"Don't worry about what the world wants from you,
worry about what makes you come more alive.
Because what the world really needs are people
who are more alive."
Lawrence Le Shan
Today is the day that you can change your world.
Yes you may not be able to change the whole world
today , but you can change your world. How can you
make a difference? What can you do today to make
you happy or someone in your life happy? Can you
change just one thing in your life to make you
feel more alive? Can you change one idea in your
mind and make a change visibly that will make
someone in your world happier? We have this much
control of our lives to do these things, we just
fail to take the opportunity to do so. Look at
your life this week. Think of one thing you can
do that will make a difference in someone's life
around you. Don't do it for me. Do it for the
people around you that you love and who love you.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Changes in our Life
Reading a book by Gail Sheeny some years back
I discovered a fact about myself that I did
not know. Life Changes. It amazes me how
accurate this author was about my life. I am
sure that the book was not written for me ,
however she hit the nail on the head. Each ten
years of our lives seem to change. We go through
changes, sometimes unbeknownst to even ourselves.
Changes in looks for sure, but also changes in our
personality and how we look at life. Changes in
how we handle our everyday problems, changes in how
we view other people's views , or other people's
method of handling their own problems. We seem to
find fault with others more readily or maybe we
just grow more impatient as we grow older. I have
seen my older parents take more interest in their
grandchildren maybe because they had more free time
to appreciate children than they did years ago. I
have noticed myself looking at my life and people
around me and their lives and how we are changing.
As you grow older life becomes both more difficult
and more enjoyable. You have a better understanding
of life and sometimes when you realize this part of
your life is almost over. It is too late to change
or sometimes too late to make a difference. Start
taking a look at your life. Start trying to understand
what your life means. Try to understand how your lot
in life affects other people around you. You may want
to change some aspects of your life to make other people
around you happier. Then again you may not. Change is there
for the taking. Only you can change your life. If you are
happy and your life is full then maybe you have realized the
change somewhere in your past time of life and you are
already at peace. You are lucky. People live a lifetime of
unhappiness and never find peace. The sad part is they never
figure out that only they can make a change in their life to
make their life happier. Thus making everyone around them
happier and bringing peace to everyone in their life. Change
is good. Changes in our life pattern is good. Change for the
better is always good. Look at your life. Do you need a change?
I discovered a fact about myself that I did
not know. Life Changes. It amazes me how
accurate this author was about my life. I am
sure that the book was not written for me ,
however she hit the nail on the head. Each ten
years of our lives seem to change. We go through
changes, sometimes unbeknownst to even ourselves.
Changes in looks for sure, but also changes in our
personality and how we look at life. Changes in
how we handle our everyday problems, changes in how
we view other people's views , or other people's
method of handling their own problems. We seem to
find fault with others more readily or maybe we
just grow more impatient as we grow older. I have
seen my older parents take more interest in their
grandchildren maybe because they had more free time
to appreciate children than they did years ago. I
have noticed myself looking at my life and people
around me and their lives and how we are changing.
As you grow older life becomes both more difficult
and more enjoyable. You have a better understanding
of life and sometimes when you realize this part of
your life is almost over. It is too late to change
or sometimes too late to make a difference. Start
taking a look at your life. Start trying to understand
what your life means. Try to understand how your lot
in life affects other people around you. You may want
to change some aspects of your life to make other people
around you happier. Then again you may not. Change is there
for the taking. Only you can change your life. If you are
happy and your life is full then maybe you have realized the
change somewhere in your past time of life and you are
already at peace. You are lucky. People live a lifetime of
unhappiness and never find peace. The sad part is they never
figure out that only they can make a change in their life to
make their life happier. Thus making everyone around them
happier and bringing peace to everyone in their life. Change
is good. Changes in our life pattern is good. Change for the
better is always good. Look at your life. Do you need a change?
Friday, December 19, 2008
A Tribute to John Lennon
GIVE ME SOME TRUTH - WRITTEN BY LARRY W. OLDHAM c2007
A letter from John Lennon on the other side.
Stuck in a parallel world waiting to be received in Heaven
or Hell.
You might say I am in limbo. While waiting for my number
to be announced, let's talk. Talking has always been my
forte' and I am not one to keep my opinion to myself.
What is death like you ask?
I don't know. I was walking back to my apartment in the
Dakota's in New York and now I am here. I know I must be
dead, because I am not with me family daily. I have no
set routine.
I am just here. It was night time and it was dark. Now
it is dark all the time.
I have no memory of how I died or if I died. I constantly
question this and roll it over in my mind asking myself what
and why.
I would hate to think that I was killed by a looney with
a pop gun in New York City. I would be just another statistic.
Another bloke shot in the city replaced the next day
by the news of some other bloke shot up. I have no recall
of what happened that night, but I totally remember me own
life.
The good, the bad, and the ugly. I remember the turmoil of
searching for Peace. I remember finding personal peace,
but World Peace seemed to elude me constantly and I
don't ever remember the World Peace issue being resolved.
I hope I am wrong. I hope that total peace surrounds the
world and that some of the work that me and my mates did
helped to create a peaceful setting.
Let's talk about death. Death view...Life View. You might
have read some of the books that I wrote before I ...I...
what? Died? Escaped? left the world? I don't even know the
correct answer myself. I really don't even know where
I am right now. You are here. I am here. So what's next?
What is left for you in your life? What words of wisdom
could I bestow upon you to make you happy or give you hope,
or make you understand where I was coming from, or where
I am coming from now?
What else could I have done? Why does it matter? Why does
what I had to say matter to you? I gave you truth. Can my
truth help save you?
Can my truth help to make your world better? Can you take
the truth and help the world, the whole world become a better
place to live? If it is not your place to help, whose place
is it?
Give me some truth. I always tried to give you some truth.
Why did people hate me? Why did people condemn me? What
did I do to make people not trust me? Was it because I
lived my life like I wanted to live it. Free.
My lifestyle presented itself because I earned the right to
live as I pleased by being in a rock band...a successful rock
band by the world's standards. My paycheck afforded me the
right to do as I damn well pleased. Live like I wanted to live.
'
For this I should be ridiculed, condemned, and maybe even shot
and killed? Did I cross some boundary? Was my outspoken
words a condemnation of the life choice of all the people
around me?
Did some people get it and some people just not understand it?
I didn't feel superior to anyone. I felt normal. I said here is
the truth...for me. If you can jump on my bandwagon
(no pun intended) please do so and welcome aboard mate.
I never intended to hurt anyone or push my belief on anyone.
By the same token, I never ask anyone to live up to my
standards. I had no standards. I was only popular because
you made me popular.
I didn't feel like a Christ figure. You held me up to
your standards,and treated me like a Christ figure. I would
have been content to be a simple lad from England who did
an O.K.job of playing me guitar. Don't get me wrong.
I loved the adoration.
It was a bit overboard don't you think? I gave up me
privacy. Me whole life became an open book for the world's
reading pleasure. You stripped me of any singular private
life and put me up on a pedestal of love for your own
personal enjoyment. I enriched your life. I gave you my
heart in song.
You were grateful. You rewarded me over and over again.
Not only with money and material wealth, I did not have to
have all of that to survive you know, but with worldwide
fame that could never end. All of this made my life and
those around me happy on some days and depressed on other
days.
I could not walk down the street or walk in
the park unless I was covered up in some disguise. Don't
get me wrong, I have an ego..I wrote some pretty damn
good songs, well me and that other fella. I never wanted
fame. Maybe when I was younger and thinking I will never
be famous. I did want a platform. A soapbox to stand on
and tell the world, we can do this, we can make a difference.
You can do it.
You can make a difference.Work with me. Help me. Let's make
the world a happy place to live in. Let's live
together in harmony. Let's give peace a chance. I still
think it would work.
But the problem is this. We can't control all the people
in the world. We can only control our own world. If we could
only bring peace to ourselves one at a time...don't you think
that sooner or later that this would equate into world peace?
Am I just living in my own utopia mindset?
Do any of you think this world peace thing could become
a reality?
Are you working toward world peace everyday? Did you
work for world peace today? Am I just wasting my time
here? I would kill for a smoke. Oops, I forgot.
Killing is not part of my world peace plan. Let me
say this also. I didn't set out to
change the world. I only set out to play music and
have some fun.
I wanted to be successful in the caverns. I wanted
to be successful in the states. I wanted to entertain
the people, not scare people away. I only wanted peace.
I only wanted to plant the seed.
I only wanted to give the people some truth.
Monday, September 1, 2008
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
The Parking Ticket
Everyone wants to support downtown and being a Danvillian
I feel the same way. Last week I went downtown to meet some
friends for lunch.Since it was lunch time there were very
few parking spaces located on Main Street. I saw one opening,
however, the car parked behind was over the white line.
There was room enough to park, but the car in front was also
parked over the white line, since the previous driver also
had had to park over the line. My initial thought was
if I get a ticket, all of us will get a ticket because
someone before me had misjudged their parking angles.
Much to my chagrin, as I returned to my car I noticed that
the other two cars had already moved, leaving my car all
alone and over the white line. In retrospect, I should
have never parked in that spot, I should have just driven
around until I found a good slot, because when I returned,
I had received a parking ticket for parking over the white lines.
The ticket giver was up the street and I proceeded to tell
her my tale ,and even though she might have been sympathetic,
her hands were tied because of city hall. They would not allow
any adjustments by her, but, I could go before some tribunal,
fill out some forms, let them have their conference and if
deemed fitting, I might be exonerated or made to pay the fine.
The fine was only $10.00 and I had only 5 days in which to pay it.
I had to get back to work , so I wrote a check , put on a
stamp , sent in the payment, and sat down to write my saga.
As I told the ticket giver, I had discovered downtown and it
cost me $10.00. My gut feeling is that I will go back to the
mall or another city restaurant, with my clients and friends,
and leave downtown restaurants to fend for themselves. As an aside,
I visited many of the downtown shops later to find out that a
lot of downtown merchants park on Main Street and every two hours
go out and move their car to another location in order to miss
the wrath of the downtown ticket giver. I hope this is
not true and that all of them were pulling my leg. Surely
if they all know , then the ticket giver must know, and if
that is the accepted rule, then can we either make a rule for
me as a first time violater and give me my money back, or how
about this unique idea....Free Parking for everyone even if
you park over the white lines. This is not a new concept.
Piedmont Mall has had this for years.
Hmmm, could there be some correlation between free parking
and doing business, or taking up the parking spaces with
merchants cars and giving tickets for going over the white
lines , whether or not it was your fault.
I could be wrong....but I am betting that Coleman Place does
some business, unless they start giving parking violations.
I feel the same way. Last week I went downtown to meet some
friends for lunch.Since it was lunch time there were very
few parking spaces located on Main Street. I saw one opening,
however, the car parked behind was over the white line.
There was room enough to park, but the car in front was also
parked over the white line, since the previous driver also
had had to park over the line. My initial thought was
if I get a ticket, all of us will get a ticket because
someone before me had misjudged their parking angles.
Much to my chagrin, as I returned to my car I noticed that
the other two cars had already moved, leaving my car all
alone and over the white line. In retrospect, I should
have never parked in that spot, I should have just driven
around until I found a good slot, because when I returned,
I had received a parking ticket for parking over the white lines.
The ticket giver was up the street and I proceeded to tell
her my tale ,and even though she might have been sympathetic,
her hands were tied because of city hall. They would not allow
any adjustments by her, but, I could go before some tribunal,
fill out some forms, let them have their conference and if
deemed fitting, I might be exonerated or made to pay the fine.
The fine was only $10.00 and I had only 5 days in which to pay it.
I had to get back to work , so I wrote a check , put on a
stamp , sent in the payment, and sat down to write my saga.
As I told the ticket giver, I had discovered downtown and it
cost me $10.00. My gut feeling is that I will go back to the
mall or another city restaurant, with my clients and friends,
and leave downtown restaurants to fend for themselves. As an aside,
I visited many of the downtown shops later to find out that a
lot of downtown merchants park on Main Street and every two hours
go out and move their car to another location in order to miss
the wrath of the downtown ticket giver. I hope this is
not true and that all of them were pulling my leg. Surely
if they all know , then the ticket giver must know, and if
that is the accepted rule, then can we either make a rule for
me as a first time violater and give me my money back, or how
about this unique idea....Free Parking for everyone even if
you park over the white lines. This is not a new concept.
Piedmont Mall has had this for years.
Hmmm, could there be some correlation between free parking
and doing business, or taking up the parking spaces with
merchants cars and giving tickets for going over the white
lines , whether or not it was your fault.
I could be wrong....but I am betting that Coleman Place does
some business, unless they start giving parking violations.
Monday, July 7, 2008
Fireworks made for Love
July 4th is over thank the good lord. My fiance'
has covered every fireworks opportunity that she
could find. Thursday night was 2 and 1/2 hours and
then Friday night on the 4th was 3 or 4 hours and
I am here to tell you I was hot, my butt hurt from
sitting on the ground and my neck hurt from looking
up at the sky all night. On top of that the fireworks
that I see all looks the same to me every time and
I just can't see the beauty in it. But I guess it is
better than parades. If she sees a parade anywhere
we have got to stop and watch every float, bike,
car, band, and clown in that parade. Don't get me
wrong, I do it because it is the thing to do to make
her happy, but it is not my most favorite thing to
do. Both of them makes her happy, so I am happy.
What a man has to do for Love.
has covered every fireworks opportunity that she
could find. Thursday night was 2 and 1/2 hours and
then Friday night on the 4th was 3 or 4 hours and
I am here to tell you I was hot, my butt hurt from
sitting on the ground and my neck hurt from looking
up at the sky all night. On top of that the fireworks
that I see all looks the same to me every time and
I just can't see the beauty in it. But I guess it is
better than parades. If she sees a parade anywhere
we have got to stop and watch every float, bike,
car, band, and clown in that parade. Don't get me
wrong, I do it because it is the thing to do to make
her happy, but it is not my most favorite thing to
do. Both of them makes her happy, so I am happy.
What a man has to do for Love.
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