Tears are a river…

April 7, 2013 by 22 Comments

 

“Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better.”  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

 

Laughing, until your sides hurt, with someone closest to your heart.  Joyful tears that etch happy memories within your being.

Crying, uncontrollably, not able to sleep.  Painful tears that stab at us in the darkness.  Sometimes, for no reason at all, more often, because of so much we want to forget.

Anger that unleashes tears of protest, defiance…or sorrow.  We cry over the injustices in our world, those directed at us and the unspeakable tragedies we cannot control.

This river of life takes each of us on a voyage that twists and bends in so many emotional directions.  As we coast along the way,  the current drives us to the next resting spot where we close our eyes and wait for tears to fall again.  And take us..somewhere.

 

 

 

 

 

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Smiles..in the shadows

February 9, 2013 by 6 Comments

Right now, I’m on weather-overload after watching endless updates on the massive storm that hit the Northeast.  During the night, as the wind howled, I looked outside to see powerful swirls of snow sweeping across the front lawn.  There was a strange sense of calm as the world outside shivered under an icy blanket of white.  Times like these find me doing a lot of thinking.  And remembering.

Last year saw an end to special things in my life.    Some I understand while other situations make no sense.  Loss, on any level, never does.  And, it’s not about me, as I’m often reminded  For the most part, I’m an outsider to so much of what I’m unable to control.  Still, there are many things that I wish could be changed.  Facing one’s mortality creates a desire to bring an element of peace and structure to those we love. The need to leave something positive behind.   Selfish, I know.  For me, it’s like not leaving the house until the beds are made, dishes done and door securely locked.  Call it my need to tie up all the loose ends in my life.

Early this morning, I sat as the darkness of night surrendered to a new day.  Smiles peeked from the shadows and I recalled certain laughter that once echoed through my home.  For a brief time, there had been a sense of completeness with friends you could count on and a family that was growing. 

People change and move on, often, for good reasons.  Other relationships end on an opposite note and I find myself spending countless hours trying to understand the dynamics of why it happened.  All I can come up with is that we give up too easily sometimes.  Or, maybe, some things just aren’t worth the fight.

At this point in my life, yes, I’m selfish.  I wanted so much more.  More than just smiles..in the shadows.

 

 

 

 

 

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An invasion of privacy…

January 6, 2013 by 4 Comments

Information about myself, or my family, that I make available on this blog, or social media, is MY choice.  I fully understand the downside, the consequences; what I share is entirely with my discretion.  That being stated, and with direct reference to the reprehensible actions of our local newspaper, The Journal News,  in publishing personal data on legally-registered gun owners in Westchester/Rockland counties in New York, turning then to demand the same info from Putnam County, frankly, it’s “game on” against this rag of a publication and its editors. 

The ironic part of this situation is that the so-called “journalist” responsible for writing the article, Dwight Worley, is himself a registered pistol permit holder, who owns a Smith & Wesson 686 .357 Magnum and has had a residence permit in Queens, New York for that handgun since February 2011; Worley had no problem in spearheading the news release that put thousands of residents in other New York counties, in peril.

Not one of my friends or blog readers has to agree with me on the subject of firearms, that is your personal choice; mine is to project the educated, legal and responsible side of being a gun owner, a Pistol Safety Instructor and a Range Safety Officer.  The Journal News, twice in six years, has elected to portray the gun-owning community as criminals by abusing the FOIL, for solely commercial purposes, in publishing names and addresses of permit holders, including maps of the neighborhoods where these citizens live.  Many of these citizens are law enforcement individuals; many are people with Orders of Protection who are legal gun owners.  As much as the Gannett newspaper chain is seeking to justify their actions, thanks to Dennis Sant, Putnam County Clerk, who recently, adamantly,  refused requests from The Journal News to hand over data on permit holders here in Putnam,  the newspaper is now being legally challenged.

This is NOT about the Second Amendment; this is NOT about guns.  It is about the violation of personal privacy and subsequent personal safety; it is about how the FOIL is used…and abused.

While I stand with everyone who feels there needs to be more refinement in just who has access to firearms/types of firearms, more intensive background checks/mental screenings, plus extreme firearm safety education,  I firmly stand against anyone who violates the personal safety of a law-abiding citizen in any community.

As such, I’m asking everyone to please cancel any subscriptions to The Journal News, either newspaper delivery or on-line access to the publication…as well as anything published by the Gannett Company chain.  

Keep in mind that, at any time, your personal information can be made public should this, or any, publication decide to run an article, on any subject, using the FOIL as their gateway. 

Please… Boycott The Journal News,  Boycott…the Gannett Company and…Boycott any Advertisers from these publications.

 

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.» – Benjamin Franklin

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