~ Being ~

We become accustomed to what has been part of our routine and stability ignoring the fact that in time we have become stagnant, unhappy and unsatisfied. In three words, We Stop Growing. To pretend to live our life in the same manner all the time is not logical. Our daily experiences and challenges transform us into a more developed and whole individual.

Dark nights plunges us into the depths of our being pressing us into exploring what needs to be changed or revealed. For years we have gone along with the social circles and what is expected of us. We learn quickly how to integrate ourselves with the rest of society, which is good, but in the process we forget how not to lose our individuality. Individuality based on our self-knowledge along with well rooted human and spiritual principles are the key to our well being and happiness.

"Speaking of human nature also reminds us that there is a unity and solidarity belonging to the whole human race. For this reason, man is to be considered "in the full truth of his existence, of his personal being and also of his community and social being" excerpt from MAN'S DIGNITY STEMS FROM HIS SPIRITUAL NATURE.

Some people manage to make manifest their individuality sooner than others, like Albert Einstein who at 15 years old realized that he had to make his own way in the world. I believe that's the reason why he was able accomplish so much and benefit society with his own individual development; because he began to live early on, the life destined to him.

It is a shame that most of us spend half our life before we find ourselves before the path we need to decide to walk on. When life becomes unbearable because we have denied our self-realization we often find ourselves at a crossroads, in that moment our whole being screams to be born again.

It's the divine calling us to become who we were meant to be before is too late. It is the awakening from the numbness created by a life full of everyone's goals and dreams but our own. I truly believe that education should be based upon the Liberal Arts, in it our minds are developed to analyze, absorb and integrate our individual human capabilities given to us by God into whatever field our work will contribute and ultimately benefit humanity.

The Last Day within July Part 1

The weekend is here I loved to just take those excursions out and it's been sometime since I really went out and enjoyed things there were a few things I had the intention of doing was contributing with to this group called picture perfect. And then as well, I have been to bed rather early here in comparison to many. There is a good reason for much of this as and I usually will just hit on the television and watch and movie. As there is no doubting that there I left a situation where it did not work out and then I returned into realizing how the health of my folks are.

Today, I knew that I had to see my father and well you know and here again I see how he is slowly deteriorating. I guess I might as well come out and say it as no one really knows what that places a family through. I guess that is my secret but I find right now that the best thing is to just keep occupied. I one to partake and as well participate and I know we all go through those things but it's something.

One can't do a thing but I am out of the loop again as far as his health and well it can be draining and it can absorb much of your time but I remember this one person coming up to me and saying that "you have to take care of yourself as well". It's easier said than done what I find is that I just love to write during this period as there is another adaptation.

I guess this breaches all the thoughts of the creative things and I really don't wish to I love to write. A father and son. In some manners there is a great bond between this man and myself. And I am not really sure what to say when I write on some of the personal matters. Yet since his first diagnosis some nearly ten years now with having stage 4 non Hodgkin's, coupled with 38 percent renal function - it's been something that I find that the folks have declined more. So upon returning here, it's been an again a repeat of an eye opener as he is not a well man. You wish you could do something but really all you can do is accept and do the utmost and keep your head on straight. I am not down I guess I am reflective. I have not been writing too much as there has been many things going on here. So I just handle it as best as one can as that is all one can do. I really have not known where I have been going with this blog for a while as the phone rings and so on and the best thing is just in calling a few friends now and then and then there is that time to be silent.

Sometimes I feel the the rest of my family are so out of the loop on my fathers condition. Yet what do you do? You just leave it be.

Yet within it all literally the sun does shine al thought it's hard to focus on things withing multiply. I thought I would post this and I feel good in doing so, I ventured out to Montreal, it did not work out, I have on going situations within family and well I am just one person and I do smile and it's good to stay occupied.

Where is all of this going to lead with my father. I have no idea. All that I know is that the last week it's been a situation for the least.

Secondly I don't believe in gossip, I know that it happens I remember Anns post and there are great people on here. Certainly there is a difference between men and women and we all have our own groups that we conference in. Yet again it's a Saturday here and I am just one ordinary person enjoying this and guess what it's the last and finally day of July.

One holds there head up and there chin up and when there are those challenges you just find what ever gets you through. For me it's within keeping busy. Even on the weekend. As I guess when it comes to some areas I am a rather sensitive person, but I am merely a human being.

Anyhow the weather this morning was tremendously nice. So one renders the best within any given time. As there is no choice but to do so. (I shall write again and I certainly am not and arrogant one. Some will pass by, some will write and some will gossip. Yet I enjoy the authenticity of self expression.

It's not that easy writing this to be honest. It's been a heavy ride to say the least since Montreal, however I am not down and out. I just find that at times I have missed the boat on many things within my life over the last few years.

Yet there are many more to come. I find that there is one thing within life goals, inspiration and being only whom and what I can be. As I am sure and certain that all of you can. So that is the story forks as honest and as hard as it is to write this. I have been here so many times yet I shall forge on and I do hope that the outcome with the man in which some of you might now from my previous writes - you would know this has been an ongoing situation for some time.

I am just me...my choice is to be happy and weave through this. As everyone does.

 

The Summer is Within the Sun

The summer is where there is much sun. I went out this morning and thought I would capture some pictures all have there own vantage. Unfortunately my batteries ran out. The river is at it's highest ever meanwhile we do have a very humid climate to say the least.

However all in all the summer is within the sun.

This can be very contagious yet it's very nice to read others writes something and sit back and just read. There is certainly a pleasure within the read of others thoughts I for myself it’s not lurking it’s merely reading the variety – within repect.

Rendering the Best

The essence within our own being is within that energy that we have perhaps it all goes within a cyclic manner. The flow of energy seems might be something that we really don't have any control over yet within the flow there is that cycle which brings about our wholeness. What is wholesome these days? Well I think it's something that is rendered within a manner of how we look at things and that being said we do look at things in many different manners all pending on the times and the manners that things are happening within our life. Render the best and leave the rest for when the time is right, or when the time is appropriate.

Fluidity now there is that field or that area that we all never think about but it does become I believe especially when we invest ourselves within those areas in which we find that given thrive if you will.I have slowly been getting back to the handle of this and if there is one thing that I truly enjoy - it's the river. The river seems to be something that I have been drawn to for years.

What I find of most importance are the influences within life, as we certainly have not rendered all that there is to be known. No one knows it all within life - certainly we will run into some that feel so, but I maintain that there is no perfect yet there is that great field within the imperfections. Things are never perfect yet there are things that always have a way of working out not by there own means but by the way in which we unlock our own areas that are of importance to us. As those areas as simple as they many be I find empower. As there are no absolutes.

What you have today you may not have tomorrow thus I render the best in what is rather that what is not. I think we all do within our own manner and our own way. We just don't think about it.

Philosophical Moment

I will think after on what to title this as today is a day that is one that has had some use. Now use is something that we all think about we tend to need to have a use to do something and as well we need, wait ........do we need or is it a want?

We are the spirit within our own creation. We can be doing anything within a given moment and it's within our use that we find the most beneficial things we are not given a reason to do anything yet we do reason out why and what we wish to do. You know this as well as I do as it's all within each and everyone of us. I often will look at this "compose blog entry" and I will ponder what I will compose is it something fabricated - no. Is it something that I think I know all that answers in the world - no. As within each of us there is nothing that is a secret. We live on what we read and what has shaped us within our lives.

The dialogue from which we write is one that creates something yet at the same time there is a grand manner in which just like a notepad we have that ability to write and share with those that we deem appropriate. The weekend is here and it seems as if half of the summer has been used up. Yet then again is the glad half empty of is the glass half full? I myself have always been a rather determined one not in pushing aside other people that blog but there is that time in which you just wish to write.

It's an all encompassed area in which we write. This is rather generalized yet when you look at all that is happening within the world - grasp on to those things that you do cherish. I know I realize in a positive manner that they are not everlasting within life yet they are something that leads from one thing to another.

It's a rather small world in which we all contemplate the meaning of yet maybe just maybe the meaning is within each one of us in our own way. The art of being is within our own individuality. That for me has been always the journey of something that is so unique.

A Positive Mention

You know I find that it's all within how we look at things today was just one day where it was sunny and then it rained not just rained but it poured again the weather is rather different for these parts right now but all in all the day shaped up to be a good one. Tonight I have read a few blogs and there are some that are just a hoot if you as me. And then there are some that have a difference and I think for myself I love to write and sometimes there isn't that much to say but then again there are some things that have went rather well so for a Friday it's shaped up to be a decent day.

Lets see what else can I say. I was out taking some picture this morning which was great and I am finding that placement a good placement and there are certainly things one can worry about but I find that I just shift out of it and get on with my own things. Prior to this blog I had posted a blog on friends. It seemingly had value. Now we all have our own lives and there always will be some that hate you or like ya. Friends they are those that have that understanding at certain times or at least I thought so but so be it. So the past is the past and this is now and I do look forward to partake within things again as I did before and if there is one thing I do enjoy is reading writes as well as where it's applicable for myself to make a comment I shall. And I am not all that bad, I am just one person that loves to write on a blog just as you sometimes getting into the jest and writing on a topic has been difficult but usually it does come.

So with that said I do wish each and everyone that are friends or otherwise a great enjoyable weekend.

Thankyou Maryann - True Friendship....

A few days ago after reading this a friend by the name of Maryann gave me the allowance to post this and I found that it does have great meaning...

 

 

A true true friend is someone who will be with you in all your good and bad times even if it hurts his/her interests. A true friendship does not demand something in return and accepts you with all your shortcomings. Sometimes, it is not possible to be in touch with the friend but it does not mean that it is the end of the friendship. A true friendship is a relationship which is ALWAYS alive immaterial of the fact that you are talking to each other on an everyday basis or not. It is just that mental connection that two people build and always feel secure. You know that your friend is always there whenever you need him/her.

The main ingredients for this kind of friendship are trust, faithfulness, loyalty, and a willingness to communicate thoughts, and feelings.  In true friendship, there are no negative thoughts, no backbiting, and no turning away. It is a relationship, which needs simple selfless and altruistic feelings. We can make many friends, but we will make few true friends.

True friends encourage and support each other during the time of struggle.  True friendship also demands forgiveness. If one friend has done something, which is against the friendship, a true friend will listen, and forgive. Just remember, true friendship is to keep alive forever, but only if you want to. Sometimes, misunderstandings do happen between two friends, but if the friendship is true, and you really care about each other, the words to a great song should come to mind:  "We can work it out!"  :)

And then, of course, there's me!  lol! I know that I am much too sensitive - forever taking things too personal, not knowing where I stand with a friend, and spending waaaay too much time thinking about it.

Yet, being thin-skinned has its positives and negatives. One positive for sure—knowing what hurts my feelings, makes me more sensitive about repeating any behaviors that could do the same to another.  For my friends that truly know my heart, if I ever have hurt your feelings, you would know that I certainly didn't mean to.  Friends may sometimes hurt friends, but the test of true friendship is a sincere desire to forgive one another.    Hurt feelings can be something very real, and may be caused by something as simple as a miscommunication.  It doesn’t matter, because it’s all painful.  Having your feelings hurt is a physical response that stuns you.  It feels like a punch to the belly.

Yet, there is a simple cure. It's the apology that is given and felt straight from the heart. However, first you must let your friend know that something he/she did, or said, has hurt you. It's one of the hardest things to do. Nobody wants confrontation. And that's why it's so difficult to let our friends know when they've hurt us.   But, always remember, a true friend is happy when you're happy,  smiles when you smile, and hurts when you hurt.  That's what friends do!

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"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."

-         Charles Caleb Colton

“Hello, how are you”?

In French that would be, “Bonjour, comment allez-vous”? In German it would be, “Guten tag, wie geht es Ihnen”? In Spanish it’s, “Hola, como estas”? I kick myself a bit for not being as fluent as I used to be in some of these languages. People whose mother tongue is not English must have their work cut out for them learning our language.

English has some inconsistencies such as the use of “ough”. Take a sentence like, “I thought the doughnut was tough because my stomach felt rough and I’d had enough so I through it into the slough”. Then we have singulars and plurals. One tooth two teeth, one goose two geese, but it’s not one moose-two meece but two moose!

We have one mouse and two mice, but one house and two houses. We know that teachers teach and preachers preach and we say a teacher has taught, not “teached” but a preacher has preached, not “praught”. If we infer a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

When lights are out it means we can’t see them but when stars are out it means we can see them.

 

Storms could slow BP Gulf oil spill Effort

It's been three months since an explosion on an oil well owned by BP in the Gulf of Mexico caused what would become the worst offshore oil spill to hit the United States. A lot of numbers have been bandied about since then concerning the size, impact and scope of the spill.

1,000

The number of barrels of oil the U.S. Coast Guard initially estimated was leaking from the well every day. (There are 158.9 litres in a barrel of oil.)

35,000-60,000

Revised estimates of how many barrels of oil were actually leaking every day.

4.3 million

Estimated total number of barrels of oil that leaked into the Gulf before the spill was capped.

750,000

Upper level estimate of how much oil, in barrels, was spilled in the Exxon Valdez disaster.

130.6 million

The number of litres of oil-water mix that have been recovered from the Gulf of Mexico.

6.9 million

The number of litres of dispersant that have been applied in an attempt to break up the spill.

1,001

The number of kilometres of Gulf coast shoreline that have been soiled with oil.

1,045

The number of kilometres of containment boom deployed in the Gulf since the spill began.

2,243

The number of kilometres of sorbent boom deployed in the Gulf since the spill began.

40,000

The number of people who have been deployed to protect the shoreline and wildlife and clean up coastlines.

951

The number of visibly oiled dead birds found on the shores of the Gulf since April 30.

1,232

The number of visibly oiled birds found alive on the shores of the Gulf since April 30.

467

The number of stranded sea turtles found dead in the Gulf or on shore between April 30 and July 18. The turtles are being studied to determine what killed them. However, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says the number of strandings is higher than normal for this time of year.

66

The number of dead or debilitated dolphins found in the Gulf or on shore between April 30 and July 18. Visible evidence of oil was found on four of the 61 dolphins that died. The NOAA says the number of strandings is higher than normal for this time of year.

217,370

The number of square kilometres of Gulf of Mexico fishing waters that remain closed due to the spill. That's just over a third of the area normally open to the fishing industry.

$4,300 US

The maximum fine, per barrel of oil released, if it's found the company was negligent in causing the disaster.

$17 billion US

The total amount BP could face in government fines.

$20 billion US

The size of the fund BP has set up to compensate disaster victims.

$265.58 billion US

BP's revenues for the fiscal year ending Dec. 31, 2009.

$14 billion US

BP's profits for the fiscal year ending Dec. 31, 2009.

11

Number of workers missing and presumed dead following the BP rig explosion.

“Your thoughts, become words. Your words, become actions. Your character becomes your destiny.”

Rendering That Good Perspective - Yeah...

I think we come within this world with our own unique wisdom. Today I went for a long walk to just be with nature and take in all the surroundings within the city.

 

Throughout our lives we encounter people, we gain that insight of what is and what can be by way of merely experience. I find that my own inner wisdom is one that has groomed over time it's something that I think that each of us find within our own selves. We do those things that encompass so many things.

 

Inner wisdom is something that people gain within a manner in which is their very own. In taking a long walk I found that there is much to take value in. There are so many things that can just boggle the mind as well as depress one. I have my legs, which are not working entirely all that well, however again I am on call again but I find that to get out and stretch and do things are the best thing and to just take the mind off the pain. But I am not writing to complain.

I have some stress going on as well right now but to find that inner harmony even if it's for just a few hours is something that is truly what I find to be of worth.

 

Yet I am slowly getting back into the groove and my confidence is slowly coming back into play as well as the stresses at hand are ones in which I will just let go as well as the feeling down as life is a manner in how we respond to things. No one else can do it with the exception of my own self.

 

One always wishes to live to there fullest potential and that is my own goal and what that does require that render as well as courage. We are our own gift if we allow it to unfold. Then we find our true potential through any given time within out lives.

“If you don't know where you are going...

“If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.” Lewis Carroll

You know it’s hard to write one does not write for another but for myself as I find that there are great things that still can come about from the words of others.
I never was one to complain yet I don’t think it’s a complaint I see things more within a manner of writing and having a dialogue with others. This again is an adaptation
in returning back and all the things that go back with it. And prior I was feeling great. You can’t go back in time nor can you go into the future the only thing I find is that
you can live in the present and just accept things as they are.
Maybe it’s within my nature right now to just feel as I do but and at the same time I can’t dwell and yet happiness that great thing within life. I just feel sort of blah yet
it’s funny as it takes one thing and then all things come to be much better. Mind you I think this all takes time and as well some effort.
Everyone wishes to have a connection with someone yet there is something said to be alone. I would much rather be alone and happy than otherwise.
I always maintained that I was on here for friends and so it this is the case still. I have always been a people person and you can please everyone but the
most important thing is in pleasing yourself. Mind you stress can get to some and I will say it I have been rather stressed out with almost all that I have been
doing. But this too shall pass. Maybe I am a little down on things as well but the key is within doing and I know I have to do this all again back here with a
cadence of sorts. What I have always enjoyed to write about is philosophy and at the same time you have to live life to have areas in which you can write about.
However there is a string that connects all of us in some small way. Yes it’s a blog but on the other hand people are typing behind it and well I am not sure
where I am going with this one but it’s been a rather blah day to say the least with all the things concerned and at hand.
Yeah we all evolve but the most important thing is that we evolve and stay true to ourselves. Sometimes it can be difficult in rendering the thoughts that we
all do have. Yet it’s a thing in which I truly love to do and most probable is good right now at this point.

Balance I do think that is the key to all things within life. Friendships are a key element that respect that each gives might be part of what opens up the door.
And yes the road or path does lend a manner in getting there...

The Universal Key...of Being.

Well I was up early today and I went for a drive around town and found that after the last two weeks the river has been the highest that I have seen in years. As well, for this time of the year we usually are very hot but for some reason there is a change this summer. It’s not the usual. Yet it was nice to get out a take a drive around and see all that has changed. Now in getting back I find that this is the time to push. To get out and reconnect as for one month I literally spent the entire time staying within a house at least now I can breath I know that there are steps in this but I feel that there are still many things to do…. mind you I did delete one note on my blog as I am merely a blog not a forum for people to debate and debated.  There are certainly those that are self-centered and then there are those that have the ability to think past themselves. I have two weeks to just mend from a situation that was not all that great – meanwhile I have always found the best in things but in this case I found there to be not a society but more so a person.

Yet it’s great to be home and I can see what all is going on within the world. Before I couldn’t, as there were neighbors that would enjoy talking to me and then there was one that would make sure that she would interrupt the conversation and go into French knowing all to well that I was not fluent – and many did pick up on it. As within Quebec especially all the places that I went there was a great amount of people that were progressive. All spoke English and French.

I guess within my last post I was not talking so much about a society of discourse more so an individual that was going through something. I didn’t know I would be arriving there on their sick leave for stress and other ailments yet there was something that I just knew. Rather that fight with it where ever we went there came a point that I knew to do my own thing was the best thing. And I met some tremendous people in Quebec. I really did. Now here as I have went through this town I know that it’s a great place. Certainly I have some situations with my own family. My father (which I did not mention has been taken off his Cancer treatment, so I will have to meet up with some doctors there this was the merit of my getting fed up with one that was so angry all the time while when I recieved this word I knew it was the final calling, To get the heck out of a situation as I didnt need it, nor would anyone, I literally spent all my time being controlled and having calls from this persons friend telling me that I should have look more into this so I feel for her and care for her as well as talked to her the other night but I kept it short and told her that within time perhaps we can be friends again - was it love. No, was it friendship no - I knew from three of her friends that I had walked into a problem and I am not a priest nor caregiver any longer. A very smart man as well as very smart women told me one thing. Seemingly of experience, and they said take care of Jack. Seems reasonable to me and I am doing just that…mind you when I am amongst some other people I am doing tremendous and then when your taking care and putting your self aside. You loose sight of what and whom you are as I did within a small house in Quebec. I loved Quebec as many places I have been, but I was not fond of the company and knew that right after two months. There are some people that may be going thought something – been there myself but they seemingly impose it on others.

What is Universal is that we are all Human Beings

Seemingly I am not down but have learned something…. and some people make those mistakes and life is a risk but to embrace what one can be and not get lost in tending to everyone around them might just be something we do, yet at the same time tend to yourself and surround yourself with positive people of worth online and offline.

Cultures and Languages

Most all would know that I was raised in the US. As well, most will see that I have recently returned back out to western Canada. I loved my trip to Montreal, I wish that things would have been nicer yet I found that I missed Western Canada. I guess in many ways Montreal is a great place and some of the people that I met were great however there still is that French vs English amongst some small percentage of Canada. To no hear what is going on in the world and as well with a few people not wishing or wanting to speak English I found that there still is dissension within Canada. Most know I love cultures yet when you run into a few that will not speak English yet they know it. I feel that Canada missed the boat in some manners. The US did it right as there is one standard language throughout the land. Whereas in parts of Quebec there literally that stand back - unless you said you were a tourist. I will expand on this as I love Canada as much as I do the US I learned a something with regards to cultures and languages...I love cultures but I never really enjoyed literally feeling like I was in another country.

 

Just a mention...

 

Yet people will be people but again if there is one thing that United States as well as a few other countries...the language of the land is English. I found that some within Quebec still live thinking that they are there own country.

 

Home

It's good to be home............I say no more.

It's time to make some changes I know it is....just let me know if there is a yeah or neh....and please be honest as I have....

Taking that Time to Process and Self Evaluate

I know that this will take a little time to process. There are many things I do wish to write however at the same time some things are left better unsaid. Some people even on a blog are a little reserve in what they write and. One step forwards and one step back its all in how we perceive things in our own way.
One never does expect things to go wrong or the way in which they never thought they would yet for now all that I can say is that I am going to go much slower with this or maybe to write about it does give some meaning.
We live and we learn I know I have and I am sure that another has as well. Yet it’s something you just don’t take from granted. I hope that the same is applicable. I think that is the most mature manner in writing about this and well sometimes you just leave things alone and come back to them. I wish I were a little more chipper within all of this however I find that no person is perfectly right. It does take two to make it and as well two to break it and it just didn’t work out. My hopes are that we can remain friends and for the mean time give it all some time. So for now I guess the best thing is to just leave things be as it’s all within apart of the human condition.

I sincerely thank you for all your comments on the note that I wrote....literally.

 

Not all sure what to say but I am back out west and I can tell you it's something to get back used to the change of climate but do with to say a hello....

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.

Randomized yet not Categorized

The Things That Surprise One

For a month as I live in a part of Montreal that really is and isn’t apart of Montreal. It’s the cast away I guess if you wish. Back during the times the 40s and 50s the township of Dorval really was merely just a place where there were cottages that were mainly owned by people of international affairs. I really am not kidding you on this one as Dorval up till the 70’s I don't’think was even considered nor had any amenities from the city of Montreal as all other areas do – La Salle, Verdun, well I get them all mixed up all I know is when I am downtown in Montreal – I am downtown in Montreal.
The taxi drivers. Now here is one. The last week here I had or wished to take some pictures and head downtown well – believe it or not all these guys from this same taxi company and most all of them are from Romania decided to give me free rides (there and back) as long as it did not exceed 20 minutes. Now when I made this one call and then when George showed up – the first person I met I never knew he was a part owner of the taxi company and we had great conversations he told me what it was like in Romania and how all things are within his own perspective and there was much to be discussed to say the least. For some reason and these taxi guys they really do alright most are retired and just wish to enjoy there time as here in this section of Montreal it’s a rather very high end place and then again it’s a nice middle class area. One can see houses that literally cost within the millions and then you turn into a very nice suburbia.
The other day when I knew that I would be leaving I literally wished to get as many pictures as I could. I was dropped off and then called George and he was there within ten minutes. I guess what I am says is when you treat people with a decent manner – especially people that are 35 years and upwards they get the jest. Some just have that tact of knowing the difference between things and I am sure at night they have had there experiences but I can tell you the truth I have enjoyed these people so much that I do have something up my sleeve for them. As they literally were a life string – especially after the last two weeks.

Go figure.

When you don’t have your own car your really do give up your independence. Mind you with a long walk I have earlier taken the bus that leads to the subway or as they call it here – the transit.
Ironically all of them are originally from Romania and I am not sure if there is some type of bother hood but they literally did do a very nice deed.

Again - It is what it is....and Never say Never.

Heartbreak happens to all of us. Often the pain that wounds us most deeply also leaves the most enduring mark upon us. Yet the heart does have a fond feel and a respect regardless. Breaking up is not the case here it's a time for me to return back out west. And one does regard things towards the end, no I don't just think one but I think both do take things into account. Yet there is and when that day happens there really is no easy way by two that do have ....................feelings.

Heartbreak happens to all of us and can wash over us like a heavy rain. When experiencing a broken heart, our ethereal selves are saturated with grief, and the overflow is channeled into the physical body. Loss becomes a physical emptiness, and longing is transmuted into a feeling that often cannot be put into words. Mending a broken heart can seem a task so monumental that we dare not attempt it for fear of damaging ourselves further. But heartbreak, like all emotions, falls under the spell of our conscious influence.

Often the pain that wounds us most deeply also leaves the most enduring mark upon us. The shock that becomes the tender, throbbing ache of the heart eventually leads us down the path of enlightenment, blessing our lives with a new depth and richness. 

Acknowledging heartbreak's impermanence by no means dulls its sting for it is the sting itself that stimulates healing. The pain is letting us know that we need to pay attention to our emotional selves, to sit with our feelings and be in them fully before we can begin to heal. It is said that time heals all wounds. Time may dull the pain of a broken heart, but it is fully feeling your pain and acknowledging it that will truly help you heal. Dealing with your heartache in a healthy way rather than putting it off for tomorrow is the key to repair. Gentleness more than anything else is called for. Most important, open yourself to the possibility of loving, trusting, and believing again. When, someday soon, you emerge from the cushion of your grief, you will see that the universe did not cease to be as you nursed your broken heart. You emerge on the other side of the mending, stronger for all you have experienced.

I am not sure that my heart is broke, I think more so two people just started to understand each other and who they are and what they are all about and to say good bye definitely is again a time to say hello. So I shall be flying out not on Monday but on Tuesday and to say this goodbye right now seemingly has brought the best out of us. Yet to say goodbye is to say again hello. One thing I can say is that I have easily placed on a few good pounds here with the food within the restaurants ( I knew French but not as fast and as good to ............well yeah I get by)......

The restaurants are something to say the least. Literally. Food I have had so much food I think most would envy me from out west. While they are eating meat and patatoes - kidding aside I am just getting into my stride of writing after all of this. Most of you have had the respect to understand and so on. For which I thank you. There are some really good things that have happened while I was here as well as the composition of pictures that I took this week.

 

 

Picture Perfect Friday - Theme Clichés

 

 

 

Oh yeah all the clichés and how we lived and actually been groomed by them – but little did we know. When woke up this morning. I really had no thought of any title that would be in Picture Perfect.  I knew what for the first time what I wanted to post and I did rather early in the morning now there are so many clichés that have shaped out world so as the sun rose this morning I thought I would make my own contribution. Clichés have formed and shaped each of our lives.
>The future is to the ones that rise early.
>Things will happen when they are supposed to.

Clichés are something that have prevailed with us with time and really it’s something that has stayed with all of us as it’s more of an age thing and a respect to wisdom that we encountered or maybe it’s just the laziness of the mind to take déjà vu sentences to express describe a situation.  So I could look up on the internet all the vast amount of clichés or I could just say. That what I like the most with this one picture is that after the rain the sun does rise again. I am not sure if it fits as I have been using two cameras. Right now while finishing off I can hear the wind and the breeze coming on after the hottest days this week in Montreal…and here comes the rain again along with the wind.
If I had time I would get a picture of this huge downpour and name it “I only like it when it rains”.

Yet again the sun will rise.....might be a cliche yet what is the difference I am not sure yet the intention is always there. Cherie (the admin for the week) YOU really came up with a good one to say the least.

 

Peace there to you and as well to all ........................someone right now is asking if I want to take a picture believe or not.

 

Sincerely,

Jack

 

The middle of the day Thursday while at the Airport

Most often I will write something and there is not one time that I don’t acknowledge those that are friends. As many of you know I came here yes within Canada but who cares really where one resided. Some are very sensitive to this and then there are those that are just easy going…easy going – I like that, I am sure there are other that do as well. This hopefully is the last hot day here in Montreal. I guess I used to be used to the humidity earlier – yet it’s funny how (I will say it) the drastic wet hot is something that I have not built up a resistance too. From being raised in eastern United States and then predominantly living west………this is a different heat. Much different now I do know how and why General Electric makes so much money on just their air conditioning department.  Just getting in, and shortly heading again downtown or where ever I am taken. All I know is take water and buy water.

 

 

 

 

 

Why do I feel like a fish? J

 

 

The Queen marks 53 years....who can say that?

For only the second time in her nearly six decades (think about it 6 decades)… as monarch, Queen Eliz addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations after leaving eastern Canada. She has no power yet she does stand for some areas in which are notable despite all that we have seen in an era of propaganda and no transparency. I myself like the queen. I feel as if she has a symbolic merit.
After a Canadian tour, she went on to challenged the United Nations on with the intention the international response to global dangers and promotes prosperity and dignity for all the world's inhabitants. She might be older but she is definitely not dumb. Seems that she takes all into consideration before she does collaborate with her writers, which I have been told she writes her own writes believe it or not. Regardless she went on to say “In my lifetime, the United Nations has moved from being a high-minded aspiration to being a real force for common good,” the 84-year-old monarch told diplomats from the 192 UN member states. “That of itself has been a signal achievement. But we are not here to reminisce. In tomorrow's world, we must all work together as hard as ever if we are truly to be United Nations.” Speaking as Queen of 16 UN member states and head of the Commonwealth of 54 countries with a population of nearly two billion people, Her Majesty recalled the dramatic changes in the world since she last visited the United Nations, in 1957, especially in science, technology and social attitudes.
She also praised the UN's enduring aims and values: promoting peace, security and justice, fighting hunger, poverty and disease and protecting the rights and liberties of every citizen. “For over six decades, the United Nations has helped to shape the international response to global dangers,” the Queen said. “The challenge now is to continue to show this clear ... leadership while not losing sight of your ongoing work to secure the security, prosperity and dignity of our fellow human beings.”
The Queen and her husband, Prince Philip, flew to New York from Toronto for a five-hour visit that will also include stops at the Ground Zero site, where the twin World Trade Center towers were destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001. She laid a wreath in tribute to the thousands who died, and then officially open the British Memorial Garden honoring the 67 Britons who were killed that day. Yet she did it with not just a focus on Britain she did it as well for all at that time as they will not be in New York for September 11th ceremonies.
The queen has no power yet she seemingly without the power has more influence than nearly any other human being as perhaps due to the fact that she is not within the political sphere – like a Prime Minister or President. Seems that the ones that are outside of politics have far more influence or at least a source from which they are taken seriously and not as ridiculed. However I could be wrong.

 

Randomized without being categorized part one

WHY PEOPLE EAT BIRDS.wmv

As well as some funnies :)


WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?

Sigmund Freud: As an expression of the repressed desire to have sex with its mother. The road symbolizes the barrier presented by the cultural taboo.

Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.

Groucho Marx: Chicken? What's all this talk about chicken? Why, I had an uncle who thought he was a chicken. My aunt almost divorced him, but we needed the eggs.

Howard Cosell: It may very well have been one of the most astonishing events to grace the annals of history. An historic, unprecedented avian biped with the temerity to attempt such an herculean achievement formerly relegated to homo sapien pedestrians is truly a remarkable occurrence.

Plato: For the greater good.

Robert Frost: To cross the road less traveled by.

Aristotle: To fulfill its nature on the other side.

Karl Marx: It was an historical inevitability.

Machiavelli: So that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a chicken which has the daring and courage to boldly cross the road, but also with fear, for who among them has the strength to contend with such a paragon of avian virtue? In such a manner is the princely chicken's dominion maintained.

Hippocrates: Because of an excess of light pink gooey stuff in its pancreas.

Jacques Derrida: Any number of contending discourses may be discovered within the act of the chicken crossing the road, and each interpretation is equally valid as the authorial intent can never be discerned, because structuralism is DEAD, DEAD, DEAD!

Thomas de Torquemada: Because of Satan's influence. Crossing the road is heresy. The chicken must confess to its sins in order to be saved. I'll call another Inquisition.

Timothy Leary: Because that's the only kind of trip the Establishment would let it take.

Nietzsche: Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road gazes also across you.

Oliver North: National Security was at stake.

B.F. Skinner: Because the external influences which had pervaded its sensorium from birth had caused it to develop in such a fashion that it would tend to cross roads, even while believing these actions to be of its own free will.

Carl Jung: The confluence of events in the cultural gestalt recessitated that individual chickens cross roads at this historical juncture, and therefore synchronicitously brought such occurrences into being.

Jean-Paul Sartre: In order to act in good faith and be true to itself, the chicken found it necessary to cross the road.

Ludwig Wittgenstein: The possibility of "crossing" was encoded into the objects "chicken" and "road", and circumstances came into being which caused the actualization of this potential occurrence.

Salvador Dali: The Fish.

Darwin: It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees.

Emily Dickinson: Because it could not stop for death.

Epicurus: For fun.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: It didn't cross the road; it transcended it.

Johann Friedrich von Goethe: The eternal hen-principle made it do it.

Ernest Hemingway: To die. In the rain.

Gilligan: The traffic started getting rough; the chicken had to cross. If not for the plumage of its peerless tail the chicken would be lost. The chicken would be lost!

E.O. Wilson: Under the influence of a road-crossing gene, selected because it conferred a survival advantage in the chicken's ancestral line. We could conjecture, for example, that crossing roads represents the transfer of a behavioral trait whereby some chickens sought to distance themselves from rivals, thereby distinguishing them in the eyes of potential mates and increasing their reproductive potential.

Sir Edmund Hillary: Because it was there.

Werner Heisenberg: We are not sure which side of the road the chicken was on, but it was moving very fast.

Mark Twain: The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated.

David Hume: Out of custom and habit.

Pyrrho the Skeptic: What road?

Henry David Thoreau: To live deliberately ... and suck all the marrow out of life.

Ayn Rand: It was crossing the road because of its own rational choice to do so. There cannot be a collective unconscious; desires are unique to each individual.

Mishima: For the beauty of it. The chicken's extension of its sinuous legs sent shivers of a dark despair into the souls not only of the silently watching hens but also the roosters, who felt a sudden sexual desire for their exquisite comrade. The dark courage of the chicken was as beautiful as drops of dew upon jade at midnight, struck by a partial moon, its light filtered through clouds. One of the deeply aroused roosters could stand the intensity of the moment no more and bit off the head of the beautiful, courageous chicken-hero, whose wine blood was deliciously drunken by the road, and he died.

Johnny Cochran: The chicken never crossed the road. Some chicken-hating, genocidal, lying public official moved the road right under the chicken's feet while he was practicing his golf swing and thinking about his family.

Camus: The chicken's mother had just died. But this did not really upset him, as any number of witnesses can attest. In fact, he crossed just because the sun got in his eyes.

Lord Nelson: "I see no chicken."

Sir Isaac Newton: Chickens at rest tend to stay at rest. Chickens in motion tend to cross the road.

John Wayne: "'Cause a chicken's gotta do what a chicken's gotta do."

William Shakespeare: Tell me where lies fancy's egg, In the breast or in the leg?

Douglas MacArthur: In order to return.

Richard Nixon: This isn't about roads and chickens. I don't think you quite understand that what you believe I may have meant isn't what you think I said.

Book of Genesis: God said, "Let there be chicken"; and there was chicken. Then God said, "Let there be road"; and there was road. And God commanded, "Let the one be taken to the far side thereof." And it was done. And God looked upon His work and saw that it was good.

Sirs William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan: To verify through measurement and research explorational, Asserted widths and properties of highways transportational. And thus through brain and intellect did prove itself, this animal, To be the very model of a modern chicken-general.

Captain James Tiberius Kirk: To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.

Sophocles: It wanted to be close to its Mom.

How hot is it today?

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That is just plain hot...Some love it this hot. Give me a GE Alert dispatch your "welcome to GE" and give me whatevar you have. If not do what you did in the 40s and 50s and give me many coke a colas ....winks in good tastes.

 

 

 

Some of my Favorites Part 2

I literally woke up this morning at 4:40 you shower you shave and you then look
at what your going to wear. Thereafter I was the one to have all things done and I talked
to this one neighbour in brief while I was taking out the garbage as today is garbage day
in this part of Quebec.

Then I thought do I want to sit here idle or do I just wish to be me and enjoy some of these
left over days. A few really great things happened and I hope you do understand that I do have
to get my knees done - it's called two implants of a substance. However, it's hot I have never drank
so much water in my life and literally thought of just jumping into the water mind you I don't have my
summer things here aside of a few shirts.

What more can I put to this as I am thinking. The taxi drivers here all have come up
with a thing that they don't charge me from now till when I leave. I really could write and shall write much
on especially two gents that came here from Romania but to sit idle is to sit and literally die. To engage in
your own way and enjoy the simple things ......while during this waiting time to head back...is life itself. I met 6 people and it's ironic the stories that they all have. Mind you they are good ones.

The Weather Question of the Day - How many are feeling this heat wave? And if so, what is the forecasted temperature high?

Some Favorite Pictures within July

Yeah I wake up and today was one of those days that it was going up to 40c easy. I had wished to get a few pictures within downtown Montreal. I am that type that I wake up and I just want to get on with things. So as a close friend went on her way, and with the thought in mind that these are the few last days here (mind you it’s hard to flight as my area has been declared a disaster zone by the provincial and federal governments due to vicious floods or very recent.
This one gent that drives a taxi literally said that this entire trip to take me down to Montreal and back was on him. Now I gave him a trip and he is probably around 65 yet a decent chap he was. I gave him my email to keep in touch there were some thing that he had mentioned that you only know is wisdom.

So back to this story I have around 50 pictures that for the life of me I don’t think that many would really subscribe to but on this very hot day as we are in for more I thought when I got back I would post them.


A great day or eve to you.

Within Monday Morn....

Well it's morning here and I have been just around the neighborhood here in this part of Quebec. I hope that I can fit several things into this day mind you the temperature is suppose to nearing 40c. So I may just jump into the river to cool off. But kidding aside I have to make arrangements with regards to leaving here and pending the flights I more than likely will be leaving on Wednesday or Thursday yet there is that feel of something that is not complete. Lets leave it at there as it does take two to make. So lets just leave that at that if you don't mind.

Each morning I wake up and things seem so vibrant and as far as between two people the best outcome is the understanding as it has come too. As I shall be leaving and it jells in many different manners I guess. Yet I still believe that to say goodbye gives the ability to say hello again. So the day is just started and there are many things to do. I hope to get them all in and as well be able to take this one day and render some pictures.
However I won’t head downtown for this one. Yet I do have things to get done, I would love to have one more day to just head to some places but we shall see. The above photograph was taken across the street just after a morning coffee and you know what.

 

It's gonna be HOT!

A Very Happy 4th of July

The symbolism of the United States Flag was interpreted by Washington: "We take the stars from Heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity representing Liberty."
 
 
307 million free people all into a Nation, with the ideology of being united yet within a manner out not only by community of interest, but also by unity of purpose. A nation distinguished for the clear individual conception of its citizens alike of their duties and their privileges, their obligations and their rights. How I see America is not with regards to wars but with regards to what it stands for. The culture of America is based on prosperity and as well within the spirit of the average citizen within America is a very strong and kind community. Factually Americans spend more on donations to non profit organizations than any other nation on this entire earth. Believe it or not and that does say something with respect to what America stands for as an example.  I think that says something with regards with regards to a country. America as like any country is evolving but there is a very tenacious and patriotic way within America and what she stands for. It’s not with respect to all of the past but more so with the understanding of where a great nation is going in the future. America is certainly a country I know all so well, I could write on a variety of areas but deep rooted within America is the ideology of hope and promise. For that is why so many have always wished to be in America. Rich within it’s history since that have a deep feeling of patriotism. Perhaps it’s a different one now in some ways but it’s still well within the United States of America. I will never forget the fireworks on the Hudson and “Lady Liberty” as she looks forth in a manner that is with calm yet wise.
 
I wrote this a few years ago and I still do believe in America regardless of all the happenings that seemingly so many are involved in yet all look at things from very different scopes. However that is the very manner in which America is and I don't think that will ever change, as that is what does make it so unique.
 
A Very Happy 4th of July
Sometimes we forget to take the things that are important and forget the foundation of what unifies a country. There once was a book wrote called, "A Man without a country", I remember it well as I read it while I was a child while within the United States and thereafter ...America is unique and thought all the areas in which there is much to be debated there is still a grand country which I consider which my past as home as well still to this day love to keep abreast of all that is happening - thus yes I don't say to be politically correct Happy 4th of July, however I do say Happy Birthday to a Country. A great country that I hold closely regardless of the times in which we live within. The glass is more that half full America and the Statue of Liberty still does gaze out from the Hudson and what she sees is one thing.
 
The future based on the history as well as the future that certainly shall unfold by the people and for the people.

 

A Place Extrodinary

In 1904, Blessed Andre Bessette, CSC, began the construction of a small chapel on the side of the mountain near Notre Dame College. Soon the growing number of visitors made it too small. Even though it was enlarged, a larger church was needed and in 1917 one was completed - it is called the Crypt, and has a seating capacity of 1,000. In 1924, the construction of the basilica was inaugurated; it was finally completed in 1967. The Oratory's dome is the third largest of its kind in the world after the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro in the Ivory Coast and Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome, and the church is the largest in Canada.

The basilica is dedicated to Saint Joseph, to whom Brother André credited all his reported miracles. These were mostly related to some kind of healing power, and many pilgrims (handicapped, blind, ill, etc.) poured into his Basilica, including numerous Protestants. On display in the basilica is a wall covered with thousands of crutches from those who came to the basilica and were allegedly healed. Pope John Paul II deemed the miracles to be authentic and beatified Brother André in 1982.

It was not a typical Saturday but I did want to see this place as I had heard so much about it. I was raised catholic however this was one place to see before heading back. We all do have some faith structure and regardless of what it is is not really important. I literally thrive on the architecture ironically while I was there I met just ordinary people from five different countries. Tremendously interesting as I start to wind down my visit.

60 Minutes Outside of Ottawa

Yesterday I was afforded the opportunity to drive to see a rather great artist. It was actually a daughter, which is a friend of a friends as well as a mother. In driving into Ontario – it was a first a first within a long time.

A very large acreage along with a family of some most interesting people. While talking with the father whom was a retired aeronautics engineer it soon became very apparent to me that this was a very great family. The last time I was in Ontario was years ago when I was there with my work in Toronto but Ottawa is much different if you as me. The mother, father and the brother that had just celebrated his 49th birthday as well as a mother and daughter that literally had two little cabin like studios that were build…. actually much nicer than cabins. Imagine a place where you have air conditioning, great light sure it's only maybe 700 sq. ft (or a little more) yet to walk out some 500 yards and enjoy the evening with music while painting a light up some candles or turn on the odd light and have a computer, television, and all the amenities...well for the summer it's would be my creative haven - if you as me. But the art, which I have not taken any pictures of, are something.

Suzy is an Analysis, yet her passion since she was a child has been art. All done by different pencils while her mother’s passion is watercolours. It was a great trip and it’s another noted story. Now this is an acreage that is just 60 minutes from downtown Ottawa. And while we were celebrating a birthday the father and I were talking about all the different jets that they had seen doing maneuvers before the celebrations of yesterday.

I am not sure how to summarize this write with these pictures but there really is something to be said to living outside of the city and having the pleasures of both.

It's a time that Canada Celebrates

It's really as simple as this Canada is a country that evolved within it's own manner and on this day of July 1st it's something that from shore to shore is celebrated within it's own manner. I am not sure how to put it but Canada is a country that is vast. Don't think for second that it's not a land that does not have diversity. On a per capita basis it certainly does. In having lived in two countries this is one day in which is celebrated. Canada evolved, Canada is not better, Canada is not anything but just a country called Canada. It's not to compare it's just to understand. It's a silent country that does things within it's own manner - along with many others again within a great manner.

Just keeping it as simple as that,

 

Jack

 

As today is the first of July, I wish all my Canadian friends the best during this holiday. I am not sure on how you would describe Canada yet I do wish it to each and everyone and as well those that are of other nations - Canada celebrates it's birth on the 1st of July which is today's date. What does Canada stand for freedom within a very varied manner. An unique country......