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Lossing a dear one

2007-06-26T03:52:00.000-07:00

Well I haven't writting much since the last time and decided to turn off allowing people to post because I felt that some were using it to post some stupid things.

I lost my father last November and haven't been the same since...

I was inspired by a dear friend to beging posting again and so here it is.

Life is odd how things turn out.

All I can say at this time is that I am extremely humbled by life lessons.

I sometimes wish I could speak to my dad - but in the end it is really a lonely journey as they say!

Fatih in Humanity

2006-08-24T14:42:00.000-07:00

I was wandering through the town of Montecito, CA near Santa Barbara, CA. I was haning out with a friend of mine and he asked me to pick 3 cheeses from this cheese and wine place. So I said sure. I walked to the store and walked in... there was a woman preparing sandwhiches... I had noticed that there was no credit card machines - at that time the owner of the store was walking about behind the cash as I asked the woman if they accepted credit cards or debit cards... and he said sorry we don't ...

I turend to walk out the door and at that moment the owner said come back here and get what you need - I don't want to see anyone go hungry. Wow I said to myself ... he is willing to let me get something without paying for it. "You can pay me later he said". I told him I am not from around here ... Not a problem "pay me whenever!"... well that is a rare thing... he asked me what kind of cheese he needed... I asked him for a slice of fontina. He weighed it and then was getting ready to charge me for my slab... when I said I need 2 more slabs - he thought about it for a moment and then just said sure, what else.

He ringed me up... and it came to $ 18.80. I left to go and see my friend - told him what happened and said I want to borry $ 20 dollars ... I went back to pay my debt early...

I walk into the shop and he looks at me and say your back already ... yes, I said and would like to pay my bill... so I had him my 20 he gives me change and as I am about to walk out the door he manages still be be generous with me and says - why don't you take this other slice as well ... as I probably will not be able to sell such a small piece ... generous and giving this person was ... the lesson to me was all about giving ... it will always come back to you in ways you never expect it... and most importantly - give without expecting anything in return .. I had an amazing day after that...

wow... imagine what our world would be like...

Net neutrality ! Save the Internet

2006-05-12T07:02:00.001-07:00

Net neutrality is important ... spread the word and get informed.

2006-04-25T14:00:00.000-07:00

Cool things are happening at Maczot today - SubEthaEdit is now for sale there! Great product...

http://maczot.com

The rose garden, the ducks and life

2006-04-24T21:30:00.000-07:00

Well this year I managed to go and help out at our local rose garden... and I must say I was happy to participate in a community type event... and now everytime I go for walks there it seems like it has been touched by some sort of magic...

But really what I tihnk we did was to help clean up the place for the 2 ducks who live there... last year I also noticed them... wow they just seem to come back in the spring... they seem so at peace in the rose garden... They are what make my visits there all that much more ...

Then again aren't we all looking for that much more in all that we experience in life ... a friend of mine asked me today how I felt and rather than say - fine... I said exactly how I felt ... I was nice to be present and know how I was feelling and move from there ... life is too short!

I am feeling very grateful for all that has happened in my life thus far - even if it has been sometimes painful to learn some of the lessons I have had to learn ... it has nonetheless been amazing to see where I am with my life... And what lies ahead...

I just felt like posting tonight ... I am always amazed at when you put yourself out there - like this - someone comes along and maybe a word or two will touch them... and in a sense I have smiled at them as strangers passing by.

Thanks for reading - take time to smell the roses - life is so very short.

me

MacZot is blasting off

2006-04-03T15:54:00.000-07:00

Cool things are happening at Maczot today - haven't posted in a while but if enough people blog it, then AppZapper 1.3 will be free! Not only that it is a really neat way to spread the word about great mac weekly specials... enjoy

http://maczot.com

A smiling face

2005-11-26T19:33:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I stopped off at an Indian restaurant and ordered some vegetable korma... yummm very tasty ... I was so hungry that I asked the lady if she could bring me some extra sauce ... she said yes but with a befuddled look in her eye... the kind of look you get when you are foreigner in another country ordering food that you don't know much about.

So she brings my a heaping dish of vegetable Korma ... rice and naan bread... Lovely I think.... this is lots of food...

Two minutes later she shows up with another dish full of yummy creamy korma sauce and vegetable goodies floating in it... I look at her confused ... I said I only ordered one dish ... she looks at me equally confused and says to me ... this is the extra sauce that you ordered ... hummmm™ I say ... alright.

But of course my eyes were bigger than my appetite... so I asked for a to go container... paid the bill and headed home...

As I get off the highway I notice a homeless person with a sign and a very sad look on his face... I think to myself - Here is a moment in life when you can think and do something ... not that big of a thing to do ... but still it is the act of acting spontaneously that makes all the difference in life... So I reached into the back seat grabbed the bag with the goods and asked him if he was hungry and he nodded affirmatively ... gave him the food and off I went...

Today I got off that same highway and as I drove past him he had the most amazing smile... it made my day... all because someone was just really generous ... and someone asked for something more...

Things like this never cease to amaze me.

As the saying goes ... never postpone joy...

Ciao everyone.

Dead Squirrel

2005-11-21T01:36:00.000-07:00

Hey this is not the best title ... but this is what I saw today on my walk... but what I was inspired to write about was not the fact that it was dead squirrel... and typically you see them as road kill - indistinguishable ... This on the other hand was the strangest of things ... it was laying there on the sidewalk so peaceful but gone... It looked like it had fallen from the tree above... Maybe it was tired and old and could no longer do those impressive jumps from limb to limb... And today was its last magnificent feat flying through the air with nothing to grasp but the air as it flew to the ground ...

I wonder what went through its mind/heart when it was falling ... do you think it was scared like we humans might be - Knowing that this represents our ultimate demise... or was it simply enjoying the fall... and be what has to be ... life and death just exist without anything other than the moment... but to me as the passer-by ... the moment for me was the look on it as it lay there peaceful and still...

I think that death is a precious gift ... I know this may sound weird but I was fortunate enough to be present when my grandfather died - it changed my life - having seen what happens and staying behind in this world I find it has left me with knowledge that I always refer to.

And today - maybe because the squirrel spirit was with me I thought to my self of the words that we might think of when we pass away ... like "What we leave behind" and for some reason - I kept thinking that it is not what we leave behind ... but "What leaves us behind" - can't describe why I think this way ... but for some strange reason this thought kept coming to me today.. so maybe one day it will be more clear why I thought that way today ... but just felt like sharing that...

And when I was by my grandfather's bedside and he was slipping away... I asked him if he could hear me and he all he could do was nod ... so he nodded... I told him not to be afraid ... because he was a gardener that he already know what life was all about ... "don't be afraid you are simply going back to where it all came from anyway... " and I kept holding his hand and slowly he just slipped away ... and at one point I knew he was gone...

I wonder what it is in life the makes me want to reflect on this --- maybe it is what leaves us behind that does this - I haven't figured any of it out yet... all I know is that he was an inspiration in my life and continues to be that.

Wondering .............

Saying Hello to People

2005-11-12T17:54:00.000-07:00

I must say Friday was a rather special day to say the least. I usually walk down to Arizmendi in the morning and grab a muffin or just even to go for a walk... But as I walked down the hill Friday morning I was going to experience something very different. I was walking down the hill and this person walking up greeted me with a firm "Good Morning" greeting... hummmm I thought to myself ... that was nice of him to say that ... well I keep walking down the hill and not too far from the bottom this other woman with a huge smile looks at me squarely in the eyes and says "Good Morning" ... I don't know these people and yet they are all greeting me this morning... I am now turning to look in the park on the left to see if there is some kind of friendly gathering of some sort... but none to be seen... This is something I want to do more of in my life. So I decided to do the same on the rest of my walk to Arizmendi ...

Passing it on... while I was in Arzmendi there was a woman next to me waiting for her drink and she started talking with me (maybe she also attended the event in the park !) ... anyway she was pointing out to me the headband that one of the workers in Arzmendi was wearing and then I say to the worker - as she was pouring my latte ... You konw I just had the strangest experience... 2 complete strangers came up to me and said good morning ... and she said to me that it should just be like that and that we should not consider it strange...

So lately I have been greeting more people who I don't know when I walk past them... I wonder what they are thinking when I do!

Wow its November!!

2005-11-09T06:57:00.000-07:00

Holy Cow where does the time go... we'll after I posted my post about "Have Filemaker - will travel" I got some interest from a philanthropist and we were going to connect over the phone but we haven't seemed to connect yet... So I should see about connecting with him again.

I am coming close to wrapping up Inspector a product for FileMaker Developers that will help them build better FileMaker solutions... Its been so much work - I can hardly believe it myself - but the final product will be amazing, and I am very proud of it.

One of the things I have also recently enjoyed very much is to hear from people who have benefited from my lynda.com training videos ... I asked them if they wanted me to do follow up titles but they seem to be content to sit in the creative space ... not sure why ... If some of the lynda.com fans feel so inclined ... you might want to send them an email in this regards or even an email to see if they might be interested in a FM 8 title... but at this point 8 is already out so who knows where that is heading ... One interesting connection I had was with a friend on someone I work with here. He came to see his friend and mentioned that he was learning about FileMaker on this web site called lynda..com and he was happy to meet me. It was great because I ended up finding out that he is a juggler and I got a juggling lesson. its fun! And also heard from another fan who has inspired me to post ...

So that proves my theory ... you need to put yourself out there ... the world does not come into your living room as I discovered once I gave up on watching TV and getting involved in the world and traveling ... it changed my live ... people change our lives ... which reminds me I need to plan some travel time for early next year.

One thing I would like to shar with you all is something I have been doing with some friends of mine. My friend has put together this web site where you log how many pushups you do every day... PushupCallenge Its great to see how people can be supportive and encouraging towards one another...

Hope you all have a wonderful day ... the rains have started here in bay area and it kind of like it ... good for sitting around a fireplace talking about life and other philosophical topics of the day ... have a great day ...

The smiles that make you wonder

2005-09-26T00:09:00.000-07:00

I am sitting here in a café and watching teachers grade exams for their students… as I take a break from a very draining work effort… I notice that one of these teaches has a desktop picture of kids from a third world of some kind… of course I am assuming that this is the case … but it very much like one of those pictures where all the kids have nothing but hope and smiles on their faces… the kind of thing where you can’t even image where they get it from considering the conditions that they live in… and it puts you in a totally different world of appreciation of sorts. The appreciation of what it is that is important to us in our lives… And so I am transported for this moment as I looked at that picture to a place where hope and joy fills the lives of these young kids…

And at the same time I am thinking of the pain and suffering of all the souls right now – people who have lost everything and having to start all over again and those who are the casualties of war … and everything seems so amplified – the pain the suffering.

The other feeling that comes over me tonight is one like in the scene of “Jesus of Montreal” – I remember watching that movie for the first time a few months back … watching it unravel slowly and just kind of watching and – then all of a sudden the movie takes this amazing turn –which hit me like a bug smashed on a windshield … and the scene at the end of the movie where he connects with everyone and their suffering. We are all so connected I hope we can pull together as people of this world in peace.

Then you have this moment of joy in the eyes of young kids – and just their joy has translated to overcoming the pain in the world for this moment - for me tonight … and I am also connected to the power of putting yourself out there… stepping out and sharing these thoughts with the world.

So I stand in my apartment in Oakland overlooking the skyline of Oakland tonight and feeling entirely grateful for all that I have been given in my life and wanting nothing more than to help make a difference in the world and connect with more people in the same spirit.

So I thank those kids for their smiles… hope and joy is contagious – smile when you feel like it – you never know who will be touched by your smile.

Have FileMaker will travel

2005-09-09T13:26:00.000-07:00

I have been thinking about putting together a website that lets people and organizations know that I am available to help them in any way I can - and with the skill set that I have. My interest is really threefold.

1) to get out there and help out
2) to meet new people - basically interact with more people.
3) to explore our world more

The first project I am seeing about getting some sponsorship with is this organization in South America - Medellín, Colombia called "Let the Children Live".

I would be willing to go down there and help Father Peter with his database needs - all I am looking for is a sponsor to help me with my travel and living expenses... I figure it might take about a month to help him with his needs.

I know this is informal but I am getting the ball going and hope to have some help with someone to help me coordinate - what places need my help and contacting sponsors, and all the logistics of it... I am a highly skilled FileMaker 7 certified developer.

If you would like to learn more about what Father Peter is doing you can find out more at this address.

letthechilidrenlive.org

Please contact me if you would like to help me if you would like to help

mailto: vince@fmnexus.com

Thanks

Vincenzo...

Hey Uncle Vinny

2005-08-13T05:25:00.000-07:00

Hey there... I became an uncle last night ...

My sister gave birth to a new baby boy ... he is so adorable and cute ... wow!

I was watching my mother and how reflective and emotional she was as well... it was beautiful to see.

I am also thrilled for my brother-in-law and for my sister. That she has decided to take this initiation into life.

I am so happy for them and also happy to be an uncle. hummmm™

I have also been very interested in doing some cool things - tackling some goals and such. Found a cool web site that helps with this process - 43things.com and there is a sister site called 43places.com. What I find has been really helpful is to enlist a group of friends to support you in your goals...

One goal that my friend Brian has invited me to was to do 10,000 pushups in 100 days. For a while I had gotten started and it was going well but... then I "fell off the wagon" (so to speak)... but what I learned was very valueable so I am very glad for the process and glad to report that I am back on track to completing my goal...

Cool Beans !

Ciao for now - as I am off to start attracting other goals ... I love life :) enjoy your day...

Vincenzo

Inspired

2005-06-22T09:57:00.000-07:00

Hello dear friends...

The change to summer has got me really thinking about what I want to do with my life - I mean what I really want to do with my life... I have some dear friends with whom I communicate with and who have been an endless source of inspiration ... and new and dear friends whom I have recently met who have also been a big source of support, love, guidance and caring for the things that really matter in ones life...

I was reading Steve Job's speech and realized that I have come to this conclusion over and over again ... and that is that we don't have enough real leaders in the world... and it is so rewarding to see that the real value of life is NOT in the achievement of lofty goals ... higher education, STATUS or some such things, but rather in the realization of who we really are ... and for most of us death can lead us to that understanding quickly ... as Jobs put it.

"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent."

I guess one of the most moving things about his speech is that he did not emphasize the achievement of getting somewhere but he emphasized the importance of Intuition and following your heart. He went on to say...

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."...

I wish I could have been in that room when this speech happened... it must have been amazing... I also have met some people in my life that have been very affected by people who really believed in what they were doing ... I met Lynne Twist last year - she felt to me - very authentic and sincere ... and all the work she has done and continues to do... She told the group I was with that she was deeply affected by a speech she heard Buckminster Fuller give once and it changed her life... I was talking with a friend not too long ago and this I feel is what we are missing in a sense... real leaders in this world ... and who knows maybe we are coming into that era of some of these people really becoming leaders that inspire. Interesting how when one who can be heard by so many people, when they say something ... all the attention goes to the object of what they are saying ... but really the beauty of it all is that it should be directed towards our inner growth and unravelling of what we really are ...

I feel like my life has led me to believe in the BELIEVE aspects of life - you know the things (and this part is hard for me to describe .. my words fall short of the expression inside... and as I like to say ...

"All deep understanding, knowledge, and awareness ... leads to silence"

So pardon me if I may fall silent at this point )... or as my friend Raam once said ...

"The seeking of highs leads to the knowing of real"...

But that we are so often moved by people who inspire but yet we fall short of being or living that inspiration ourselves..

I invite you today to challenge yourself to find that which inspires you and close your eyes for a moment... take a verrrrrrrryyyyyyyyy long deep breath... and touch that which truly inspires yoU.

I feel that is what I am on a quest for in my life ... to share deep meaning, lasting value, awareness and growth in our lives. And of course to make a difference in this world.... To allow us to flourish, grow and know what it is that we are meant to do in this world that legacy thing!!!.

I thank you for taking the time out of your day to read this and maybe you'll feel inspired - as well to make meaningful changes...

Breathing deeply and just being ME ... and what possibilities might come from this fertile ground. And being grateful for this life and opportunity to realize more of what our true potential might be...

Bowing in honor of life - Vincenzo

Blogging Party

2005-04-16T21:28:00.000-07:00

Well I haven't blogged in such a long long time... wow... I was invited to this party where people are over and they are blogging and just talking and haning out.

Yes I like California... great people, great food, good times... and so mujch more

UC Berkeley had an open house today and I say a car that did something like 1200 miles to one gallon... not very comfortable to ride - but heck it sure would save a great deal of moeny in gas ... especially at these prices these days $ 3.00 per gallon. Wow - but hey in Europe people paid prices like this for the longest time.

Wow that car could take me back to visit my folks in Montreal for under 20 $... hummm

Where are they

2004-12-29T01:19:00.000-07:00

Now living in California ... I was thinking to myself the other day that this is the land of earthquakes - who knows what could happen. I have never experienced an earthquake so I have no idea what it must be like. And even worse what it must be like to experience the wrath of what a powerful wall of water can do as we have been experiencing with what people are experiencing right now in the world Where are they

I guess with anything like this the only way we can start to make a difference in the world is by tuning into what it must feel like to be the other person... so I thought to myself, what it would be like for me... if I came home one night and many of my friends and family were simply gone missing. No way to contact them. I am thinking it might be total panic for me... but I can't know for sure other than the imagined idea of it...

I just watched bowling for Columbine... and there was one scene in the movie where all the reporters are lined up in some parking lot covering the story of where a small girl was killed by a small boy with a gun. As Michael Moore was commenting that they were removed from what had happened and that the reporters had not talked to some of the people in the town. How odd it all is... this sense of dissociation from our human connection - how we have turned insensitive to things. Imagine it was my best friend... would I not want to console the family and see what I could do to help. Even though I don't know these people, who are suffering such great loss - they still are my brother and my sister.

So I got to thinking ... one earthquake strikes and so many thousands of people die... do we retaliate with our armies to Mother nature and fight it... we live with our loss for as long as we need to... and then we move on in life...

It got me thinking ... what if the planes that hit the world trade center were some strange act of mother nature... we live with our loss for as long as we would need to and move on in life because there is nothing more we can do...other than be in the present moment. What if the trillions of dollars, that are spent to defend us, were instead spent on solving hunger, aids, and poverty around the world .... What kind of a world would it be today ?

What kind of world do I want to make ... one where I can be an example of what it can be like for an ordinary person to start speaking out for what they believe to be the things that are important. After all this is the land of the free speech...

I am not moved to help these people who have suffered such great losses, by the poverty of these people, but rather by my interest in seeing that I can take responsibility for the way I act in this world and in taking this responsibility I choose to seek out some method in which I can also lend a helping hand to my brothers and sisters of this planet - because they are in need...

I feel like I have never been involved in life as much as I feel I want to more and more...

Thank for listening... and thanks for showing up in your way in life. To act as a living example for our future generations, and to see that we can live together and help one another.

In peace and in silence I am thinking of the suffering of those people and sending my donation hoping that every little bit can help... please forward this to anyone you think might inspired by this...

In Fahrenheit 911 the last words that flashed up on the screen from Michael Moore's documentary were "Do something".

Look online for ways that you can help our brothers and sisters who have suffered such great losses.

Arrived in California

2004-12-23T06:42:00.000-07:00

Well I am here in California and have already met some interesting people. Went to a dinner the other night at a community housing project. It was like being in the little village of Lord of the rings. It is nice to meet so many new people and who are doing things to make a difference. I noticed a bumper sticker before I left that pointed to New Dream . Another one that I liked was More Fun - Less Stuff. Certainly moving puts us in direct contact with the amount of good that we carry around with us. It felt good to shed some of that weight.

I also got to drive my motorcycle here in the bay area... wow one has to be really focused here on these highways... people changing lanes thing move very quickly.

I look forward to saving up some money and being able to actually afford a home again... haven't checked the prices lately but I am sure they are no where close to Phoenix prices.

But I do have a plan and working aggressively to move in these new directions so stay tuned for some exciting things.

Thanks for reading... Oh yeah - I love the fog in the bay area ... is it so magical here... even in Ojai when I was there last week ... wow - ok signing off for now...

Saving the world with FileMaker Pro

2004-11-05T13:05:00.000-07:00

Seems like a super-hero movie or some magnificent adventure of sorts... but no it is only Joel Bowers who is doing his part for saving the world. I have known Joel Bowers for the longest time ... he is one of the founders of the FileMaker community connecting and encouraging people along the way. I think he deserves one of the awards for just being so helpful and consistent with the community. I figured I would use the title from his blog to catch a little attention about this.

Joel Bowers is one of those people in life that helps everyone and everyone knows him. I am so grateful to have known him as he has offered me advice and inspiration. And I am glad to see that he is doing his part to save the world with FileMaker Pro.

Have we grown up yet?

2004-11-01T11:54:00.000-07:00

I don't listen to the news much but the other day I was overhearing the news and heard someone say something about Yasser Arafat. How sick he was and that they had to rush him to a hospital. Like I said I don't follow the news much, so that said - Yasser Arafat might be to Palestine what the late Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau was to Canada. He may be a very influential leader there. But come on guys don't you all see that this is such a game... I mean on the news it said something like ok we'll let that plane with Arafat go through so that he can get proper medical attention...

I don't konw you but when I was a child and we played games in the street we had what we would call "Time Outs". So that we could drink something or go inside and get a bite to eat and then get back to our play war or whatever it was that we were doing with our lives.

I would hope that these people would grow up ... you woudl think and they could realize the stupidity in all of this... Hey guys ok stop killing each other so that we can let Araft go and get getter so that he can come back and play this stupid war game and continue the fighting. So pardon me about this but I think it is rather childish behavior... and its about time that someone there grows up and says ok lets become mature adults and put our guns down and lets make a better world to live in... grrrrrrrrrrrrr.

It's all about people!

2004-10-16T08:05:00.000-07:00

I find this blogging thing to be quite cool actually... Thank you for reading.

When I was first getting started as a computer trainer consultant in Montreal - After things were slowing down with a manufacturing company that I was operating called "Zenyatta" - a story for another day. But as things would be seasonal with it, I decided to venture off and do some teaching. I was becoming quite popular amongst my acquaintances, as I had successfully implemented technology in my company. I would teach at a local college... Collège de Maisonneuve things like FileMaker, Word, and Excel. I loved teaching and sharing with people - very grateful for that opportunity.

Then one day a person whom I was doing some consulting for at a Travel Agency asked me if I would teach his dad. I said sure. So I show up at the home of this person ... He lived in one of those very expensive condominiums in a beautiful area of Montreal. It was interesting in that we spoke for a while before we got started. In the end I don't really remember doing much teaching. He was mostly telling me about his live and experiences of being in business. Almost like the kind of thing you see in a movie.

He told me that he also had a company in his days that provided (and I forget what it was that he provided - but that is of lesser consequence) some service or product. His son was very young and was working with his father on this. One day they had a client request a bid. They also had competitors in their line of business, and were familiar with their offering. His father drew up the proposal and showed it to his son. His son said this was way more than what the competitors would offer their services at and that he was sure that they would not gain the business.

Nonetheless his father was confident and told his son that in life it was not about the things, or if it is cheaper, or faster... but that important thing to remember is that it is all about the PEOPLE... the connections we make with others... how we treat them. I am a big believer of this and have been very grateful to have been able to learn some valuable lessons both in my personal life as well as in my professional life... that man on that day sparked a way of seeing things for me that have stayed with me since that time.

I find especially in this day and age that - where it can be so easy to just buy something without much human contact, that it becomes more important that we really pay attention to the people around us. Not only does it enrich our lives, and the lives of those that we server in our daily connections with them... but it also makes for an interesting journey.

I'll leave you with one my favorite quotes lately - and I hope I have it right... this is something I heard Cheri Huber (zen teacher) say at one point... "The way you do anything, is the way you do everything"...

Have a great day ... and I thank you very much for stopping by and reading my blog... feel free to drop me a line.

Cioa.

What for!

2004-10-12T07:01:00.000-07:00

Our natural tendency is to read things. If we see a sign we read it, its almost impossible not to read something that is in front of us. So as I drive my car around I come across many different signs and sometimes bummper stickers. I think many of have seen the political bummper stickers. Sometimes there are those about my child is on the honor roll. Some are about not getting too close.. and when you read them you realize you are too close.

Others are like a sense of turf, so that people can know who they are messging with You get the idea of what kind of person is behind the wheel. They are statements that allow us a brief glimpse into their world. Then there are ones that tell us that angels are driving the car in front, or that there some environmental cause to watch out for. Yes I know its a free speech country, and I am grateful for this. But my all time favorite one is "Is the cab you are in 'Insured', we are!" Ok, now tell me how does that help me any. Ummm, its a bummper sticker! Ok. When was the last time I took a cab and said to the driver are you insured? If not then I'll wait for a cab that is? Why a bummer sticker... Just so the world can know? To me this is like noise pollution. Its like that song that won't get out of your head. Grrrrr.

Today is a very specail day

2004-10-04T11:01:00.000-07:00

Today this flight into space is history that we have witnessed... wow

And at the same time mirrored by what is going on in the world it is amazing.

New Beginings

2004-10-01T10:36:00.000-07:00

It has been a wonderful learning experience... Not sure what the next steps are going to be for me, but I am confident that I will find the right path.