Picture it; September 19th 2012 after 12 noon and the news was giving a complete rundown where Endeavor the space shuttle would be traveling on it's final journey. Like most things on the television much of the time it's more background company that you catch the more important parts only. I heard "the shuttle is now passing over Disney Land," and my ears perked right up as I went to my balcony. I figured I could see from my second story in the distance the shuttle, even if it did look small like the size of the hot wheels cars stolen from me. Just being able from a distance to know and say "I saw it," no matter what size thrilled me.
This is why I equated it to the cliff hanger, as I was facing to the street after turning at first it was just a beautiful blue sky, then a couple seconds....bam there was the shuttle.
I have always liked those cliff hanger movies and ( Douglas Wickards "A Perfect Husband " ) making what happened next more amazing than it normally would have been.
Like in a movie where a person or people on a cliff then all the sudden a helicopter appears momentarily and scares them, in my case it startled me but it delighted me so much more. An awe inspiring moment in time just like that first time I watched it leave the earth.
I looked towards Disney seeing only a clear beautiful blue sky I pivoted to the right to turn around to go back into my apartment when bam there it was the shuttle so low I think I could have touched it. On the tail of the plane carrying the shuttle were the words NASA and until that moment I didn't know that it was NASSA's plane as well as the shuttle being theirs. A "ONCE IN A LIFE TIME" and I got to experience it from start to finish. I also got a better view of it in that few short seconds then if I had gone somewhere to see it, I never had to leave my home.
I thought it would pass back through so my neighbor who now had joined me on the common patio went into our apartments to fetch camera's. We watched in the sky for it's return pass through to get a hopefully wonderful picture and we went down to the sidewalk for a while watching the sky and then back to the patio. Our TVs still on with the news announcing I hear " Endeavor will be landing in a few minutes." I guess that picture will remain the one I have in my minds eye that I can share verbally or written form.
No matter, I didn't get the photo but so many were taken anyway and the incredible mental picture and experience will always be mine to own and along with the amazing way it made me feel inside my soul.
When things that wonderful happen in my life I usually take my pulse to make sure I am all right ha, ha because it's rare something this wonderful happens in my life.
The list is a limited list over a life time of amazing things that have taken place in my life and six would be my two children and four grand children for starters. Like most people I welcome events like this in fact beg for moments in time like this just to have the amazing feeling that it gives birth to.
What a name what an inspirational name, ENDEAVOR and it was so appropriate as the end of endeavour is DEVOUR and that is what ENDEAVOR DID SHE DEVOURED WITH DELIGHT GOING INTO SPACE and in the words of the wonderful Bob Hope "Thanks for the Memories."
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Monday, September 17, 2012
PHOTO SPREAD???? Sei stato un pazzo a farlo
Sei stato un pazzo a farlo> You were crazy to do it..... It was not a photo spread it was invasion of privacy. I cannot believe that there isn't a line some people won't cross for the almighty dollar. What is really amazing is if someone did this to their daughter, mother or their wife they would want to sue or kill them. Why would you do to someone what you would not want done to you? I think someone should take pictures of your wife and you and post them all over the Internet but them I was raised better and know "two wrongs don't make a right, " and so it is just a thought and will remain a thought.
The best that could happen would be for people not to buy the magazine at all. Kate was sunbathing on the terrace of a secluded chateau the key word here is secluded and that says you had to "go out of your way" to be a Peeping Tom. They arrest peeping Tom's until they slap a label on themselves and say they are professional photographers and thankfully they weren't having sex or this disgusting magazine would have sold that to the porn industry. Being Italian I am embarrassed that this is an Italian who has such disrespect for this lovely young girl she isn't Snookey, Britney, or the Kardashians. Shame on you and anyone who buys the magazine.
The best that could happen would be for people not to buy the magazine at all. Kate was sunbathing on the terrace of a secluded chateau the key word here is secluded and that says you had to "go out of your way" to be a Peeping Tom. They arrest peeping Tom's until they slap a label on themselves and say they are professional photographers and thankfully they weren't having sex or this disgusting magazine would have sold that to the porn industry. Being Italian I am embarrassed that this is an Italian who has such disrespect for this lovely young girl she isn't Snookey, Britney, or the Kardashians. Shame on you and anyone who buys the magazine.
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Worlds Apart Yet Evil Travels
We are worlds apart from the violence and yet the evil that kills, steals and destroys travels around the world. Most Americans didn't even know that a movie had been made and yet when we turn on the news and find that people have died and still are dying behind this movie a movie by choice I will never view.
I am at a loss since we are taught to pray for those who commit sin against and thou shalt not kill and yet no prayer just murder. I don't know what this film maker was thinking and don't want to know if it cause people to die. I am so heart broken that human beings can behave this way towards each other no mater what part of the world we live.
The governments around the world are not the people governments rarely do the will of the people, the governments only do enough to satisfy the public. When we are not amused with what our government is doing or not doing we don't run around killing we protest in a civilized manner and legally approach the matter.
The only thing I can say is from all I was told and taught growing up Bible prophecy is being fulfilled, this certainly is how it appears. Here we are America the place that has opened the door to every nation around the world and we are a melting pot. People who aren't happy with their country some are here speaking against their country and for this should we the Americans suffer? When we don't find out till after the fact.
Because of someone elses stupid insensitive behavior others have paid the price and this is heartbreaking.
I can only pray that people come to a peaceful way of thinking and live in this world together no matter what religion you are or are not. "LIVE AND LET LIVE AND LET GOD BE THE JUDGE." Let us human beings learn how to love...
I am at a loss since we are taught to pray for those who commit sin against and thou shalt not kill and yet no prayer just murder. I don't know what this film maker was thinking and don't want to know if it cause people to die. I am so heart broken that human beings can behave this way towards each other no mater what part of the world we live.
The governments around the world are not the people governments rarely do the will of the people, the governments only do enough to satisfy the public. When we are not amused with what our government is doing or not doing we don't run around killing we protest in a civilized manner and legally approach the matter.
The only thing I can say is from all I was told and taught growing up Bible prophecy is being fulfilled, this certainly is how it appears. Here we are America the place that has opened the door to every nation around the world and we are a melting pot. People who aren't happy with their country some are here speaking against their country and for this should we the Americans suffer? When we don't find out till after the fact.
Because of someone elses stupid insensitive behavior others have paid the price and this is heartbreaking.
I can only pray that people come to a peaceful way of thinking and live in this world together no matter what religion you are or are not. "LIVE AND LET LIVE AND LET GOD BE THE JUDGE." Let us human beings learn how to love...
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Robin Roberts
Personally I don't know you, I watch you every single day it is in that context I do know you and everyone else who watches. The journey you have taken and are now taking is the roughest of all, requiring all your spiritual energy and all who love you to feed that positive energy to keep your journey going forward.
The steps you are going through during this bone marrow transplant being isolated so as to not catch any illness because you have no ammune system yet. I feel you Robin I have seen friends with cancer and what they have gone through and my pulse to the world my mother. I daily pray it won't be a journey I will have to take because of my borderline Leukemia and this is why I am praying for you; I know the reality.
Even when I do not personally know a person and they aren't on TV or famous I still pray for them it is just what a person does when you know "but for the grace of God there goeth I." This is why I am compelled to be a "cheer leader" for you Robin and all who face fighting cancer; to encourage you to remain strong and fight. There will be times when all you want to do is just be left alone and do nothing but rest DO IT, REST that is when you heal and get well. This is the time for you to be a bit selfish and focus on Robin getting rest and getting well.
We can't wait till your well and back, till then you follow Dr.'s orders and know we ALL are out here sending you all the positive energy and love we can.
Keep Smiling U
The steps you are going through during this bone marrow transplant being isolated so as to not catch any illness because you have no ammune system yet. I feel you Robin I have seen friends with cancer and what they have gone through and my pulse to the world my mother. I daily pray it won't be a journey I will have to take because of my borderline Leukemia and this is why I am praying for you; I know the reality.
Even when I do not personally know a person and they aren't on TV or famous I still pray for them it is just what a person does when you know "but for the grace of God there goeth I." This is why I am compelled to be a "cheer leader" for you Robin and all who face fighting cancer; to encourage you to remain strong and fight. There will be times when all you want to do is just be left alone and do nothing but rest DO IT, REST that is when you heal and get well. This is the time for you to be a bit selfish and focus on Robin getting rest and getting well.
We can't wait till your well and back, till then you follow Dr.'s orders and know we ALL are out here sending you all the positive energy and love we can.
Keep Smiling U
Friday, September 14, 2012
News Then & Now
I remember when the cow "Bessy," having a calf was front page news and five o'clock news back then our news was "Leave It To Beaver," news. For me the first murder I remember being reported was President John F. Kennedy which not only shocked me but the world and the nation. If there had been any other reported prior to that they didn't register but I am sure there was one or two. There were so few murders back then so if you heard a report about a murder you remembered. Today sadly if the news reported about all of the murders, overdoses and suicides they wouldn't ever report anything else and this is sad.
What is also sad- the last couple of generations will never truly know how wonderful it was back then to be able to feel much safer then we do today. I remember being able to leave the front door open and windows. Left our car windows open and on occasion having to run to roll them up when it started to rain or snow. A time when kids went to school came home did chores homework and behaved. (most of them.)
Penny candy was really a penny, gasoline was a whole lot cheaper, our products really were made in America, We had a thriving auto industry and neighbors really were neighborly. Today candy rarely is a penny, gasoline is so high one persons pay check keeps the cars in gasoline, our products are not made here only a label sewed in here so they can legally label it Made In America, our auto industry is still alive but sometimes I ask "who knows for how long?" Oh and less and less people are as neighborly in fact you no longer know who you can get close to because some people just are not good.
So we somewhat isolate ourselves with the electronic wall, instead of being able to walk in and pay the electric, gas and some other bills in person you have to do it online or by phone. Getting a real person on the phone right away to speak to is like trying to reach the President and I think you could actually reach the President easier.
We have made progress so much in my life time the list is long; like going from radio to black and white television then on to color then from tubes to circuit boards, microwaves, first man on the moon, from albums to eight tracks to VCR's and CD's etc.
There was a time that those who held office may have had self interest but still managed to include the "People" also. Now we are fed more el toro poo poo then ever in history. Now most Americans are starting to behave like its every man/woman for themselves. Instead of the "United We Stand," we have become Divided enough that we very well could fall if we do not return to basics that this country was founded on, built on and have survive on all these years.
So then was no doubt less crime but also less people and now today we have many people to have concern for and it's that fact that makes it more important today that we do our best that we stand up for all Americans and that we prosper again as a country not just the one percent. Now more then ever we must remember who we are, we are AMERICANS THEN AND NOW....
What is also sad- the last couple of generations will never truly know how wonderful it was back then to be able to feel much safer then we do today. I remember being able to leave the front door open and windows. Left our car windows open and on occasion having to run to roll them up when it started to rain or snow. A time when kids went to school came home did chores homework and behaved. (most of them.)
Penny candy was really a penny, gasoline was a whole lot cheaper, our products really were made in America, We had a thriving auto industry and neighbors really were neighborly. Today candy rarely is a penny, gasoline is so high one persons pay check keeps the cars in gasoline, our products are not made here only a label sewed in here so they can legally label it Made In America, our auto industry is still alive but sometimes I ask "who knows for how long?" Oh and less and less people are as neighborly in fact you no longer know who you can get close to because some people just are not good.
So we somewhat isolate ourselves with the electronic wall, instead of being able to walk in and pay the electric, gas and some other bills in person you have to do it online or by phone. Getting a real person on the phone right away to speak to is like trying to reach the President and I think you could actually reach the President easier.
We have made progress so much in my life time the list is long; like going from radio to black and white television then on to color then from tubes to circuit boards, microwaves, first man on the moon, from albums to eight tracks to VCR's and CD's etc.
There was a time that those who held office may have had self interest but still managed to include the "People" also. Now we are fed more el toro poo poo then ever in history. Now most Americans are starting to behave like its every man/woman for themselves. Instead of the "United We Stand," we have become Divided enough that we very well could fall if we do not return to basics that this country was founded on, built on and have survive on all these years.
So then was no doubt less crime but also less people and now today we have many people to have concern for and it's that fact that makes it more important today that we do our best that we stand up for all Americans and that we prosper again as a country not just the one percent. Now more then ever we must remember who we are, we are AMERICANS THEN AND NOW....
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Children Are You Ready?
Children are you ready? Are you really all grown up? Shopping and talking trash running around with an attitude doesn't equal all grown up or ready for the world. So what is it that you have done to prepare yourself to step into our shoes (so to speak)? Will you be able to take the helm and charter the course world you live in?
When your parents grow old and are not as capable or capable at all can they depend on you as you depended on them? Will they be all right if left in your care or will you even care? Will you surprise the critics and rise to the occasion? Do we need to fear those we have cared for nurtured and loved?
This generation and their off spring not all of them go for that brass ring, they are selfish beyond belief and dish out to others so much grief so many are not ready to give the old folk relief. It is our time to take a break to do what we put aside while we cleaned, raised children and baked. For many now who didn't get to save a nest egg because we were taking care of the children of our children we are now in the financial grave.
So children I ask you again "are you ready," to take over where we have left off? Will you sacrifice as we have done and give up things to make it in life? Or will you spend and spend going to bed broke at night. We older folks have put up the "fine fight," and we tried to teach you how but to the money God you all bow. Will I or any old person be safe? Will we live out our lives happy and well; guess what only time will tell.
Every one of us "runs out of time," to life there is no reason or rhym you take it oh yes- you do ONE DAY AT A TIME.
Will you young folks; will you really be fine?
When your parents grow old and are not as capable or capable at all can they depend on you as you depended on them? Will they be all right if left in your care or will you even care? Will you surprise the critics and rise to the occasion? Do we need to fear those we have cared for nurtured and loved?
This generation and their off spring not all of them go for that brass ring, they are selfish beyond belief and dish out to others so much grief so many are not ready to give the old folk relief. It is our time to take a break to do what we put aside while we cleaned, raised children and baked. For many now who didn't get to save a nest egg because we were taking care of the children of our children we are now in the financial grave.
So children I ask you again "are you ready," to take over where we have left off? Will you sacrifice as we have done and give up things to make it in life? Or will you spend and spend going to bed broke at night. We older folks have put up the "fine fight," and we tried to teach you how but to the money God you all bow. Will I or any old person be safe? Will we live out our lives happy and well; guess what only time will tell.
Every one of us "runs out of time," to life there is no reason or rhym you take it oh yes- you do ONE DAY AT A TIME.
Will you young folks; will you really be fine?
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