SILENT LAUGHTER

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You know the kind of times in your life you hope others don't see? We all have them they seem to creep into our days like sun shine on a so and so day. You know what I mean like walking through a parking lot and you know the speed bumps are there but you trip over it anyway! Oh yea we hope no one see us but ya know there are too many pares of eyes pointed our way! Why do we sweat it why so we worry or care we all are acceptable to these useless cares. Why don't we embrace them and use them to laugh we can all use some more laughter in our days as fast as they fly by. I love it when I'm just thinking of a small bit of time in the past and think of some small thing and it give me a good laugh. We aren't perfect I guess we all can say doesn't that make your day? If you can make someone laugh in fraction of there day it should be enough to make us fell our day had some meaning. So when those tiny little moments that creep by us in a fraction of our day can set off the sound of silent laughter. Don't be selfish share your little bright shining moments to let it shine on others for a moment of time. I love those small moments I can look back on that I shared with friends and loved ones they are the substance that build a smile!

OUR VETERANS

VETERANS

 

As we all know there is a lot of talk of our veterans in the news and the care they are receiving on return to the United States after being wounded. I worked for many years right next to the Veterans Hospital in Long Beach California and I had first hand experience with the veterans who came to the store where I worked. There were many Vietnam veterans who stayed near the hospital who I would talk to often. Many never received the counseling or help they truly needed. They stayed wateing for the medicine they needed and had come to depended to cope with the unseen wounds they carried in there harts. Then the time came for big cut backs there at the facility. These men stayed anywhere they could find some time in the bushes or at the beaches where ever they weren't run out of sometimes under the under passes of the freeways. Most were addicted to there meds and alcohol and were always looking for a hand out. People just didn't want to deal with these men or they wanted them to be invisible to say the least. I was always handing out cigarette's the least I could do for them. I would not give them money they would just use it to get a forty ounce beer but would give them food at times. It saddened me to see them so lost. There were so many and they were our men who gave up there lives for our country when they were so young. I remember how some who were in the hospital would come over to shop some could walk some in wheel chairs one was on a bed that was motorized. One day a customer took a hateful disliking to the man on the bed and the fact that some had bags for there yearn and complained to the store management. Soon after that the men were told they could no longer come to the store as it upset customers. I couldn't believe how small minded we as a county we can be! How could this be? How can we as a people forget what these people did for our country for US? We just didn't like to look at the results of war or we just didn't give a dam! I can say that the hospital was a good one then the cut backs staff were just let go but they were truly needed. We need to care for our brave men and women who serve our country with courage bravely sacrificing for freedom where ever they are sent. We may not like wars or the aftermath, but we must care for our vets. Every person who serves deserves our gratitude our respect. This is nothing new to the aftermath of war but it must be corrected. I greave for every life lost for every wounded person who returns, and when do we as a people decided to quit caring? When did we decide to take God out of the mix? Maybe it is time to put God back in and then maybe we will have the right hart to care once aging. This isn't new news it the same old store out of sight out of mind out of our harts of shame.

flying

Flying

I hate to fly any more with all the hassles! To all my friends who know me I will fly but ya know my arms get tired! All right just kidding OK.
I know I am not the only one who hates to fly but I must be brave. I have to go to New Jersey to help my niece she has to have further treatment for the cancer they removed from her thyroid they though they had removed it all but now they have to give her some med. and she won't be able to be around her little boy for a week so off I go. I don't mind helping her she is such a great young woman. Her husband is in the Air Force there in New Jersey and they welcome a lot of other young men who don;t have family there in New Jersey into there home for all holiday's. She is a real good southern girl and cooks like a southerner so all of the young men who go for a great meal just love her to bits.
Wish me luck on my travels keep me in your thoughts. I'll fell ya all in on my return.

FELLING WITHIN

WITHIN

WHO IS THAT MAN OVER THERE? DO I KNOW HIM SHOULD I WORRY SHOULD I REALLY CARE? SUCH A STRANGE FELLING I CAN'T EXPLAIN. I FELL HIS SOLE GO THROUGH ME RIGHT THROUGH ME SO STRANGE.
HOW CAN IT BE THAT SOMEONE CAN MOVE THROUGH YOU SO STRANGE A FELLING? HOW CAN I FELL THIS HOW CAN I EXPLAIN? IT'S AS IF SOMEONE HAS MOVED RIGHT THROUGH MY BEING MY LIFE SO STRANGE SO ALIVE. HAS HE COME TO STAY?
IT'S LIKE A SOFT WHISPER FROM WITHIN. I DON'T UNDERSTAND I CAN'T EXPLAIN. IT'S LIKE THE SOUND OF A DISTANT TRAIN ON A LONELY RAINY EVENING SO SOFT SO STRANGE. IT SOUNDS SO GENTLE BUT YOU KNOW IT IS POWERFUL SOLID MOVING THROUGH THE NIGHT.
WHAT IS THIS FELLING? I JUST CAN'T EXPLAIN. WHAT IS THIS FELLING MOVING WITHIN THROUGH ME I JUST CAN'T EXPLAIN? OH WHAT A FELLING OF EXCITEMENT AND FEAR AS THOUGH IT IS SAYING BE CAREFUL MY DEAR.
SHOULD I RUN WITH THIS FELLING OF FEAR? SHOULD I LET THIS STRANGER IN OR RUN FROM HIM WITH THIS FELLING OF FEAR? I FELL AS THEO. SOMEONE IS WHISPERING IN MY EAR THERE IS NO RUNNING NO ESCAPE FROM FATE BECAUSE IT WILL OUT WAIT YOU HE WILL STILL BE HERE WAITING MY DEAR. NO RUNNING NO WAY OUT BECAUSE FATE WILL WAIT.
SHOULD I RESIST OR SHOULD I GIVE IN? I FELL LIKE A SMALL TREE BINDING IN THE WIND. I WILL BE SURE OF MYSELF BY THE TIME THE FELLING COMES TO AN END. I WILL BE STRONG I WILL BE SURE I WILL MOST SURELY LET THIS FELLING INTO MY HART. IT MOVES THROUGH ME IT IS WITHIN.