My New View

·Icing – One of the few penalties I was never charged with when I played hockey…
·Ice Cream – Chocolate…with more chocolate…and oh, yeah…more chocolate!!!
·Id – That primal, instinctual part of each of us…I call mine Lil’ Green and Ugly…he tends to get loud at the worst possible moments so I keep him under heavy lock and key…
·Idea – If I could only find the one that makes me rich beyond my wildest dreams…
·Idealistic – Yes…I believe that some things should be a certain way and work hard to meet those goals…
·Idiot – only where certain topics are concerned….
·Idolatry – I’ve been known to practice this by praying to the baseball gods every time my beloved Cubs take the field…
·Igloo – I think it would be fun to build one next winter with my Son…
·Ignorance – I don’t tolerate intentional ignorance…if you should know better but do something stupid anyway, I’ll call you on it….
·Iliad – read it…twice – still don’t like it…
·IL – The abbreviation for Illinois – my home state
·Illogical – only where certain topics are concerned…
·Illusion – always fascinated me…in both ‘magic’ and language
·Imagery – trying harder and harder to use it appropriately
·Imagination – always had an active one and always felt sorry for those that didn’t
·Imaginative – when it comes to pleasing a partner…I can be very creative….
·Imbibe – not much any more…did heavily when I was younger
·Immaculate – the way my kitchen must be at all times…unfortunately the rest of the house could use some help from those cleaning fairies that Miranda talks about so often…
·Immigrant – my Father…born a Canadian and became a Naturalized US Citizen on his 18th birthday
·Immodest – only with the right person…
·Immortal – I would only want to live forever if I could share it…otherwise it would be a curse not a blessing.
·Impetus – The ‘Divorce Cha-Cha’ that started me in this weird and wonderful world of blogging….
·Implacable – use your imaginations…
·Important – what I wish to be in the lives of those that I love
·Imposing – perhaps to those that only judge by what they can see…
·Imposter – the one that is in my place…
·Irony – I thought this would be hard…

Navajo Night Chant:

In Beauty may I walk.
All day long may I walk.
Through the returning seasons may I walk.
On the trail marked with pollen may I walk.

With grasshoppers about my feet may I walk.
With dew about my feet may I walk.
With Beauty may I walk.

With Beauty before me, may I walk.
With Beauty behind me, may I walk.
With Beauty above me, may I walk.
With Beauty below me, may I walk.
With Beauty all around me, may I walk.

In old age wandering on a trail of Beauty, lively , may I walk.
In old age wandering on a trail of Beauty, living again, may I walk.

It is finished in Beauty.

An old married couple no sooner hit the pillows
when the old man passes gas and says, "Seven Points."

His wife rolls over and says, "What in the world was that?"
The old man replied, "It's fart football."

A few minutes later his wife lets one go and says "Touchdown, tie score."
After about five minutes the old man lets another one go and says, "Aha. I'm ahead 14 to 7."

Not to be outdone the wife rips out another one and says, "Touchdown, tie score."

Five seconds go by and she lets out a little squeaker and says, "Field goal, I lead 17 to 14."
Now the pressure is on the old man.

He refuses to get beaten by a woman, so he strains real hard. Since defeat is totally unacceptable, he gives it everything he's got, and accidentally poops in the bed.

The wife says, "What the heck was that?"

The old man says, "Half time, switch sides..."

Tom was driving home from one of his business trips in Northern Arizona when he saw an elderly Navajo man walking on the side of the road. As the trip was long and quiet, he stopped the car and offered the man a ride. With a silent nod of thanks, the Navajo man climbed into the car.

Resuming the journey, Tom tried in vain to make small talk with the Navajo man. The old man just sat silently, looking everything he saw, studying every little detail...until he noticed a white plastic bag on the seat between them.

"What in bag?" asked the old man.

Tom looked down at the bag and said, "It's a box of chocolates. I got it for my wife."

The Navajo man was silent for a moment or two and then, nodding his head and speaking with the quiet wisdom that only could come from an Elder, he said "Good trade."

YOU CAN ONLY TYPE ONE OR TWO WORD ANSWERS; NO EXPLANATIONS.
1. Yourself? Me
2. Your Lover: Open Role
3. Your Hair: Reddish
4. Your Mother: Mom
5. Your Father: Dad
6. Your Favorite Item: Bed
7. Your Dream Last Night: Active
8. Your Favorite Drink: Water
9. Your Dream Home: Fishing Lodge
10. The Room You Are In: Office
11. Your Pet(s): None
12. Who You Are Now: Me
13. Who You Want to be in Ten years: Happier Me
14. What You Want to be in Twenty Years: Happier Still
15. What You're Not: Wealthy
16. Your Best Friend: Unique
17. One of Your Wishlist Items: Tranquility
18. Your Gender: Male
19. The Last Thing You Did: Think
20. What You Are Wearing? Clothes
21. Your Favorite Weather: Sun
22. Your Favorite Book: Three Musketeers
23. Your Life: Motions
24. Your Mood: Reflective

1. I was born October 3

2. I come from an Extended Family where it is understood that you can just call from the airport and say, “Hey what’s for breakfast??”

3. I have had to start asking my family where they are calling from if they call at unexpected times of the day.

4. I am the oldest of 3 children…my kid sister was born exactly on time (to the day) – she is 2 years 9 months younger than I am (to the day)…my baby brother is 7 years younger than I am.

5. I am the 7th generation First Born Male in my Family.

6. I am 5'7 if I stand on my left leg...but I'm only 5'6 on my right.

7. I have broken my right leg more often than my left and over time it has healed an inch shorter.

8. I have had so many broken bones at one time or another that my Orthopedic Surgeon named his second boat after me...The Flying G...

9. I was once a Martial Artist (thus the cause of many of my broken bones).

10. I was once a teenage boy (thus the cause of the rest of my broken bones).

11. I spent the entire summer before my 16th birthday at a specialized camp in Florida run by the US Olympic Swim Team...the camp is by invitation only.

12. I will never forget my favorite counselor...I learned a lot more than just swimming technique from her...

13. I have never shared everything she taught me with any one of the lovers that followed her…but they each shared some of what I learned…

14. I spent 10 days of the following summer learning how to drive almost everything with wheels at obscenely high speeds and in adverse conditions at an old military base in Arizona.

15. I drive at obscenely high speeds in a 2001 Mitsubishi Gallant that has had several professionally done engine modifications preformed on it.

16. I have only had 1 speeding ticket in my entire life...for going 25 MPH over the limit.

17. I talked the cop into writing the ticket for the 25 MPH over the limit I was going when he caught me...even though I was doing 35 MPH over the limit when he clocked me...this saved me jail time.

18. I do not make friends easily.

19. I do not give up on friends easily...the only way to lose my friendship is to truly work at it...there is little you can do to lose that status, but when it is gone it can never be reclaimed.

20. I was taught at an early age that books, music and movies were our friends.

21. I am as loyal to the books I read, the movies I watch and the music I listen to as I am to my friends.

22. As a result I have some 18 odd boxes of books and another 18 or so boxes of music and movies sitting in storage…I won’t get rid of them either.

23. I am loyal beyond what most people would consider rational or reasonable.

24. I am a man of my word…if I make a promise I will keep it unless I am released from that promise.

25. Even when released from a promise…I will still eventually make good…it’s who I am.

26. I am an extremely private person…not Hughes or Dietrich reclusive, but I value my privacy.

27. I think this stems from having the Family that I have (see #2 and #3)…

28. All this talking about me is already beginning to get difficult and I’m only just over a quarter of the way there…LOL!

29. My oldest friend in the world shares my first name...we've known each other since we were 2...he became Family a long time ago...

30. I have been lucky enough to have 2 other people come into my life and cross the line from friend to Family...all together the 3 of them have known me almost 80 years.

31. I have been blessed to love 2 women in my life...one is among the 3 mentioned above...the other holds a different place in my life and always will.

32. I have a Son who is 8.

33. He is such an amazing person...sometimes I am in awe of all he knows and has accomplished at such a tender age.

34. I am still fighting to get divorced from the woman that makes my life hell.

35. My Son’s Mother…(see #34)…is neither of the 2 women I mentioned in #31…

36. I am not perfect…nor do I try to be…I always aim for ‘exceptional as minimum’ though.

37. Until I got hurt last fall I was a gym rat...a standard workout for me would be 1-2 hours long with a total weight lifted somewhere in the 5-6 tonnage range (10,000-14,000 pounds)...

38. I have recently been cleared by my Orthopedic Surgeon to go back to the gym...now if I can just find the money again...anyone got some spare change?? LOL!!

39. I am proud to admit that I am an addict...I have been addicted to Chocolate for longer than I can remember...

40. I smoke about 2-3 good cigars a month.

41. I have smoked more than just tobacco...twice…both times with Family.

42. I have consumed the cooked/prepared flesh of countless animals from Armadillo to Zebra.

43. Most of the meat tastes similar...and only the birds truly taste anything like chicken.

44. I love most kinds of music.

45. I love to sing...unfortunately I can only carry a tune in a bucket about 5% of the time...the rest of the time I'm beyond hopeless, but having fun so I don’t really care what anyone else thinks! LOL!

46. I love the rain...the smell of it...walking in it...watching it...making love in it...sleeping while listening to it...

47. I am a Gentleman...YES, we do still exist.

48. I am also a Hopeless Romantic.

49. I prefer a good book, a good bottle of wine and a roaring fireplace to a night of TV watching.

50. I believe that old Ben was absolutely correct when he said, "A day without learning is a day not worth having lived."

51. I believe that he was also absolutely dead on when he said "Beer is God's way of showing us that He loves us and wants us to be happy."

52. I believe that old Ben was never quite the same after that lightning strike...LOL!

53. I am a storehouse of utterly useless knowledge...but I make a good Trivial Pursuit partner....

54. At the risk of sounding like more of a nutcase...I am often visited in my dreams by the spirit of a child that has not yet been born...we know each other well...we talk about everything in my dreams...

55. I hope that someday I will have the chance to meet this child.

56. If you haven't called the men with the huggie jackets yet, I thank you for keeping on reading....

57. If you have called the men with the huggie jackets, it's ok...I don't hold a grudge.

58. I am glad that I’m doing this in Word before transferring it to Blogger…I keep going back and adding things where I think they should go and the numbering keeps resetting….

59. I believe…in God…in Love…in Truth…in Justice…in Hope…let’s just leave it at I believe…

60. I am sure that there is truly a reason for everything…just because we don’t know what it is doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

61. I believe that God made us capable of loving an endless number of people in our lives…but we each only have one perfect match.

62. I believe that one perfect match is the one true love of your life...and if you are fortunate enough to find each other not even time or space will keep you apart.

63. I believe in Karma.

64. I have studied most of the major religions at one time or another…looking for answers to the questions that my own religion encourages me to ask.

65. I learned that ALL religion can be boiled down to one universal statement…Breathe in, breathe out, live a moral life, love as you would want to be loved, be kind to each other and please don’t eat the daisies.

66. Ok…so I improvised on that last bit…He really said don’t eat the fruit of this one tree…but somehow it got a bit missed in translation.

67. In case I didn’t mention it…I have a warped sense of humor.

68. I despise injustice of all kinds.

69. I will go out of my way to right an injustice if I can.

70. I believe in the Death Penalty for child molesters and rapists…not the quick lethal injection, electric chair, hanging or firing squad kind of death…more the ‘string them up by their wrists and keep them medically alive and conscious while their victims slowly peel them like a grape’ kind of death.

71. I can be a bit morbid at times…sorry.

72. I am opinionated…LOL…in case you missed it…

73. I believe that it is a government’s role to interfere as little as possible in the lives of its citizens.

74. I believe that by definition, governments will always interfere as much as possible in the lives of its citizens…this is one of the great conundrums of our time.

75. I believe that everyone has the right to their own opinion…until they try to use that right to abuse others.

76. I am amazed that I have made it three quarters of the way through this!

77. I once suspected that a Professor never read anything we wrote past the first full page, so I tested him…in the middle of the first paragraph on the second page of an assignment I wrote, “If you have read this far, I owe you a case of your favorite beverage. Tell me what it is and it is yours.”…I never hear a word from him.

78. I started writing really great first pages and then filled the remaining pages with gibberish.

79. I passed that class with flying colors.

80. One of my biggest regrets is not having the money to have finished school…I will someday – for myself.

81. I would love to open a Night Club…like out of Casablanca…only I know it would only be a novelty…this is the wrong era for such a place…

82. I know exactly who I would have hired as my Hostess…and she knows the offer I would have made…

83. I look forward to finding occasions to put on a tuxedo.

84. I miss all the westerns and kung fu shows that used to make up every Sunday morning’s TV schedule when I was younger…

85. I used to hunt, but stopped shortly after I saw a Mother Bear get revenge for the death of one of her cubs…

86. I will never forget the pure power or ferocity of an enraged Mother Bear as she attacks a human being…

87. I had nightmares for a month after seeing the attack…

88. I still go fishing…in fact I’m supposed to go next weekend with my Dad, Brother and Brother-in-Law…

89. I find that an afternoon spent fishing is one of the most restful and rejuvenating ways I can spend a day.

90. As restful as fishing is, I wish I had other plans for next weekend.

91. I love to spend time outdoors…be it camping, walking in the woods, fishing…it doesn’t matter…

92. As much as I love to be outdoors…I love watching movies too.

93. I am hooked on watching the Discovery Channel…it’s one of the only things on my TV when it’s on…

94. I want to travel more over then next couple of years…I miss it.

95. I love to cook…I find it therapeutic.

96. I love to eat – thus all the time I spent in the gym…damn, I need to get back there…LOL!

97. I believe that cooking for someone you love is one of the greatest gifts you can give them.

98. I believe cleaning up after you cook for someone you love is another of the greatest gifts you can give them.

99. I am relieved to have almost reached the end.

100. I’m done…anyone with any questions can ask at their own risk…LOL!

No siempre puedo saber la razón, pero sé donde y quien estoy. No tengo nada temer, porque estoy nunca solo en mis viajes.

I may not always know the answers, but I know who and where I am. I have nothing to fear, because I am never alone on my journey.

“I want to be happy for all the things I have, rather than sad
for all the things I do not have."