Happy New Year

Happy New Year

Just watching the ball drop on CNN and before it dropped a singer I never heard of sang:

Imagine

John Lennon, Plastic Ono Band

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people living life in peace, you

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need…

You may say I'm a dreamer

What a wonderful song. Can you Imagine if the world we live in would be like that song.

Star Trek

Star Trek

First, Happy and Healthy New Year to all. 2018 will be a fabulous year if we make it a fabulous year.

Sooo, what do I do during the holidays? My wife and I don't like to travel over the holidays because it's too crazy. My wife and I don't like to go out to dinner on Christmas or New Year because everything is too expensive and the food is subpar. Sooo, Ellen cooks (she is a fantastic cook) and we stay home. She likes to play on her iPad and I like to watch old movies.

To that last point, I just watched the 1994 movie Star Trek Generations. The movie was good (for a Star Trek movie), however, the last line in the movie got me to take a step back.

"What We Leave Behind Is Not As Important As How We Lived"

Wow, that's deep. We all would like to think we could leave behind a legacy. Most of us are just average people and a legacy is out of our reach. I would like to believe that my books and blogs will be my legacy. I would like to believe my positive impact on others will be my legacy.

However, while thinking about my legacy, I sometimes forget how important it is to focus on how I have lived.  In my later years, I know my love of family and friends is the way I have lived. In my later years, I know my honesty and trust is the way I have lived. In my later years, I know my positive energy and thinking is the way I have lived. In my later years, I know my love of life is the way I have lived.

Like I said, most of us won't leave behind a legacy, but we can decide on how we will live. Think about:

"What We Leave Behind Is Not As Important As How We Lived"

Why Does Christmas Only Come Once A Year

Why Does Christmas Only Come Once A Year

Christmas time is a fabulous time for most of us. Great food, great friends, great family, great kids, great presents, great booze and great sports. Christmas just makes us want to appreciate what we have. To me Christmas is not a religious thing it's a time when we wish everyone in the world would feel the love.

Christmas makes me wonder why it only comes once a year.

I love the food I eat all year. I love the friends I have all year. I love the family I have all year. I love my grandkids all year. I love the booze and the sports all year. I don't get presents all year, but, I don't need more than I have.

The most important thing to me is that I appreciate all that I have ALL YEAR!

Where are you at this time in your life? Do you love or hate Christmas? Are you glad it only comes once a year? Do you hate the hassle because of the traffic, family you don't like, shopping for presents is not fun because the stores are so crowded?

To those of you of you who say yes to those questions, I say HUM-BUG!

I know Christmas can be a hassle if you let it, but:

I Believe That If You Have Christmas In Your Heart, You'll Feel Like Christmas Every Day

Where Is The Love

"Where Is The Love?"

By The Black Eyed Peas

From time to time I shut up and let the lyrics of a song say what I feel or believe. This is one of those times.

What's wrong with the world, mama
People livin' like they ain't got no mamas
I think the whole world addicted to the drama
Only attracted to things that'll bring you trauma

Overseas, yeah, we try to stop terrorism
But we still got terrorists here livin'
In the USA, the big CIA
The Bloods and The Crips and the KKK

But if you only have love for your own race
Then you only leave space to discriminate
And to discriminate only generates hate
And when you hate then you're bound to get irate, yeah

Madness is what you demonstrate
And that's exactly how anger works and operates
Man, you gotta have love just to set it straight
Take control of your mind and meditate
Let your soul gravitate to the love, y'all, y'all

People killin', people dyin'
Children hurt and you hear them cryin'
Can you practice what you preach?
Or would you turn the other cheek?

Father, Father, Father help us
Send some guidance from above
'Cause people got me, got me questionin'
Where is the love (Love)

Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love, the love, the love

It just ain't the same, old ways have changed
New days are strange, is the world insane?
If love and peace are so strong
Why are there pieces of love that don't belong?

Nations droppin' bombs
Chemical gasses fillin' lungs of little ones
With ongoin' sufferin' as the youth die young
So ask yourself is the lovin' really gone

So I could ask myself really what is goin' wrong
In this world that we livin' in people keep on givin' in
Makin' wrong decisions, only visions of them dividends
Not respectin' each other, deny thy brother
A war is goin' on but the reason's undercover

The truth is kept secret, it's swept under the rug
If you never know truth then you never know love
Where's the love, y'all, come on (I don't know)
Where's the truth, y'all, come on (I don't know)
Where's the love, y'all

I feel the weight of the world on my shoulder
As I'm gettin' older, y'all, people gets colder
Most of us only care about money makin'
Selfishness got us followin' the wrong direction

Wrong information always shown by the media
Negative images is the main criteria
Infecting the young minds faster than bacteria
Kids wanna act like what they see in the cinema

Yo', whatever happened to the values of humanity
Whatever happened to the fairness and equality
Instead of spreading love we're spreading animosity
Lack of understanding, leading us away from unity

That's the reason why sometimes I'm feelin' under
That's the reason why sometimes I'm feelin' down
There's no wonder why sometimes I'm feelin' under
Gotta keep my faith alive 'til love is found
Now ask yourself

Where is the love?
Where is the love?
Where is the love?
Where is the love?

Father, Father, Father, help us
Send some guidance from above
'Cause people got me, got me questionin'
Where is the love?

Sing with me y'all:
One world, one world (We only got)
One world, one world (That's all we got)
One world, one world
And something's wrong with it (Yeah)
Something's wrong with it (Yeah)
Something's wrong with the wo-wo-world, yeah
We only got
(One world, one world)
That's all we got

(One world, one world)

This says it all for me. I hope it says it all for you.

I've Got The Love - How About You