01.31.03

Posted in Uncategorized at 8:40 am

Count down to departure. Somehow I feel as if I must take everything with me. I will have so much quality time with myself, I want to make sure that I’m not bored. Also this time I want to be compact and limit the amount of unnecessary things, basically, no unnecessary things, if possible. I’m buying a Japanese phrase book today. I never thought after the first time that we played there, that I would ever need one. With this being my 5th time going, I guess you could say that there is that possiblity that I might get over there again. Let’s see how different this experience will be with me attempting to communicate in the native tongue. And of course I will tell you all about it, when I return. We leave on Monday around (9:00am), Arriving in Osaka (5:00pm) on Tuesday. Long Flight. Well I’m off and running to get my phrase book, Sayonara!!!!!!

01.29.03

Posted in Uncategorized at 12:01 pm

This peace thing. What is it about the concept of peace that people don’t understand. Why would anyone be opposed to it? Why would anyone support it? Definition: A state of mutual harmony between people or groups, especially in personal relations.

If we go and kill “the others”, would we be any happier as individuals. I mean if you were miserable and hated your life before the attack on our soil, would you love your life and be happy if we are at war with people that are on the other side of the planet? Maybe? I guess we just need to inventory our own lives and determine whether or not it will make any difference to our personal happiness as to whether or not we should be fighting? That’s what it’s really all about, dig? Personal happiness. I mean you have to admit, I would find it hard put to meet people that do not have some type of personal agenda when it comes to this living of life. Why live if it meant not being with your family or sharing your joys with another human being or whatever living means to you. Should we be denied? Should “the others”?

01.28.03

Posted in Uncategorized at 8:21 am

A friend of mine and I was talking last night and the subject of real world and dreams came up. After a good night’s rest, I woke up with these thoughts. I figured it didn’t seem that weird to me, maybe it won’t seem weird to you either.

How does one reconcile the real world and the world of fantasy and dreams? When we start out as little one’s we are always making believin’ this and make believin that, but sadly as time moves forward somewhere along the way we modify our dreams until we reach a point where we no longer dream at all. No more make believe. There’s also those frightened, horrible opinions of well meaning family and friends telling you to grow up and get your head out of the clouds. I have one question to ask. Take a look at where they are right now and ask yourself, is this where I want to be as well. If the answer is, no way, then you better start dreaming again. I have and it’s great and the real world and the dream world are beginning to share some common ground.

01.27.03

Posted in Uncategorized at 8:48 am

I’ve been away and now I am back. What’s new? Well, we are off to Japan on February 4 til the 16th. We haven’t been there in a while. I didn’t realize how much I missed the culture until we were told that we had some dates there. For me it is very liberating to be in country where you don’t speak the language nor understand the symbols used as the written form. It forces me to pay closer attention to things. My awareness of the tone of peoples voices, the look in their eyes, the way they move their bodies, has to be in high gear or I’ll miss something. Whenever I return home from a trip like that, my surroundings stand out and I notice things that I’ve taken for granted. I’d like to leave you with a quote I received today that I thought was quite interesting enough to share.

“Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when his neck is out.” James Bryant Conant