A short story by number 1 best-seller, Rosen Trevithick.

Having a celebrity in the family can be challenging, especially when your sister’s famous for being a missing child.

The disappearance of Millie Jones has dominated the news for eight years, ever since the mediagenic toddler was snatched from a department store at Christmas time. 

Certain that Millie is alive, her mother puts family life on hold to fight for the search to continue. 

However, this Christmas things are changing. A shocking development causes the police to reopen the investigation and a new hope dawns.

REVIEW

This short piece is amazing. With Natascha Kampusch, Jamie Bulger and Madeleine McCann all being names of children that we are aware of in the media, this fiction tells the tale of a family who are dealing with the aftermath of their 3 year old daughter Milly being kidnapped from a family shopping trip. 8 years have passed, and husband, wife and younger daughter are all suffering and dealing with the trauma and day to day grind in different ways. Then they hear on the news, another child, an 8 year old, has gone missing….

When a knock at the door comes, and the police say that they may have found Milly, alive, the family now have a whole new set of emotions and problems to deal with…..

This tale captivated my attention from the start and I could not put it down. Given that it is such a relevant and sensitive story for many, it is handled delicately and you really get a sense of the parents feelings of loss, anger and hurt. Stunningly written, this tale has a few twists and turns and a bittersweet ending. Very thought provoking stuff. I look forward to checking out this author’s other works. 

Rachel Dove, The Kindle Book Review

Ryan Keith Johnson

© Copy Right 2012 All Rights Reserved

How Free Are You?

            We’ve taken our freedom for granted and forgotten our roots of where we came from and who we are. We’ve allowed government to tell us where we can move, where we send our kids to school, what they are taught in both school and colleges and on the television. Young people are not prepared for the world when they graduate from high school. When people get married they’re not prepared for the challenges that await for them with a changing economy and a society that deems it acceptable to get divorced instead of facing their problems and finding their strengths.

            Children from the time they’re born to the age of six are in a mode of Alpha mode thinking where they are the most creative and learn quickly.  By the time they start school that Alpha mode changes to Beta. The school they attend teach them the only way to succeed is to get good grades, do as your told, follow the laws and be selfless. This mode of thinking is taught all the way until they graduate. What’s worse is that parents are away, working their careers to provide while their children face the day of thinking they have to serve the state. The parents feel like they have to sacrifice their dreams so their kids have a good future.

            Certain people in selected groups know that if they can control the media and get people to think a certain way that they’ll have total control of people’s lives. Sadly it has already happened. When the television was first created, the leader of Great Britain  passed a law that said all British people had to have a TV in their homes so they would know what was going in the country, to be entertained and happy . At first you might think that this sounds like a good idea, but lets just think for a minute. Why would the government wan to pass a law in Great Britain  that mandates everyone to have a TV. Why would they be so concerned about their happiness? Before the invention of the TV people got involved with communities, children played outside, read books, played board games and families were closer at the supper table.  Granted, the TV can be a wonderful thing, but in this case it became very destructive. After three months everyone in London were at home watching TV instead of being at the park to meet people and make friends. All the parks in London that were once full of people and congregation was completely empty.  All over the globe the Television destroyed communities and people stopped communicating with each other and became more interested in what was on TV. This is what government wants; to get people to sit in front of a box and hypnotize them to believe how society should be as well as lies.

            You can imagine what’s happening now in the United States. When I walk into a public library or a McDonalds I see people sitting next to each other or across from each other, but there not talking their talking on their cell phone or texting. People today don’t know how to talk to each other because they got to get home and watch TV. When you sit in front of a TV your brain goes into Alpha mode. This sounds great because when you were a young child you were always in Alpha mode, but this is different.  You’re hypnotized to believe everything you see is the truth. This could be anything from the drug commercials you hear about, the news that is reported (that is also controlled by special interests groups).  People love to watch sitcoms that have powerful dramas of how people should act in life.  Although you may think so what, its already had an effect on people today. You hear the old saying monkey say and monkey do? People idolize the stars way to much.  When they see the stars get Botox they believe that they should get Botox. The sitcoms make relationships look like they should be difficult and that breaking up is normal, that divorce is natural. They make the average American man or dad look fat and bald and the ass hole while the wife or girlfriend look like the brains or the attractive one. If you believe this is how life is then you haven’t lived.  These ads are very powerful, emotional, stimulating and after you turn off the TV it stays in your brain for at least forty-five minutes.

 Is College A Scam?

             College is probably the biggest scam in the United States right now. In the beginning of the 1900’s having a college degree from a prestige college was a big thing. When Jimmy Carter started the Department of Education he opened up a Pandora’s Box that led the idea for every American to send their child to college or else they wouldn’t have a job. In the 1960s and 70s about 20% of the country was agriculture. That number today has shrunk to less than 10%.  What this means is that there is less farmers today producing food. Eventually food prices will go up and all these fat cats who are in Wall Street and wanna be lawyers will be without a job and farmers will become very wealthy.

            College is also a scam also because almost all the colleges use fabricated statistics to show people that when they leave they’re guaranteed a job.  Even in the late 1980s and 1990s people have come forward to state that they found jobs making a lot of money that didn’t require a college degree. Colleges have said that employers won’t accept someone to work for them if they don’t have a Bachelors’ Degree in a specific field. Not only that some employer know that the graduate NEEDS a job to pay back the loan. The college knows that they can make a lot of money off the interest. So when a student uses government and private loans they can end up in debt of over $100,000.00.  The average debt of a person who gets out college is at least $25,000.00. That’s enough money to buy a brand new car. What’s worse is that when you default on your loan it could be as much as $200,000.00.  That’s not a school loan that’s a mortgage without a house and up until recently  the whole idea of going to college has become a joke.

            Each politician, both parties alike, that have taken office are guilty for encouraging people to go back to school to better themselves when really they’re just putting them in debt. You read about ads where President Obama is encouraging single moms to go back to school. He should really stay out of it and let the single moms focus on their own lives.   It’s not fair to see a single mom who’s forty-five years old to go through college for dentistry and get stuck with a bill that’s over 100,000.00 worth of school loans that’s got 6% interest rate. This doesn’t include the inflation of the decline of the dollar which could cause the loan to sky rocket to $300,000.00.  This has happened to quite a number of single moms and women who are in their  fifties who know they’ll never be able to pay back the loan. Congress passed a bill that you can’t file for bankruptcy. This is a scam that the Federal Government is doing and the loans that are being allowed should be illegal and with credit cards that charge a high interest rate get charged for usury. Usury is a term that used when a financial or credit institution over charges you interest and they know you can’t pay back a loan. It is illegal.

            To make matters worse the Federal Government has been sending out applications for loans to students. The students that take these loans end up getting a lot of money from the Federal Government. Some of them didn’t even use the money for college, but used it for buying a condo with furnished expensive furniture. This is happening right now as we speak. Thousands of college students are using money that the Federal Government is printing to buy cars, computers, video games, apartments and other toys.  

 So What’s Going To Happen?

             What will happen is pretty simple, people aren’t going to be able to pay back the loans.  The College students will ask the Federal Government to forgive the loans so they won’t have to pay back the loans. The Federal Government then  will add the amount unpaid to the tax payers. The graduates who went to school to be a lawyer and can’t find a job will be forced to pay back the loan. These loans usualy range from $150,000.00 to $200,000.00 and that’s not including the interest. So you understand; nobody is really winning out of this crises, unless of course you’re the Federal Government who allowed this to happen in the first place. The tax payers, people like me and you will have to pay the money through inflation and eventually raised taxes for the students who choose to not pay the money back or can’t. I’ve learned that by the year 2020 colleges will see a 30% drop in people attending college and 50%  of colleges will also be closed in the country. 

            The Federal Government needs to get out of education immediately and let the markets resume on their own with letting the private sectors give out the loans, but sadly the private loans won’t deal with students who have loans with the Federal Government. This will force colleges to get competitive and drive prices down.  It won’t make everything better, but it’s a start.

Ryan Keith Johnson

© Copy Right 2012 All Rights Reserved.

Progressive Concept; Make The People Want  An  Evolution Not a Revolution.

            It is true that in the past leading up to now that politicians have worked hard to motivate the public by telling them to give up their guns. They also like to say that America needs to get into foreign affairs and that the people should be passive about regulations that are passed.

            Now with the Patriot Act that has been passed, the Federal Government can continue monitoring and with Obama signing the Defense Act Bill you can be sure that your rights are being infringed. These bills break the Fourth and Fifth Amendment of being safe and free in your home and having a trial with a jury. What this means is that the Federal Government can consider anyone a Terrorist. They can break into your home, hand cuff you and take you away to a location where no one can find you. You hear about interrogations being done in Egypt and that the citizens of Egypt are taken from their homes and basically disappear.

What The Federal Government Wants

            The people that are in our Federal Government want to break the country in pieces.  They want to destroy families and destroy communities so that things get so bad that the people cry out for help. When the people cry out for help then the Federal Government will declare Martial Law. Martial Law is an act where the country becomes a police state. People will have a cure few that will lock down the community into their homes. It will be like Nazi Germany when Hitler took control of the country.  The constitution  will be suspended and nobody will have any freedom, you’ll have total tyranny.

            The Federal Government want control over what you do, where you work, how your children are raised, how you should spend your money and where you can travel.

            They’ve already got control over where you can work with the credit score. People think that employers use the credit score to decide who to hire. The credit score is irrelevant when applying for a job, but yet you’re asked to sign a waiver giving them permission to look up your credit score.  It’s discrimination and against the Fourth Amendment. Employers aren’t even suppose to be photo copying your Driver’s License  because of the increase in identity thefts. Think about it you don’t know your employer and you shouldn’t be giving that information out. America is the only country in the world that has the Credit Score.

            The Federal Government wants control over the Education of what your child is taught. Jimmy Carter passed the Department of Education with Congress to take responsibility for your child’s education. The idea is to have a system in place to teach the children a small portion of America’s history.  They want your children to become followers, dependent on government and have no understanding for consequences for their actions. They want to dumb down your child by making it difficult for teachers to do their job. Think about the No Child Left Behind Act passed by President Bush, it didn’t help the children or the teachers.

            There have been other anomalies that can’t be proved the Federal Government is behind it, but the Federal Government isn’t doing their job to protect the public. There are food additives and high levels of toxins in health products; like shampoos, hair sprays, make up, lips stick.  These Toxins can cause degeneration of the brain and make it hard for your child to learn in school. The Federal Government knows that they can’t make you get your vaccine shots. These vaccines are loaded with Mercury that cause ADHD, ADD, Learning Disabilities, Behavioral Problems and Autism.  Vaccines are scams and the Federal Government is behind this scam to make you believe if you don’t get a flu vaccine that you’ll die. Mammograms are scams as well, they cause cancer.

What Can We Do?

            We can do a lot! We need to stand up and say no to big government and socialism. We need to preserve a Republic for the individual American Citizen. We need to work together by sharing what we know to other uninformed Americans. Get organized and talk to your neighbors. We can’t depend on the Fox 9 news or CNN or any News to cover the biggest SCAM that’s going on in our government.

            There is already a growing movement in the United States. Militias are forming; there’s one in Virginia and Michigan. Protests are being done in Washington DC with the direction this country is going the people in power don’t know what to think. We need to stop fighting among ourselves over petty things, our freedom is at stake. If we don’t have our constitution and our freedom then we’re allowing more government control that will lead to something worse, world governance.

Last year at this time I was on the verge of exploring a new world. ONLINE gaming.
My PS3 would open a world I had no idea I would venture into. Let alone enjoy and recent at the same time. In the years before 2011, I spent a good deal of time alone or accompanied by family. Rarely did I seek or have the company of a male other then my son and nephew in this time. My family is mostly female. Mine was a quiet life for the most part. I enjoyed it that way. (After years of other.)

Still once I began going on line to play, I found the people I met there interesting and fun. Oddly one person in particular seemed to befriend me and be every where I was all the time. A male gamer. I being ignorant as it were of the ways of cyber life…was unaware that there was anything but the fun of game companionship going on. As we played everyday together. It wasn’t until my son pointed it out that I began to wonder at the behavior of my companion. Others in our play group seemed to notice the same and mentioned to me.

I hadn’t long to wonder as not long after my companion informed me that he had developed feelings for me. He further mentioned after my questions on the matter that he would like to explore a possible relationship.

Long story short I began a cyber relationship. I who had not had a relationship in well lets just say “a while”;was off on a running. I must say up front I had my doubts and was very sceptical as to how far this could actually go, as well as where it could go. If you have read my post before you will know I am a person that believes we get what we ask for. We receive what we need when we need it and when we are ready for it. So pushing my trepidation to the back I plunged forward; after a brief self talk. lol (Almost three Weeks.)

When my friend began to hit the marks on my list(I keep a list of the right man for me)I was in thralled. I had some years ago had a dream about a man I did not know. I carried this man in my mind. There he stayed. Until…once my friend and I began to speak over mic’s, my list and dream came into my mind.We spoke everyday for hours. Online,on at first. Next we spoke on the phone and later email. I began checking off the list. There were so many things that my friend fit spookily. That I was reminded that the universe takes notes.

Cut to early spring. I had the best of times and later the worst of times. I am happy to say I am non the worse for wear. I am thrilled and thankful for the experience I had. I had grown in many ways from my online tatatat. I believe I have been in love. I believe I am better for it. I am happy to say last year was one I will always remember. It has taught me that in spite of my self I do want to share my life with others. I am grateful for the people that have shared their lives with me.

I asked for the person I got. I wrote him into being as it were. I am still a believer in ask and you shall receive. If you put it out there it will come to you. I named it, claimed it and held it for awhile. I am sorry to say we do not communicate any longer. For my part it is a sad statement of life that sometimes friendship dies.
Sometimes we do not continue on a journey with the people we meet and share pieces of our lives. I am richer for the experience and the poetry that came out of that time with him. I am richer for the emotional maturity that I received from that time and experience.

I am bolder in my dealing with the unknown and I am proud of myself for all that has happened. I could not do it any different were I given another chance. I am still an online game player. I am still waiting to be in love and waiting for someone else to hit the marks on my list.In my own country,state, city or elsewhere. I believe it will happen again and perhaps when it does, it will be the long journey; we take. I look at last years events as starter romance. lol.

As I said it had been awhile. I wasn’t certain I even wanted the ups and downs that can come with a relationship. I found I do. I believe in love. Maybe not at first sight or first “sound” as it were.  I have my times when I am content to be with myself. Then there are the times I need to be engaged. Communicating with people is a human need. I won’t deny myself that part of life and should it become more with someone or other…then bring your best game and lets play.

Thank you PS3 and Sony.  Thank you JP.

I’m sorry for all the mistakes I made, for all the pain I’ve caused you. For everything I put you through, I’m sorry about that too. I’m sorry for everything I do, and for that fact that I love you, but I had to put my feelings on that line. All I wanted was a shot at once upon a time, too bad everyone lies, nothing ends in a fairytale storyline.

All I needed was one chance to get it right, but as per normal I screwed it up again, and I’ve been lost since then. I was to young to know I was walking away from everything I ever wanted, because at 16 you’re stupid, you don’t know a damn thing. The sad part is it didn’t take me long to realize I walked away from my reason to be.

I’m sorry for all the mistakes I made, for all the pain I’ve caused you. For everything I put you through, I’m sorry about that too. I’m sorry for everything I do, and for that fact that I love you, but I had to put my feelings on that line. All I wanted was a shot at once upon a time, too bad everyone lies, nothing ends in a fairytale storyline.

Everything about you invites me in, calls my name, can’t you see it’s always been that way. I tried to hide it, tried to run from it, but my heart kept pulling me back to you. I was scared to tell the truth, and now the reasons why are so clear, because they are real. I was hoping for a story worth telling, but this story has a less epic ending. My heart is gone, an empty space you never knew you used to take. You sing about sweet tragedies, that’s all our story seems to be.

I’m sorry for all the mistakes I made, for all the pain I’ve caused you. For everything I put you through, I’m sorry about that too. I’m sorry for everything I do, and for that fact that I love you, but I had to put my feelings on that line. All I wanted was a shot at once upon a time, too bad everyone lies, nothing ends in a fairytale storyline.

And all I wanted…
Was a happy ending to my wanna

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be fairytale story line.

One-sided relationship is just like a charitable act, where one partner is always desirous of giving for the sake of giving and not expecting anything in return. Though this is a virtuous act and the giver reap its reward in the shape of peace of mind and will also reap rewards in the life hereafter, but in terms of worldly or materialistic gains he receives nothing, whereas the receiver of the benefits proves to be a parasite or detrimental for the other partner. This type of relationship lasts till the giver keeps on giving and the recipient keep on receiving and ends up as soon as the giver stops giving.

Conversely, in a relationship based on mutual basis, both the partners offer service to one another and share their experience. This benefits both on equal basis. There is a difference in serving and having served, and receiving and having received. In a mutual sharing partnership both the parties earns benefits emotionally and psychologically equally.

Both the partners must cooperate with each other in the processes of crafting, putting into practice and evaluating their experiences. They should also be sharing equal authorities so as to implant, safeguard and assess their requirements pertaining to their relationships. In mutual relationship not only focus is laid down equally on both sides for seeing who is benefiting but powers are also shared on mutual basis for implying that focus and determining that both are equally benefiting.

In mutually shared relationship, it is crucial to understand that both parties are providing valuable services to one another on equal basis. There are three important aspects involved in strengthening a mutual relationship.

Firstly, crafting a relationship, this involves mutual sharing of powers and authorities that is required to fulfill one another’s needs and requirements. It is obvious that either side is missing some benefits that must be met by either side. Therefore, crafting a relationship is a process that supports and fulfills the need and requirement of both the parties, simultaneously sharing authorities on equal basis for the purpose of strengthening the relationship.

Secondly they must play the role of giver and taker. Since, both giver and taker shares different benefits from practically involving directly in learning and fulfilling one another’s needs, they are more likely to involve in the process of long lasting relationship. This creates a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment from either side, which serves the purpose of creating strong bondage between two.

Thirdly, is the equal ability of assessing their experiences during the process? This assessment is not based on assessing only from one aspect but reflecting on various aspects of their personalities. It involves questioning and answering honestly to different aspect of a relationship such as “How do think, you contributed in strengthening the relationship process?”, “What do you think is required for improving the relationship?”, “What expectations you think are not fulfilled by your partner?”, “What are your differences?”, “What are your compatibilities?” and “What’s the solution?” etc. These and such issues must be communicated by both the partners for a long lasting relationship.

To sum up, both the partners must enjoy equal levels of authority, cooperate in crafting and making up relationship design, practically play the roles of giver and taker and communicate regularly for meeting the challenges in the relationship if any.

There is no doubt that in actual life it is not always easy to fulfill the requirements of an exemplary mutual sharing relationship, since people are different in abilities, individualities, preferences, mental levels, habits, likes and dislikes, education, childhood environment and many such factors. The authorities are not always estimated equally. In the presence of all such differences why do these unplanned relationships survive, it is only due to the presence of good wishes, mutual love and respect between two parties. In the presence of such attributes, the need of mutual sharing relationship sets aside, but these relationships remains in limits and can be broken anytime due to huge difference in their personalities, whereas mutual sharing relationship can be difficult to understand initially, but it guarantees benefits to both sides and lasts long, since it gives a broader and well-planned perspective of a healthy relationship.

By Muhammad Irfan Zafar

Content Writer

That they ignore what’s best for them to do…

Until one day they wake up and find the problem hasn’t gone away…

It is just so ten times worse than before…

Now they are ordered to do what’s right…

Before they lose what’s so very dear to them…

Will they learn…

Will they comply…

Or will they continue to play games all their life..

Will they continue to fight a losing battle…

Of their uncompromising will…

Will they continue to make excuses…

Or will they wake up to reality…

And swallow their pride…

“Mother Nature plants in Autumn, harvests in Spring”

These words came to me as I contemplated about writing this blog: a reminder that we humans are not necessarily in sync with the way of the Universe. After several false starts (and misplacing the disk with my original blog), I was pondering whether to just skip writing this blog altogether. After all, I am in a mode of transition myself and there are so many things to do and as busy and hectic a schedule as ever that it is damn hard to focus on anything for a proper length of time. Throw the changing climate and tracking what’s going on with the >Occupy Everywhere< movement into the mix, and it’s a wonder I can accomplish anything …

What is going on in our country has me captivated. I’m obsessed – I want to know what’s going on practically every waking moment. After being given a week off for the Thanksgiving holiday, one of my closest friends went back to work on Monday only to be told she would probably be layed off at the end of the week. No doubt we can expect to hear of more layoffs during the coming month because it has become a tradition in this country companies to shed employees in the midst of the self-acclaimed Christian season of the giving.

My heart goes out to all the people in this country who are unemployed because the ultra-wealthy “job creators” can make greater profits with the cheaper labor in emerging countries such as India and China; my heart goes out to those who have lost or are losing their homes because of the greedy banksters need to charge outrageous fees and interests when they themselves are getting money than ever in our history; my heart goes out to those who have lost the substance of not only their dreams but their lives. My thoughts and prayers are with them. I feel their pain and despair. And while my family has become part of these statistics this year, I am thankful that we have not (at least, not yet) experienced an ultimate level of loss and devastation – we are not homeless, and we still have some resources to tap into -but I also feel shame for the selfish times I have cried and wailed in despair over the “loss” of our life as we had known it. Wow … The loss of our life as we’ve known it … Double WOW …

The loss of our life as we’ve known it is the completion of a cycle and initiates the transition to a new level in our lives that we may not understand and which is difficult to process. Many of us go through transitions “shellshocked”, feeling out of sync, and/or struggling for a semblance of control. Occasionally, we make a choice willingly to create the end of a cycle; more oftentimes, the Universe gives us a gentle shove that pushes us through the threshold of the door upon which we have been camping for some length of time. And then there are the times when it seems the Universe just steps in, takes over and life as we’ve known it no longer exists …

We feel helpless – and sometimes are helpless – and cast aside as no longer important in the greater scheme of those in control. But most of us are not completely helpless and we are important to ourselves and to many others. Even while the odds against us seem insurmountable, we can draw on our inner strength and tap into a higher consciousness to help us take responsibility for the balance in our lives. I told my friend that perhaps being layed off maybe wasn’t as bad a thing as it first appears; after all, a stagnation had set in on the job and a restlessness would crop up on occasion that was quickly put down instead of addressed. Perhaps a blessing in disguise and now will be a time to explore options and opportunities and ideas that had been shelved because responsibilities could not be balanced in the previous life’s circumstances?

In numerology, 11 is the number of balance and responsibility. Every action we take is an action of balance and responsibility that either is beneficial or is detrimental to the best interests of not only ourselves but others – yes, to others because each and every one of us is an integral part of the whole and yet we always have the option to be separate.

It is not an easy task to meet the responsibilities we take on and still maintain a balance. The spiritual meaning of 11 deals directly with our involvement of how life progresses and references both our ability to be objective and subjected to life. Our life as we’d known it has been badly shaken over the last 11 years. We — as individuals, as a community, as a nation – have experienced the loss of life as we had known it because individuals took actions that were beneficial for themselves individually but were detrimental for us the whole. We have received a glimpse of the reality of how fragile the stability — the balance — of our lives is: things we selfishly take for granted, such as clean and drinkable water and the security associated with where we live, can disappear in a heartbeat. Yes! The unthinkable can happen — is happening! — to US.

The past three years has given us a glimpse of the good and the bad, and the very ugly. We’ve witnessed firsthand those who don’t give a damn about people who don’t have a job and people who have lost their homes; if you are not in the top 1% of wealth, you have been villianized, demonized, and demoralized. Companies making hundreds of millions of dollars refuse to recognize the value of their employees and refuse to give them even a small wage increase; instead insisting that the employees have their wages frozen or even taking a pay cut. Oh, yeah, we are witnessing firsthand the greediness and callousness of those who refuse to take responsibility for their role in the loss of life as we have known it.

Unlike what’s happening with Kim Kardashian or Dr. Conrad Murray, the devastation and tragedy that so many Americans have suffered is generally not considered “front page” or headline news — and the survivors, the heroes, the dead are only a footnote in our collective (media) consciousness. But the loss of life as we’ve known it is an underlying current pulsating steadily through each day, stated eloquently by Scott, Iraq veteran injured at Occupy Oakland. How will we — as individuals, as a community, as a nation — restore balance responsibly? Will we proceed responsibly in the aftermath of the devastation that is besieging our country and manifesting in record homelessness and poverty, in a crumbling national infrastructure and a rapid move towards being a third-world country? Or will we recklessly and zealously make blind choices based on someone striking an emotional chord – so determined to grab onto something that promises to resurrect our life lost without regard to balance and the ultimate cost to ourself or others? How will YOU personally handle this emotional period of transition the nation as a whole is experiencing, with so much lost and so much still at stake?

Transition follows a physical change — the loss of life as we’ve known it — in which a seed of awareness is sown. But like any seed, this seed of awareness needs to be nurtured in order to grow into something that will sustain us. I give thanks for the seed of awareness that has been sown by the Occupy movement. While we cannot control irresponsible actions by others, we can control our preparedness for and our response to whatever may be bestowed upon us during this time in our lives. Will we — as individuals, as a community, as a nation — proactively nurture this seed of awareness to grow, to change what has become the status quo? Will we prepare to respond responsibly to restore balance in our lives? Will we prepare to not only rebuild but to take the time to stabilize – balance – our foundation and rebuild responsibly with careful thought and defined purpose?

Please Stay One More Day

I was inspired by the young people around me this evening… the big red tractor looked like a fun ride on a perfect summer night… let’s cut the grass!  Okay… so instead of a nap I gave a few lessons.. and then sat back to let go.  I applauded inside their steps forward to a responsibility…and even though the lines may have been uneven… and the fact that I had to spend the evening with the blower behind them… couldn’t dampen my feeling of pride for what they chose to do.  As I told them they did a beautiful job… their faces just glowed.  After all isn’t that more important…is it not most important… to inspire?

I started to ponder and became inspired to write.  I want to say to young and old…as the markets are tanking right now and we seem to be working harder for less… I just want to say please stay one more day.  What I mean by that is even though you may be in the darkest of places hold on.  Reach out to people who will encourage you… who even though things may not be perfect as you attempt figuring out your life’s purpose… just keep going.  Throw everything you have at what you believe in, what you love, what inspires you… because God doesn’t make mistakes.  The good and the bad weather is endured and celebrated by all of us. 

This time last year a childhood friend of mine passed on.  She didn’t want to stay one more day.  I don’t know what to say about that… what a painful place she must have been in… but I want to say to anyone here that is experiencing a friend contemplating suicide or who has witnessed such a thing by now this:

Please stay one more day.  We will… find a way.  After all…it is okay.  So please stay…one more day.  We will figure it out this beautiful day… wouldn’t it be nice to find a way?  So let us pray and find a way so that we can stay…one more day.

Our hearts are bigger than our fears… bigger than our disappointments… bigger than the world even.  We will find a way.  If this touches you please… feel safe to write to me anytime at royalsequel@yahoo.com

To my darling Holly.  You remain my inspiration.  Your life mattered and it does live on.

All my love,
Janet

Are all but dreams, so sad this year

To scrape, to save, to try to buy

All on their lists, but none I fear

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The year, it’s bad and took a toll

Christmas comes, despite it though

There is no money, no bank roll

No one could save, no bucks to show

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We can teach the truth of the season

That one special gift we all receive

Let everyone know the one true reason

Why at this time, we must believe

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Merry Christmas, children, there are no toys

But yet, feel in your heart, the Christmas Joy

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That joy is strong, it can bring smiles

It can fill us all with what we need

Merry Christmas, adults and every child

You’ll feel the joy, if you believe

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Who would have thought my job be lost

There’re many others who share this, too

We can’t buy happiness at money’s cost

So there’s just one thing that we can do

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Merry Christmas, children, there are no toys

But yet, feel in your heart, the Christmas Joy

That joy is strong, it can bring smiles

It can fill us all with what we need

Merry Christmas, adults and every child

You’ll feel the joy, if you believe