Life is Oxymoronic

Life is Oxymoronic

 

How do you deal with your circumstances in life? How do you make it all come together and make sense in what happens and why it happens to you, my friend?

What is it that tells you to stay, to move or to turn around and how does that space inside your head keep you so clear on where you want to go?

How do we live with terror and how do we tell our love apart? What is real and what is disappointment and how do we say we care but the disillusion drives the others away.

I feel so strong yet I can sense the frailness in my bones as I walked a thousand miles to see my loving parents who passed away when I was but a young man not yet grown but old enough to know better and become a better son.

How do I thank the Lord for the silence in my head and keep my heart so strong as I know the consequences of doing anything wrong.

I can honestly say, the years have been kind but the last few years have been most difficult for me as it watched from afar and see so many shed their tears. I think of the church as a temple of tears but can also see it as a temple of fears.

Life is tough yet I have softened up to the point where I cry so easy whenever I see a kindness committed or a fire ball in the sky. I’ve seen the lunar eclipse a time or three and the sky darken around me just before it brought the light.

Not strong enough to fight, not weak enough to take flight, I stand my ground and pray you will be around when it’s my turn to go to the earth.

For being with you has made me strong and although my life has been difficult at best, I know I am weak,

For although I feel fine when I am alone, my head once laid down on my pillow of comforts, for one, cannot sleep or rest………….. until I know you are around.

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Grandparents - the Silver Years - Special things in Life

 

 

The days are filled with special sweet tasting seconds, they range from laughter all the way to tears. As grandparents we often wonder, where did all the time go, where are all the years? Looking back into the rearview mirror, we could see the reflections of those special things in life. Even if it was just a passing moment, the price we paid was worth the ride.

Getting old is really a bargain for many grandparents, for it gives them back some value in their lives as well as their social needs. The reason grandchildren and grandparents get along so well together is the fact they have more in common and less fear from each other than any other enemy around, for their relationship has no rivals and has no stress to be found.

To grandparents and grandkids, money is no object. I doesn’t know the true value as before. For the change in my pocket I give to them almost daily, has given me million dollars’ worth of pleasure and joy. We hug them tightly each night as they go to sleep, a watchful eye over them we keep. Inside they know grandma or grandpa will be there, just in case the boogey man gives them a scare.

Each of us as grandparents are little boys and little girls inside. The fact that we were once young and energetic we cannot hide. Because we were once a little one, we know how important it is to have some fun. Perfect love does not come so easy these days, as the morning sun burns off the dewy haze. A child needs a grandparent around, so in the end, a little more love can be found.

A house needs more than a television to babysit the kids. It needs a human being with sensory feelings to bring out the essentials that life has to offer each and every child around. A television cannot give the child what it really needs, which is unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor and most importantly, something special made to put in their mouths.

Like the cookie grandma makes or the popsicle grandpa bought from the ice cream man, who knows for sure when he rings the bell on his slow moving truck, the group will stand there on curb, with money in hand and give him his best luck.

There are rare misunderstandings, for we accept each other the way we are; without question or lecture, there are no efforts to change behaviors or change bad habits but rather our lives depend on mutual trust and respect to help each other through good times and bad, until they are grown and have their own children. We may disagree but never fight so the end result turns out mostly right.

Being a grandparent means you are all in – no conditional betting, no reserve to pull out when the stakes are too high and the tension is thick. You can use all the wisdom and all the love you have to bring about their uncertain feelings and bridge any generation preceding us with love and understanding that builds a mutual trusting foundation as you stack each day with another brick.

Grandparent know and understand that there is still some responsibility left and taking care of them the best they know, is still a job but that they can also always be friends. It is true, when they enter the door, the discipline flies out the window but there are limits and limits are clear as both grandparents and grandchildren work hard on learning to share.

Buying Chocolate for the Workplace -

Buying Chocolate for the Workplace

[A metaphor for hiring a new employee]

As many already know, chocolate is an amazing mood altering sweet-smelling substance that can be manipulated in many remarkable ways, but because it is special and remarkable, it must be handled and treated carefully as it is environmentally sensitive to changes in handling and temperature, and if care is not properly taken, it will melt ruining the texture and taste of the product risking a permanent damage to the purpose of choosing chocolate in the workplace.

The quality of the chocolate chosen for the workplace will be primarily determined how you desire your finished product to taste or be textured. Remember all chocolates are not equal and in general, there are strong correlations between quality and price. Your skills to choose good or a poorer quality of chocolate will be tested.

This is not to say you should always settle for the more expensive price but you must be aware that high quality chocolate with large amounts of the main ingredient, cocoa, will cost you more than inferior counterparts and should be a consideration in this process.

Selecting chocolate should primarily be a sensory experience. Use all five senses to determine the reality of the chocolate being appraised. This means that before you choose it or taste it, look at it closely and determine if that is the look you want. Do you want a glossy kind of chocolate with no blemishes or do you care whether or not the surface is scared, cloudy, or gray?

This is a sign the chocolate may not be fresh or old. Do not let that discourage you. Be patient, there are always reasons why it looks the way it does. Remember that looks can be deceiving and what may look old or not so glossy on the outside, the taste may be just right on the inside. What is most important to remember is that whether the chocolate is fresh or old, the quality you are looking for is the match to the chocolate’s environment.

You see, you have to pay attention to the environment as chocolate will pick up odors from its environment. So be aware, if the chocolate smells like coffee, tea or other aromatic foods or substances. It may have been contaminated by others rubbing their fingers all over the surface and although it may smell like chocolate, it may not taste like it. Good chocolate will smell strongly of chocolate. As you can well, imagine, this factor detracts from the chocolate looking fresh or new as it may be tainted inside.

When all is said and done, you have to make a decision which chocolate is the one you want and which is the best for the workplace. Trust your taste buds and go with your chocolate preference of your choice. The preference should be very personal and only you know what good taste is in the end.

There are two main rules for handling chocolate in the workplace. The first rule is to never ever let chocolate come into contact with people who are sour and who provide the heat for the workplace. The chocolate is sensitive to heat and melt ruining its intended use and flavor. Chocolate tastes the best when indirect heat is applied and applied at small intervals of time. This process is called tempering.

Tempering refers to a process of heating and cooling a substance which in this case is chocolate. Tempering may be applied to many substances, people or things. It is not difficult to temper something. It takes little practice and little skill but overall, with a steady hand, it can become second nature.

Caution is needed when tempering something is critical. When you apply heat or cold in excess you can make the substance brittle and break it. Not all chocolate needs to be tempered. Some are naturally sweet and do not need tampering with as it might ruin the texture or flavor. Chocolate comes in soft and hard products or texture and each has its own special purpose in the workplace.

Tempering can produce a stable, beautiful and appetizing candy if you treat it right. On the other hand, if you tamper with what is determined to be already great tasting, good flavored chocolate, you can ruin not only the texture but the perception as well. Keep the chocolate real if you want great results

The good thing about tempering chocolate is the fact you can do it without any special equipment or great deal of attention to detail. This makes working with chocolate so much easier and cost effective. The only drawback of tempering chocolate is sometimes, time and patience are in short supply and you might find yourself looking for a tempering shortcut.

Such a shortcut is sugar coating a substitute for chocolate but remember it is not really chocolate. It may look like chocolate and somewhat taste like chocolate but it has no real cacao and is artificially flavored. When you sugar coat something to make it look like chocolate, you can give it different flavors and make it in dark, milk, and white varieties. In all reality, its taste does not compare to the real chocolate.

 

My Country Tis of Thee - Tricked into thinking Doom

My Country Tis of Thee - Tricked into thinking Doom

April 8, 2015

 

Don’t you wonder sometimes what people are thinking when they see or hear what you wrote or said and that you are standing on the wrong side of the road? Is there a point that comes along somewhere along the line that makes you realize how screwed up they are for making you think you are the one who is doing the wrongful thinking? Don’t they realize it’s them who are on the wrong side of the road?

 

I know today, whether you live in South Carolina or North Dakota, there are people who refuse to accept or acknowledge that their thinking is wrong and that we are not doomed for an apocalypse or damnation and that if you follow history, this is just another phase of change our country endures as it struggles with the war on drugs, culture, aggression, religion and many more as it comes to us on the high density screen and carried by various major media networks, each telling their own version of the story and the basis for their truth.

 

Every day, we are told of the dangers caused by extremists around the globe. Each and every morning we wake up to an act or war or criminal passion that devours the Christian soul and the levels of understanding you acquire when you grow up and follow your beliefs and customs to please yourself and others quoting the Golden Rule but very rarely seeing it happening around your own little world.

 

We petition the destruction of fracking, we want to change the world in climate control and what we eat as our produce and cattle are genetically altered with hormones and substances created my man to make more food, but take in less in nutritional value and impose new limits on our health. We tout our politicians to protect us as they focus on protecting themselves first disregarding our Constitution and making laws that restrict and impede our God given rights and well-earned privileges with excessive taxes and punishments for acts allowed by God but denied by mankind.

 

We stand our ground to defend ourselves as the cultural mood shifts from decade to decade eroding the soul and breaking the hearts into pieces as families suffer and families divide under the social pressures that races splits and divides neighborhoods and pit cops versus law abiding citizens as the innocent children watch from afar, keeping their play guns out of sight.

 

Elders shake their heads as they look outside their houses from their obstructed view as they installed extra locks, and iron barred storm doors and windows  to separate what the air we breathe divides.  Our taxes are spent on foreign wars so the foreign oil can be secured and sold with profits on Wall Street as our refineries are filled with surplus oil and products, yet the price of a barrel stands steady on the rise.

 

My country tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of whom I sing, where have the churches gone, where are the peacemakers and when will our conscience return back to us as it was robbed one night when Congress passed the Patriot Act and took away our freedom to move from border to border without an ID card in our pockets.

 

Living from one decade to the next of being black or white has changed colors to red, and brown and many more. There are no barriers in race yet the bi-racial children feel the hate and resentment knocking on their doors.

They can see the fire in the eyes of those who want the perfect race, the abundance of hate-crimes and the intrusive manner government has set the rules to incarcerate every young man of color and either make them join the army, leave the country or become servitudes to the cause and powers in place no matter where they live.

 

Our country is not at a point of doom, there is no apocalypse and there is no end of the world sign on the street corners. We must all belief there is a God, a loving God, who will bring us back together as one and as we believe the word to be truth and the truth shall let you see the light of what has been spoken of for centuries and always come true.

 

Yes, we have endured wars, famines, hate riots and lynching of innocents and guilty as we are surrounded by terrorist carrying bombs and explosive materials from one country to another, blowing up planes in the sky and the local market between shopping malls and business trade centers.  We’re talking about acts of war and witness poverty around us as the poor remain poor and the rich get richer.

 

We can’t blame this on Islamic terrorists, although your Congress may want you to feel that way. They want you to focus your hate on foreign soil as our men and women toil the spoils of war for them and those who hired them in their pockets to make more bullets, guns and rockets for the sake of peace and keep the threat of war under control of those who have the power.

 

You must have guessed by now who are the handful of nut jobs out there, the “lone extremist” and wackos who are telling you the world is doomed. As they endorse the consecrated acts of burning our flag and stomping on our Bible, they falsely hail the banner of righteousness in the name of liberty and justice.

 

It isn’t just the KKK who are spewing hate and vitriol all around the world. Look around and you will see, it might just be the man or woman you elected to office or the kind neighbor who lives next door. You might not see there motive, their agenda to change the world. But what you know now should open your eyes and believe for yourself that the only doom there is lays silently inside your heart and silent it will remain until you become courageous enough to say it’s over, and that you won’t take this anymore as enough is enough

 

Take back your political clout and honor. Re-visit your power to vote and make it count. Don’t shed your responsibility to be honest and do what you know is in your heart.  Never mind the threats or fear that exists around you. Never mind these doubts or uncertainties you have and speak your mind. Do not paint yourself an apathetic loser and take back what you know was once yours or mine.

 

 

These wackos want you to surrender. They want you to quit and raise your hands up high and give them the power to unleash even more hate and wrathful pain through taxes and more constraints. With faith we can overcome every obstacle. Having faith has proven to erase the ability to discriminate if you believe in God and all men are created equal we must stand together and prepare for a long ended fight.

 

We have to challenge the bigotry, the generational cultural discrimination and the institutionalized level of fear. We can’t stop them all at once but by voting them out of office, one evil at a time, we can conform again to the Golden Rule and paint ourselves as modern day heroes or crusaders as we lift our righteousness sword to the heavens and pledge God Almighty a victorious fight.

I don’t have to wonder, who is wrong and who is right. None of these wackos will ever admit they were in the wrong as that proclamation will not come without a fight. This time it is not about color, this time it’s not about sexual orientation or the wealth in your pocket. It’s not about gaining “religious freedoms” as you have had them all the time.

 

This time it’s about thinking about tomorrow. This time it’s about our country who has suffered and this time it is about the control we have or forfeit if we give into the will of dominion. For it’s about dominions and not the matter of color, race, creed, belief or orientation. Cast aside those bible thumping thieves in the night who stole your very soul on the pulpit of hell when you gave them control.

 

This is about your God given right to raise your children.  Remember that believing in God is not a religion. It’s not about their satisfaction but what is important for yours. We have given the evil a license to discriminate and they have abused their welcome. They need to move along and either change direction or cast themselves in hell.

 

Take back our Ten Commandments; take back our nativity scene and praise our Lord’s Prayer out loud in our schools and public places. Don’t let them criticize you without impunity, don’t let the rule over you and call you a lesser man. What is their true intent is slowly showing. Their agenda has been flawed from beginning to the end.

 

Show your disgust for their license to discriminate. Show your disrespect for their cursing of your rights to co-exist in peace and harmony regardless who you choose to be with in your own house or table. Be careful how you define the agenda of conservatism – be aware of false prophets and the message they bear. We still have the First, the Second, the Third, the Fourth, the Fifth, the Sixth and many more Constitutional amendments to protect us. Don’t give them to the Devil and let them rule their evil might.

 

If you doubt what I said then ask yourself, “Why are they attacking the ones who call themselves real Christians?” what is it they fear from those who still believe in heaven above? Open your eyes and see how their claim to persecution, is really a ploy to defeat you and your principles by modern day hypocrites and those seeking more dominance from you as you have shown your heart belongs to the real God above refusing to give dominance to them as they strangle you economically, financially, and impose on you a burden, that should have never been blessed from above.