Is your 'question/statement' about me?

Getting into the mechanics of relationships ...

When we talk to each other, we often stop listening when self-defense mechanisms get involved. "Is this about me?" is a freezing question that stops our ability to communicate with each other on a foundational level. It is often never voiced, just felt.

Our past training ... generational curses, some people call it ... gets in the way of listening. It inhibits our continued growth to share and be intimate with the people we love. Self-defense attitudes become engaged, and we rely on what we know best. After all, that is why most of us do what we do ... our training.

Hearing the squeals of reality, enhanced by the whine of the actual motor and engine working versus what we think is going to be said ... the summations of our mind's estimation and expectation ... they engage thoughts that demands an answer from our training. It's an answer few of us are willing to follow through to the convictions demanded ... yet, we talk and fight the good fight. I know I do/did.

The growth of maturity and wisdom comes from our experiences. Our training is our strength and weakness ... I just hope I stay out of my way so the beauty that I have in me can come out to be shared. I hope the same for you.

Killing us softly with this song ... with apologies to Roberta Flack and Lauryn Hill

I heard we sang a good song ...

Mysteries of past and present keep confusion as our hand maiden.

Eat drink and be merry ... or, is it buried? The slogan has been, "Just say NO; don't do drugs." Yet, as evidenced by the obesity of our country and the number of emergency room visits to the hospital for gastro-intestinal problems, food makers (both corporate and personal) continue to pour white sugar and white flour into our foods, our stomachs ... hmm, with all the fiber being removed from our food, what is left of the sugar and flour basically acts as harmful as drugs to our systems. The ability to transform the nutrients is removed ... so we eat food that is going to stay in our bodies, transforming into fat and disease. We are eating for pleasure, not for nutrition.

Killing us softly with this song, letting our whole lives get wasted ...

A high school student found her disease (Crohn's) that numerous health care practitioners missed (8 years) ... yet, a national public health care program is being clamored for by most! Is our society dysfunctional, at best?

Telling my whole life with empty words ...

What am I missing? There is so much beauty in life. There is so much to see and do. There is also so much information being left on the table. I don't agree with government being the best governance of morality; yet, attacks on people who point out the wrongs on both sides are chastised for being condescending (see Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post on President Obama, 6/12/2009) and fosters vitriol and blindness to people who, as citizens, don't take the time to fulfill their civic or spiritual responsibilities. We are too busy, we have to make a living, we are to angry ...

I heard he had a style ...

This is what we leave our children, and their children?

Hermeneutics of our current state of events leaves beauty and truth at the doorstep, not invited in. If it goes against our training, we discard the information as meaningless, or irrelevant. Our mistakes will be visited upon the rest of our lives, as well as our children's lives, and their children's lives. Letting beauty reign in the soul has produced some of the most powerful truths and actions in history. Love of faith, of fellow man, of spouse, of children ... governments, medicine, science, art have all gained powerful successes when truth and beauty are at the core of how we choose to look at life. If we fail, as citizens, to recognize this ...

Killing me softly with this song ... wasting my whole life with these words ... killing us softly with this song ...

I hope U sing and dance today!

Living life well ... YHWH has given us options to serve Him.

I hope you sing and dance to our Creator today. So many are grumbling and complaining. We R a selfish people ... we don't sing to the LORD unless we are focused on Him. We sing to ourselves ... we R a selfish people ... sing to the LORD a new song! His power and presence can lift us out of our way, if we but let Him.

When I was young, I was bulletproof! Insecure, but bulletproof! I heard so many old people talk about wasting youth ... it gave me great insight, though, into or about people when I finally realized the validity of that statement! I realize this is a gift YHWH blessed me with. People are captive to the mistakes they make because it forges their present and future. Mistakes come from our upbringing; since no one knows it all, we will follow the mistakes we are taught. I've come to realize that is why children pay for the sins of their parents; it is the damaged way we look at life! Don't blame the parents, they were damaged as well by their parents (and so on and so on).

Singing and dancing to the LORD gives us grace and mercy in our lives, and that is the changing elements of being captive to our mistakes. We can take advantage of it if we have a humble heart ... that is the hardest part of life, I surmise. Talk, talk, talk ... we live with what we believe. We believe that bad things shouldn't happen to good people and blame God, or think there is no God. We are a foolish people. Angels must shake their heads at us, but they know and see God, so they trust in what they know and realize He has a plan, and it will all be good.

Life is a battle of good versus evil. People should realize this is why bad things happen to good people. Good has won, though. This is cause to sing and dance today!

Joining Twitter and the social network revolution

I am a child of faith, a photographer that sees life in images and words. The last 51 years have prepared me for change being a constant ... yet Twitter, Facebook, flickr have altered the way I now look at the world. So many people are left behind with the rapid advances technology is bringing.

It is awesome that there are so many people and tools to help with all these changes. The wave of the future is already here, and the changes are continuing to emerge. I can now take images that would have cost me a small fortune 5 years ago, and make them available for anyone to see. It has cost me the way I use to do things, and that is now the biggest challenge to address.

Life has begun anew, and what tomorrow brings is going to be interesting, but I am not worried. I know who holds the future, and I trust that He will provide the ways to stay rooted and grounded in love, honor and the ability to serve others. That is the joy that I look forward to sharing, and it is this very change that allows me to move forward.

Thanks to one and all who share their knowledge, love and support. The future is terrible, yet exciting, contentious yet filled with love and power.