I guess we all have "Dreams" and "Ambitions" when we set out on our life's journey, often there are influences that change our direction along the way, rarely do we achieve our original aims, also we have "Sleep-Dreams" that may be a reaction to the day or weeks observations or our involvements that may have been playing on the mind, and there is another type of dream that we awake from, it's the "Repeater-Dream" that you take notice of, it can be scary such as in a "Nightmare" and it can boggle the mind, being a driving force, to figure out the "Whys" and "Whats", as some people take it to be a "Sign" that sometimes we try to interpret or ask someone known, a friend, a confidant, who will try to help.
Many times I have awoke with a dream to scribble it down while I can still remember it!
In these dreams I get a "Picture", they say a picture paints a thousand words and so it may be difficult to describe fully, so I hope to do a short version of just two of my "repeater-dreams", then go back to "dreams/ambitions" from my point of view (What a Man Wants)
(to be continued)
Monday, 29 December 2008
Tuesday, 9 December 2008
Life's "Cliche's" at a Speed Date meeting. #1.
Hi my name is Alan, but you can call me Al.
Hello Al, my name is Maureen, you can call me More.
Well, tell me more, More, I'm all ears.
I can tell you a story or two, but, Al, getting down to brass tacks, are you up for grabs?
More, I've been single for some months now, and believe it or not, what you see is what you get!
Al, I wasn't born yesterday, you must have some skeletons in your cupboard?
Alright More, I'll tell you no lie, for crying out loud, I was dating, but it's all over now! She was leading me up the garden path, it all boils down to her, she always wanted to party and could drink like a fish and thats the beginning and end of it!
I suppose it's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all!
So, More, let's get down to the nitty-gritty, what is it that you like to do in your free time?
Ah, well, I love shopping, cooking, holidays in the sun and chatting, so I'd be tickled pink if I could find a man who ticks all the right boxes Al.
OK More, what are these boxes you need for me to come up smelling of roses?
Well Al, you come over as down to earth, rather than your head in the clouds so that's one box ticked, but I need some questions answered, can you dance or do you have two left feet? Do you treat your women like a lady or is it all's fair in love and war? Are you penny wise and pound foolish and does money burn a hole in your pocket or do you give a little, take a little? Do you think beauty is only skin deep or beauty is in the eye of the beholder? If you disagree, do you see red, dig your heels in, bite the bullet or agree to disagree?
Hey Maureen, they'll be calling time-up soon, it seems to me, that you must have been here before, to have so many things to be right before you date someone!?
Your right Al, I've been there, done that, got the tee shirt, it's just that if you had asked me what I do for a living, you'd know I run this place, and I can tell you a fool and his money are soon parted, I'm a widow, been married three times round the block, the first one must have fallen out of an ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down, but he had millions, and with a face only a mother could love, the second had the looks, but lied his way through life, I wouldn't go through all that again, not for all the tea in China, the third one had a heart of gold, but gambled everything away, unlucky at cards, lucky in love. In every life a little rain must fall, so now I live in an apartment in Mayfair, look, let's go for a coffee, how about next week, here's my number Al, sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees, so give me a call, and we'll talk again, you know what, there's always someone out there who would love to be with you, it's written in stone!
O.K, Thanks, so maybe there is a light at the end of the tunnel! Well, I can't tell you what pleasure a it's been, until next week then, I'm free next Saturday... God Bless!
Yes, that'll be the day, never a dull moment, bye now Angel.
Hello Al, my name is Maureen, you can call me More.
Well, tell me more, More, I'm all ears.
I can tell you a story or two, but, Al, getting down to brass tacks, are you up for grabs?
More, I've been single for some months now, and believe it or not, what you see is what you get!
Al, I wasn't born yesterday, you must have some skeletons in your cupboard?
Alright More, I'll tell you no lie, for crying out loud, I was dating, but it's all over now! She was leading me up the garden path, it all boils down to her, she always wanted to party and could drink like a fish and thats the beginning and end of it!
I suppose it's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all!
So, More, let's get down to the nitty-gritty, what is it that you like to do in your free time?
Ah, well, I love shopping, cooking, holidays in the sun and chatting, so I'd be tickled pink if I could find a man who ticks all the right boxes Al.
OK More, what are these boxes you need for me to come up smelling of roses?
Well Al, you come over as down to earth, rather than your head in the clouds so that's one box ticked, but I need some questions answered, can you dance or do you have two left feet? Do you treat your women like a lady or is it all's fair in love and war? Are you penny wise and pound foolish and does money burn a hole in your pocket or do you give a little, take a little? Do you think beauty is only skin deep or beauty is in the eye of the beholder? If you disagree, do you see red, dig your heels in, bite the bullet or agree to disagree?
Hey Maureen, they'll be calling time-up soon, it seems to me, that you must have been here before, to have so many things to be right before you date someone!?
Your right Al, I've been there, done that, got the tee shirt, it's just that if you had asked me what I do for a living, you'd know I run this place, and I can tell you a fool and his money are soon parted, I'm a widow, been married three times round the block, the first one must have fallen out of an ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down, but he had millions, and with a face only a mother could love, the second had the looks, but lied his way through life, I wouldn't go through all that again, not for all the tea in China, the third one had a heart of gold, but gambled everything away, unlucky at cards, lucky in love. In every life a little rain must fall, so now I live in an apartment in Mayfair, look, let's go for a coffee, how about next week, here's my number Al, sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees, so give me a call, and we'll talk again, you know what, there's always someone out there who would love to be with you, it's written in stone!
O.K, Thanks, so maybe there is a light at the end of the tunnel! Well, I can't tell you what pleasure a it's been, until next week then, I'm free next Saturday... God Bless!
Yes, that'll be the day, never a dull moment, bye now Angel.
Thursday, 4 December 2008
DIS is the Life
Over the years I've attempted to update "The Family" tree, checking through the Ancestry family line.
Besides my own 3 grown- up children (Lorraine, Amanda & Terence), I have (at least) 3 sisters (Carole, Angela & Sheree) and 4 brothers (Colin, Nigel, Malcolm & Leroy).
My brother Colin is at this time updating his own family line, we are both fathers, grand-fathers and great-grand-fathers!
But the Ancestry software doesn't cope too well when a family history gets to be as complex as ours is!
It's not (so much) that we are a dys(*DIS)-functional family unit, but more like, DIS-enfranchised (by our correct surnames), DIS-jointed & DIS-inherited (by having different fathers, some out of wedlock), DIS-figured (by age, incident & accident) DIS-informed (by parents & the elder generation), so will I DIS-guise being a little DIS-gruntled, do I DIS-honor my mother & father, do I DIS-miss my "part" brothers & sisters and are we DIS-illusioned by LIFE, no, not an iota.
Although, had we been conceived as it is, in this present world of liberation and abortion, I doubt if my family tree would exist!
From time to time there are a few poor (in morality) decisions by Government that seem to me, to be a kind of DIS-order, but our God, who knew us before we were born, can make the bad things good again, He is the Father of the Fatherless & we are in His Hands, so DIS is the life, and if you read this you can thank God for His many Blessings.
* ("DIS" at dysfunctional is a (cheat) word-play spelling!)
Besides my own 3 grown- up children (Lorraine, Amanda & Terence), I have (at least) 3 sisters (Carole, Angela & Sheree) and 4 brothers (Colin, Nigel, Malcolm & Leroy).
My brother Colin is at this time updating his own family line, we are both fathers, grand-fathers and great-grand-fathers!
But the Ancestry software doesn't cope too well when a family history gets to be as complex as ours is!
It's not (so much) that we are a dys(*DIS)-functional family unit, but more like, DIS-enfranchised (by our correct surnames), DIS-jointed & DIS-inherited (by having different fathers, some out of wedlock), DIS-figured (by age, incident & accident) DIS-informed (by parents & the elder generation), so will I DIS-guise being a little DIS-gruntled, do I DIS-honor my mother & father, do I DIS-miss my "part" brothers & sisters and are we DIS-illusioned by LIFE, no, not an iota.
Although, had we been conceived as it is, in this present world of liberation and abortion, I doubt if my family tree would exist!
From time to time there are a few poor (in morality) decisions by Government that seem to me, to be a kind of DIS-order, but our God, who knew us before we were born, can make the bad things good again, He is the Father of the Fatherless & we are in His Hands, so DIS is the life, and if you read this you can thank God for His many Blessings.
* ("DIS" at dysfunctional is a (cheat) word-play spelling!)
Thursday, 20 November 2008
Happiest Day of My Life?
Funny, I've been avoiding this question, it was put to me by my daughter Amanda, several months ago she asked me "What was the Happiest Day of your Life?" I think she was upset when I couldn't say! Well, was there one or many? Is there a single answer? If there is it shouldn't be that hard to figure it out! Maybe I have a memory loss? I don't totally remember! Was it finding or winning something or someone? Was it when I married or when each one of my three children were born? I celebrated that! There was also the times when I successfully got the job I'd interviewed for? My Holidays on beautiful sunny beaches, or skiing down snowy mountains, seeing a show or eating out, or meeting up with family or friends, and smaller things, as when In 1964 I bought the best motorcycle in production (a Norton Atlas 750cc), or when I passed my driving tests, also the many cars, houses, clothes... I can go on, and each brought a Joy, a Highlight into my life, but all of the above comes from The Above, so I thank God for all of them remembered and maybe some forgotten and for my renewed Life as a Christian, when I was "Born Again" in the USA (but thats another story). So to conclude, my Happiest Day is always the time I'm blessed with GOOD relationship within my Family and with my Friends and to get that right from time to time is Great.
Friday, 14 November 2008
The Life of Matt Moore (part two)
"What is your Name?" ... Matt Moore!
"And your abode?" ... No home, just a cell door!
"You are charged with TREASON - how do you Plea?"
Not Guilty, for a reason, I just didn't see, or understand the meaning for me!
"Silence in Court, keep it short, Just your Plea is what we ask, save the story for the Jury it'll be their task
to find you Guilty or not,and it's for them to spot, 'The Truth, The Lie, The Plot!
The Judge will decide your fate, with no malice - Love or Hate"
So here I Am at your Palace, your Heavens Gate!
Father God, will I be let in on your Judgment Day?
I failed, I'm sorry - but please let me stay,
your Mercy , your Honor just let me see,
my Mother and Father who died before me.
"And your abode?" ... No home, just a cell door!
"You are charged with TREASON - how do you Plea?"
Not Guilty, for a reason, I just didn't see, or understand the meaning for me!
"Silence in Court, keep it short, Just your Plea is what we ask, save the story for the Jury it'll be their task
to find you Guilty or not,and it's for them to spot, 'The Truth, The Lie, The Plot!
The Judge will decide your fate, with no malice - Love or Hate"
So here I Am at your Palace, your Heavens Gate!
Father God, will I be let in on your Judgment Day?
I failed, I'm sorry - but please let me stay,
your Mercy , your Honor just let me see,
my Mother and Father who died before me.
Friday, 7 November 2008
Half Life
I'm so tired, yet I'm not working! I've set myself the task of "Blogging" today, and the days almost over! It's not because Im half asleep or anything to do with the Game of the same name that I've titled this "Half Life", It was a concern to a short, yet repeated news bulletin while in a background showing of the Presidential Election, but the news story had been running for a few weeks, the USA/Nato and Russian missiles being deployed on each side of the Polish/Russian boarder, it reminded me of the previous near disastrous consequences of times like the Cuban Missile Crises when John F Kennedy was President in Oct.1962, it scared most people at that time, me included, I remember, I was 18 years old, and thinking that there was no future and I wouldn't want to bring children into this broken world like it is (was then), we had seen what these weapons could do when the USA released bombs on Japans cities of Hiroshima (many civilians killed) and Nagasaki, the most populated with Christian Japanese (killing 150,000) in Aug.1945, at that time I was just 1 year old.
After WW2 (World War 2) the USA's "Manhattan Project" at Los Alamos, that produced the worlds first Atomic Bomb was run down after completion and testing and the many recruited "Scientist Allies" from various European countries, included; Britain, France, Germany, others from Canada and USA "patriots" went on further to expand the "trade" around the world, USSR(Union of Soviet Russia), Britain, France, USA, Germany, Israel, India, China, Pakistan, North Korea, and others have started projects, (including places on the South American Continent and some also have closed down or in "Limbo") including; South Africa, North Korea, Iran, some others are seeking assistance, main players include France and Russia and to a lesser degree Israel and Germany, some only supplying "Heavy Water" to process.
The USA, New York, 3 Mile Island incident (Mar.1979) and the (USSR) Ukraine, Chernobyl Incident (Apr.1986), both had "Meltdown" in their Nuclear Reactors, Chernobyl causing radiation "fall-out" locally making Chernobyl a "Ghost-Town", the winds then took the radio-active "dust-clouds" all around the Northern Hemisphere and here in Britain in areas such as Wales, the grass feeding animals ie sheep and such were made restrictive to sell for butchering by order of the Goverment for some years. Plutonium is a radio-active metal element with an Atomic number 94, a man-made element, it in its natural form, as in some Pichblende ores, once a main source of Uranium and Radium, contains only 1 part per trillion natural Plutonium, this element is greatly upgraded, so from Pu-233 (with a 20.minute 1/2 LIFE) going on to make "Fusion-Grade" Plutonium as Pu-239 calculated to be: 24,100 years 1/2 LIFE, so what are we doing for future generations? There are uses that have been put to good use, like X-Ray Machines & others that "Zap" Cancer Cells, but even these are now being over-taken by new "Nano" technology and although expensive are by far more efficient by targeting only the cancer cells by Ultrasound (HIFU) machines, and MRI scan (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) for display of inner body parts.
So there is some light on the horizon after all, thank God it's the Sun, another day, what a wonderful blessing.
After WW2 (World War 2) the USA's "Manhattan Project" at Los Alamos, that produced the worlds first Atomic Bomb was run down after completion and testing and the many recruited "Scientist Allies" from various European countries, included; Britain, France, Germany, others from Canada and USA "patriots" went on further to expand the "trade" around the world, USSR(Union of Soviet Russia), Britain, France, USA, Germany, Israel, India, China, Pakistan, North Korea, and others have started projects, (including places on the South American Continent and some also have closed down or in "Limbo") including; South Africa, North Korea, Iran, some others are seeking assistance, main players include France and Russia and to a lesser degree Israel and Germany, some only supplying "Heavy Water" to process.
The USA, New York, 3 Mile Island incident (Mar.1979) and the (USSR) Ukraine, Chernobyl Incident (Apr.1986), both had "Meltdown" in their Nuclear Reactors, Chernobyl causing radiation "fall-out" locally making Chernobyl a "Ghost-Town", the winds then took the radio-active "dust-clouds" all around the Northern Hemisphere and here in Britain in areas such as Wales, the grass feeding animals ie sheep and such were made restrictive to sell for butchering by order of the Goverment for some years. Plutonium is a radio-active metal element with an Atomic number 94, a man-made element, it in its natural form, as in some Pichblende ores, once a main source of Uranium and Radium, contains only 1 part per trillion natural Plutonium, this element is greatly upgraded, so from Pu-233 (with a 20.minute 1/2 LIFE) going on to make "Fusion-Grade" Plutonium as Pu-239 calculated to be: 24,100 years 1/2 LIFE, so what are we doing for future generations? There are uses that have been put to good use, like X-Ray Machines & others that "Zap" Cancer Cells, but even these are now being over-taken by new "Nano" technology and although expensive are by far more efficient by targeting only the cancer cells by Ultrasound (HIFU) machines, and MRI scan (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) for display of inner body parts.
So there is some light on the horizon after all, thank God it's the Sun, another day, what a wonderful blessing.
Wednesday, 5 November 2008
i5 Life Story (short version)
I woke up this morning very early and thats great because I get to live another day (sounds like a Bond movie!)
and anyway what's the other option?
But "Life" has a story from each of us, and in a way it has one its own!
When The Word created "Life" and gave us our own inner spirit (soul) to make choices/decisions along our life's journey.
In life (apart from Taxes and Death) are life's uncertainty, you get to choose the route you'll take.
I believe from the start that God has put a good heart/spirit in all of us (and a funny bone in me, but thats another story!).
In the word of "LIFE" the "EL", that is in Hebrew (meaning "Of God") encapsulates the Beginning and End of "LIFE"(L+E), so too the "mid LIFE crisis" of choices; the condition of uncertainty is "IF" (I+F), the choice is ours, to decide the Way we go, I've made my choice, I have to hand it to God and give Him a "High Five", and a high-ten ed, whenever I remember!
and anyway what's the other option?
But "Life" has a story from each of us, and in a way it has one its own!
When The Word created "Life" and gave us our own inner spirit (soul) to make choices/decisions along our life's journey.
In life (apart from Taxes and Death) are life's uncertainty, you get to choose the route you'll take.
I believe from the start that God has put a good heart/spirit in all of us (and a funny bone in me, but thats another story!).
In the word of "LIFE" the "EL", that is in Hebrew (meaning "Of God") encapsulates the Beginning and End of "LIFE"(L+E), so too the "mid LIFE crisis" of choices; the condition of uncertainty is "IF" (I+F), the choice is ours, to decide the Way we go, I've made my choice, I have to hand it to God and give Him a "High Five", and a high-ten ed, whenever I remember!
Money or Your Life
I've got to a time in Life when I can balance my bank account with out-going bills, so after 49 years of working for a living I think it's time to have a year off, like a Sabbatical Year, a year of Jubilee! YIPPEE! I'm off to the U.S and A! and also Israel, that is provided the banks don't go broke! I've booked my time away for Spring as it will be beautiful with plants blooming and the Sun not too hot, but first I must put my house in order, finish off a bathroom and the kitchen but also the front room and fit the conservatory! hold on, I'm retired, where's my spare time, I'm still working, but not earning, still, I'd rather be doing this, yes this is the Life, what is the value of a bank account if you cant use it? and they do say money makes the world go round... Why is it flat?
Monday, 3 November 2008
Isn't Life Strange
I, after some thought excepted a redundancy package in September this year and so this 'silver' handshake would take me through a year to when I would reach 'Senior Citizenship' at the age of 65, and in this earlier period I planned to reorganize the house suitable for a less able body of coming days with easy maintenance for both home and garden.
In the early weeks of my leaving work I had to sort out and send off various forms to retrieve several small pension funds and share savings, in the two months it took, due to financial chaos in the Banking, Bonds/Shares, Insurance, Money Trade Markets I took a major loss, but I haven't lost my smile yet, I'm still progressing along with the house, I'm still reasonably healthy, and my new hobby I'd planned, more than two years ago, in Photography is now up and running, and so last weekend I had my first photo shoot for a friends Wedding and it never rained! But on a more somber note, there are many people 'out there' in a bad situation and while Governments are struggling with their economy, health care and infrastructures it is only in God we can put our trust to help the poor, the sick and the homeless, they are, all of them and us, so very precious to the eye of The Almighty God.
Thankfully he also has His hand on my Life, and I owe so much to my daughter Amanda for her many prayers over the thirteen plus years, so thank you Amanda, but it's no secret, God loves to listen to a child's prayer, God's Love ... xtx
In the early weeks of my leaving work I had to sort out and send off various forms to retrieve several small pension funds and share savings, in the two months it took, due to financial chaos in the Banking, Bonds/Shares, Insurance, Money Trade Markets I took a major loss, but I haven't lost my smile yet, I'm still progressing along with the house, I'm still reasonably healthy, and my new hobby I'd planned, more than two years ago, in Photography is now up and running, and so last weekend I had my first photo shoot for a friends Wedding and it never rained! But on a more somber note, there are many people 'out there' in a bad situation and while Governments are struggling with their economy, health care and infrastructures it is only in God we can put our trust to help the poor, the sick and the homeless, they are, all of them and us, so very precious to the eye of The Almighty God.
Thankfully he also has His hand on my Life, and I owe so much to my daughter Amanda for her many prayers over the thirteen plus years, so thank you Amanda, but it's no secret, God loves to listen to a child's prayer, God's Love ... xtx
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