My First Ten 2014 Rez-oh-looo-shuns - by C. A. Griffin

My First Ten 2014 Rez-oh-looo-shuns

#1 - no weight gain in 2014. The heck with losing weight. I will settle for remaining the weight I am now - just as long as I don’t gain. Everything I have now fits.

#2 - no Jamison shots...after midnight...and before 1pm tomorrow. After that I will do them whenever the mood hits me.

#3 – open less cans…of food (saves on recycling and reduces my preservative/sodium intake) and of whoop azz (saves on bail money and jail time)

#4 – more smiling; at the Heiferatti and at the Coven. A smile goes a long way in diffusing a rough situation; besides it will disorient them before I deliver the verbal beat down as well as piss them off. SCORE!!!!

#5 – striving to be alert. That’s not the same as awake; I may be awake but I am not necessarily alert. Ask Larry or any of the Sunday school kids. Being alert means watching my surroundings, watching for the signs of the times and being vigilant. (Yes it’s also known as “Nosey Old Lady of the Block In Training”)

#6 – learning how to swim. Yes that’s right I said it. I live on one island and work on another. If stuff goes down I need to be able to swim.

#7 – obtain inflatable devices. Face it #6 may not work out. I mean I may learn to swim a few feet but long distance? Not gonna happen. So, yes I will need life preservers. Preferably in primary colors that glow in the dark as well as one in black and one in white. Hey I still need to be color coordinated.

#8 – Grow my own herbs. The kind you eat NOT the kind you smoke.

#9 – get at least one new book published and do at least one new concert. Some folks poke, play games and keep us informed about world events via FB; I plan on pressuring you into reading (my books), motivating you (come to the OHCC to hear me speak) and hear some local bands (2014 music concerts).

#10 – be a more gentle spirit. (no more throwing staple guns, laptops, chairs, pencils, shoes or people. Ok the people thing can’t be promised if I go back to Krav Maga training and actually keep up with it).

It Is Done

Like each year before it, this year has been marked with good and bad; it has been striated with lines of heart wrenching despair as well as events of pure joy.  Death has walked through the halls of family and friends alike.  The jubilant arrival of newborns awakened the goofy voices and faces in us as we tickled wriggling toes, reaching fingers and laughed at toothless smiles.  The unexpected has alternatively dropped kicked us in the chest with the force of a well-trained assassin and tapped us lightly on the shoulder with the gentleness of a pudgy toddler’s finger in the middle of the night. 

I thank the Lord for the strength to stand in front of the firing line of life, for the proverbial cigarette and the choice to wear the blindfold or to look life right in the eye and say FIRE!   It’s not that I am daring darkness to befall me; it’s not that I am bragging of blessings; but I am stating clearly that all that I have and am is because of the grace of God.  All that I have survived, and all that I am going through and will fight through is because of the grace of the Almighty.  I am so thankful for this year, 2013; thankful that it has come and that it is just about gone.  I am also exceedingly grateful to be able to turn the corner into the new one.  Here’s to hoping that we all are blessed to fill 2014 with a deeper conviction to live and love together for the greater peace and good of our own wellbeing and for all mankind, through a walk of united faith and trust.

A new chance, a new time, a new year for the Life of You.

<3 Always & Peace ∞
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In My Heart

In my heart, there are things that I think about that are said only for the Lord to hear.  The number is infinite and seemingly unattainable and enclosed with worry or fear.

There are names of people, hopes and dreams, wishes and a desire or two; the span of the need is as vast as the cosmos and seem as if they will never come true.

There are those who are struggling with illness; that need a job; are grief stricken or all of the above; and in my heart I pray for them to find an abundance of unconditional solace, strength and love.

In my heart, there are things that I think about that are said only for the Lord to hear.  I pray for those miracles; that grace from the Divine, to be with us all in the coming New Year.

<3 Always & Peace ∞
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Peaceful Sleep

"To my friends both near and far - I wish you peace right where you are. And for those whose hearts are full of dreams, may you remain ever bouyant on life's turbulent stream" - CAG

Note to Self - December 2, 2013

Occasionally, I have a moment where someone or something sets me to thinking of some life truths that need to be applied to my life. Here is today's missive:

Note to Self:

Before you feel the need to comment on someone else's life and how they choose to live it, check out your own, without the rose colored glasses. Take a retrospective stroll down the hazy memories of your past.

Take away the excuses for what you've done or didn't do while wrapped up in the passions of love or hate, caught in the throes of desperation, desire or addiction or while you were just plain stuck on stupid.

If you truly do that, if you honestly judge yourself and your actions prior to judging someone else I bet that you'll put down the magnifying glass or forget about tossing that stone.

If you can't look at and accept someone objectively when they are trying to do better and turn their life around, then walk away and mind your own business. I'm sure you can find more than a few things in your own life that need the deep attention of your scrutiny.

CAG
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