Enter the New Year

Why it is necessary to proclaim my desire to improve at this time of year is way beyond me. The wife and I have been changing, for the better we think, for the last few years and it wasn't tied to any special day but rather an angst for renewal in the body...to be once again able to reach that balance between acting our age and youthful bounce in our step and spirit.
How we do that is a mystery and like the Aboriginal tribes in Australia we must think/feel our way to this destination.  So far looking back it is a clear and solid path we have followed. Now if you were to look at the road ahead it would be a shaded and broken path up the vertical face of Everest; stormy, breathless and only having rest when you stumble on the flat spot to set up shelter when you are completely beyond reasonable stress and strain on the soul. But all in all it's my journey and the one I share with the wife, friends and family, we are all in it together and that's what makes the journey and not the destination well worth it.
I was surfing the tube New Years Eve when I saw this on one of the channels, Alright sung by Darius Rucker, which I think explains my basic view. Maybe it doesn't go the who depth and breath of my souls motivation but it is a basic and undeniable truth of the human condition. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etr7UtnUflM
Speaking of the human condition then we always have to take a look at what the US government want us to do. By that I mean as the sheep, where the Shepard is leading us. Mr Obama, not a president by any strech of the before established confines of administration, but who occupies the office, any way Mr Obamas greatest win so far is the health care plan. This is the most hated bill by the biggest part of the population and yet in an amazing feat of bribery, cajoling and out and out dirty politics it passed in the Senate and Congress. Even with the threat of non-election the supporters of this bill rammed it down the throats of their constituents, WHY? The only possible reason is the big payoff. That's the only thing I can see that is a motivating factor here.
If you were going to lose your job and knew that you had no prospects for work because you were mediocre at your current one but you had the power to create sustainable income for the rest of your life would you do it? Don't answer that, it could only lead to other questions that prove embarrassing to the political lords of our time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xxgRUyzgs0  The band Living Color from the 80's can explain what is really happening in our culture today. These guys saw it 22 years ago...go figure, musicians seeing the truth.
And lastly the one thing that is really going to set us apart from the other generations that came before is our inability to bring peace to our own shores in the US. I have no ill will toward anyone: anyone of a different color, anyone of a differant nation and anyone of a different religion. In fact when it comes to the before mentioned I believe if you believe then you are at least capable of  allowing others to coexistence. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqnVhCADFHY&feature=channel And when it comes to destroying yourself for your beliefs go ahead if that's what you feel you need to do. BUT, if you think that you have the right, and that's exactly what I mean you think you have the right, to destroy my friends and family to gain your belief systems dominance then you are not a believer your are a butcher..nothing else. As was said in the movie Swordfish, don't mistake my kindness for weakness. Heinlein said it best when looking at how humans deal with peaceful co-existence or not as it were, I'm a stranger in a strange land. So focus on the good and deal with the bad until your done.

As I stated in the beginning, the course is plotted and the coordinates are logged in so through storm,  or good weather I will navigate the road less traveled and see those who truly want to have a happy and joyous new year. Peace to you and your loved ones.
If I pass you on the road stop at Peets, because your buying.