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Legends Do Die!


      Among Music Legends in time, we have many including, Patsy Cline, Elvis Presley, Hank Williams. Johnny Cash. and many more, now among them is Whitney Houston. If Heaven has a choir, it is indeed one heck of a great one isn’t it? Such stars have gone to Heaven early in their lives and some even late. Many unexpected when they left, and few lived long enough to enjoy the fame they got as entertainers. Stop and think back on those that the Music World and the World in general lost and you will see what I mean.

      Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, The Temptations, Sam Cooke, Karen Carpenter, and many more. Some of my favorites are up there too, Jim Croce, Harry Chapin, Seals and Crofts, Jim Reeves just to name a few. Amazingly, the halls of Heaven has a heck of a female group up there, Patsy Cline, Whitney Houston and more, imagine if you can reaching the golden gates of heaven and listening to so many voices, raised in joyful harmony, and knowing you have reached peace.

       It is always sad to see anyone die, and pass from this plane of existence, and return to from whence we all came. In the end, the music these greats shared with us all, lives on the planet decades and centuries after they are gone. They did what they were put here to do, they reached the hearts and minds of people world-wide, and brought what joy and happiness they could.

         Is it fair that they go younger than most or that they go from different ways? Why must some die of overdosing, heart attacks, suicide? But, no one can answer these questions, nor will we ever do so, for if we had the answers, surely we would try to prevent it all from happening.

       We can’t prevent death, we can hardly deal with it when it hits us, from someone we knew or close to us or famous dies. We can’t prevent it for them, nor can we prevent it ultimately for us too. The stars line the heavens and it’s gates and fences, and if you listen carefully when you lay in bed half asleep, or daydream, you will hear the voices singing the praises of heaven and the gods.

          So as the World and Whitney Houston’s family and friends, prepare to lay her to rest, lets give them a moment of peace and silence to remember her in their own way and be respectful to it all. You can say your good-byes to Whitney by singing her songs, dancing to them, remembering her smile and laughter and more. In this world we live in, few give as much as our entertainers, singers and actors, and in the end, they get remembered for the giving they did, not for the circumstances of their deaths. Honor their legacies, their songs, the imagines of them happy and singing loudly!

       For in the end, we have Legends who die daily.and history books are written about their deeds and acts and voices and more, for we as humans always admire, and love those who give so much to entertain us all!.

 

         

Some Short Thoughts


      Most of the time I get responses to my blogs that go like this: Why did you write such a thing? Is this for real?. And at other times I ge,t great article nicely written and it opened my eyes. Either way, it makes me question why I write a blog almost everyday myself, and my response is simple, maybe what I know, or see, or hear, and ultimately write about, will be interesting to others out in the great big world.

        Unlike many other bloggers who write to impress, get attention, and be known I write for my own personal pleasure of sometimes just getting issues off my chest, that may be bugging me. I know it is not the way blogging is supposed to go, its supposed to be for personal issues, or news reports, or important issues everyone wants to read about. I can’t guarantee that each day nor do I intend to.

       I write on issues that disturb me at times, or those that make me cry, or laugh, or make me think what the hell is wrong with the world. I have taken on many issues and responded to many things in the world, from wars, to violence, to medical and government issues and investigations too. I have faced issues of Attention Deficit Disorder, Hyper-Activity, and the combination of both. I have faced depression, Post Tramatic Stress Disorder and yes even Cancer and written about it all. I went into politics and Republicans making asses out of themselves, Democrats not reacting properly or at all and more. Issues are so easy to find if you watch the news, the world and the way life goes. I wrote and write poetry, short stories, historical events, of deaths and conspiracies and lots more. I try to honor those who die unexpected and honor those who accomplish great things.

        I have debated the debates of those running for President many times over, The Republicans who want the office yet refuse to compromise currently. I have one more thing to say to the four remaining Republicans that may or may not make sense to many. Wake up, you can’t win the White House by destroying each other, pulling each other down and exposing each others weaknesses to the world and your upcoming opponents. What makes you really think the right way to get your Parties Nomination to run for the Presidency, is by stomping, poking and exposing each others weak spots? Dumb, Dumb,Dumb!.

        As February 2012 slowly slips by, and we face a March with winds that blow and a politic big date for the Republicans, we need to stop and think, especially if you are a Republican Candidate, do we still want to keep running against one another and kill each others reputations and honor and dump on each others positions? The more you do it, the more ammunition you hand to  your opponents and to the American People, so they won’t vote for you!.

        Anyway, as you can tell by this little blog in the middle of millions, or possibly billions on the Internet, I get upset by people acting silly, stupid or selfish too In the end blogging works for me to get ideas, thoughts feelings, and more out about issues that affect me, whether in the newspapers, or online or radio or even Television. Each broadcast, article, report or story brings to mind, different thoughts, different feelings and in the end different responses, and that is important to let out.

       I have seen Presidents die,Singers, Songwriters, Writers, inventors, Politicians and more in my 56 years on this planet. Sadly, we can’t bring back the good ones to help us through life, nor can we wish away the world’s hurt, its pain or it’s poverty and wars. What we can do is openly discuss them and look for solutions that may save the World, Lives and keep humanity going.

Whitney’s Death


      Over my Lifetime I have seen and heard of many, many famous people dying, at different ages and times, from many different things. Car accidents,heart attacks,brain tumors, plane crashes and even in taxis, now hotel rooms come to mind also. Among these famous people who died from  causes non-related to drugs or alcohol, few remember them at all.

        We had singers and songwriters die, from Harry Chapin, Jim Croce, Frank Sinatra and more. But the death of Whitney Houston yesterday, reminds me of the death of Judy Garland long ago.

        The similarities are amazing because both had the same problems with alcohol and drugs and both left us way too young. Their voices will be heard for decades and lifetimes to come. Like angels of the night who shine bright, their voices rang and entered people’s hearts and lives in so many ways.

        Like Judy Garland, Whitney Houston had her theme song and sang it loud and clear and many times over. The two voices if combined probably could have opened the gates to heaven!. Sadly though, now all we have left are recordings of these voices of so many famous singers of my time on earth. Their recording brought great joy and happiness to millions if not billions World Wide.

         Sadly, the artists that die so young are also the ones so talented it is hard not to mourn their passing, even though we know, they did pass due to their own struggles with addictions they should have never started and could not control. The pressure to perform and stay on top is hard for anyone under such a spot light and beacon shinning on them. Yet some can do it forever like Tony Bennet, who said the world lost a professional and great singer in Whitney.

         As the news casts and more reverberate with news of what killed Whitney Houston and what caused her death is yet to be told, we have to remember, we did not live the life she did, nor did we feel the pressures, addictions and hurts that ate at her soul. Only, she did and no one else can say otherwise.

        As we all think back on Whitney Houston and her career and singing skills, I say what is maybe the Greatest Tribute to a  Great Singer, in her own sung words- IIIIIIIIIIIIII Willlllllllll Alwayssssssssssss oveeeeeeeeeeee Youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!.

 

Odds/ Ends/ History


      Things to do come to mind, each day I wake up and in pain I find, I can’t do this, nor can I do that, work has been over for me for over a decade, amazing isn’t when your only 56. The Naval injuries caught up to me at 46, after I served 16 years in the military, and the back and neck spinal injuries do slow me down. Then I have PTSD from childhood and military life, sleep apeana, and many minor things going on. So, the question really becomes how long does one go on living when so many things keep happening and your own body starts to fail you? No one can tell me anything that’s for sure, then we have the TIA, and a minor stroke that I had a few years back. Is fate beginning to tell me life is short?

        As a Disabled Veteran and one who enjoyed military life in three branches of service, I think did I do right in serving my country? I think I did, and because of it here we still sit, free and a republic and democracy thrives. I would never trade the United States for any other country as my homeland and I don’t think a normal thinking individual would either.

       That said, can someone please tell me what the hell is the deal with this election cycle and why the Republicans can’t make a choice? The Debates and Primaries will continue and the Republicans are still stupid enough to smash and tear each other down and no real clear front-runner comes forth, because of this circus they are running. If your going to bash and stomp on one another,not a one of you will ever beat Obama and The Democrats, you just keep giving him ammo to shoot ya down with in the General Election.

       We have had many subjects I have blogged about over the timeI have been doing this, but, none has been so stupid as recent news reports of an Affair between JFK and some girl in 1963. Americans are well aware of President Kennedy‘s ways when he was a President and years before that in the Navy and more. So why would some woman, come forward now, 50 years after the man is dead? Of course profits to sell her book, money is always the motivation and she claims it is to get it off her chest. She didn’t bother in 1963 to get him off her chest did she, even if he was the President and Married with children!. Sad fact isn’t it folks.

         Then we now have the found audio tapes, of what transpired the day Kennedy was shot in 1963. Tapes, that show he was to go to one hospital not the one he went to. No one answers the question of why that change was made that day, but it was. The Kennedy assassination after 50 years still drives theories, ideas, and points to facts, that it was a plot to kill him. Sadly the law and history can’t prove if the whole thing was a plan to kill him or not and if so what of Oswald, Ruby and others the fingers were pointed at? We shall never know, because our own Government doesn’t want us to know.

        Whether the assassination of our 35th President was a plot to overthrow the Government or not will never be known or released if it is known. The facts that get me is not the assassination itself, which I watched as a child on TV in school. but the history afterwards. Some questions come to mind for me always regarding it all.

         1) Did the failed Bay of Pigs have anything to do with it?

         2) Did the Mafia actually kill Kennedy?

          3) Who really was Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby?

         4) Why did Mafia Kingpins celebrate Kennedy’s death?

          5) Who the hell thought up the stupid single bullet theory anyway?

          But those are just a few simple questions, and believe me, I know my history and many things few realize regarding this assassination. What I don’t know is why the American Government would bury it all? No one will ever understand, because they won’t tell !.

       So as I close this blog today I think not only of Politics, not only of assassinations and history, I think of the past, the future and the search for truth! may we all get the truth one day, and may we live in peace!.

 

Thoughts of Life/ Sacrifices


      As we all know, none of us elected to be born, we were all brought to the planet by our parents if it was a natural thing that is, of course. We don’t ask for a lot, before we can, we accept what God, and our Parents grant us.

         We hope and pray for great childhoods so we can have great adulthoods and make lots of money and fortunes to make our lives easier and our loved ones too. It doesn’t always happen that way, but, it is what most wish for and work toward as we get older and have kids. We want our children to have more than we had and be happier than we were and it doesn’t always happen either, but we strive for it all.

        Long ago when I was a young child I dreamed of a life, filled with peace, love and hope and a family that really cared. Again it is not at all what I got, but, when you grow up you adapt to what you get and survive, don’t you?. Thats the part of life none of us can control.

       As we age and get older we go thru stages of puberty and sexual exploration and love and commitments and then have children of our own to care for.  Sometimes this works out for us and we have families that live in happiness and joy and get riches and fun. Then some of us, don’t get any of the good stuff and struggle through it all. It is an uneven balance, of things in the world that makes it go round.

      Some of us don’t get families like we wanted or dreamed of we see it all end in divorces for different reasons, so real, some false, some made up and some not. But, once a family is divided and pulled apart, can it ever come back together?.  Some do and most do not, the differences between the two parents are so great they are like opposite polls of a magnetic stream, who push each other further apart.

       As we grow older and older, we go on to have grandkids and wonder how they will show up and be proud and stand tall. We hope for the best for them and we love them just as much as we did our children too. In the end though it doesn’t always go the way you want and there are difficulties to life.

         I will always love my daughters, I have two by the way, each is unique and different in her own way. One is introspective and the other is a retrospective type. One is a introvert and the other an extrovert so to say. One is shy and quiet and hides, and the other is happy and gay and couldn’t hide if she wanted to. Funny how children turn out so different , isn’t it?.

        I wish as I think back, that I never lost the time and years I did with my daughters, the things I could have given them, the love and protection, the items I could have supplied them with the love, the laughter, the special moments. I didn’t take it from them, even though I blame myself, yet their mother blames me. The truth is not always easy kids, your mom came from one messed up family, and what happened to her is not my fault, nor is what she let you listen to and reinforced on you either. Yet I have done all I can think of to try to get to know each of you, I spent money, time, efforts, trips, gifts and calls, Wrote letters, and more telling you the truth of it all. So, I am now at my wit’s end, as to what to do next.

         When you get to fifty-six years old girls, you will feel, time pulling you closer to the ending, determined for you by God or your maker. You will then begin to look back once time slows down on you, and realize what your regrets really are and what you missed for reasons beyond your control. You will regret some decisions, and you will think twice about others and some just accept. In the end though you shall know why you did what you did and the reasons will be clear for you just as they were for me. Realizing ultimately, someone had to make the sacrifice so all could survive without destroying each other, so we ended up where we are today. I regret many things about the situation, but I do not regret preserving my mental health, and my daughters mental health too and giving us all a chance to move on and them to grow up. I did the right thing and will never, ever, say I didn’t.

       So to all out there, who get to the stage in life where I am now, we all review, look back and reflect on life as we age. I just hope your reflections, are clearer, nicer and turned out better than mine!.

Raising Hopes for Futures


      Home spun thoughts come to mind each day I wake up, as I remember back over my own childhood and think what was. No one’s childhood is one hundred percent perfect, and I don’t think it is meant to be. We all get taught lessons in different ways by our parents, siblings and friends and yes even enemies. We grow from these experiences and become who we are as adults. Each of us then take those past experiences and use them as a decision-making process to reflect back upon, to guide us forward.

       Some Doctors, scientist and professionals would say I am crazy on this point and I don’t know what I am talking about, but they are wrong too. There is no human survival instinct that makes us who we become, other than the instincts to stay alive and survive, No instinct exists to make us eat or we wouldn’t have eating disorders, no instinct exists to beat upon one another, that comes out of fear and pain you received in the past. These are just basic things, that I am talking about here.

        When you’re a baby, your only instinct is to continue to breathe and eat. As you grow you are then trained in what to say, how to speak, how to bathe, and clean yourself and then how to dress and take care of yourself and eat. All is a process we are taught, amazingly we turn into controlled human beings who can live in societies that currently exist in our world. Each nationality, culture and race, is what their own kind teaches them to be. So equality is there, but is at times restricted by teachings and that makes some more ignorant than others in certain areas and they still must be taught more.

       Each day across the globe we all call Mother Earth mankind destroys each other, the planet and it’s resources. The atmosphere is polluted, the waters too. Species die off and get killed for food, and wars happen and we kill one another. Why? Is it a balance system put into place by a God, or Mother Nature, or something else? We shall never know will we, but we all know it happens and exists in the world!.

        Mother nature controls the planet and around it all kinds of disasters happen daily, volcanos blow, rock slides, typhoons, earthquakes and more, tsunamis come along too. Anyone ever stop to think, the planet is trying to clean itself of infections and we may be a big one ourselves?

          Here is another view for you, stop and think before you say I am crazy ok, or, I make no sense. Clear your mind now, because like I said before about myself, sometimes my thoughts, don’t even make sense to myself, until I see them in writing.

       If you start at the microscopic levels on this planet,  one cell beings scramble to survive and on top of them are bigger more advanced beings, scrambling also. From the microscopic beings , we come to smaller insects, like ants, scurrying across the earth building ant hills and their little cities, and stomped upon by animals and mankind. Above the planet lies a Galaxy and a Universe and more and more is out there. Isn’t it amazing, how we all tend to have our own place in it all?. How does it all happen and occur in such a way, out there as well as here, in life?. Mankind is not destined to know these things or all the answers to them, but we are born with curiosity and keep searching for answers don’t we?.

      Human beings have reached far beyond our own planet in peaceful missions to the moon and other planets now, so why can’t we  all get along on the planet we live on?. Why can’t we compromise, decide together, and determine that humanity will survive longer if we all save the planet and  each other, by cooperating?  It is a  sad. sad thing, when decades after slavery is over, and Hitler is gone and more, we still see the ugly issues come up, isn’t it?. Why is there gay bashing, why is there race wars, and issues over the color of skins, or anything else?. Because we are taught once again, by those before us what we do today!. Parents need to teach their children, white,black, yellow, or any other race one big important factor, we all bleed, we all get sick, we all need love and want more of it!.  We all have emotions, feelings, and pain, but we are what we are taught, I come back to that again!.

        Go around the world and gather one person at birth on the same hour and minute if you can, one of each race, color, creed and nationality and put them in one place before they know anything at all. And teach all of them the exact same morals, ethics, values, and beliefs, and you know what, all will never care what color, they are, what religion they practice, what sexual preference they are. Societies create the values, the ethics, the morals and more that make us who we are, we don’t when we are young. So it is parenting, you are what your parents, your siblings, your family and your friends teach you to be, be careful what you teach your children now too.

       For yes people, the more we teach our children we all are equal and we all can get along the more it will happen in the world and here in America. The Hopes of Mankind and Civilization itself rests on the shoulders, the hearts and minds of the children of today. You want to make the world a better place for your children to live in, make it a peaceful one, by teaching equality no matter race, creed, nationality, or anything else.Raising Hopes for the Future, is Raising your children to all get along!.