Love

Loving for a payback?
What is love? So many people have turned this into a "4 letter word", using it only to create a reaction. Love is said too much for the purpose of selfish gratification. Not because it is genuine. So many seem to forget that real love, pure love is, well, God-like love. It is unconditional. Accepting ... boring.
To have compassion seems to be harder for some people than working an 80 hour work week.

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."

-- Oscar Wilde

When you sling mud, you lose ground.

-- Adlai Stevenson

On Air

Implications everywhere
around me on the floor.

Breathe me in 'cause I'm on air
and dripping down your door.

Inspiration melts in me
and blends into my core.

With powers from the blessed be
bleeding into more.

Melinda Marinko

Everybody Is a Roof Dog At One Time or Another

The media and those whom upon a finger rests, call it a "blame game".
Who is at fault for the disregard for human life?

Think about this: We have witnessed the fallout from a Hurricane!

The tragedy of a War Administration.

Can you even fathom the reality that our troops have, and still are, facing worse conditions deployed to New Orleans than they endured in Iraq, Afghanistan etc., when it comes to having their basic needs met? Hygeine, Food, Shelter, Comfort.
In Iraq they bunked in airconditioned tents. The had a fully staffed and stocked mess hall. Showers every night. It took over 3 days for 13,000 troops from oregon to have a litrine to use while cleaning up Katrinas mess. As of Last night, still no shower.
This is day 8 now. Meals ready to eat..."k-rations" is only food.
The heat humidty is comparable to an armpit... Seriously!
Now imagine being a resident down there. The end of your world playing out before you. Powerless. Scared. In pain. Alone.
"Evacuation orders" .... yet....no where to go. and/or No way to.
If I lived there I would have been with all of them. Because of my monetary status.

See how it is? Money is the root of all.............
PERIOD!


Dare I ask?
Are we powerless like the roof Dogs to change what has become the most threatening and Tyranical Leadership of the United States?

Poignant Quotes

"You can't say civilizations don't advance...in every war they kill you
in a new way."
-- Will Rogers

"If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian
control of the military."
-- Harry S. Truman

"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a
garage makes you an automobile."
-- Billy Sunday

It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
-- William Clinton

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
-- Anais Nin

"Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography."
--Paul Rodriguez

When I die, I want to die like my grandfather--who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his bus."
--Jack Handy (and Me)

"My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'"
--Paula Poundstone (and Me)

Enough Money

Somewhere there is light… in me. There has to be.

Picture

http://tessing2.blogspot.com/

Transient Tie Up Facility

I was living in my van down by the river 

until they posted this sign:

I couldn't be tied up at that time so I left.