THE ICE MAN COMETH..

Yes...we have had 3 days of ice and 2 inches left on the ground. Rick had a unforgettable experience yesterday upon his return from 4 days in Denver, when he had to get a cab to bring him home from the airport because I wouldn't get out to get him because of the ice and the fact that our driveway is at a 90 degree angle and that a pond is located in the perfect place for our car to slide backwards down the driveway INTO it!! Anyway, he phoned to say he was coming and so I waited...and waited....it took him 30 minutes to take a 10 minute ride!! As I was passing by the front window I saw him walking past our mailbox pulling his suitcase behind him!!! His cab driver would not go down our street because of the ice and the angle and so dumped him off at the edge of our edition!! He walked down hill for 2 blocks on 2 inches of ice!!! Quite a sight to see....he said "the f@*&##*!ing towel head was a moron" or something to that effect. He made it and I was glad to see another human for the first time in 4 days!!! It is beautiful though...and reminds me of this...."by the breath of God ice is given and the breadth of the waters is frozen." "He gives to the earth snow like a blanket of wool; He scatters the hoarfrost like ashes. He casts forth His ice like crumbs; who can stand before His cold?" Again, I am shone what a small "breath" from God can do to our "advanced" society.
I spent most of those days packing up the unnecessary items in our house, so that we can put it on the market and prepare to move to Stillwater. Yes, according to Ricky, we are moving there to give it a go. I would believe it, but for the fact that I don't. I have dreamed of living there for so long that to finally begin to head that direction is surreal to say the least. I am doing the things necessary to accomplish this goal in a rather mechanical way. Maybe my dream will come true and maybe it won't, but either way, I will be prepared. Wish us luck in selling our house. If we actually SELL it, it will only further my strong belief in miracles in the 21st century, given the market today.... Ciao!

NO MORE SPELL CHECK RAGS!!!

WE ARE ALL BOZO'S ON THIS BUS AND NO ONE IS IMMUNE TO THE DISEASE OF HURRYING TOO FAST TO TYPE PERFECTLY !! PLEASE!! DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN!!! ENOUGH!!!

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Getting older is key, but aquiring WISDOM is the goal...For new years, dad and I gorged ourselves on all the food we could find that was bad for us, gorged on as much of 24 as we could stand and hit the hay. Changes...nothing much you can do about the government except vote, but it is YOU that you CAN change. And CHANGE takes time = getting old=getting wise= growing up=changing thoughts on LOTS of subjects, including,but not limited to, religious affiliation!!! Hind sight IS so much better!! That is why it is incredibally backwards to me that the wisdom comes in your life when you have already screwed up so much!! Why can't we have kids AFTER we have wisdom?!!! By the time you get a little wise about life, it is almost over!! Where is the saneness in that?! And your kids don't/won't/can't listen to you and your sage advice, you have to keep your mouth SHUT and let THEM fall through the cracks and work their way out just like you did in order to GET the dad-gum wisdom, so that they can't share it with THEIR kids!! Go figure. All that to say, Josh, that AGAIN, I AM SORRY!!! But I did what I thought was best at the time with the limited life experiences that I had. Hopefully YOU have learned from these mistakes, but don't take it to the extreme. Church is not "bad". People, including ALL of us, are "bad", and unfortunately, we make up the church, as well as the world we live in! The same with the "corporate bullshit world" you have chosen to live in...YOU don't have to BE that, YOU can change, YOU can be different, YOU can be satisfied and pleased with how you live YOUR life. THEY WILL NOT CHANGE, BUT YOU CAN! Again, the corporate world, the "church", the "club", the anything contains humanity in it and that will ALWAYS screw anything up, but it doesn't mean there is no hope. You go to work don't you? Why? There are hypocritic, bullshitting, lying thiefs there, just like there are at church or the grocery store or the cub scouts!! SO??? It is about YOU. What are YOU doing with YOUR life to be at peace with yourself and your creator. What are you doing with YOUR family that will make a difference in their lives? Your friends lives? Your co-workers lives? The lady at the check-out counters life? In wise words spoken by other brillant lyrists.....who are you? who? who? who?who? It doesn't matter who the rest of them are or what THEY are doing.
I LOVE these blogs!! They have truly been great for dad and I since everyone lives so far away. I feel like we can have some of the most truthful conversations we have ever had and I love them. I get to see pictures, hear thoughts, see excitement, hear whats on your mind....what else in life matters but family, friends and faith? You can always quite your job, like you can quite church (or as I would rather say, your spiritual pursuits), but you will become bankrupt soon in both areas. How's that gonna work for you? It truly amazes me that everyone can quite the church because of the people that go there, but they won't do the same with their jobs. Why? There is no difference. Think about it. And don't give me any grief for us not "going to a church". Give it to your dad!! We don't go to a physical building maybe, but we continue to grow spiritually by other means. Okay. I better stop. Tag. Your turn.

Happy Gas

That stuff needs to be LEGALIZED!!! I just got off of 3 1/2 hours of the stuff...best high that you will get on this side without the side affects of brain damage!! Wow....So much you can see with eyes that you can't see....soul and spirit can't be verbalized in terms we can hear or understand....it is a totally different plane than we are on and what matters in the spirit doesn't matter in the body....You get it there....you try to get it hear, but it cannot be penetrated with our weak tools.....calcified, we are calcified here and must dig past the calcification to feel the other side... to get it....wish I could just hook that stuff up and tote it around with me like the lung patience do their oxygen!!!! Maybe a back pack of it....peace out and now for the percodan.....

And to ALL a Good Night........

Well, Ricky brings up a good question about our lives and the new year. He asks what will we do to change our lives in the coming year to make it better. I, for one, believe that is the question to ask yourself each and every day of your lives. We only have this second to live and that only one at a time. You know, I have been reading some of the "thinkers" of the last 2 centuries, and have come to the conclusion that the reason there were so many brilliant and creative people then, was the fact that they had and TOOK the TIME to think, contemplate, read, have meaningful conversation with neighbors and friends, they took walks and breathed fresh air and were okay with being "quiet" with themselves. No boys, this is not one of those SBC "throw your T.V. in the trash" speeches, but you would do well to watch your family more rather than the telly! I can remember one of the "pass time" things I would do with my grandmother in Stillwater in the summers I spent with her, was just sitting on the porch, greeting neighbors as they walked by. Talking with them, actually LISTENING to what they were saying and hearing their heart when the words didn't come. We are SO busy, so burdened with our "jobs", schooling, etc....that we have lost the art of living....of thinking....of sharing....of true conversation, of really caring about ourselves, our souls and about others we come in contact with every stinking day! We are bankrupting our own selves in our complete obsession with the things that won't and don't really matter. I don't want to just change something for this year, but change something for my life in whatever is left over of its entirety! Change, as those of us who have done it know, is very difficult and in itself, takes time. But I have never worked hard on changing myself to look back and say "wish I hadn't done that". May your year be filled with change...in yourself....and may it then touch others lives to inspire change. Shalom.