April 28th, 2012  I just have to wonder how many other people think the way I do.  I am wondering how all the intricacies of the way my life has unfolded have come together to produce the current state of affairs.  Part of me wants to just keep going, but another whisper says, "You really ought to look at all of this!"
Over the past 65 years, I have been exposed to so much input that I seem to have the need to come up with some kind of conclusion.  I just lost a very dear friend yesterday to cancer, at age 62.  She just found out she had stage II cancer in several organs last October 22nd.  She was truly a fascinating and wonderful person, and remained inquisitive about all of life's questions and mysteries, much like myself.  I have now lost a sister-in-law to cancer, at age 56, a daughter-in-law at age 43, so I have some questions about all of that.  My own brother took his own life at age 57, 2 months after he lost his beautiful wife Lynne to the ravages of that disease.
Wow.  What a way to start a new blog, huh.  I am just sayin that I've got some stuff in my head that needs to be reworked.  I do believe that we can totally change to direction of our lives, just by changing the way we think.  Almost everyone has heard or been exposed to the laws of attraction, and further, we all know that our thoughts create our actions and sculpt our lives.  I have been dancing with this information all of my life.  Now, when I honestly look back, searching for patterns, I am left with too many questions to solve all at once.

Getting used to blogging...

this only a sample blog post to get the bugs out of the system...

Just One Thought

My God, I just read over the previous babblings and have to wonder who wrote those words.

Gail is my life!

A Sanctuary

Observations on October 14th, 2011

If I could capture my racing thoughts this morning, It would mean that I have finally gotten over my blog wall.  I used to journal every morning, regardless of when I awoke.  Then something happened that prevented me from sharing my innermost thoughts and feelings with anyone.  I became almost reclusive.  My days became more simple than I can remember.  I developed the attitude that there is just nothing that can be done about the state of my community, my state government, and hence the national destiny.  I can't really say that I had given up, but coming out of that attitude is more difficult than I had imagined.

I am told by my closer allies that I look too much into current events for my own good.  My question is:

"If one doesn't like what he sees, he ought to be able to change it."  This is simply a contradiction of everything I've been taught from the time I can remember who I was. Are we all not taught from birth that setting goals and attaining them is the primary path to success?  And yet, looking back from the place in life I am now, questions arise as to this simple premise.  The obstacles in front of attainment were not addressed, because the complexity of the future was beyond the perception of those laying the groundwork for the child at the time.

Now, skipping to the present moment, would I be irresponsible to question where the world is going?  Oh, believe me, I am well versed in the contradicting philosophies governing the relevance of an individual and his effect on the world.  Can one person have an effect on change for the better?  If rampant greed has set the stage for a worldwide breakdown, then ought one begin by harnessing his own tendency towards this deadly sin?  In other words, how much effect does one individual have on what he witnesses that feels like he is prewired to oppose?

These are just some of the questions and issues that wake me up in the middle of the night.

New iBook release!!!

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