day I was up early and I went about taking pictures and then met up with a good friend of mine. Aside of that it's Friday! And the day is truly great and here is where Spring is just around the corner.
My fingers are crossed!
A Tribute for John O
We all do come in of this world and out of it. I recall the day that I had seen the picture of the gentleman that had recently passed away and it did touch me. I have had this situation ongoing within my own family and I really do feel that as I don't know John the best that I can do is go by way of a picture and a pm I received. It's obvious to me that inside a group and outside of a group and within life there was a man that had a robust manner to him. I have never known that man but was asked by several member to submit something. I wished to but I had no idea of what to say as I have never met the man yet his picture from my recollection within this group was that of a man that embraced the world. At this point in time my where my thought do go are to his family.
And if I can kindly say...
He is not gone he is with you - the memories that you have had may be hard to heal at the moment but the bond of what he was has never left you. I do wish each and everyone of his family members and close friends that solitude and a means to find comfort as we do come within this world and we do exit. Seemingly John made a very profound impact on many of his friends and those that surrounded him within life. As life as we know it John is not really gone. I am mentioning this to those that are the closest to him. John is. I have no recollections of John all that I know is that when I read of his passing and saw the picture of the gentleman it was something that was very unexpected. I have been there within my own family but that is not my point here. Seemingly John was one that had the ability to enjoy life - probably within his retirement and once again to those that are within his family and that are the closest to him he has not left you as he is within you. John O, seemed to be a very good man to have had all the people that he knew. The being of our existences is within maybe the manner that John lived his life. I wish the family members and the closest of friends to find that time to come to an understanding and grief.
After that last few days perhaps over this weekend everyone is coming to embrace what John was and really I do repeat he is gone yet he isn't within each and everyone for the person that can make an impression or impact with those that surround him or her are those that are the highest merit within this ensemble of life. May you restt in peace dear John O and may your family come to terms as within all of this I know that this would be your very own wish. Rest in Peace dear John O and those that have surrounded you celebrated what you have done and inspired them with. Peace to you John O and the family of John's. May you rest in peace and may those around come to closure and serenity.
Jack
Read it from a Friend and Posted it
A Good Morning
http://multiply.multiply.com/journal/item/434/Help_for_Haiti
Yesterday I did a write on Haiti and I noticed when I logged on this morning this site link which may be of interest to you.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Here We Go Again
I love to just write. And when I got on it was nice to come back to this and just write for my own reasons I just writes what I feel and how. I love to look at a subject and then just write on it. Mind you the last few days have been busy. But at the same time I enjoy this for what it's worth. Worth there is a value within it. Seemingly there will always be borders that you can please everyone and then comes the good old gossip factor.
I was up and at it till the mid afternoon but the good things those areas that are of interest it's something that I enjoy. Nothing for myself has changed yet I enjoy those night caps of writes. There are great people one here and I find it to be sensational as well one never becomes to wise but one enjoys that self time. Can we reach out and touch people, not we are journaling, writing within what we deem fit. Tomorrow is my own day to myself and how I look forward regardless to the weather to getting some pictures. But you can never predict what the future is as seemingly after this week (well it's a Thursday eve here) you can embark on those things that one enjoys.
One person enjoys a vast area of things what we bring within our own blogs is what we feel worthy with. I know I keep saying spring shall soon be on it's way but have you ever notice how fast time goes. It does go quickly yet one always has that choice in which they do flow within life.
This is not work, this is enjoyment and I think it's just as simple as that. I looked upon my last year in review a few times and I gained. Life is funny that way but there are still those rituals we have each and every day like a nice morning cup of coffee a read of the paper. With the weather that way it's been, finally some nice weather has came but yet I do (smiling) look forward to the green!
I love the writes
I have decided for a while to keep my guest book closed up as I enjoy to just write and I have always had it that way. So I enjoy it this way and I don't know one person on here or have in person within the exception to one that I was raised here. So I don't mean any harm I just find that I have been getting to far much drama of recent.
So I said it. I love to write and that is all. I find it great with everyone but I don't think that one person has chatted with me from this blog with the exception of a few people. For some reason it seems to be the best way. I am only just myself and nothing more. Most would see this and some won't but I am very honest on here. As I love to write and share with others so this is my choice for now. I hope it's ok with you all....
Peace,
Jack
A Very Unfortunate Situation in Haiti...
The red cross reported earlier that 50,000 thousand are dead and that the reality is they're projecting 100,000 thousand. What an unfortunate situation. I have not been keeping up with the news till this evening and I don't know what paper around the world is not reporting on this very serious situation.
Aid thus far from what I can see are:
U.S. $100 million US
Canada $50 million
European Commission $4.52 million
Spain $4.52 million
The Netherlands $3 million
Germany $2.3 million
China$1.03 million
I have been reading the newspaper can catching up on this as it's an ongoing thing on the television. As well as on the net I could stand to be corrected but this is the worst catastrophe to hit in the last 100 years. This certainly is not a good thing however it has happened.
Caribbean earthquakes of the past:
Jan. 12, 2010: Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Magnitude: 7.0. Widespread damage as epicentre of quake was 15 kilometres outside the capital. Number of dead unknown.
Nov. 29, 2007: Martinique region, Windward Islands. Magnitude: 7.4. Quake destroyed buildings, and much of the island lost electricity. One person died.
Oct. 8, 1974: Leeward Islands. Magnitude: 7.5. Damage was minimal, and no one died because the epicentre was far enough from any inhabited island.
Aug. 4, 1946: Samana, Dominican Republic. Magnitude: 8.1. Quake and resulting tsunami killed 1,600.
Oct. 11, 1918: Northwestern Mona Passage, Puerto Rico. Magnitude: 7.5. Quake killed 116 people and caused $4 million in property damage.
Feb. 8, 1843: Leeward Islands. Magnitude: 8.5. At least 5,000 people died in a quake felt from St. Kitts to Dominica. This was the largest earthquake to hit the eastern Caribbean. In Antigua, the English Harbour sank.
May 2, 1787: Puerto Rico. Magnitude: 8.0. Possibly the strongest earthquake to hit the region. It caused widespread damage across Puerto Rico.
June 7, 1692: Port Royal, Jamaica. Magnitude: unknown. Quake killed 2,000 people. Much of the city slipped into the ocean.
With a Yawn
This year I had made my own decisions on a few things. And with all that said, I am getting them done but the quality of life does leave much to be mentioned. One does not have to explain all those things out but my sister was hospitalized just two days ago for here reasons. As well, my folks - my mother she is doing fine, he - my father that is has become very hard to address. A proud man. Meanwhile, I had this knee injections unfortunetely postponed due to the specialist going out of town. Now I am not sitting on the fences. I am taking action as there are or is one or two that has known pertaining to my knees - I dont need a sugery but here again I have been asked to take tylenol 3s and I would rather just go run and have the natural morning take place.
So I have to get off this topic as one can not live on this as I have been here in earlier days on my blog. But if there is one thing I can say is that we have now a much warmer climate that is making things all went and mushy if you know what I mean where you are heading to the car was every day just in order to keep it clean to some extent if it's not redundant. :)
Well one more yawn....ok a sip of coffee. So here it's Thursday and how I am looking forward to an early spring as it's happened before! This is called that morning blog you really don't know all that you have placed on here until you have completely awoken up!
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
This Has Been a Week
Very unexpected one as two days ago I have been going back and for to hospitals with a third family member. I have not been writing as much before for that matter I have not been on here. But within it all it's just the way things are you render that acceptance and ironically I am rather silent with some of the family matters that do go on here but I am just reading about and and again. Everyone has a different manner in which they do this and hopefully tomorrow after another surgery after taking one other sibling to the hospital you just accept it. I can't say I am much into writing as it's been very tremendously busy.
I thought I would mention...
Monday, January 11, 2010
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Just....
It's like art within a way you read and within what you read there are some thing that really catches the ones eye. To just read and enjoy thing is really a nice manner with all of this I have literally had a week that I have not been on here as much. But it's like reading anything while you relax and just do those indoor things.
Ok but I do love writing! However there is balance within it all.
Yeah why not!
The first of a Selection
From the potash corp to so many several vantages I can place any name to these as it really was a compilation that I rendered on this day and what is is it just where I reside.
From the potash corporation to areas within a place called St. Thomas Moore. The art gallery here and so much more. So I guess the pictures speak for themselves but I love within the morning heading out regardless of the weather to render something within my sphere. Why Not.
Each picture does have a theme of its own but after one has gone and one this couple with other things al is does show is a tad my my area in which a reside...
There are no statements of what I post it's just art as I see if from this portion of the world by way of a camera.
Friday, January 8, 2010
Thursday, January 7, 2010
It's Cold
There is no doubt that it's cold! Today was the coldest yet and well even with all that said I finally got my ford and I am glad I took a spin at the end of the day to just test it out then I grabbed some fast food. I have been looking at some places all over and it's interesting how cold or how much snow some places have received. It's always been a way of life up here especially where I live. I can't say I am a large fan of winter but you have to just go with it. I remember an old saying "if you live here you have to have a good sense of humor". I think that applies as it's something that just is what it is. But soon enough and before you know it there will be spring. Today was a record low as from the night right through till the afternoon it held at -31c/-28f. One gets dressed up and just do it. I am so glad that now I have wheels. And the car is not brand new but it suffices and right after getting drive out fast food thought I would get a capture as this shows in a way how cold it is.
We really never get all that much snow here but we do get hit with the cold and all I know is now I don't have to pull out the huskies and go mush! :) So it's not a great day for shining your shoes it's much better to just change them and stay warm! Within the spring this is why we really literally enjoy it so much. Next year shall be a time that is worth a trip to a warm place for two weeks!
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
You Know...
There are a variety of blog and how recently when I read this one phrase it stuck to me as across these ways of the Internet how does one really convey unless they are a tremendous writer the same thing within discussion. In a few times here I have seen some unity where you just get right into it. That is there is that intertwining flow that takes place. I deleted some people and as well it we do live within a society that is rather cynical. But most of all I just wished to get my network of down without blocking.
Life to me is much to short. Within life and I am not all that old, I have found you can never completely represent everything that you are. You can within life but this is much like an open book the way I see it. Yet some place up walls or they over think things or they don't want to show or illustrate a bond. I don't claim to know it all I think that everyone has a validity here. But yet some do think in terms of within there own. What I find of abundance within a write is that manner that one does blog within there own way. Do we label? Yes many do, I can't say I have but I have deleted off some people, as have many but perhaps because I don't talk on here but it's all too enjoyable in reading writings. This is the area where I think that people can write without apprehension. Are we just based out of one ideology? I don't think so. I think where the value is within varied people from all over. Yet there is that human condition within all of us.
What I find to be of the greatest value is not within one country but in many as you learn. There is something to be gained as well as the expression that we all have.
When I was cleaning up my blog it was due to probably a few factors. The ones that were not anymore, the judgmental, of course those that will write on ones blog without any thought, as they are.... well you know. Those on the other hand that have that opened mind seize more I think within this. Yet within the dialogue there is much to be said, I am not into the self promotions that I have seen take place I have added people and I do enjoy it. We all write in our own ways, we all have different lives but there are commonalities. Sit back and think within, usually so often we miss someone for what they are saying as we interpret it wrong.
If I add someone, I read what they are writing and visa versa. It's not all that complicated. Rather I enjoy the variety without the complicated. If you judge one it's like pointing that finger and one goes into one direction but the other three fingers are pointing back at oneself. I remember a very good friend of mine from Chicago that was in this group I had would write and literally he was a work in art. I talked to him a few times and after time he just left the Internet and before he did he was so fed up with all the silly games and how he was not understood. But when James wrote, I can tell you that everyone really got into it. An other friend that came from another country. She became totally fed up only due to the fact that within multiply this all come to be too complicated. Yet she was one that could write but more so read and when she did along with her husband they were something. Then Donna, Donna was conservative yet very open minded, never one to judge but she could tell what was happening and when. There were people from all over that had this manner that they did not place too much weight into anything. We had this saying called "You Know". As within the write and what came across it was obvious to see.
So will all that said, I don’t chat on here and as well I don’t have sound on this one machine but there is only so much one can do within a given day. We shift we over think things at times, we subscribe to one source weather it is within a one country or within a group. Yet the true validity is within the enjoyment of the writes.
When as a global society do we bring down the walls? And for all those that are within America I am a dual citizen, I always need to do that back up. But I truly believe in societies of many people. There is a gain in it and when we take down those walls of the gossip that we hear - the one that is able to make there own choices based on there own sole self. That is where confidence resonates. Labels, Gossip, Prejudice, Passive Aggressive - These ideologies are ones that I don't subscribe too. Life is much to short for all that. Yet some do and some don't.
So the eve is cold but it's warm inside!
Friends
Hmmmm......I wonder.....“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.” For some reason this caught my eye. Are we not all flexible enough to have that open side with each other and allow the fences to come down and enjoy each others writes. I have gotten on here and within the eve as I am not on here in the day I find that I have missed out on the many things. As most of you know I did do a clean up but .............I think ya know what I mean. It's fun to read others blogs from all over. Mind you there are those........you know what I mean but perhaps I missed something. When one can look at themselves and honestly take everything into account - it does give reason to ponder.
1. Here is a question to everyone I hope you do have the time. Are you opened to everyone within your writes? I so wish I had a voice on here as it's not some stern sob if you know what I mean. And yes Jack does smile as do you but I enjoy this at night.
Anybody?
It's Wednesday!
Well I have not had the chance to do any pictures but tomorrow morning I get the car and how long I have waited for this. The forecast for today was to be - 30 yet it was nice early I went for a run as usual. I so look forward to taking some pictures again. I didn't think that I would miss it that much but I do! Meanwhile my mother had a sugery and well that has been on my mind. So I just just logging on and last night the World Junior Hockey league which covers all teams across the world came to an end here. Within the final which were last night America took the gold and the Canadians took the silver.
Last night I was reading many blogs and there are some great ones oh man how I miss taking photography but come this weekend there is nothing going to stop me. So just getting on here within the evening and enjoying it for what it is. Does anyone have a nice picture? I will pay you for it! :)
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
How many people don't have a guest book - I find that it's nice yet it's more of a hello and book that people mark on I enjoy it but I usually will not respond within it as from all the ones that I have seen it's mostly kind gestures and otherwise. I has been a good Tuesday mind you again it's cold!
Monday, January 4, 2010
Natural Justice
Natural Justice
Existence
Is a mix of languages
Retaining places and stories
Tastefully all
In conversation
Wisdom render within
Their own very roots
Listen
They do to as the seasons
From the sounds sung
Within spring
To the rustle of leaves
All embedded
Within the green
Light
Within arrangement
The beauty love and charm
They need not travel
But yet so wise
Beauty is the gift
Rejuvenation
Within the spring
Is a magical time
With the ballet along
In the company
Of the rains
Radiance
Is the arrangement
With laughter within the rain
Thereafter comes the raise of the sun
This has always begun
For years
~Within a Natural Justice of Sorts ~
~jgs~
Then Again
Within the days we just find that interest. Interests are something that I love. It takes your mind off the everyday things that happen regardless of what they may be. You just embark on something regardless of what it is and you find that inner harmony. Mind you I do look forward to the spring and when I look at things I know that if there is something that is or has taken place or your feeling a tad down with it all I just leave it be and move on with things a mind shift if you will.
I find that when I am constructive then there is something productive. What ever it may be brings about a certain joy. We all have those variety of emotions and if we didn't - then there would be a problem. Yes people are happy in life, I am yet we all do have our ups and downs. It's part of the human condition.
I will never forget how unhappy one friend of mine was and they never challenged themselves. One can share with another yet at the same time you can't control what a person does one does have to learn it themselves. My choice has always been to look on the brighter sides and within the day it's great pending all that is taking place and then you have that self time that you just enjoy things.
On this Monday eve - I am content.
Monday's Are Not my Favorite Days
Mondays they are those days in which one has to get so much done. Seemingly I find for myself that I wish I could get everything done within one day. Regardless I just do it all and then I find that at the end of the day it's done or what one can do within the amount of time given. Quality of life. We all have that quality that we enjoy. What brings about that quality? One enjoys there own privacy and at the same time there is only so much one can do. Seemingly, Mondays are just those days that I will step back and think about what lays ahead. I guess that comes with age. So many things seeming have changed yet I do it all and the one choice that I made was that I was not going to over think all the situations that are happening with my family. By choice I guess. Don't get me wrong I have done so much that one has to get on with there own life. I don't wish to get too much into it but I find that this is the time that I enjoy the evening self time that one has. Hope now there is a big area. We all do have those hopes and my hope is that over these next two weeks that all does work out. But you can't control it all you can do is just do the best that you can and leave it at there. How the mind works as all it takes is one small thing and one becomes enlightened. But still I will admit that Mondays are really not my favorite days, within each and every day all it takes is just stepping into it and it starts to flow. Can a person burn a candle at both ends? No. But a person can make the choices within there agenda and then thereafter follow through with them. Yet within the human condition we all are merely human being and we are just living life with all the different areas in which we need to get done. And then the evenings are a delight. Tomorrow is one day that I have no obligations. So within the eve I just enjoy it. I guess you could call it winding down.
Last Night
I was online and I just love to write and there was one person that is trying to learn how to write. I am not a writer but I love to write so it was interesting after writing one thing and then there after illustrating how I do it. Expressions of any manner I think anyone can do when they really for get about writing for others. So it's was rather fun to say the least. I do love to write there are many things I love to write about and usually it comes just from a thought or one word. And from there I sometimes find that I am in that moment.
Today was a Monday well it is what it is and as I just sit down her I am just going to read and thereafter write. This week there are many things that I have to get done and I love coming on here within the evening and just writing. It was rather neat in how this happened and well as I always say one can write and it does not have to be perfect. So I just sat down here and am going to read for a while.
The imperfect blog :) As nothing is perfect....
Sunday, January 3, 2010
The Heart From Within
The Heart Speaks Within
The heart speaks within my soul
Not sure where it goes
The fulfillment of the joy
Those simple things
My heart lies within the forest
Within the deepness of the woods
I utter my voice
To hear the echoes
The encounters coupled
With the ponders
Deep within the heart
Of this very soul
Passing by I see her eyes
That passing glance
Just for one moment
The exchange of the two hearts
Smiles cross and collide
All in one small moment
So much is realized
Just within that moment
Two eyes touched
Along with a smile
Within that moment
Everything seemed to stop
Perhaps two hearts
Both within a moment
For all I know
Is that my heart does
Speak from my soul
~Jgs~
Streams Within Time
Streams Within Time
Streams within time
Implementing its breath
Swaying back and forth
An imagining of the world
Streams within the time
Extend ahead and beyond
Yet not precise
Instrumental perhaps
Yet maybe so undefined
Streams within time
One listens and is able
To perceive the sound
A sequential rotation
Within this planet
From this very ground
Glance up
For there is that view
The dancing of the stars
Look over there
As Venus dances with Mars
All within a sequential rotation
As the universe expresses
An implementation of it's breath
~Jgs~
Term's of Service
I forget the url that this came from but some are writing with regards to Multiples "Terms of Service. I would think that in this day and era that we all know that there is a collective component. As on any social network there is. Where isn't there one? It's obvious to me that there was one in any blog or within any network that is on the internet now. As for myself there are some pictures that I value so I will mark my "stamp" on them but within the writes. I always knew that there was some collective data that would be happening where isn't there? If you don't wish to write something then don't write it is how I feel but I think that it's all rendered and that is the manner of the internet these days. So I have never claimed to be a writer. I have met writers on here but I love to write on here in a manner that is within my own manner. As far as it being collected in accord to the Terms of Service.. it's always been on there since the inception of Multiply as well as any other blog. We live within a time of transparency. Mind you it would be nice if one could write and not have it all in a collective database - but does that really stop anything in this day and age?
Terms of Service - what you place out there is what is really out there. As what isn't out there? If you know what I mean.
Into the Outdoors and then Some
Going out and I meeting my folks and then after that I went to the gym in which most of my friends are. Ironically we all were talking about the Internet. And most all have built there own friend that they see or hear from not again like I do. For a Sunday it’s been a just that time that one take the time out to do what they feel. It’s a laissez faire – do as your hear wishes. That is exactly what I intend to do, I saw where one friend was writing the other day on something creative on “in what word” whom am I, with all that given one was supposed to write within the third letter within there first name. Simple as it is that is the fun and enjoyment of this. Why do I feel like I am speaking on behalf of my blog. I guess that give the personal touch, as it's an extent ion of a person that is not chatting but rather writing.
Today the temperatures have been great in comparison to the last few days. I know I am not the only one that enjoys writing in their own manner again this is what it’s all about. Throw down the pride and just embrace what is rather that what isn’t. It’s all to short within this life to do otherwise if you ask me.
After all the requests on my blog I have done the best that I can do I am sure that there are some that can see that some do wish to be on it and there are some that just don’t. 43 our of nearly 100 replied. Some it's obvious posted in the manner that they did I am not a judge nor jury. Yet I have followed this for some time when I do log on. I don’t jump to conclusion but at the end of this day of a Sunday I was definitely looking to make the changes that I have done. And I will send out now an then to “friends of friends” but when one does not have to posture, and one has the confidence in what they do – I would rather live above the radar than underneath it.
Yet I am glad I have done what I did. I never look back I look forwards.
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Just Not Into It
Mind you it's warmer now and the forecast indicates that it's going to be much warmer for the next few days - to the point where one can even just wear a jacket and no gloves. But today I was just getting in the groove of just taking pictures but as I was talking to the cab driver he too would carry a camera with him as he went all over the city. Yet he did it while he was on the job. I ended up at a restaurant called "Mr. Ribs" and I had a great time having lunch while talking with some of the people there. There is one old friend of mine that used to be in a band of mine but from what I heard he is in there all the time and drinking till the end of the night. Francaise kind of went the wrong direction. So often my brother has wanted me to get together with him and yet for nearly five years I have come to find that Francaise or "Frank" as they seem to know him in there has become a wall fixture.
I enjoyed the meal and I enjoyed the young lady that was serving as the only part of the restaurant that was open was the bar section. So I had myself a beer with my lunch and chummed with the guys. But it was obvious to me that these were ones that were wall fixtures too within a bar. I never ....................never want to end up this way nor will. As they could be doing so much more with life especially those that were married which were most of them. And for me it's never been my place to sit and drink and pour out all your thoughts. Then here was a girl that was leaving for a part of Latin America in August we talked and talked. She knew I was not a regular and after it all and some of the early morning shots well I had a good lunch as well as I had a good discussion but bars are not the place that I ever wish to dwell.
Seemingly they all were in good spirits only after they had loaded down a few pints. I would much rather be at the gym and doing the same thing with the guys and gals there as it's a great place and as soon as I get this car I so look forward to getting into the swing of things. My hopes are that this car will be ready on or before the end of the week. It's not a brand new car but it's good enough. Yet this morning while walking downtown I went into several places. I rise so early that I didn’t realize that by the time I was dropped off that nothing really was open yet so I just walked around and then after an hour and a half I headed back up to my region of the city.
The city seemed quiet but then again most were probably having their own breakfast at home. How we rely on our cars or vehicles - gosh I certainly have known. In the summer it's much different as you can walk and walk. In the winter it's kind of different.
Friday, January 1, 2010
Yes We Can
For me I love my blog and I love all that has taken place within it I posed this question not in a controlling manner, I have had some fine friends that literally I don't chat with and then there are some that are like me that are within a network setting as I don't wish to write entirely to all the people on multiply. There are those that are interconnected and then there are those that freely flow with what they write. I have always found it a great thing and such an enjoyment that I have done this post. I could PM all 90 people on my blog but I thought the best thing would be within the new year to reset the foundation of my blog. It's obvious to me whom is who as it's all within the writes. And I literally enjoy it however within the new year or on this day of the first I thought that there are some that have never wrote back, and I did get some rather annoying messages. So this is the why I made the decision of yesterday. Some will but you don't push it. As well, I have introduced others to other in a good will. As it was obvious that they had commonalities. As well I have promoted a few groups - without the expectation of anything in return.
How one does this some will probably pass by, there after there are others that have no problems as they don't tend to over think things and the repoire that takes place is one that comes about within the connects that are made all within good taste.
I don't chat much or talk on here as I really enjoy the writings and as well sometimes this system for some reason will not allow me to unless I start hooking up wires from one laptop to a computer - I prefer to just write as it all does come out within the writes or dialogue. Does one need to have 300 people on there blog? I couldn't do it nor do I wish too. Yesterday I deleted someone as they were on my page and then sending others to my page with in order to add more people to a group. The foundation that I set on this blog was all within a network or foundation if you will so I am just rejuvenating it. If you have the chance please look at the note I have on here and it will lead you to the question as I am going to continue to write and read.
~ We all do our own blogs within our own very ways ~