Redact

Sorry, I just didn't like this video anymore. Puppies rolling over can only be cute for so long before you just want them to get up and go away.

Virtue or Vice?

This picture came from the collection of Two Blocks Square yesterday and I just wanted to say... I am proud of this 40 year old body.

This may be vanity or pride, but that is the cross I bear.

Funny

If this funny doesn't make your day, then there may not be any hope for you today.

http://www.dump.com/2009/10/12/imposter/

Enjoy!!

Two Blocks Square

Feeling ill, but needing to get out of the house for even just the briefest of moments. So I am starting this "Two Blocks Square" series in order to document some of the neighborhoods here in Holland, or anywhere else in the world I find myself.

For those not familiar with the concept of a city "block", according to Wikipedia, it varies but there are usually 8 blocks to a mile (1609.344 meters), making a block 660 feet long (201.168 meters).

I prepare to leave my place, and then walk "two blocks square" and document what I find. This is just a little bit of the life around me, as I see it that day. Each day changes, which is why I chose my neighborhood first. I hope you enjoy.

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Latitude 52.07507	Longitude 4.28175

Real Life, In Training

Caren, Cathy, me and a little Seagram's 7....we have all learned to stick with the "soft" stuff, but that feeling....even back then....can't be ignored. I can just hold dear to my heart that I was that last one down....cause even then I knew how to hold my liquor.

Living with my Totem

I received this today from a new-found friend, one who has known me since my formative years. I can not even begin to do justice to these words by attempting to paraphrase them, so I offer them here, unedited, for your understanding...and my own remembrance.

"There are men too gentle too live among wolves. Who toss them like a lost and wounded dove. Such gentle men are lonely in a merchant's world unless they have a gentle one to love." James Kavanaugh

You came to mind immediately. Reading it over again. This is where my thoughts led me......

I sense two parts of you. The fierce side, and the gentle side. Contradictions with in the same soul. A lion and a lamb.
The Lamb, loving, calm...protective, satiated. The Lion. Fierce, longing, tearing at its own flesh. Self created pain in order gain growth and wisdom.

The Lion appears. Many, many women have tried to coax the Lamb back out. They are foolish, selfishly wanting your protective love. That is because it is a protective energy that is addictive. A love that wraps around you...
I think you may fight with this yourself at times. Especially while in a new relationship.

My intuition tells me that riding the wave....is better than fighting your nature. The Lion has his attributes. He has an intense fire. He seeks growth and wisdom. And after tearing at his own flesh he always sinks back and licks his own wounds...providing healing.

Accepting that part of you is very important.

Back in the Saddle Again....

Time changes little, regardless of geography.

I am home now after spending too many weeks away from the "real" world. It is nice to be away as much as it is nice to be home; sometimes a little more of one than the other.

I feel, at times, that these long trips of mine are designed less for my work efforts than my mental ones. It is as if I have six weeks to sort out things in my head; to focus on what is left behind after many weeks of a regular routine in my Netherlands life.

What I am left with is a sense of renewal and some trepidation. Returning to stacks of mail, problems to solve, some to create, and money to throw around seems to fill most of the few days back. It is ever so pleasant though to get the chance to escape it for at least one weekend before heading back into the fray. Now that Monday is upon me, I find that my time is spent unpacking and finding the energy to keep myself from bathing in gin and cigarettes.

I have returned a bit more determined to maintain my focus and motivation for all things good in my life. I am making plans for my coming holiday, which I will talk about more later.

Just wanted to let the internet mice know that I am back. I have given them a hiatus and have fed them their cheese. Time to get to work kids......