Time was short and random became not existent.

Life has changed. 2024 will be chaotic not just in the world but in the immediate sphere.

A loved one has changed. No longer the caring partner. Now just someone in the house who lives in his own world and lets family in sometimes, and then briefly.

This journey is going to be a long one. Hoping for a few days of almost normal each month. We will see how it goes.

All of our roads are complicated in some way. You never know how tough life is for the person standing next to you is, the key is kindness and understanding.

Keep that in mind as you are deciding how to get through your day.

Speaking up and out is not easy, deciding when to speak out is the more difficult part.

While in line to pay for groceries you notice a man with two small children in the cart. As they touch things, as children always do, the man scolds them harshly. Well this first impression does not change as the people in front of him have a rather large order in two carts and it does not improve his mood.

He scowls at the family, two young mothers and possibly an uncle to the children. This family is small in stature but their appearance does not change that they are a loving family. These seems to anger the man even more.

The family seem aware they are at the very least unwelcome in this line but probably know this man hates them.

The name calling begins, all of the children are frightened.

There is a spark just waiting to start the fire. It is sizzling, others are watching, wondering whether or not to speak up. Unfortunately most people choose to infinite the problem. They choose to let the bullies mouth run on and on.

Is there shame to letting ember fly away, letting continue to burn somewhere else.

Or is there no shame in preserving the moment, not allowing the fire to start there in front of those children, dragging the further into the hatred created by the few.

There is a line in the sand. We all have to make a choice about crossing it to fight the good fight.

That line is closer than it has been in a very long time. Choose the good fight, choose truth and fairness even if it make the fight harder in the short term.

Truth and fairness is always more important.

It is amazing what is and is no to tolerated in this crazy world we live in.

If the traffic light turns green and you do not hit the gas immediately, car horns sound as if you have just committed the ultimate offense.

How many things to we pass by every day and ignore, a mother struggling with kids and groceries, anybody with a flat tire without the strength to change it, the senior citizen at the pharmacy deciding between medicine and food.

We tolerate these things but not the two extra second at the green light.

”Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you”

This account was opened over a year ago, the words were supposed to just flow. When they didn’t the blog was put on hold.

There was a lot of doubt about whether what was written was worth writing let alone having someone read it.

the realization that everyone has something to offer, sometimes words of encouragement, understanding and occasionally joy.

Winter is coming to a close, even as mild as it has been that closed in feeling makes us grouchy. So maybe just as spring brings a smile and fresh air we can all bring that same form of sunshine to those around us….

but wash your hands first.

This is a new experience. Typing thoughts that spring to mind or that seem important. It has been a monumental year. Some very highs and very very lows. While most people experience the highs and lows each year, this year was extraordinary.

So occasionally there might be something here you are interested in, sometimes there will be nonsense in a couple of paragraphs, and once in a great while there might be something that helps you get through the day.

”Bridges of Madison County” was just on television, defineately a chick flick and yet full of life lessons. Just because you are married and have children, and you love them, dosen’t mean you cannot love someone else or just want or need to be alone for a while.

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.”

Lord Byron.

 

Thanks for joining me!

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton