HO HO HO....Watch where your going their rudolph. No one likes a smart ass. Yeah yeah yeah...and a few snorts. Typical drivers now a days. Loose the i pod, cell phone and maybe watch the road. As drivers now a days we have way to many distractions and need to get back to the basics and focus on the journey ahead of us. A journey that has many twists and turns, maybe a bit of black ice. The odd puddle, to kick up on the poor sucker walking the sidewalk as i floor the tires through it.

Where was it , that exact moment when things changed , changes that no longer co exist with life. What happened to the innocense of our young and our caring for our elders. How is it that we let the stupid things in life go ahead and the important and meaningful things get left behind. Life is like an auto , add things to speed us up and out do others. Why do we do these upgrades when at most times we cant use them. Why not focus our time and effort on more important stable things in our lives.

A home is a beginning to out adult life. A statue be it may to show to others , a place to call home and a structure to make us solid. A house had 4 walls a roof and a foundation. The four walls are love,health,strength and courage. The basement is the foundation on which we place the 4 walls/ When we get the walls assembled we need a roof to shelter the peace and tranquility of tha which we have built. 4 walls are pointless unless they have a solid foundatin to sit on. What do we build the foundation with. Dirt? Wood?or Stone?

The answer is in your self to decide .Does one want to build on dirt knowing that it only takes one storm to come in and weaken it. Or wood that overtime is undermined and weakened to the point of collapse. I choose cement. A mixture of dirt sand and stone. A foundation to allow me to build my 4 walls . Ive built the last 3 foundations on unsolid ground and sat by and watched the foundation crack and the walls weaken. The cracks became too many and the walls came down one by one. Time never allowed myself to put a roof on the house. Always a work in progress but a progress that became futile and the came crumbling down.

One last time i build a soild base and started on the walls.the health wall went up fast, strength wall to follow. The courage wall was a challenge , but the hardest wall for us all to build is the wall of love. I think the materials I used in this wall were less then standard and fearing a storm i hurried to get that roof on. Hurring thru things always have the same consequences and results. Might look firm but give it time and then things begin to unfold. Does one go to the safety of the basement as the walls come tumbling down or do we run away as fast as we can. Most of choose to run away as fast as we can but this final time i decided to go to the basement and seek shelter. My base was solid and I knew that it would hold me firm even as the walls came tumbling down.

So i sit in the rubble now looking to the stars above. Destruction of emotions words and tears, but still holding firm to the base that which i created. Do i sit and wait for others to clear the debris or do I take the bulls by the horns and dig myself out of the rubble. Well i choose the second and I am here to tell you all that the debris is allmost removed. My foundation in tact. Now its time to ask for help to start the walls again. Will you help me build. Will you give the health,strength and the courage to help. I can supply the love and the house well be done as follows.

I need a solid house to place my roof on so this time i will make sure that I just do that.

A TIME FOR CHANGE

CHANGE......Finally the thing we strive in life for has arrived. CHANGE...watching the unfolding events in the last 90 days has shown us all the vulnerbility and the fragile civilization we all live in. The changing winds of life,worlds,economies,politics. When the new year began did anyone of us see the winds coming at us in gale force strengths. Who would have ever dreamt that in 10 months we would all be changed for ever. No way to go back and repair or change what had become.

CHANGE.... Goals dreamed of and inspired to go after...shattered in one swoop from the gavel,closing bell or the swish of a pen. How is it that no one forecasted the severe storm heading our way. Why did the forecasters not see it coming. How can the odds makers in Vegas know the outcome of events but our weatherman did not see it or is it that they didnt want to see it. The excues laid upon the people no longer cut it. To think that the average person would close their eyes or turn their backs to the events happening and hitting us hard...No we didnt. We rose to the occasion and spoke our minds , casted our vote, wrote our words, got the word out.

CHANGE...Speech!!!! I will let my voice be heard. Hear me out or turn away. My time has come to voice out loud. To those who wish for my voice to stay silent. No more. No way, im not turning back.. Join me for the trip or cast me aside. No matters to me anymore. To the ones who see me as a slab of meat. No more ,no way. I have a voice a heart and soul.


CHANGE

Where the paths trails and roads will take us....

Looking up in the sky , seeing the bright blue against the fluffy white clouds, catching the odd coloured leaf falling from the tree and the hints of the seson of change. Season of change. Yes it is Fall. Its a time to get rid of the old and get ready for the new. We gather our nuts so to speak to get ready for the long and grinding winter season.

Well also the changes of the season is a change of the human spirit and mind. Not casting aside the season, but realizing that its time to move ahead . Life brings so many good things and make it pleasing to the mind and soul for them. Change........had someone tell me the other day that I concentrate on the past. My thinking and reply was that the past held all I would have for family...no family present or future. Theres just some things that one cant change. But dont think for a second I didnt take it to heart but I also stepped back and looked at what had been and what I was becoming, A soul some would say lost but a soul trying to move ahead...

Decisions..so many decisions . Its like the ice cream store so many flavours I like but only one I can choose. Too many flavours on the same cone takes away the unique taste of a single kind. So its like life. Does one juggle 5000 things at once accomplishing nothing or taking ! task at hand and getting thru it and moving on to the next. Funny simple words and advice can and do make a change. I was told to take baby steps and not get to confident and try and take giant leaps. Its the giant leaps that wear you out the fastest and land you in the deepest holes. Yep... took a few giant steps but Im back to the baby steps.

Does that friend , the friend who doesnt judge but lends a ear and advice, deserve the recognition he or she deserves. Hell yes. Whether they accept the recognition and thanks is their choice to make. They always feel and say that it was nothing but it is something. Does the person who just kind of stumbles upon one others life deserve the right to learn about them or do I just wing it thru and hopefully maybe they wont catch on to what it is all about. Hell yes. How does one expect to move on, gain valueable life skills and friendships and loves if one doesnt take the time to know the others past.

I made the biggest mistake with a loved one by not opening my true inner self to that loved one.Hoping that we could build a future on nothing but the present and the future. Hell was I wrong. The past still controls us and the old saying is, Dont forget the past or you will be condemed to repeat it. So the next time someone speaks to you, curiously asks about yourself, dont feel as I have in the past to let the event pass one by. Let the other person know your roots and also take interest and ask the other person their past. One doesnt have to dive into the personal stuff, but a brief description on who one is and what their goals and asspirations are.

A path leads in one direction depending on the way your face is headed. Strait ahead. Always head ahead and never turn around , for when you turn around you are also heading ahead. Just ahead in the wrong direction.

Total amazement

Like millions of others in the world today ive been afixed to the television watching the Beijing Olympics. Cheering for my countries athletes, feeling their glory and their agony of defeat. As a Canadian Im proud at what our nation has achieved on the world stage. In science medicine technology humanitarian evelopment and know our sports. It wasnt 1 day into the olympics and i sit in front of the tv and see on the net and on the news. Our kids are fat and lazy> they show no motivation to be an olympic athlete. They would rather sit in their rooms and play tv games and watch tv.

Well Like many other canadians I was outraged. Who is this person to judge others. To make a statement and politicize it so much was an embarassement to canadians and to the world. The olympics have become what we said would never happen. A personal platform for the athletes to become rich and endorsed. What happened to the olympic ideal. Where did the true spirit of the games go. How has sports become so much more important then that unemployed person struggling to keep his family afloat. To that family who lost everything in either flood fire or storm.

I as an sportsman never let the sport I played ruled my life but enhance my life. Shape my goals and aspirations of true team spirit and unity. To that athlete who I shall not name , when you competed in your event and missed the winning line by miles , a feeling of joy overwhelmed me, thinking you got exactly as you deserved. Arrogance has no place in todays society. As others struggle , an athlete should set an example. Not dictate to the masses his beliefs. Even though you redeemed yourself the next event and listening to your excuses of what happened the previous day gives me no comfort or gratification that your sour words will stay with me . Not your arrogant spiteful dictative words. Shame on you and others alike that profess to be above the rest of us.

And those who brodcast negative pictures and words re garding the chinese people , you might want to step back a bit and examine your own countries standards and treatment of your citizens. Shame on you all. Havent we all meddled enough in other peoples affairs. I think we are all guilty of this and should clean up our own backyards before we tell others how to clean up theirs.


1 pissed off Canadian