It's Cold Outside!

It’s Tuesday December 15. Christmas is only 10 days away, WOW! This past year has flown by and what a year! I’m so thankful to have the love and support of family and friendships that I do, there is no way I would have been able to make it through some of the challenges the past year has brought without them.
I was in Seattle last weekend for my dear friend Jeff’s birthday (my voice of reason) Jeff has been my close friend for about 5 years. We met while I was living in the Seattle area and even back then I would jokingly describe my life as the wind. (He would say more of a breeze) But the fact is it’s at times seemed like a long and crazy wind storm. Jeff among several others that come to mind and especially my family, have been solid rocks of love, understanding and support.
The wind comes and goes and comes back again. Warm and drifting, a gentle breeze at times and at times a confusing whirl wind. While I was visiting Jeff, family and friends the winter wind and weather was so cold is seemed to cut through me and pierce my soul.
As cold as it got, or as cold has it gets, I was accompanied by my warm and loving friend through those beautifully decorated and spirited Seattle streets. And how many times have my parents gotten me up at UN-godly hours to spend a few more hours with me before I have to go off and be gone again for what seems a time away that only God knows when I’ll be back again. I am so thankful for those acts of love, small acts, but life changing at the very same time.
They are the heart and soul of the things that matter the most. Though we come and go, in our search and struggles for what we can be and who we are. Through the weather of our lives we have to have good family and friends. And thank God for those who come in and go from our lives.
There’s nothing I could ask for than the small acts of love, support and understanding from such loving family and friends. And I want to extend that to the new friends and family that come and will go in my life, because the fact is, our time is so short. Don’t sell yourself short by not forgiving, or not reminding yourself “to be” thankful (thank-full), or doing or saying the things that matter the most to you and the ones you love.
Next year is already here.

A Whole New World

In the beginning, around 4.5 billion years ago, the first micro-organisms had an eagerness to exist. Our young solar system, gasses, carbon and quite literally the stuff the stars are made of, formed, grew, evolved and life was born.
Here we are, still keeping on, learning, growing, evolving and eager to exist ourselves. We are entirely interconnected with each other and the greater entity that is our solar system, planet, country, nations, cities, communities, our homes.
I'm fairly new to San Francisco and this community I live in. Realizing very quickly that it is a small part of a whole. We co-exist, have an eagerness to learn about each other, share with each other who we are, making ourselves vulnerable in trust, produce new experiences in hopes of finding happiness, laughter and love.
In this evolving of our lives of course, we learn to not only open our hearts with trust and vulnerability, but we learn through our own trials and errors, and become stronger and wiser. What we believe is right or wrong, relevant in our own lives, we slowly realize that becoming stronger and wiser through our experiences, standing up for what we have faith, and believe in, can sometimes mean sacrifice. Making tough decisions. Decisions that I hope are out of love and ultimately lead to love, for our families, friends, neighbors, community and the greater good. Self-less, strong love. Be a rock, but they say no man can be an island. When a father or mother makes a sacrifice for the love of their family showing honor and integrity. When you meet someone for the first time and enjoy them for who they really are and being thankful that they shared the real them, as hard as that may have been. Asking for someone's help in our own time of need, and giving to someone, meeting them at their place of need, providing for them without condition or greed. Love. I've said today to more than one person, I love you.
In the craziness of our worlds, our busy days and especially amongst the sadness, the disappointment. I hope that we can grow into the strength that it means to have love, share and show love, for ourselves, family and friends. If you haven't said I love you to someone today, do it. Tonight before you go to bed, be thank- full for the love someone shared with you, and share it back. If you haven't got that someone to say it to in person, call them up. Forget the txt.
There are so many walks of life in this community, this city by the bay, I love learning about. I'm eager and thank-full for the process that it's been, though not easy. I love you... you know that.