TV

So, I'm in the final hours of my trip in Tx. I'm board and missing my family. It melted my heart to hear the sweat voices of my little ones today as I chatted with them on the phone. I'm a blessed man!

So being bored I took occasion to run out and around the hotel and push on some weights in the "fitness room," not my style but I figured better then sitting around. Especially because TV is worthless.

Not having any cable of any kind and thus no TV is one of the greatest of all blessings. I mean it is just worthless nothingness. Nothing I can think to want to see is on yet I stayed up and watching nothing for hours last night. I got hooked watching "Two weeks in Hell" the proving weeks they have for the Green Berets" WHOA, mad respect for those guys. But still it was lame, I stayed up late ended up with a head ache and woke up with a head ache. SOOooo glad I'm too poor to have TV, BUT it was a blessing to go and watch the Flyers bust up on the Bruins.

Well, that is all I got. There is a reason I don't blog much. :0)

Travelling

SO, I've not been up on blogging recently, but I'm ready to repent....MAYBE!!

The fact is I'm on the move and will have time so maybe I will write some stuff up as I go as a way to keep myself sane in the absence of my ever fun clan of little ones to run after and play with.

SO, I've not travelled in awhile, well I've not flown in awhile. Maybe over..... a.... hmmm.... well over six years. WILD!

I'm headed to Austin, TX for a workshop to help me prep for the national MFT exam I will be taking next month. I'm sure it will be loads and loads of fun.

So, I've heard about the airport security madness we now have to endure at the airport, but WOW, maybe I didn't. I even read the e-mail I got last night. I thought it a little odd that I have to have all my bath accoutrements separate in a baggy out of my luggage so they can inspect them if need be. But I wasn't prepared for how odd and wonderfully bizarre and ridiculous it was watching a line of humans pass like mindless sheep through metal detectors with their shoes off. I mean.... really this is what it takes to feel safe in America? I hate to think what the future will bring, I thought I read an article about scanners that were so effective that they were controversial because the watching could see below the cloths.... ? Maybe that was just the test phase or maybe people boarding in Knoxville aren't dangerous enough to warrant x-ray security.

I had a thought that I didn't want to take off my shoes. I was going to stand up to the man! BUT then I thought I don't want to miss my conference. I think I might try it on the way home and see what happens... :0)

I also noticed that the threat level is is ORANGE today, not that I have any idea what that means. Should I be worried? Well, just for the record I'm not at ALL! Maybe that means that they are on the prowl for ginger haired peeps like myself?

Well, here is to happy flying!

Mother: No Greater

It's been a really long time since my last post. Life has been a whirlwind of joy and blessings. I'm well. I have new job in addition to my private office which I am only working at one day a week. We have moved to a new place in Tazewell and all is right in the world.

I figured no better reason to post then to honor Mother! So here is a poem I wrote to honor a specific mother, but it is also for all Mothers.

Mother: No Greater

Superiority has no assention on Mother

Heights cannot climb

Peak cannot soar

Bird cannot fly above

Mother

Duty has no precedence on mother

No work is more challenging

No responsibility more ennobling

No job more demanding

Then Mother

Love has no bounds beyond Mother

Feeling has no depths

Pride no swell over

Compass cannot circumscribe

Mother

Man has no greater honor than Mother

Rank has no command

CEO no procedure

Nobel no prize greater

Then the calling of Mother

Beauty has no favor on Mother

Cover girls bend

Flowers bloom

Stars shine

For Mother

Even the Lord honors Mother

Water wines

Word Honors

Sanctifying symbols homage

Mother

Mother there is no greater gift

What then gift Mother?

Tokin she creates

Love she owns

Light she shines

Treasure she is

Words she teaches

Songs she hums

Flowers she plants

Food She cooks

Painting she colors

Remembrance, Kindness, Respect, Serve

Can try and will

But remembered with love that proceeds

Everlasting

MOTHER NO GREATER