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

Just getting back online....

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

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

For me, I truly believe in in being authentic.

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

Why not

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

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

The Coors - Dreams

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

 

A Simple Yet Enjoyable Saturday

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Within Saturday Morning...

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

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

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

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

Good night all and have a great Saturday...

~ The Tree Had Branch and It Reached Out ~

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

That all said I bid you a great Saturday,

Jack