Much of what causes mankind to marvel in this post-technological generation is what we have created as human beings. But, what we or what man creates is based on natural or immutable laws of science, including physics such as the law of gravity. It should never be that what causes man to marvel ( what mankind marvels at) as a result of his creativity, will end up being his marvellous undoing. Man cannot live a fruitful life by machine alone for very long or can he? Machines are to help life(also known as the creation) and to foster it; not to undo it in our process of growth as life multiplies or as we multiply.

Successful Plans

-There was an old man with many successful plans to achieve commodious living. He had many good and suburb ideas, along with a son who played for swash buckling Chivas. -His neighbour was named Blackbeard. Beard was rude and used horrible tools to take anything from others. The others included the old man who decided to action his plan with every other citizen in the town. -It obviously begins with the belief that man is not to be a thief. -It is in some good(bible) book. -But the beard did not hear King John as the beard was putting everyone on when it came to being a good friend. -The beard did not hear the Priest read the Magna Carta and went sailing to open places. -He was so angry that when he got there, he was tempted to set his ship in blazes. -Someone dropped a statute about Offences Against the Person on Beard's Captain's desk and he said that was a fair deal. -But, this belief in rules, is it real and would they keep the people's deal? Beard decided to turn home. -Many centuries later Beard's descendants designed a droid now being sold on the open market. Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru were glad. -Some had good motivators; others bad. But, if there is no fair deal with a droid pushed on Beard or his descendants, he has a right to be very very mad!!

The psychological pain of abandonment is a great one and remains as an impacting undercurrent for much of one's life. Attachments are important as the abandonment may have taken place quite early in life. It could be that, like many historical figures, the abandoned( or saved if you wish) may have obtained an alternative and happier fate as a result of the abandonment. Abandonment is more of an emotional description because, in fact, maybe someone was trying to save or better your life chances. The glass is half full or half empty when saved or abandoned. The truth is that you are alive and you can be thankful for that and take opportunities going forward. How would you like your eggs; sunny side up or runny? They are still eggs. You can cook half the egg and abandon; I mean save the rest for later.

Who knows when the tide will come in or when the sun will set...?

There may be 30,000 dead everyday due to starvation but what is every adherent or non-adherent to the various belief systems doing about it? How many pounds of food and milk are being thrown out at the buffet restaurants? How many faith based organisations have worked to ameliorate the actual figure from 50,000 dead to 30,000 dead? The work of faith-based organisations who believe in the virtue of human life have had some impact on the realities of life in a world where, regardless of faith, good and bad things happen to the millionaire and his sons as well as the applicant for social assistance. A few wealthy people died after a plane crash in the Andes many years ago. There was a plane crash in the Western United States this year. Click the link above to view the documentary on such an amazing story. Some people survived and some did not. You can control your diet and the books you read outside of class, but you can't control the day you were born or when the sun will rise every morning. But, you know the sun will rise. Click the title.

A Fruit Bowl For Everyone..

There were two brothers in San Diego. One brother was a good planter as he was told. He received his parent’s sense of approval although they did not express it openly in the event that the other brother, less willing to take instruction, would become jealous. The brothers were fed with equal portions. By the time they were eighteen, the father asked them to participate in the family barbecue. The brother who used to paint as the good planter actually cooked an excellent lamb brisket with mint sauces. The parents loved it and, in fact, it was the mother’s suggestion. She knew the father loved smoked lamb with mint, garlic and plum sauces. The other brother never sought any suggestions or instruction from either parent and did his own thing with some rib tips and green chinese vegetables. Everybody ate what both brothers prepared because it was good enough to be eaten by anyone on a date with a good watch on but there was a perceived sense of additional approval for the brother who planted as he was told. Sometimes his seed was stolen or created from the sweat of the beans genetically. It was because he sought instruction on what the parents or at least what the mother wanted. The rib tip brother was angry since he bought the same rib tips cooked by an angry chef on TV with a funny European accent. He was sure to be accepted, he thought, and he was certainly accepted for his work but he was found moping. His mother inquired as to the issue or matter and she said, “ Never mind. If you asked what we wanted, we would have told you and there is hope for the barbecue next week. I love you just as much as your brother. Good luck and good night.” The rib tip brother was not satisfied and went to sabotage his planting brother’s old Nintendo game cube and left him with a horrible slippery taste (like the movies)in his yogurt with “something rotten in the state of Denmark.” His mother asked, “ Where is your brother?” He said, “..you know I am your Son’s keeper.” She said, “ That is the right answer. I just finished reading 50 Songs written by the Monkeys. Make sure you ask what we might like for the barbecue and don’t be so hard on yourself as your lack of self-forgiveness and self-loathing will not have the better of you. You can read my 50 songs later. There was always, and still is, a fruit bowl on the table for everyone.” The rib tip brother said “..thanks mom!" and confirmed that he would make a lobster and shrimp dinner next time in keeping with his mother’s request; since all things are made good. He felt really loved just for asking and touched by her gracious handling of his infertile emotions. In a few years, the rib tip brother went away and spent his father’s assets associate with the the family home. He was the youngest brother and hung out with too many women who wanted to use him for his money. He was 5’ 7” tall. He was found hanging out with some piggish women(they kept sticking their tongues out as if they did not know the tongue was for a nice disposition in conversation)and their backup dudes in a bar when his father disavowed him and denied any knowledge of his presence in that lonely place. He called home and his father said,”…It is not so easy to be patient but it is easy to be angry; why so angry? Come home and have a good fertile and settled life with one nice woman who is a cashier at my cash and grab store.” The son agreed since he realised that you can have many play-stations but each system plays the same game. You might as well be thankful and work with one who is thoroughly and well updated with the current system programming, structured for consistency, good responses and treats the game player as the game wishes to be treated with the new interactive features; so personal. His favourite game was Leviathan( 10 rules of communal living anniversary edition with the magna carta extension pak) He went home and the planter brother was a bit upset since he always did as he was told and had his parent’s approval. Why be nice to this angry boy who was never thankful for the fruit bowl on the table. It took time to purchase that fruit and to wash it. His father explained that there was not any need for the planting son to be jealous since the father would treat them with the same hug of ownership if they went off the farm or family game reservation; offering a nice local lady for some kinship should they choose to accept. The father promised to be precise with the offers should any such endeavour arise. They were both joint heirs in their father's house with no need for competitiveness. The difficulty is that the rib tip brother failed to believe that the father had any special reason or instruction for him to be around. He sought that sense of purpose he witnessed in others while rejecting any thought or quest to find his own but his father would have told him if he asked. The rib tip brother felt his own self-rejection(with the temptation to kill, steal and destroy) and inquired accordingly. He was a joint heir as his father said. There was no need to doubt it. Why did they not understand? The local girls liked his or their taste in food anyway; sweet and sour or salt, pepper and garlic. They both played professional soccer well. With this explanation, everyone in the town decided to be friends that stick closer than a brother.

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There is a woman who liked the colour blue...

There was a woman who liked the colour blue. - With her life, she was not sure what to do. - With relationships, she had only one motive. - That was to play out familial patterns and dynamics she learned from her parents that usually kept her in a panic. - She met a man who chose what he wanted; a family that did not play out patterns that left children and spouses just daunted. - No one had to be the powerful and dominant figure necessarily. - What about partners like what was suggested by  the TV show Harriete and Ozzie?  

- Ward and June Cleaver were like adopted parental figures.

- He had no other expectations of himself since they treated each other as they expected their children and mutual home projects to be top happy winners. - You always win when thankful. -   There is nothing more to say. It is important to forgive what you did not like or else you will repeat it in your own family and life some way.

- Time to break the cycle in your home and family expectations. - The only way to do this is to take time and love who you were with, always being gracious.   With yourself, be gentle and patient.  

Your android needs water for fuel; much like you. It is created in your form and image but it might not write music like you do.

Do you know that your android will run on hydrogen and water as fuel for the fuel cell power supply? Well, don't you run on water? The android has to be as realistic as possible. So, let's keep the water clean for the sake of your beloved androids. They want to help and you can see the prototypes soon that will serve you and your friends coffee and dinner. They will also do the laundry but you need to buy the dirty clothing basket accessories for the android that will allow the new family machine to lift the basket and your burden without issue. It will also order pizza via a bluetooth link to your mobile; coming soon and don't be jealous of your neighbours who purchased the gold trim edition. It's just a tool to get from a A to B if you ride on it when fully functional, to do the laundry and to make pizza orders. Ok? Now, as your yoke and burden of household chores is cast on the android to make your yoke easy and your burden light, you will have to spend more time on your self to keep yourself healthy and fit since you will have to do less with yourself but you need to love yourself and workout for yourself and on yourself. Please see the documentary of the week.

The Movie of the Week: At First Sight( 1999)

Click the title. Please also see a similar movie focussed on the issues that concern everyone of us when we look into the mirror. Also try "Just Friends" and it will make lots of sense because you are not supposed to kiss a friend but your partner There are two methods to most simple equations. Both equations when it comes to relationships should involve a common factor of friendship. If not, you are just a perfect department store shopper. Is it for GI Joe or for Ken. Notice that they are built in the same uh molded design with a few differences; give or take an inch -after all!?! You have all you need. Just Friends- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG0CLhgwcho

Magnets for Christmas...

You might wish to buy your husband or boyfriend a precious and thoughtful gift for Christmas. There are many out there and you are not being selfish if you get him something more personal than a playstation joystick or $350.00 head phones that are just a "respect magnet" on the public transit. You could also buy him a bible, book on Classical(Erasmus) or French philosophy(Rousseau) or a book of great thought and consideration that is also an equivalent "respect magnet". Everyone is going to watch in amazement as you read and grow wondrously. A bible is just a book of faith. It would not be ministry to say so but just a matter of categorical fact. A hug in private is a "respect magnet" evidently for some covetous types who think about you too much from 50-100 miles away or on the otherside of the world somewhere. You could also buy shoes or you could buy a watch of some kind for this special man that you have decided to cherish with a personal gift. You could also buy a sweater or a ring that would be really noticeable or a pair of shoes that your girlfriends will notice obviously right away or a bracelet. He is your GI Joe and he will be there and also quite faithful even when you have to just do something somewhat playfully, just a little, with your colleague in the cubicle next door. He is a good GI Joe and has no mind or energy to be jealous (presuming you are keeping your cosmo trists (trysts are always wrong(cosmo trist) when you have a committed partner) at work a secret-he is not asking and he is not prone to jealousy but to avoid any hypocritcal and hurtful situation. Just tell him who you are. He is not interested in what you call a "drama". "Drama" has a definition and it's best for a soap opera on television. Are you on TV? Do you want attention? Have lunch together and laugh a lot. That is a good source of attention). He is not prone to take an offer from the refreshment counter girl at the big game when he attends with you or his friends. He noticed that most soda cans have a standard gauge and your desire for faithfulness is the same as every other young lady who uh played with GI Joe. He must have cherished you. What did the neighbour suggest you ought to do with him since he is not so uh typical looking for his height, weight and age? Those are just factors of appearance and your neighbour's husband of 30 years wasn't so typical in appearance. His nose wasn't as nice as the nose of the big muscle actor displayed in the photo taped in every girl's school locker; some guy's lockers also these days because of bad fruitloops laced with strontium 90 atmospherically ; so I was told. But, your neighbour decided to fight off the negativity. Nobody wanted her to have a good friend around either. The question is, in light of your many choices for a good friend, what do you want and do you have someone with whom you can grow?

Aristotle said that man is a social animal. But, the real question is why he had anytime to think about it or write it down. It is probably because he took some time away from his shire or town and ended up getting a hug from a house cat that strolled by that quiet place of great introspection. If he had an android smart phone with social networking programs and apps, he might not have noticed that man was a social animal. But, the house cat would have told him anyway in spite of the smart phone with social networking functions since it will pass by to give you a touch quite often. This is what the average social house cat will do. Then, it goes home. This is just a matter of historical fact that Moses spent some time in isolation and received, by inspiration as the account tells us, ten rules/codes of communal living. There is a new code for phones coming out that will speed up video play. It was numbered apparently as Job 31. It works quite well with sports, cooking shows, music videos and any other source of video playback on a smart phone or for android touch screen tablets and laptops; Android for laptop coming soon. The question for most product designers is "..who do you love?" They wanted to know. But, the real question of the successful suitor for the consumer is "..who does the suitor love?" If you love the consumer, then you will give your product to them and they will accept it for its obvious value. You must believe you have value before you can give it away to the consumer. It is quite gracious. The value will be appreciated for its intrinsic elements that withstand the changing fashions and shapes of time. If it is a phone, it will communicate well. If it is a computer, it will adapt well with new peripherals or programs. The computer can be programmed adaptively to suit the consumer and user. Consumers want to be used by computers in terms of feedback for new programs and products. Computers want to be used by consumers or at least the computer's designers and manufacturers wants to see sales and use. There is agreement because of the obvious value and the obvious communication; the intrinsic value that never fades.

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Movie of the Week

The upcoming movies for this week are Paradise(1982) and Ruby in Paradise (1993). This is subject to change. They will be reviewed carefully to determine the suitability of the material in light of the titles as noted. There is a plan to have this service migrate to Wordpress where there will be fewer potential service interruptions. The movie of the week will appear as links in articles. Please see this week's movie right here as Bodyguards and Assassins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNbjr6Kys5Y&feature=player_detailpage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNbjr6Kys5Y&feature=player_detailpage

There was a young woman who raised her children on her own. She did this until they were quite grown. She denied herself to raise them and put aside some of her personal hopes. In fact, she had a dream of spending time mastering special sail boats. A friend of hers came along and encouraged her to take time to reflect. When the children are grown and you did all on your own, its time to think about giving to yourself to have that peace of soul, that inner rest. At that time, the purpose is not to deny yourself to raise the children but to deny yourself to be in tune with the chord of music and purpose that rhymes with your most genuine( drug and alcohol free) emotions and self. Live for that greater purpose that is just almost out of this world in origin. You were programmed at birth most likely. You have written 30 songs and you might write 80 more. Singing 30 songs is great and now you have the time to learn how to play at least one instrument by registering for that part-time college class; so amazing with this time and life on your hands. Wow! It's just great to know you decided to truthfully find the way and life right in the palm of your favorite book and the songs. Your name is AMG (Always Making Good) like the car powered by a hydrogen fuel cell. It's time to play your music if not just write some more with new inspiration. Go ahead and be your happy self. You are the perfect shopper; remember? Try loving something that is already yours in your closet since you uh left it right there. You wanted a cover or a sheet but you had to appreciate it or hallow it. It's still yours.

As a matter of etymology...

The word "sin" means mistake. It does not mean "habit" or "practice" but you have to think and ask who would want to practice a mistake or have a "mistake/sin" on a habitual basis? Isn't there someone around like a wife, child, or your own "self" that might be under some effect of such a habit or skill? This is not a cultural or religious discussion. It is just a matter of etymology. The name "Artful Dodger" is appropriate in its application to the character in an old novel entitled Oliver Twist about orphaned children. They may have learned how to use cell phones, programs and computers to get your attention. Someone is hurting somewhere when money is missing from the Nike Store gift card given to them by someone who at least cared very much almost like a real family member that they would find a job a few times in life if not live until a ripe old age.

Celebrations and milestones are important in the journey. You can't live for more than a 100 years approximately. Every marker is a trophy of personal achievement. After the achievement, such as a new collector's card, comic book, first serious companion where you felt like risking your plan to be a professional athlete and just joining the local tree farm as uh planter, you can say you grew and had a good reason to celebrate. The celebration always comes after the milestone if you think about it. Now, why do people learn to walk? It is so that they don't have to have someone carry them and they should learn. Why do people laugh or smile? Why do people exchange pats on the back after a good assist in a passing game? Why do you have games? You have games to interact. Some people decide to get married because intimacy is a good thing. Some people decide to just be single because they might not interact so well. It is easier that way if they haven't learned how to pass( give forgiveness and receive forgiveness) because every pass may just be precise or it might be a little off sometimes, like a joke or the family dinner with too much salt. Ultimately, the goal for the game is unity if not winning. So pass well whether you live with someone or not because you are here and so is your team mate or the member of your greater community. You must have gotten the pamphlet in the mail about the local pool schedule changing for the open recreational swim; because everybody is invested regardless of religious or political affiliation. It is tripartisan, much like the lunar and successful Mars probes since it takes a lot of unity, interaction and commitment every day with common purpose to get that probe up there everyday like a marriage. So, Celebrate everyday with a candle maybe. It was a milestone( the probe, that is) for the future reality of appreciating the only home we can confidently identify as home for all of Abraham's children. This is not a religious point. It is exciting and the next time, the probe will be launched from space; the international space station with the tourist level with weekly flights and shipments from earth. They designed the "land and take-off" re-entry space vehicles between 44 and 59 years ago. Be great and let's launch that probe to Venus in 20 tears or so. I mean 20 years with a fleet of FCEV's in every city's bus garage across the entire state, shire, or maybe the globe with an update( mandatory) to the ISO 2001 platform; so many happy feelings and less lead in the atmosphere and other pollutants that make people anti-social and less playstationish. I mean to say interactive. Mars is not so impregnable or fertile but Venus might me. Men are from earth, the male and female version of men. Let's have a pyjama party. Don't forget to ask your friend what is in his back pocket( pack of gum, gum or android phone)? Did you get married just for a milestone? Celebrate often and touch the android phone because buying a new android phone and a divorce are milestones in themselves.

There was a nice lady who painted a new baby room. With her husband, she did not know what to do; partner him in squash, raising children and some livestock or hinder him in his purpose as an artist that creatively recycles colourful plastic and crystal blocks. Why not both, she decided since the goal is not to create that story about water falls; that old chinese proverb where the couple jumps in proof of their love and also rebellion against the local temple teacher who said "..have a little patience and take some communal advice since the baby will not be the immediate answer to your weekly intake that includes Steak, Chicken, Green beans, Chocolate balls ( optional) and rice. See your prayers and petitions for cash to buy livestock right away..livestock first and baby second is okay."

A young veterinarian candidate raised many puppies to perfection. She believed that all puppies were just dogs though that would just go home with anyone. There were ten puppies always in the wings vying for the top job; that is to be strolled and fed Alpo(TM) or the store brand food (they also have good store brand potatoes and lettuce-it's true!) with affection everyday. But, she only really wanted one for training( but walking and barking doesn't really require training though-so controlling- but learning dog show tricks is quite alright!). A nice puppy with good demeanour was chosen; with studious puppy eyes. He was a pretty good choice, being genuine in friendship. He was told to focus on the task and not to cheat when he looked at another veterinarian but he looked only because they walked passed the front door of the Bread, Milk and Smoke store with the future extension map where he was asked to sit faithfully.  The veterinarian was in the store buying little stuffed animals, almost like the real thing, that would keep the other puppies back at the kennels riveted and focused in the veterinarian's direction. The puppy at the front door felt a little jilted maybe as she forgot  he was sitting there keeping his instructions in mind; faithfully. But, this is how the veterinarian felt, you see, since they were noticeable like most veterinarians in green veterinarian scrubs with the owl crest on the golf shirt. The veterinarian stood out because she remembered what was most important. It had nothing to do with the green, attention grabbing scrubs. They would have stood out even if the scrubs were uh black or uh white; so many happy feelings. The veterinarian saw the puppy at the door, anticipating the moment of reuniting. It was the happy look in his eye; his tongue wagging. She decided to turn back and make sure she bought that faithful puppy the biggest toy; only by a centimetre really but he felt like he was the gold collared puppy and also appreciated as he had the top job in being faithful (he told the other veterinarians not to ask for his paw for walking any longer). She gave him the toy and they walked in the park happily forever after.

There was a uh nature loving person, yes person, who struggled to forgive anyone for their perceived misdeeds. He could not forgive the clouds for the rain or the sun for too much sunshine or his father for failing to remember the Quaker Oats ( One cup in the microwave will do the heart a lot of good!). He could not forgive his mother for forgetting the fabric softener sheets that made the football uniform nice and soft; snugly fresh. So, when asked what was the problem affecting their game, they said the family forgot a few things. They were asked if they could forgive and they said no. They were asked if they could forgive themselves. They said you can't forgive what is already free of fault. The impartial friend confirmed that they were almost right. If they were free of fault, this would have to be true for every person that they would not forgive or chose not to forgive. They accepted that they forgot their football shorts at home once and were unable to help the team in practise and for that, they could not forgive themselves. The impartial friend suggested that if you can't forgive anyone else, try forgiving yourself. Then you can forgive others. They realised that they had recurring visions of an incident in childhood when oatmeal was stuffed down their throat with a voice that said "have some more; more!!" They responded by saying "Please sir or madam; I don't want some more." They, in fact, would always tell people habitually after that incident not to stuff stories or quotes of wisdom from M. Scott Peck ( and others) down their throat. So the impartial friend said why don't you stuff a little oatmeal(the zero alcohol recipe-some old recipes ask for a a few caps of rum to keep the cold off)down your throat; may be a 1/10 of a spoon more than what you would usually uh consume and see if you can forgive yourself. The nature loving person tried this and it didn't work. They chose not to forgive themselves. The impartial friend said they should try being their own best friend maybe and see if it works with an oat bar. The nature loving person said they would try just that; just might turn out. After twenty years, they forgave themselves for the oats and the bar, the missing part of the uniform and the family members who they blamed for forgetting little things. They also accepted that the sun shines and the rain falls and that you can react any way you want. It is likely to rain and the sun will shine and sun again; but never so perfect. When was it really perfect?

It's in the greeting card section....with a perfect card to say how you feel! The greeting card writer took your advice at the coffee shop.

Many civilisations had codes of communal living since the people were living in close proximity. The codes made it obvious that any citizen, truly imbued with his own humanity, could empathise with how his neighbour might feel in certain circumstances or situations; good or bad. There are times when sensitivity can become inhumane. For instance, a writer or athlete with certain poetic licence may communicate something and the audience my have two opinions on the issue. The audience may not realise how something obviously meant to encourage or support or achieve a common goal of enlightened communal humanity may be reduced to the negative. But, that was not the intention or else they would not have bothered to remind someone of the great virtues that lay within communal values. Feelings can focus on empathy or the focus on the sadistic. It is about maintaining community and as such codes and rules of communal living were written to keep everyone safe and to guide those handed the awesome and expensive task of ensuring that everyone is safe and secure in the market, in school, on the road walking home from the milk and bread shop and in their homes. Without such codes, it takes a lot of work to keep the citizens that support the said civilisation safe. There is also some need for enforcement or else civilisation reverts to the "Lord of the Flies" or "Lord Humongous." When that happens, the only right you need by the common sense given to every intuitive being is the right to self-protection, protection of one's children, parents and possessions. We may appreciate how people feel if they are treated with the underlying expectations of such codes; that they will be treated as we wish to be treated. We may appreciate how people feel when they are not treated in that fashion. Hence, the civil rights movements of the last century confirm that the obvious need for a successful and balanced society was abundant. Many will argue that the need has not diminished and new, less evident forms of fascism based on orientation or religion have created new imbalances. But, if you accept everyone as you wish to be accepted you won't notice these imbalances very often unless someone takes offence to the presence of a bible in your vehicle or maybe a cross. In any event, the lesson for some is that there are school attendees, whether or not they are graduates, who were raised believing that they must let the entire community become responsible for any perceived scuffs on their blue suede shoes. Nobody knows them really but they want you to know how they feel about everything and as such they are their own God as they try to be yours as well. But, no one can live forever in spite of the strength of their emotions, self-importance, the idolatry of their own opinions and feelings. Political correctness was about balance but it should have been an educative decision to know one's self and his neighbour, possibly the collective contributions of every culture and community to society but more importantly to respect one's humanity and that of his neighbour. You know how you might feel if someone shoots your dog in front of you. You know how you might feel and how they might feel if you shoot their dog in front of them. Hence, the codes of communal living help us to know how to treat others and what treatment we should reasonably expect from others. They may help us to respect our one living and breathing global habitiat; the earth as our home. Briefly put, such codes save time and money for those who keep us safe in the community. They have a tremendous job to do and that is why you can sleep in your bed at night without a 24 hour watch; for now anyway unless someone forgets to pay those hard working keepers of the peace accessible by a free three digit call in most countries these days; thank goodness! I would have said thank God or providence but everybody, regardless of faith, says that these days.

Nobody can reject you.  God made you good.  God made you good and you are accepted! Be genuine with the conscience He gives and acknowledge it when prompted. This is relationship.  This is confession. This is the essence of your relationship with your creator.

The thing about commitment is that it helps to confirm an outcome or destination such that there is no careening from side to side or swerving. For instance, Little Red Riding Hood was a little lost but she left crumbs on her journey that would help to remind her of the way home. She met a wolf who promised lots of deceptive self-fulfillment and satisfaction for an insecure and ready ego. But, he really wanted to have her for uh uhm dinner. She was patient and decided to find the way back. But, she wavered at first and a few birds came to eat some crumbs on her path home. This delayed her return to safety. She decided to commit as the birds sung by the side of her bangs, that she should really just commit. She committed and found her way home rather quickly and returned to the safe place where she could make better plans for the next journey and with a specific destination. She decided to be a nurse, committed to the journey and made the right plan; all done in 4 years and safe like home.

You wonder sometimes how or why we have products like Peanut Butter or Nutella. It takes thought and preparation. See the most recent ad for bodyform and its intrinsic serenity about truth. It stresses humanity's universality. But, it must be because a lot of people or women liked the taste of uh nuts. Every product has a purpose or role to play. It was designed with purpose. Let us not take these productive products for granted or forget that someone took time to create them. It's good to be thankful.

The Dominance of Loooooong in the Age of Short Read more: Longform Stories Dominate over Short - By Tom Junod on Writing Long Stories -

Published in the October 2013 80th Anniversary issue - www.esquire.com 

We live in a time of short attention spans and long stories. The short attention spans are seen as inevitable, the consequence of living our lives in thrall to flickering streams of information. The long stories are the surprise, as is the persistence of the audience for them.

I would submit that these are not contradictory phenomena but rather connected. Our attention spans have become shorter because there are more and more claims upon them — more information, more complexity; more stories, more stuff; more. We understand this because we experience it; as we try to keep up with what's coming in, we can feel things we once deemed essential going away.

What we do not understand — what we only sense — is that even the most fragmentary information is connected to something larger in the most literal way. The very emblem of our contested cultural awareness is, of course, the tweet; but tweets often come with links, and links often come with stories, and all of those tweets and all of those stories are stored in data centers that tell stories we can't begin to imagine. "Data" sounds small; but data, by its nature, is big, and when "Big Data" enthusiasts rave about the "massive data sets" now at their disposal, they are really investing their faith in a new kind of storytelling, an endless tale of all byall, a collective narrative subject not to control but only analysis.

The stories have gotten larger, then, even though we experience them as smaller. And we have responded by making them longer.

It is one of the paradoxes of our age: We complain that we don't have any time. Our storytellers proceed as if we have nothing but. Our directors seem incapable of making a movie less than two and a half hours long, our novelists of writing a book less than 400 pages. And Stephen King, who was once our Brothers Grimm, is now our Dumas, asking if books 1,000 pages long can still properly be called potboilers. In journalism, what used to be characterized as "narrative" or "literary" or "new" journalism is now described simply as "long form," as if length were the trait that supersedes all others. The magazine article, always a supremely elastic form, has at once shrunk into the "listicle" and expanded into the "Kindle Single" or the "Byliner Original" or the "interactive" multimedia extravaganza designed not to be read but rather experienced in a variety of ways, depending on how much time we have and how much we are willing to give — with time, indeed, the constraining variable instead of simply length.

There is some inflation here, to be sure — nobody has ever watched a superhero movie wishing it were longer, and rare is the journalist who hasn't faced the challenge of the digital era by thinking that at least he no longer has to face the challenge of compression. But taken as a trend, the persistence of long form at a time when it's been declared dead is a hopeful thing, not a trend at all but evidence that humans, as a race, are at last learning how to take our own complexity into account as we stumble into infinity, digital and otherwise. And nowhere is the appreciation of our own complexity better demonstrated than in the vast and vastly ambitious story cycles that have come to dominate television. Breaking Bad, Homeland, Game of Thrones, et al.: These, like the bottom-scraping reality shows that provide their counterpoint, show how the collapse of one business model (network television) and the rise of another (cable) inevitably change the way stories are told, for better and for worse. The plight of a genius driven to fashion a story that not only imitated but also replicated the rhythms of real life made for, in Synecdoche, New York, a terrible movie; but something like the same ambition — or the same opportunity — has made for historically great television… television, indeed, that does what movies no longer deign to do, which is tell us something essential about ourselves.

Writers and producers changed the way they made television shows in response to the changes in the way television shows were broadcast; and the changes in how television shows were made changed the way we consumed television shows until at last Netflix came along and started making television shows that weren't television shows at all but rather long, episodic stories we can consume any damned way we please. This is not just how we watch now; this is how we live, and this, with any luck, is how magazines that still tell stories will figure out how to keep telling them in the digital future. The premise and promise of Big Data is that there are no stories, only patterns; that the human preference for story is aligned with the human tendency for error; and that only through dislocations in scale — the scale of sample size and of time — will truth emerge. But that's also the premise and promise of Mad Men, and, in any case, it's just another story in itself. Storytellers all, we humans might run out of time even as we triumph over the problem of running out of space. But we will never run out of stories.

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There is a woman who came to Ontario, California for a young man's seed. She said she had a strong need. She went to his girlfriend who saved the prophylactics. The woman sought to buy one for as much as it costs to cross first class over the Atlantic. They were full of seed of course but it was really sad since the girlfriend was jealous and a little crazy; mad! She put bleach in the little rubber receptacle and the child came out looking for his spectacles. No one can understand her determination or the fact that she did not know that, after 72 hours, the seed suffers fermentation. She will have to be content with her decicion she was in relationship with her own choice. One good thing is that the son had a good speaking voice. She had faith to have a child but not a husband and even a man who does not believe in anything is still believing. This is what she told her son also known as (a.k.a.) her husband. He was The Man Who Wasn't There (2001). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTOFIQkjXV4&list=TL-Tz_nCW8KlF2v-WtN-DGoJggdN3-it_C https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTOFIQkjXV4&list=TL-Tz_nCW8KlF2v-WtN-DGoJggdN3-it_C https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnuHJ00y8iU

A Regenerative strategy or resource recycling is not a new phenomenon. It started with Teddy Roosevelt( President) who realised that the cost of building the Panama canal was regenerative in that it would save the North American economies, indcluding Mexico, Billions of future dollars on import costs. It, in fact, saved the world economy billions while creating various jobs at the time that benefited many homes and families. This brilliant logic from an American pioneer was used to design various products such as CFL bulbs. It is rumored that someone once made the following comment while researching plastics made from plant materials and used by Ford in some of their vehicle designs. They said, "...bullets and other weapons for safeguarding civil liberties don't buy food but they may help to give reason to finance new buildings and bridges and artificial limbs. They also cost as much as 5x8 loaves of high quality bread."

Unmanned mechanical hearts must cost as much as a smart bomb. It's not a bad yet certainly renewable investment on Happy Kind and Gentle Community Care in the United Shires of American States. Don't forget to stop at Hardee's for a spicy Hot Dripping burger. $30.00 per month captured by the Shire government through each adult citizen provides an excellent pool of assets to hire millions of people and it fuels and expands an existing industry controlled and owned by arms of the Military Industrial complex( they make air freshener and fridges also) whose sole purpose is to safeguard that shire-like, neighbourly way of life in Wisconsin. You can ask a happy Hobbit or a person from Milwaukee or the suburbs of Cincinnati; same thing. It should be free health but nothing is really free though. Britain has a seamless backload system. In recent months, there are reports of an unusual virus causing 600 more deaths on average per month. This has nothing to do with the fact that they design good shoes there. This is a frontload system as seen in the United Shires of American States. So, taking $30.00 amounts to billions a month that will be used infrequently since most people would prefer to be at Key West getting drunk with a Hardee's burger dripping from the mouth and not in hospital. That is all. This is synonymous with the cool, slim, shady lawns of those American dreams; that is with Lipitor in the medicine cabinet.

No one is guaranteed to live up to 18 years of age or older so enjoy the free education and choose some purpose. Take it easy. After each hour of study, play some music for about five minutes. You got to rest the READY ACCESS MEMORY somewhat. The choice is a beginning and it will motivate you as you learn and grow with the outlook of being a productive member of society. You may find that your strengths lie in your natural giftings for languages or mathematics and that you may not be a people person, so instead of being a nurse or surgeon, you may choose to be a ghost writer instead of a journalist or the engineer or computer programmer instead of a doctor. Somewhere in between these various giftings are three or four career environments that include banks or insurance companies. Your goal is not to treat your children, when you have them,as functions of your insecurity should you speak to them any way you wish but as responsibilities or friends but certainly as individuals that you will treat in the same way you wish your parents treated you (The adage that one should do unto others as you would have them do unto you applies to children-see Mother Goose or th golden rule. It is not necessarily biblical but it seems to work in the classroom, on the roadway, football fields, playing fields and in most homes). Who was Anakin Skywalker's father anyway? A good tutor, Sunday School or Academy Teacher should have been enough if he had a divided home like many these days.