A Time for Dreaming

What did you want to be when you grew up? Did you get there?

A New Year is typically a time to take stock of what has been accomplished, and what remains to be accomplished. I can tell you that when I graduated from high school, I had no idea what I wanted to be when I grew up. I still don’t! 😉

As trite as it sounds, life is NOT a destination. It is not a finite place where we can settle in, put down roots, and exist. Life, strangely enough, is ALIVE! “Living organisms undergo metabolism, maintain homeostasis, possess a capacity to grow, respond to stimuli, reproduce and, through natural selection, adapt to their environment in successive generations.” (Wikipedia) By definition, this means, LIFE, participates is each of these, as well. Life never stays the same, for better or worse.

Never in a thousand years, might I have dreamed the life I am now living, and yet … I am content. My work is fulfilling. My material needs are met and many of the wants, as well. I am relatively healthy, and most importantly, I have three delightful adult children who … MAKE MY DAY! It may not be anyone else’s “American Dream,” but it is mine!

The new year extends before us, and it is time to analyze and make plans for the coming year. How does your life today measure up to your dreams? Are you better off than 4 years ago? What will you do this coming year to improve your life?

As 2011 comes to an inauspicious end, here’s hoping, working, and praying that 2012 will be a year of turning the tide … a Rebirth of Liberty in America.

What Occupiers Win!

via American Thinker

Best NOBAMA Bumper stickers

Wild Bill for America … “State Champions”

Frustrated Liberty

"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man." ~ George Washington

Don’t look now, but we’re under attack,
I know you don’t care and you’re really much too busy,
But the jig is up already because they’re loaded for bear,
The cryptocracy now has power, while we nod and go our way.

This means war: they come from both sides now,
Slick career politicians who’ll say anything for your vote,
While we go about our daily struggle, oblivious – in denial.
We didn’t know it was a loaded promise, yea right – Hope and Change!

We never agreed to this, at least I know I never did!
I’m tired of the nastiness, can we be grown-ups PLEASE?
Polls and policies, and poisoned propaganda spins,
It seems as though we’re trapped inside our own apathy here.

And still Old Glory waves atop the flagpoles across our land,
A witness to the changes much more dangerous than bullets,
Still hoping to inspire dreams of great American courage,
WE-the-PEOPLE, it’s our turn now to awaken and make history proud.

Thanks again, BEKINDREWRITE, and may 2012 bring many Inspired Mondays & Tuesdays & Wednesdays … Thanks for your time and encouragement!