Howdy, or more to the point; help! I do understand that members of the Republican Party hate that a Democrat/any Democrat occupies the White House, even though he was elected by overwhelming popular and electoral votes and the TA Party hates him because he is Black and because they simply hate because in reality they are losers. But the actions of these two groups have together moved both the strength and civility of our country into a waste land. It is as though

Another thought floating through! Do yo remember, I think it was in 1992 that Ross Perot challenged as an Independent showing us how us the extent to which NAFTA was going take American jobs and move them south of the border. He has of course been proven right and now they are pushing a trans Pacific Trade Pact that will make Nafta seem as though it nene reads nothing. The facts are that Nafta not only "sucked" jobs out of the country but also fed growing divide between the haves and have nots. Indeed, there will be no middle class in America within months of the adaptation of the Terrible trans pacific deal. Force all "Partners" to meet the same Labor, Environmental and financial requirements as exist here and that has to be a minimum condition for this new trade act if my children will have enough time to save enough money to bury me. Please call your elected Congress Members and fight this Bill , if only to keep your own end-of-life savings in tact. With that, please sleep well!

Aloha

Tuesday = principals meeting day = talk story ; my favorite way to consume that limited time......but today was truly superior: two people brought in articles written by folks who are each much more respected than yours truly. These articles each confirmed my prognostications from 12 months ago. I always write what I call "Client Notes" each January where I address my concerns about the comming year where I identify industries that I believe will require particularly close scrutiny in order to mitigate risk to investors/lenders. I also propose actions that should be taken with rough time intervals.

I feel like my last post was too flippant. Find something as often as possible that makes you personally feel good But, I should have said, find that feel good activity from the

Out for my afternoon walk this past fall, a young man approached, holding an unlit cigarette in one hand and as we approached one another, I knew that he was about to ask something of me. Indeed the question came : "do you have a lighter?" As a long reformed smoker, the young man  was perceptive enough to know that I was about to start a lecture. I restrained myself for a moment but felt that a conversation with this young man was somehow predestined so swerved that no I didn't have a means of lighting anything but that as a reformed smoker who at his age easily smoked a pack or more per day of nasty unfiltered cigarettes but with great determination had chosen to quit. As the conversation about cigarettes continued, this young person began to tell me about his life. Cigarettes were the least of his problems. He told me that he was also addicted to heron. I told him that while I had never done heron, I had experienced many drugs that were popular in my day but had chosen sobriety because it was easier. At this point, he told me that his parents had divorced in an ugly manner and that his sister who was severely limited by autism. At this point, I shared my story with him: developmentally disabled and now dead brother whom I had loved deeply, parents who died much too early, addiction to alcohol, and many personality deficiencies and a determination to conform to my parents expectations. This young man and I headed our separate ways but I felt not just a surface connection but also a possible positive influence on him as he seemed ready to at least consider being the "man" of his family if for no other reason than the shear joy that being the grown up can be. I certainly hope so! That would make me happier then you might ever imagine. A young stranger that initially scared me is today a big part of the strength that helps see me through days like today where my brain injuries sometimes  block my path, but not today as I recall this small slice of my very rich life

Yesterday was my son's 47th birthday. I tried to post my recollections of his birth but my relatively new (2years) blindness has interfered! And now the rest of my brain function is in the way of cogent thinking - and while many post just about anything without consideration to the sensibility of their comments - and that is simply contrary to who I am, about the only matter that is worth protecting for me after all of these years. So, staying true to myself, I hope that whatever is posted on this site over which I have control remain honest and cogent. Now. I need to put my blindness and other deficiencies to bed. Sleeping does help so I now do a lot of that. By the way, there is nothing known that I could have done to avoid the brain issues that have affected but do not ever put your site at risk if possible. It does make love ever more difficult to live.

Peace out and Aloha

Yesterday was my son's 47th birthday. I tried to post my recollections of his birth day and tell him how proud I am of who he is today but I ran into the only frustration that I experience from my rather newly found blindness (only two years since surgery and masses on my brain stole my sight) so the frustration will be overcome. On the other hand, he last post had a lot of my heart in it for both of my kids but.....it is lost and I will just have to be a bit introspective and learn to deal better with circumstances as they are! Plus, both my kids know how deeply I love and respect them! Aloha Nui Loa children of Sandy....   Watching Furniture Girls and checking out! Aloha

If you can swap the idolatry of money for the thrill of  discovering your passion, every moment of your time will become overwhelmingly satisfying! Passion will consume time but it likely will be the time now wasted on

Hi, another beautiful day! I keep forgetting to call and email important people in my life - very bad! I did email my X and her husband tO wish them the best and my help since he was diagnosed with a cancer very similar to my first cancer. It is crazy scarey to be told that you have cancer and my X's new husband is a great guy and I want nothing but the best for him! This cancer finding follows by three days, the announcement that a friend's husband died from cancer and that the day before that a person that I used to work closely with died from yet another cancer. From all of this, I look back and say thanks to myself for living the life that I have! I have two absolutes: 1. Do not cause harm to others! 2. Pursue your pleasures .. 3. Love your family and friends. And charge your battery before you start writing. I have to go plug in! See you very soon.
Aloha.

Wow! My I-Pad now kind of works...and frustration goes on but, as usual, I am one happy cat :-)!  I am once again am focused on the needs of my business which, most know is my baby (heck, at this age, mu kids are Old having witnessed a lot of time themselves) - and I think enjoying life even more than me. But my business needs more food (revenue) and that means my creative juices need to get  in action because while I am pretty good at sales, the market for our services have changed dramatically over the past couple of years. Now some might think they are tired so let it wither on the vine. I could personally afford to do so but that would kill me! And guess what, I love both the challenge and the creative requirement under pressure. Never could stand the boring...........So, time to let my mind just wander. I know the assignment but, haven't allowed myself the time to be that creative. In my world, it is possible to do better under the pressure of having set deadlines so let me now take the time to think about that and get the basics out of the way so that other time can get re-focused. Happy, Happy....Aloha!

One of the Principals in my company this morning, partially cured my email issue, but not really. I did get my accumulated email but not additional new email. Help I'm actually thinking of getting a Windows based tablet because I think I might still remember how to use that operating system and therefore face a bit less frustration which my neurologist says will result in less nerve pain in my brain (and now it lacks room for pain ,thinking, and enjoying life so.......) being back at work was fun though.
Whoops, time to move on, there 's that concept again, time. By the way, what is that. Please give me a definition that covers all the instances that it otherwise becomes a part of my vocabulary and more importantly, an element of my life. Mahalo my friends. Help from everyone is in the end how we all move forward and even at this age, I look forward every day to moving forward. I hope you do as well. Do have a great day!

Tuesday Market Mgr. Meeting tomorrow. Another opportunity to "talk", my favorite activity "talking stored" remember when you had to make speeches in college? Or even high school? Knees knocked but, it became very satisfying by the end! And, after a time, it became addictive! I absolutely love talking, whether in an informal or formal setting, I view it as an opportunity to learn. The Q & A part always make me smarter and even after all this time, I love it! Someday, I'll tell a story on my twelfth grade home room teacher wh advised me to pursue a career based on BS ing :-) while I didn't do so, shame on me!
Tomorrow is stalking story day again: another day to excell and thank my high school teachers :-)!

With that, I hope the rest of you can spend tomorrow wallowing in your sources of joy!
Aloha to All. And peace as well. Goodnight.......

Nothing Could Be Finer than anticipating anther week in my work word - another opportunity to do stuff that I love to do, and maybe a few I don't but, after all this time, it does not matter what's on the agenda because IS all good! My Ohana wishes you and yours a truly great week ahead! Alisha to all. Now, to go 'fix' another enterprise. Call me Dr. Biz......

As this page opens, the first word I always is "Blogger" but the first word I read is "bigger" Of course, the word is Blogger but each time, I am taken back to my first significant interaction with a bum(begger) It was 1954 and I was sitting on the 4th avenue steps to the Downtown YMCA. An older man in rumpled, dirty clothes and long unshaven face that asked about the rubber thongs I had on my feet. We talked for a considerable time and when finished, the "bum" put his hand in his pant pocket and extracted what proved to be $1.83. Before he handed me this small fortune, we had enjoyed what I considered a fun time together so I asked why the money and he answered. "Because I took the TIME to talk with him. During the past 69 years, I have often recalled that incident favorably - not for the money but rather for the simplicity of a few kind minutes spent with a lonely older man and the joy of knowing the fortune that it was worth to that person, a person who is certainly long gone now, and how I wish that I could have spent more time with him; not for money but because it was so valuable to him that I have enjoyed it for a lifetime. I hope that I never forget that experience because i get such joy from it and I continue to be as generous as I possibly can be, indirectly I believe because of this experience, so many wonderful years ago... So, as 2014 comes rushing down the path, I do wonder how I can, with my limited old age resources, make life better for the developmentally disabled (my brothers lifetime situation) in the comming year, in part because I miss my brother terribly and because I cannot say that I've nearly had the 1954 learning experience since, except in the community of the developmentally disabled, a very special community. But now, as my time may be expiring, I need to continue and expand whatever good I may have done to this point. Please make your 2014 the best year ever.

• Frustration at my point in life is simply defined =new technology! I invested nearly half of this day getting my I-Pad back to a condition where I could complain about it! The part I hate most is that I hate to complain. It starts a negative train that can last so much longer then it deserves. I tend to think in those cost/benefit terms in virtually all facets of my life, not consciously but at some subconsciously. Of course, if it is subconscious, I don't have to consider the time wasted on such a minor matter :-). Life is good baby! I wanted to know if anyone else experiences the same sense of euphoria at odd times of the day. Personally, I find myself chuckling out loud so often I have to look around to assure myself that I don't have to apologize for disturbing folks. I assume that others do this as well but I never see others engaged in this behavior openly; maybe I have simply gone over the edge  :-); but then I've been doing this for decades. Please believe me when I say life is good. I am certain that there are few alive today that have been through more than me (how about having three different doctors telling you that you have between hours and mere months to live for three different deseases within three years of loosing your brother from one of those and only a few decades since parents died from the diseases. And stil, as I did when I was a kid, have little chuckling fits that lift me to where I cannot wait till the next time that a challenge will come my way. There are many reasons after all that time is my friend and so interesting to me. Oh oh, more time has slipped away so must get back to exercising my dream of this day and wishing you at least one of the finest moments of your life in the comming day or two!

Aloha my brothers & sisters.

 If you have a heart or soul, I urge you to search the internet for a copy of Michael Davis providing his eulogy to hi s daughter, 17 year old killed at. arapahoe High School. In the most powerful presentation I have ever witnessed, this man begged for love, respect, and forgiveness. For his daughters killer and others who might trespass, etc. please find this speech, watch it, strip out  anything you might find too religious for you and what remains is actually all we have. Our money and "things" are nothing without Mr. Davis' requests. I personally pledge to meet his request every day in the little time I have left. I am convinced that by doing so, regardless of the performance of my business, I will be the most successful man alive! I am so fortunate to have seen this eulogy! Here's hoping you can find such success!

Wow! I love to start my thoughts with a statement of my gut feeling at the moment! And Wow does that pretty well :-)  - I hope that your life is on a similar high. I just watched the recovery of a sailer in Puget Sound this afternoon after her cat capsized. It reminded me of the time off the Big Island of Hawaii when I told a fellow guest at one of the nicer resorts that I could take him out on a small sailboat provided by the resort. We headed out and the rudder failed so I slipped over the stern with sail contRol lines in hand and acted as a human rudder and skipper managing the sails. We quickly began heading for a  breakwater that would not have provided a comfortable landing. Continuing my "multi-tasking, my fellow boater, a medical doctor newly married observed that his wife standing on shore next to mine looked a bit concerned. In fact she was imagining me taking her new doctor husband away, in a very bad sense. Eventually, I managed to land the vessel back on the Sandy beach, to the relief of all! I don't know why but that thrilling event comes back to mind frequently and because of success with much good ! I certainly hope that the two women who were dunked in Puget Sound this afternoon can find similar warmth as they recall their event 40+ years from now! Every event that I've experienced on the water has been among t
He greatest experiences of my life.
Aloha all!

I've been asked so I should clarify that I seldom openly discuss political or religious issues because it seems to me that both beget argue mints, seldom beyond yelling since incredibly little logic appears to me to be a significant part of either. In one case, you know that everyone  relies on faith in one case and that no one can possibly be listening in the other. All of which in my opinion  means that only I (or you) can determine what is true, therefore there is no argument to be had. So off I go with my equally narrow mindset. I m. Ay just have to think about this. Therefore, it must be moving toward bedtime - you know, old guys ofteen face these time outs right in the middle of a thought.

I've been asking knowledgeable people for several years about America's drug policy and hope that  someone can help me with this one matter in particular. If there are laws prohibiting the sale and possession of controlled substances but TV advertising of controlled substances that can cause massive personal damage like death is OK. Now personally, I think that "educational" advertising of controlled substances should be allowed provided an equal sum is invested annually by those firms in  new product research in order to be able to deduct those costs as an operating expense  for tax purposes. I realize that the country has a ton of laws out of sink with reality due to the fact that we have local and federal governments that are the best that money can buy so what would I expect........... This issue is minor among the many unanswered questions I have but it just reoccurred :-) . Also, I keep seeing car ads that warn you not to do this(reckless driving) but heck, that's why I would want that car! At the end of the day, most of my questions by this time seem less likely tobe answered but my inquiries will continue. Why, because I am old so if I am going to know, I need to ask now! Earlier in life, I was too proud to ask because I really thought I either knew or thought that on my stage, I would be expected to know. Little did I realize what a tiny stage I was on! Life is fun! My life coul not be better - in part because I refuse to wallow in recalling those things that are part of my history that shouldn't be. But, they are, so now they are forgotten because I cannot correct them at this point. I am not wrapped up in my end but rather organizing my thoughts and actions for tomorrow, my tomorrow, not someone else's. With that, I need to walk my dogs - real buddies that make me think they love me every time I come in the house - might note what great thespians they are, oops, here I come......

Welcome to 2014! I was going to start with a comment about dating checks properly but who uses checks anymore?  Goodness, I've already begun the new year with an old mistake-allowing my concept mind to get ahead of the pragmatic mind. As a person, I am always greatly embarrassed  by any and all mistakes that I make. After all, I am perfect, well in my head perhaps but in reality, I have as many failures and weaknesses as anyone which is after all why it is exciting to close the books on another year and welcome in yet another opportunity to pursue perfection. But like nearly every other day, I no longer have the energy nor the time to devote to impossible dreams. I might note however
That I did devote much of yesterday looking at boats for sale so who knows. My son can drive a boat; after all he drives ships for a living OR maybe a miracle will happen and my sight will magically return. Of course if it did, I wouldn't adjust quickly so the experience of falling frequently would return to my life and at best I could simply claim to have gone in a large circle -:). Again, it is a new year so off I go on a walk designed to burn calories and time. Perhaps I'll see you in this neighborhood again. In the meantime, please enjoy all of this new year! Now, back to my YachtWorld page. Even blind, my mind allows me to enjoy both my past and what could be.