A life full of Joy

Our trek has slowed just for a moment to meet some of the most wonderful people, full of joy, this world has to offer.  Glowing spirits, kindred hearts, a model to be followed.

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With chance and time, laughter and jokes, solutions and healing,

Our offering a bike lesson, a road trip, a printed photo or two, never could we have planned the blessing of a neighbor, a birthday celebration, a popper, and alligator boots.

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Such wonderful people you meet on the road, the joyful road of life, when an RV parks, your neighbors, the stories, the smiles, the laughs make the road’s potholes and joysuckers all but go away. screenhunter_115.jpg

A toast - to those that have the joy, those that smile at the world, those that forever leave a memory in the hearts and minds they meet!  Thank you!

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I Hurt for Humanity

Well… several weeks have passed since we visited New Orleans now two years after the flooding.

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I must say it is still very hard to keep a dry eye, knowing our family has a dry and warm place to sleep and Fellow Human beings are still sleeping under highway overpasses and in condemned-infested buildings or on the open bare ground.

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The ghosts of the people lost; the haunting story the debris tells; the vacant looks. How in this great country does this continue?

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A place ravished by sickness, drugs, violence, destruction, immorality, poverty and disease.

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Yet with hope… hope for a new tomorrow.

Please let the compassion, the joy, the fervor for life, the support for your fellow neighbor, the intentional desire to make this world a better place, fill your life in this New Year.

Please do not accept mediocrity, do not accept complacency, do not accept status quo.

Unite with each other, renew your values, move forward and stand for something, stand with integrity.

Call on your brothers, your neighbors, your family and your friends.

There is power in unity, move forward in life with passion, a zeel in your existence.

Protect each other, take care of each other, help those in need.

We must take care of the people, help the hurting, soften the hearts of the angry, action kindness for WE MUST STAND UNITED against adversity.

Go to church and thank God for your loved ones; thank God for your blessings, count them one by one.

I challenge you to be the best human being you can be from this day forward.

Go now… with ACTION!

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We need GOD in America… AGAIN!

Please read these words. Very powerful Lyrics, a reality check.

Please help me make a difference, one person at a time we can get God back in America! Again!

Peace Dove

Artist - Carman Album - R.I.O.T. Lyrics - America Again

Verse 1:

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, First Chief Justice John Jay. Names synonymous with the spirit of our country, founding fathers of the U.S.A. Over 200 years ago they shook off the chains of tyranny from Great Britain, by divine call. Citing 27 biblical violations, they wrote the Declaration of Independence, with liberty, and justice, for all. But something happened since Jefferson called the Bible the cornerstone for American liberty, then put it in our schools as a light. Or since ‘Give me liberty or give me death!’ Patrick Henry said, our country was founded on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We eliminated God from the equation of American life, thus eliminating the reason this Nation first began. From beyond the grave I hear the voices of our founding fathers plead, you need God in America, again. Of the 55 men who formed the Constitution, 52 were active members of their church. Founding fathers like Noah Webster, who wrote the first dictionary, could literally quote the Bible, chapter and verse. James Madison said, ‘We’ve staked our future on our ability to follow the 10 Commandments, with all our heart.’ These men believed you couldn’t even call yourself an American, if you subvert the Word of God. In his farewell address, Washington said, ‘You can’t have national morality apart from Religious principal,’ and it’s true. Cause right now we have nearly a hundred and fifty thousand kids carrying guns to these war zones we call public schools. In the 40s and 50s student problems were chewing gum and talking, in the 90s, rape and murder are the trend. The only way this nation can even hope to last this decade, is put God in America, again!
Chorus: The only hope, for America, is Jesus. The only hope, for our country, is Him. If we repent, of our ways, stand firm and say, ‘We need God in America, again.’

 

Verse 2:

Abe Lincoln said, ‘The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation, will be the philosophy of government in the next.’ So when you eliminate the Word of God from the classroom and politics, you eliminate the nation that Word protects. America is now number one in teen pregnancy and violent crime, number one in illiteracy, drug use, and divorce. Everyday a new holocaust of 5,000 unborn die, while pornography floods our streets like open sewers. America’s dead and dying hand is on the threshold of the Church, while the spirit of Sodom and Gomorrah vex us all. When it gets to the point when people would rather come out of the closet than clean it, it’s the sign the Judgment of God is gonna fall. If there’s ever been a time to rise up Church it’s now, and as the blood-bought saints of the living God proclaim. That it’s time to sound the alarm from the Church House, to the White House and say, ‘We want God, in America, again!’ (We need God in America, God in America again). I believe it’s time America to stand up and proclaim, that ‘One Nation Under God’ is our demand! And send this evil lifestyle back to Satan where it came from, and let the Word of God revive our dying land! For Jesus Christ is coming back again in all His glory, and every eye shall see Him on that day. That’s why a new anointing of God’s power’s coming on us, to boldly tell the World ‘You must be saved!’ Because astrology won’t save you, your horoscope won’t save you, the Bible says these things are all a farce. If you’re born again you don’t need to look to the stars for your answers, cause you can look to the very One who made those stars. History tells us time and time again, to live like there’s no God makes you a fool. If you wanna see kids live right, stop handing out condoms, and start handing out the Word of God in schools!
(Chorus 2X)
We need God, in America
(We need) God in America
We need God, in America again
America again

Dear Arnold Schwarzenegger

Dear Arnold,

Our family recently visited your sunny state.  So many Grapes, so many stars!

I would like to encourage you to address politically the visable moral decay in your state.  San Francisco with its alternative life style, LA with its gangs and porn.  Hollywood and Beverly Hills “a location to see by all”, garbage, sex shops, drug smoke shops, buildings in poor repair and roads that will rattle your teeth out.

A jewel state that requires a little… ALOT of political polish. 

Please Arnold, fix this state.

Habitat for Humanity - Las Vegas

I was given an opportunity to work for Habitat for Humanity, through the local chapter of Project Management Institute (PMI) - Nevada.  Thanks PMI - Nevada.  Thanks Habitat for Humanity.

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The project is expected to turn over ten houses to local families in need.

I would like to encourage you all to offer your time in a volunteer roll.

 

Museum of Flight - Seattle, Washington — Spruce Goose - Evergreen, Oregon

Corncob to Turbine

The world of aviation comes to life in the many airships on display in these two museums.

Many of the airplanes are pre-1970 era.  The ingenuity, craftsmanship and ‘will to fly’ are evident in every detail of these airplanes.  From the Wright Brothers wooden model to the ’60s Blackhawk, Titan II rocket, and the behemoth ‘Spruce Goose’, a person has to take a moment and marvel at the evolution of the flying aircraft in such a relatively short time.

A person looks at these inventions in their entirety while pondering the question ‘how can such a mass of metal fly?’ while noting the beautiful design, lines and angles as art.  A person then takes a closer look at each of the components that make up an aircraft.  They are individual peices of functioning art that make up the entire aircraft; an equipment mosaic if you will.

After experiencing this mechanical art, a person is left longing to experience aircraft that is both current today and the prototypes of tomorrow, while having fun pondering what will aircrafts be like in 2050.

… Boeing where do I sign up? 

More pictures in the photo-album

The Latest Blackbird Pilot

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Located in Seattle, the ‘Museum of flight’ is home to one of the last Blackbird aircraft…

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an amazing unit, Mach 3.3 (almost as fast as our RV)

and operates around 85000 ft (if we only had wings…)