“I believe the Federal government has grown out of control, threatening the Rights, Liberties, and Property of the People.

“This is being done at the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial level. This is in direct opposition to the Constitution and the Founding Fathers vision for the Federal government.

“Because I believe this, today I exercised my right as a Free Citizen, and did not visit the White House. This was not about politics or party, as in my opinion both parties are responsible for the situation we are in as a country. This was about a choice I had to make as an INDIVIDUAL.

“This is the only public statement I will be making on this topic. TT”  Tim Thomas

Fortunately Tim Thomas still has the freedom to snub the invitation and make his views known, yet he is not wrong.

Government is making decisions for people and forcing them to comply, decisions which were left to individuals decades ago.  It is amazing with the level of education we tout the masses have attained, the government allows less freedom to make choices that affect their own lives.

I think most people who have been on this planet awhile are aware of eroding rights and freedoms and the debasement of the Constitution.  It is a good thing that Tim Thomas’s message be made public and the fact the organization passed on his message speaks for itself..

How often have you ever been kissed by someone?  A loving tender kiss that feels like it belongs to you and you alone and you respond in kind.  The kind of kiss that for a moment in time align two souls and make spirits jump on high.  A kiss that fits between two just right, as if the lips were made for one another.

There are good morning kisses, lust kisses, I gotta go to work see you later kisses, good night pecks, let’s put this argument behind us kiss and the worn out but I have to do it kiss because it is my job.

There is much to be said about the tender kiss and not enough written about it.

It is the kind of thing that produces magic, like the fountain of youth which doesn’t exist does.  Hearts are made whole and youthful again.

All that from a kiss. 

Probably one of my biggest flaws or strengths, depending on the situation, is a tunnel vision obsession with certain things in life.

As my life experienced changes over the last few years, which were unpredictable in a strange kind of way, I took an interest in the financial state of this world as my personal economic situation is and was precarious at best and as they say, misery loves company.  I read the financial news from various sources in Europe, Asia and North America.  I studied charts and graphs compiled by “experts” in unfolding the bull feces that is referred to as financial data and weighed in on the merits or demerits of precious metal hoarding.

I became a financial doomsday expert in my own mind for it all appealed to my sense of reason and logic.

Then I encountered a personal situation which detracted me from my daily excursions through the financial experts’ auditorium.  I was no longer hooked.  My interest waned.

I wasn’t and am not prepared for financial disaster anyway.  Even if I had a pile of gold, I wouldn’t know what to do with it except polish it and possibly impress people with its beauty, but carrying the stuff around or worrying about its safety isn’t worth the headache.

I did a Bouzouki yesterday.  I drove into town, went into a garden center and bought plants.  Some shrubs, flowers and stuff.  Anything that looked lush, green or colorful and set to work planting, like Johnny Appleseed of yore.

My mind was and is in a different place.  The road runners watched me from about twenty feet away as I worked.  I could hear nature moving in the foliage and undergrowth at the back of my lot.

Last night, before dusk I checked the state of my freshly watered charges.  I hope they take and grow.  If not I will keep trying until I get my jungle which I can appreciate.

Somehow the stuff that hooked me in the past is no longer important.  I think I will get hooked on something else, knowing myself well enough that my character won’t change that easily.

Next week I plan on planting a few trees and a cactus where I don’t irrigate.

Now I know why in the movie the Godfather, the old mafioso spent time in his garden.  It frees the brain, rips the tunnel walls asunder, allows conscience to breathe life.

It is all good folks.

The image above is not how it started, there were processes involved which took it to this stage but the creation of a new visitor to our planet forms in the womb and we call it embryo.

I was thinking of embryo yesterday and wondered if I would ever see one form out of this world in the universe.

This is what I refer to as the God particle, not that thing science is searching for.

We never know what this embryo will bring forth or even if it will survive.  It may be blind and learn how to master a guitar like Jose or may not hear but compose music like Beethoven.

It may be a man of peace and over throw an occupying force.  It may be a woman who nurtures embryos of her own.

That is the beauty of the state of our being.  We never know looking at the embryo what will come of her or him, but we know it is the beginning.