This is It?

this is it? this is it.

Don't you think there are times when you have to pull back the pink filter in front of your eyes and admit - yes- that is all there is.

That is it.

This is frickin' it.

An old friend is headed to Australia on Friday.

Up and out. Gone.

Leaving behind friends and family. Big Step.

He has spent his entire life looking after other people and now this is one for him and for him alone.

I asked him tonight - was this a "head" decision or a "heart" one.

He said without a doubt it was both.

He met someone and she was worth leaving the country for.

The country?

If he travelled any farther he'd be coming home.

I admire his grasp of the situation.

this is it -

Getting all dressed up in a nice suit just to pose at a dump site.

Going to the beach in your coolest golf shirt.

Working your whole life to play pro only to be cut before the pension kicks in.

Passing up opportunity because it wasn't he "right time".

Working like a dog for everybody else and then curling up in the corner...

This is it? there has to be more, doesn't there?

i feel such a restlessness tonight.

Huey Lewis and the News: "This is it"

Gawd dang it I hope I am wrong.

Right now I just don't think I am.

bitch bitch bitch

Just how important are you?

Ever start to feel more important than you really are?
i do.
I seem to be doing it more and more.
i can make a difference, this thing is really important, people's lives will change because of this thing I am doing, thinking, creating.....blah blah bla

Then I look at the map above and it all comes back into perspective.

I take some solace in the knowledge that I can make a difference to the people immediately around me, the ones I can contact with a simple gesture, uplift with a word of encouragement, console with a heartfelt hug.
Don't misunderstand me - I am still very, very tiny in the overall scheme of things.
But if i make the people around me bigger, do I not also grow?

"Wish I knew what you were looking for
Might have known what you would find...."

The Church : "Under the Milky Way"



never - ever - pass up a chance to view the celestial.
the shooting star you choose to ignore may have been the one to change your life.
and so soon it fades...
and is gone....

Deadlines and Ultimatums

some days, they last longer than others

but this day by the lake went too fast

Rilo Kiley: "With Arms Outstretched"
and if you want me,

you better speak up

i wont wait

- Rilo Kiley

i have never been a big fan of deadlines, ultimatums, "have-to's" but there is growing within me an increasing desire to get on with my life - such as it is.

Places to go, people to see, things to do.

It's not impatience, it is better time management.

And whatever happens is up to me.

Center

Clarity

Peace

Serenity

Be Great.

Make a difference.