Getting Inside

Where am I? How did I get here? Looking through a rocky frame I can almost touch the blues and reds. They seem so bright and so close but wait one step and I am gone forever. The illuminating oranges pull at me telling me to come closer. Rock and gravel remind me to stay and keep my footing. Dust kicked up by my feet whisper "yes, this is real". The battle continues in my brain to step out and fly in this strange world.

In the sky the sun is moving fast, yet time seems to have stopped. Time to go home, back to the real world far away from David Muench's Grand Canyon.

If I were President

Thank you! Thank You!
First I want to thank all the voters that did not vote. This made it easier for all my special interest groups and packs to do they're and steal this elections. Next I would like to thank the past Presidents, both republicans and demarcates a like, for hand the country over to the money whores. I'm planning on making a lot of money in the near future. Thank you goes out to my
party for giving me a turn at the money wheel. And who could forget the media? What a great job bring down all my appoints and making me look like a squeaky clean hero. I can change how things are done in Washington? Why would I want to? Sure I made promises, but really, even if I wanted to change things how could I with the House and Senate? Which brings me to my last big thank you. You the voters. You really believed all the things that were told to you by all the people I thanked earlier. Great job!
What will I do know? Same old same old. And, with the crack staff of spin doctors, you, the public, will actually believe that I'm making changes and doing a great job with your best interests at hart. It is my promise to keep my approval rating high at lest until the public catches on and by then it will be to late.
Now, those that still have jobs, go back to work! Make more money to pay more taxes. If you don't have a job this gives you time to catch up on your mindless TV shows. Relax in knowing that thing are not going to change unless the change benefits us in Washington. Thank you,thank you, thank you!!!

Welcome to what I see

Entering you find a dark double door. Carpet lines the floor giving you the choice to turn left or right around a counter and wall blocking the view of whats inside. stoping you notice the counter seems to be covered with white and red striped popcorn cups filled and waiting for ready hands to take. Rounding the corner, just a few steps, the room opens up with lights, much larger than the front counter lets on. Spot lights are focused on a small area of about four feet on a clean wooden floor. The stage rises above the floor some two or three feet alone in the corner. Empty chairs and tables fill the room focusing forward to the stage. Clean and ready, waiting for something. Lights hang on the wall faceing the dark painted black ceiling giving out light to fill the room, again waiting to be lowered and give full attion the the stage. One single cold steel railing stands on one side of the stage as if to catch the fallen performers. All is quite but ready to start somthing new. The pulse is low soon to take off.

Tattoos

I once thought about getting a tattoo. I was deeply in love and we were going to get some kind of matching tattoo (Pepe and Penelope I think). I'm not sure what stopped us but, needless to say, we did not go through with it.

Good thing? Yes, now some 13 years later its seems kind of silly. I can't come up with anything I would want on me forever.

For others, go for it. As long as its not offensive, and if it is keep it cover up.

Then again who am I to make that call? I'm just saying its not my thing. Does it add to atractability? I can't come up with an example, how ever some tattoos are beautiful works of art. I would prefer to see them on canvas.

The Why

I presented my collage, as did we all, in class. I found interesting see the other side of people. I as well showed a side of myself and totally mess up the presentation. I mean, I've done presentations in front of professionals and students alike. I ran training classes in a number of jobs I've had, but this one was different. The subject matter was much more personnel. I could have picked something like music, golf, teaching or any number of thing that help make me who I am.
Instead, I went for the one thing that drives me, keeps me up at night, and wakes me up early mourning. Yes, the most important and driving part of my life, my family. So, I choked. With each word I had to fight back tears.
I can not apologise for my presentation, only to think through my choices in the future. Maybe leave the touchy stuff for the blog and keep it more on the surface for any presentations in the future. Tomorrow is another day!

Empire of Images essay

The fact that women and girls are the point of Susan Bordo does not give a pass to males in our socity.
Men are bombarded with images of the "6 pack". Cut muscle defintion, next to no body fat, is everywhere. Even on men well into there 50s and 60s. These men need help having sex but boy they must have no problem working out 3,4,or 5 hours a day eating 1200 calories of wheat germ.
Even boys of 10 years of age have a six pack only pro body builder had less than 20 years ago.
The presure is tough out there and all we can do is try to tell our kids, and ourselfs, its not real as well as not safe!

We are the change.

McCain came across as stiff and boring in his acceptance speech. Not as flashy as Obama but the message was clear. We need to all work together to make the "changes" that, from the sounds of both party, we all want. A much kinder speech, McCain as set the election up for him to be the good guy. Riding in on his trusty steed to bring the town together and run the bad guys out of town. This leaves the "bull dog" to do the dirty work of calling names, throwing mud and attacking the other side.
What is the change "everyone" wants? Well, its hard to say, keeping it vague is the name of the games these day. Change Washington? aren't both candidates in the Senate? Is it me or does the President only have the power to write a bill or veto one. We need to ask ourselves "who has more backing in the Senate?". Doesn't seem to me that McCain has many friends and Obama, still new, is an outsider. So that leaves what can ether do? Foreign policy. Iraq, Iran, Russia and the rest of the world are the things that the new president will have to face. Will the massage of hope and change be enough to deal with concrete issues of today?