When I travel to other corners of the U.S. and explore the city, I see race, background, sex and sexuality is not as much as an issue than it is in my hometown. Boston, New York, San Francisco and Toronto (Canada for that matter) are places I have visited and they all seem to have it down when it comes to acceptance and equality for gays. I am not gay but would like there to be equality throughout the world. A person of color will argue that they have been “held down by the man” for years and yell out for equal rights but as that person sees two men sitting together eating dinner, they have a derogatory comment to make about their sexuality.

A friend and reader of this site posted an interesting thing to his blog today. I had to repost it and I hope this is alright by him. You can his other entries at this address.

Without more delay; here is his entry:

Most go through life seeking wealth and fortune. To many this means a bank account, a larger house than our friends and neighbors, to furnish the house with nice things and to treat our friends with gifts and things. What is wealth really?

We arrive in this world with nothing, no clothes, just a screaming entity. How do we leave? With the same, nothing. The hell of the material accumulations? Someone else gets the ones that we managed to hold on to.

So, what is real wealth and treasure?

The wealth and treasure are in ourselves and each other. How do we increase this wealth then? We increase it by giving it away. We give others our love and ourselves. I'd say that on the average this has a much greater return than any of the markets in our world. To me it is an honor to have another accept my love, to accept what help that I can give them, to accept my ear and know that they can tell me anything.



Thanks "Mr. F" for the words of wisdom.

Children are a big part of pro-creation. I assume you already know this, unless you are not sure of where babies come from then I suggest visiting allaboutsex.org and brushing up on that. Anyway, people in general have a certain attraction to newborn babies in particular. I have yet to understand this but by putting a multitude of sparse observations and theories on this entry, I may uncover what lies beneath in this fascination. Like I was saying, babies attract attention. They don’t care whether it is negative or positive but they need the attention. If you leave a baby to itself, not only will it not survive from lack of food and lackluster environment but I am betting not having that social embrace or a mental and spiritual bond with another human or animal for that matter may cause effects that you won’t notice for years to come. Imagine a kid that is treated poorly throughout day 1 to age 12. For starters, it was not planned and has no father. The mother , in her hatred of the babies creator, takes it out on the child not physically with violence or neglect but an underlying hate by never smiling, talking or having any compassion for the child. If the kid grows up with this environment, think about the future attitude the child may have, as it grows older and the attitude it has towards its mother and the world it lives within.

Don't do anything nice this Valentines Day for your neighbors. Yes, you heard me right. Don't even think about taking heart shaped cookies and a Valentines card to that little old lady down the street, it could end up costing you more than you thought.

The New Year means a lot to some. It may represent new beginnings, dropping old habits, creating new ones or just partying your ass off all night long. We all have our idea of January 1st and where we will be and the mindset accompanying us. As you get older, it tends to be another day but it shouldn’t be. New Years should entail, . The Cliche', out with the old, in with the new is the best way to understand my explanation. I will elaborate what New Years means to me.

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In the past month we have survived 2 hurricanes Charlie and Frances , before each hurricane I noticed something amazing about the way people were acting.


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Sometimes we, as Americans take things for granted. No, not human beings, but as Americans. We have it all I would say. All of it is not free but all is available to those who can pay the price. What is all in this context? All is comfort, luxury and our needs and desires fulfilled. Today I got home and had to get the number to Photo Shop World to see if it will be cancelled on Friday. I live 2 hours away from Orlando Florida, home of this year’s Photoshop World. I wanted to do some interviews and PR things for the website. Well, anyway I had no dial tone on my phone. I thought it was my phone, but then my computer could not get online so therefore my phone is out. Of course, it is not out from lack of payment just from the fact that it is out to piss me off.

We live in a crowded world and more than a quarter of our society is based on acceptance and socialization. Humans separate would not be at the place we are now. It is our tribal nature and how we move in packs that took us to the top of the food chain. This instinct still exists in a more complex form and although we don’t think about it, that pack mentality still controls many of our decisions (thus making it instinct). Before we had homes, cities or even clothing for that matter we were human. We may have been bigger and more archaic in nature but we were still human. Thus, our weaknesses of today were true thousands of years ago as well. One man could not take down a mastodon but 10 men with tools could. We learned through experience that we needed other humans to survive. Not just to recreate or to make our lives easier by giving someone else our job but for the survival of our civilization.

This title does means a lot to me. It is the title of a song by The Ataris and has many points or symbolism that relates to something that has taken up thousands of hours of my life. School. I have attended school since kindergarten. Kindergarten through 12th grade is 13 years and oh what a time it has been. Looking back on that time, though, I say to myself, “I wasted it and wish I could do it over”. Even when I was younger and did not have fun, when I look back on the things I did, I had a blast and will never get that back. Of course, it did not hit me that school would end until it was too late. It was not until I had 2 more weeks of school left before I noticed how much of it I wasted. To reiterate wasted, I did not waste it in a sense of wasting time, but I did not reach my full potential and succeed to the level I could have.

For thousands of years, different civilizations have required a “rites of passage” type of ceremony or act. Even today, some Native American tribes require their young men to go out in the woods without food and survive until they have a vision and see their animal. All over the world, there are civilizations that still do these acts. Yet, in the US we do not have this type of thing. I think all we have is you get to drive when you are 16, can smoke and go clubbing when you are 18, and can drink and go to any strip club when you are 21. I know the laws may be different in your state, but regardless, this is it for us. There is not a ceremony or act that makes you a man.

Most people today are in their own world. They walk around, day after day with no awareness of what is happening around them, or what effect their actions have either. When we were kids, there was a solid connection between our mind and body. Of course, physically there is a connection, but there is also a spiritual connection.

The world is becoming more and more populated. Also, we have information at our fingertips, with cell phones, books, the Internet, and various other mediums.