What a wonderful weekend.  Great friends, great relatives, great gatherings, great events…the events keep going.  By the way, I’m speaking of last week, June 22-28.  I’m sure these situations will happen this weekend, the 4th of July weekend, but I started last week.  I had to go back to Chicago, and then to Peoria, my home town for a class reunion.  Who would have thought that this reunion event would be as great as it was?  I’m not sure that I would be in that group;  now I regress!  It’s funny how age and wisdom come into play with an event like this;  talking to people that you maybe spoke…

Rainbow:  n. A bow or arc of prismatic colors appearing in the Heavens opposite the sun and caused be the refraction and reflection of the sun’s rays in drops of rain. // A visionary goal. Now that’s a defining moment, in anyone’s life.  “A visionary goal”.  It seems like the ultimate goal, a visionary goal.  I think that there’s so many ways to look at your Rainbow; is that the only thing that you want to achieve in your life?  Then what comes after, I mean what comes after the largest thing that you wanted to achieve in your life, that ONE achievement? I try to look at the rainbow…

I’m assuming that we all like to make our own decisions, with those decisions putting us in the right mood, and that mood dictating our day.  I’d like to say that I do.  For me, it’s really not a control thing, (I gave up THAT a long time ago); I just decided that I don’t want another situation to alter my mood.  If a situation comes along, and I like what I see, I’ll definitely consider an alternate plan.  But if something happens to you that you used to play to, but it definitely put you in a rotten mood, why play that game? I’m driving down the street the…

Our lives, our journey, is great, if not short.  I like to ask people,” what have you wanted to do with your life, and, have you succeeded?”  What I’ve found is that some people are very happy with their lives, and are nowhere in the status quo that they wanted to be in.  How is that?  What can make that happen?  What happens in a persons life that they are happy, and not in their dream world that they were dreaming about?  Life has many paths, and we all HAVE to choose one to take; is it the right one?  Ask yourself that.  When you have an answer, then let’s…

MERCY: n.  an act of kindness,compassion, or favor;  something of good fortune or blessing. Simple word; M-E-R-C-Y.  Simple actions; an act.  What is so hard about doing a blessing(s) in our lives?  It really isn’t that hard, but as we have seen, sometimes it appears to be; and it can take many, many, many paths, (Ahhh now I see Mercy, Mercy, Mercy…!).  This word, this noun, can stretch itself into so many areas; actions, fitness, music, religious beliefs, etc…take your pick, or take them all, it’s really up to you.  (On a side note, without looking it up, does anyone know the band that originated this?). I love this word,…

A brain for fitness, for gratitude, for appreciation. Humbleness fits into that category; so does spiritual praise. Each of these arenas, (and many more!), have come into my life because of friends, and God. People say how I’ve been so “lucky”, I say how I’ve been blessed. Here’s my story, my pitch: I have a baseball-sized tumor pressing on my brain, (over 8cm, a baseball is around 7.25 cm), which I didn’t have any knowledge about at that time, (April,2008), and I’m dating a girl who knew something was wrong with me due to my actions faltering, and my speech weakening, and since her uncle is a doctor at UCLA…

Awwww, isn’t this time of the year wonderful.  It’s the end of 2015, the beginning of 2016, and the making of a new commitment, for the new year; or so it seems.  The question arises in my brain, ” Why wait?”, for the new year, and why does it have to be a “new commitment”?  Why not make your “commitment” a part of your life?  Of course, I’m always raising this question for the fitness program that should be in everyone’s routine; but let’s put this in your thinking process, in your actions, in your compassion towards other people, also in your patience with others.  I’m using this phrase in…

veteran:  adj.– a person who has served in a military force, (in a war); VETERANS DAY:  n; November 11, a legal holiday in the U.S.in commemoration of the end of WW1, and in honor of veterans of the armed forces, ( formerly Armistice Day). Isn’t this holiday special?  It’s a day when a special group of U.S. citizens assigned their lives to the freedom of this country; and boy, did they do it!  I think that that’s the the best of a commitment to anyone, or to anything.  It epitomizes how great a U.S. person can be.  My Dad is one of those people. My Dad served in Korea, 1953-1955. …

MENTOR:  n.,   a wise and trusted counselor or teacher. This definition kinda make me feel like a “mentor” is superior to us.  It’s a very definitive word, and sometimes I wonder if I could be one of those guys; ANSWER= YES!!!  We all are, and I’m here to tell you that we all have something within us that made us a mentor to “someone”.  We might not even know who we impacted, but we did.  I’m no better than any of you, not even better than one, but please try to remember this; to the world you may be one person, but to one person, you may be the world. …

What a wonderful song, brings back wonderful memories, along with other kinds of feelings throughout the history of this song, (can your guess (1) who wrote it, (2) what year; (3) and who made it popular?).  Music can bring a lot of feelings to each individual; we are all different, some look at a glass of beautiful wine, and say it’s “half-empty”, or some say “half-full”. ISSIS, Syria, Iraq, South Africa, Putin and Russia, our own lying members of Washington (I know, I know, I shouldn’t say that!); this paragraph could go on, and on, but why go there???  I probably would call that….half-empty??? My brother visiting me a few…