Can't tell you how many years its been, but someone wants to fix me up with one of their friends. I am thinking about it, not sure if I want to head down that road. What do y'all think about that?

I am thankful that:

I have a roof over my head
I have a job I enjoy
I have a great group of friends
I have my health
I have, at least once, known the love of a good woman

On the grand scales of life, mine has weighed out pretty darn well. I am thankful that it has.

If I said what's on my mind
You'd turn and walk away
Disappearing way back in your dreams

It's so hard to be unkind
So easy just to say
That everything is just the way it seems

You look up at me
And somewhere in your mind you see
A Man I'll never be

If only I could find a way
I feel like I'm the man you believe I am
It's getting harder every day for me
To hide behind this dream you see
A Man I'll never be

I can't get any stronger
And I can't climb any higher
You'll never know just how hard I've tried

Cry a little longer
And hold a little tighter
Emotions can't be satisfied

You look up at me
And somewhere in your mind you see
A Man I'll never be

I work with lots of different groups/people in my job. Everyone has a cause, no matter who they are as an individual, or what group they associate themselves with. I get that. And almost everyone with a cause says in one way or the other that I/WE have not been treated fairly. I get that too, sadly it does happen a lot. What I don't get is why everyone thinks their cause is THE MOST IMPORTANT cause? And they do. Pretty much universally I run into the yes, X and Y and Z all have good and valid causes, but MINE is THE most important/maligned/misunderstood of ALL causes. Years ago when I started teaching I learned that the best way to prepare for any question was to seek the answer for yourself before anyone ever asked you. I try to do the same thing with "causes". What is your core issue? Why do you feel the way you do about it? What are possible solutions? Why would others be concerned with your cause? You get the idea. What started this rant? I had one cross my desk today. Good. Valid. Should be addressed.

So I started asking questions. The answer? OURS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT CAUSE. NO ONE HELPS US WITH OUR CAUSE. OTHER GROUPS HAVE BEEN GETTING HELP FOR A LONG TIME AND WE ARE JUST IGNORED. Back to my original premise, everyone has a cause, and theirs is the most important cause every in the case. If you don't believe them, just ask....

Seems like there are just so many odd things going on right now. Of course if I thinks all this stuff is odd and everyone else thinks its all just great then that would make me the odd one. Ah well, at least my own crazy is my own.

Gee, Hump Day and no one to Hump...

For every brilliant full moon, there is a dark side that will never see the light of the sun. For every act of kindness there is an unspeakable cruelty. For pure, awesome love, there is viscous hate. What would life be like without love yet void of hate? Does every wonderful thing in life require an equal ugly, mean thing? Questions I can't answer. I know I have darkness in me, and I know I always strive for the light....

You are the stars,
I am the Moon,
You are the words,
I am the tune,

Play me.

None of us are. If you could "design" your perfect mate, what would that be? Maybe more important, if you could be someone's perfect mate, what traits would you have? How could you make yourself better than you are, to be the best you could be?