Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Monday, December 17, 2007
Monday December 17, 2007....Home is Here
This is a note to all my family members.
Sometimes in your life, you hit a snag and you lose your direction. You thought you knew just where you were headed and now you're not so sure. Life does that to all of us at one time or another. Sometimes the path we set out to follow leads us to a dead end and we hate to backtrack and are unsure just how to change our direction. Or, we have followed the path we set out to follow and reached the goal but found that this isn't really where we want to be. It's difficult to admit a mistake and have to start out all over again, but it's sometimes necessary.
If, at this time or sometime in the future, you feel a bit lost and unsure of which direction to follow from here forward I want you to know that here you have a refuge. You are family and are always welcome, without reservation. Here is someone you can trust and be at home with. Here is someone who loves you no matter what mistakes you made along the way. If you feel lost and alone, know that here is home and that you are never alone. Here is family.
Our family has a history of looking out for each other which goes back many generations. Parents look out for children and children look out for parents, no matter what age. Aunts and uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews are all family and loved. Friends come and go, long remembered or soon forgotten, but family always remains and will continue through the generations. My grandparents took care of their parents in their old age and their children after divorces. Their children, in turn, looked after them in their old age. My parents took me in at a time of need and I watched out for them in their time of need. That's what family does, whatever is needed and necessary.
It's reassuring to know that no matter what obstacles you run into in life, there is always a home for you and that home is here with your family.
Sometimes in your life, you hit a snag and you lose your direction. You thought you knew just where you were headed and now you're not so sure. Life does that to all of us at one time or another. Sometimes the path we set out to follow leads us to a dead end and we hate to backtrack and are unsure just how to change our direction. Or, we have followed the path we set out to follow and reached the goal but found that this isn't really where we want to be. It's difficult to admit a mistake and have to start out all over again, but it's sometimes necessary.
If, at this time or sometime in the future, you feel a bit lost and unsure of which direction to follow from here forward I want you to know that here you have a refuge. You are family and are always welcome, without reservation. Here is someone you can trust and be at home with. Here is someone who loves you no matter what mistakes you made along the way. If you feel lost and alone, know that here is home and that you are never alone. Here is family.
Our family has a history of looking out for each other which goes back many generations. Parents look out for children and children look out for parents, no matter what age. Aunts and uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews are all family and loved. Friends come and go, long remembered or soon forgotten, but family always remains and will continue through the generations. My grandparents took care of their parents in their old age and their children after divorces. Their children, in turn, looked after them in their old age. My parents took me in at a time of need and I watched out for them in their time of need. That's what family does, whatever is needed and necessary.
It's reassuring to know that no matter what obstacles you run into in life, there is always a home for you and that home is here with your family.
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Tuesday December 4, 2007....Iran with no Nucular weapons? Huh?
So, did someone forget to tell the president that Iran halted nuclear weapons development in 2003? Or did he just ignore the facts again?
Four years ago, they stopped. For four years the president has been shouting and pointing fingers and prodding Iran in front of the rest of the world for being evil and all the time our intelligence agencies knew that it wasn't true. It sure makes us look like the big bully on the block, doesn't it? Put these facts together with our invasion of Iraq for illegitimate reasons and we really look like war mongers, don't we.
Meanwhile, you have North Korea with a real threat being pretty much ignored and countries in Africa carrying out genocide and mass murders without a single american soldier being sent to help maintain peace. It looks like we are only concerned with countries that have something we want. Since George is an oil man and the son of an oil man, he understands that we need oil so he seems to want to deal only with oil countries and if they won't play the game his way, he is going to force them to. After all, it's his army, isn't it? And he has the power, doesn't he? And he can do anything he wants to do, can't he? And he's never made a mistake, has he?
A cowboy mentality – shoot first and ask questions later – seems to dominate his diplomacy. Then he surrounds himself with people who don't argue with him. What's a few soldiers anyway, it's his army and it's his country, isn't it? Once we get rid of some of the dissenters by using the “Patriot Act”, he'll have more control over the little people and be better able to lead them where he wants them to go. Just try to get in his way and he'll step on you just like he did in Iraq. Who needs the rest of the world anyway?
Four years ago, they stopped. For four years the president has been shouting and pointing fingers and prodding Iran in front of the rest of the world for being evil and all the time our intelligence agencies knew that it wasn't true. It sure makes us look like the big bully on the block, doesn't it? Put these facts together with our invasion of Iraq for illegitimate reasons and we really look like war mongers, don't we.
Meanwhile, you have North Korea with a real threat being pretty much ignored and countries in Africa carrying out genocide and mass murders without a single american soldier being sent to help maintain peace. It looks like we are only concerned with countries that have something we want. Since George is an oil man and the son of an oil man, he understands that we need oil so he seems to want to deal only with oil countries and if they won't play the game his way, he is going to force them to. After all, it's his army, isn't it? And he has the power, doesn't he? And he can do anything he wants to do, can't he? And he's never made a mistake, has he?
A cowboy mentality – shoot first and ask questions later – seems to dominate his diplomacy. Then he surrounds himself with people who don't argue with him. What's a few soldiers anyway, it's his army and it's his country, isn't it? Once we get rid of some of the dissenters by using the “Patriot Act”, he'll have more control over the little people and be better able to lead them where he wants them to go. Just try to get in his way and he'll step on you just like he did in Iraq. Who needs the rest of the world anyway?
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