Ponderings

What is the balance of time in the space between life and death?


Is it any easier to do good for the multitude or good for one when the price to yourself is constant?


I experience the world through my own being. Whatever other influences I allow in my life are still bound by this fact. Why then is it arrogant to think the world revolves around me?


Quis custodius custodiet?

Vague

I've started this so many times and never could complete it
The words inadequate, or melodramatic

I've said it and showed it,
pedantic, I shan't repeat it

Alma Mater

Hail Campion Hail
Faith and Courage will prevail
Truth, Integrity, Honour, Liberty
These shall never never fail

Shine Campion Shine
May you ever be a sign
That within our land we bring heart and hand
Reaching out in love and unity

Rise Campion Rise
Raise your banner to the skies
With your red and white leading to the height
Ever onward, upward rise

Sing Campion Sing
To our Island may you bring
Champions pure and bold like our saints of old
Brave and Loyal,
Hail oh Campion Hail

Sliding back, stepping forward

What a prekeh. Tings just a slide out a mi han den like mi deliberately a open mi han dem. Talk bout foot in moutitis, apparently it came along with the stuffy nose. Need to do some serious re -evaluation of self and interaction with other people. Mi glad seh tings work out the way dem work out all di same but lawwks :S It shoulda neva haffi go so.

Need to take things more seriously . On that score I need to tek mi head out of mi damn ass and get my act together. New job needed first, area not completely relevant, it's a means to an end. Next step, get into a music programme somewhere, preferably somewhere with steel pan, after that I can take the passion and make it work for me.

Also need to repeat the words "means to an end" everyday. Waiting in limbo is non productive , especially when I have no idea what it is I'm waiting for. Prioritise, strategize and renergize.

Yup the makings of a new years resolution. Step one check. Stepping forward with step two.

Happenings in my Area

Yesterday morning a woman down the road was held up at gunpoint and her car stolen. Praise the Lord!

This morning a man was shouting at the end of my street about someone's b*****cl*** . Thank you Lord!

Why I am I saying praise and thank you? Because I have seen worse things happen. The woman who got held up was not made to drive her car away from the scene of the crime, raped and threatened if she reported the incident. She did not have to spend agonizing months taking God knows how many different kinds of pills and injections to prevent an S.T.D. or an unwanted pregnancy. Nor the rage and guilt which is an inevitable part of rape. Praise the Lord only her car was stolen.

The man at the end of the road only shouted his rage. He did take it out on his children or baby mother with a 2 * 4 plank that has nails projecting at odd angles. He didn't launch miniature boulders at the object of his rage. Thank you Lord that you guided his heart and hands.

There are so many incidents like these that happen everywhere, everyday to people I see. When you see what's happening in your area, just stop and think, maybe it's not as bad as it could have been.

Thank Yous

So many persons have helped to shape me into the person I am today. Their advice and support whether negative or positive has altered the course of my life in some way, and I am grateful for that. In many instances it wasn't what was overtly done or not done as much as the way in which it was done.

At times it was nothing that affected me directly, simply my observations of how these persons behaved. The way they lived their lives and the way they affected others. Thank you for being you. For living life and for being alive.

The more I explore the world and my role in it is the more I realize that all persons are connected. The degree of separation varies but there remains the inextricable link to humanity in all aspects. To love the world is to love myself, to hate the world is to hate myself and to thank someone, is to acknowledge your connection to the whole.

Thank you.

Shadowing

Bwoy oh bwoy. Let me just put it on the record that one of the most important lessons I was taught by my section leader when I joined the band was how to shadow and shadow well. Having been involved in the performing arts for many years before joing the band I knew that whatever happened the show must go on. Above that the audience must never have a clue that something has gone awry.

When it come to my playing I put out a whole lot of effort, but yesterday it would appear that I had just learned to play pan and they threw me into the deep end with a concert. I had on my glasses to make matters worse. Usually when I perform on stage I remove them partially so they won't fall off and partially so I don't have to see the audience. Its easier to play that way. Yesterday there were no barriers. EEEK!! They could see me and worse , now I could SEE THEM :S

Anyway the show went on. Much kudos to all the persons who eventually trickled in to gives us a near to full house, still more kudos to the pannists who kept the energy flowing. Hopefully I'll give a better account of myself next time.

My favourite things

Chocolate covered brownies with chocolate fudge and chips. Ruby red lollipops. Tatoos and piercings. Hands that make mine look small. Blue skies and beaches. Total trust and comfort. Air travel. Not having a care in the world.

These are a few of My Favourite Things. What are yours?

Misled

Ignore your senses, they will betray you every time
They cannot tell the difference between friend and foe, or right and wrong
Only your mind can do that.

Do not be a slave to logic
Its certain rationality ignores the need for chaos in our lives

Achieve the balance and walk the line my friend
Walk it all the way through