Hello everyone I can't believe it has been since December since I last posted on this blog, I guess the stresses of life are catching up on me and I am falling behind. I have been doing pretty good, although there has been a rash of immediate family emergency's happening in the past few months that I don't want to get into here, but just for example my wife is currently in the hospital but she is getting well and should be home in a few days.
I have been have been thinking some of what has been going on in the world the last few months, starting with Egypt and Libya and now the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the outlook on the news always seems bleak when you watch the news, yet it is like passing by a bad car crash, for me anyways I find it hard to stop watching. I have to remember that this is our world and we live in it, good news and bad news. Like I said I have had some awful things going on in my family but I try to keep a optimistic outlook on life.
One of the problems is that I have FSH Muscular Dystrophy which many times limits my abilities, my body may seem old and crippled at times even though I am only 45 years old, however I feel blessed because there are many people in my family how have the same disease, (as it is genetic) and many of them are in wheel chairs and must be assisted in various ways through out their day. At this time I find that once I get up and have my medications (now all currently non-narcotic) I can get up and make the best of my day, wether it is hanging out with my wife Sandi and my 5 year old Son, Jesiah (who for sure keeps me on my toes) or going to school, anything I have to do that day. Right now I try to live it one day at a time and that is all I can do. If I try to look to far in the future it can be depressing.
Today Jesiah is with grandma and like I said above my wife is currently in the hospital and I went today and visited her and had a meeting with her doctors and the outlook is very good and she should be home by Thursday. So after the meeting I went to my school (San Diego City College) and took care of some paper work than just took my time coming home so I could enjoy the surroundings.
San Diego and the surrounding communities are very beautiful and have much to offer, and to many time's I take all these things for granted, so I took a walk and just took it all in, from the beautiful hills and mountains where I live in El Cajon, the flowers and just the many people going about their daily lives. It made me think of the things going on in the wold today with Libya and Japan and made me remember how blessed I am to be living here in the United States of America.
I served 20 years in the US Navy and have visited over 30 nations and none compare to this great homeland of ours, yes I liked many of the countries I have visited such as Japan and Australia but still I believe their quality of life is nothing compared to what we have and could have. My only problem with this country is that to many people take things for granted and are very greedy to the point they are willing to rob and even murder others for things they want rather than embracing the American way of life and work for those things they desire.
I know I seem to be babbling but I have been away for a while and have been frustrated that I have not been able to make my blogs the priority they once were, however in the process of trying to make my blogs successful I also found that I was neglecting my family, and they must always come first, so I am dedicated to keeping my blogs up and I may have to rid myself of a couple but I want to keep people interested and I am going to do my best. If you have any ideas of what you would like to see here please feel free to write me and give me some ideas.
Yes, this blog is for me because I like to write and it helps me open up and get things of my chest that may be holding me down or even making me feel depressed, yet even though I am not positive if I even have any return readers, I want to keep and attract any that I do have or can get.
well this is enough for now, I am going to get this posted, I just want to say may God Bless You, the People of Japan and Libya and any place in the world where hardship is found. and beg you to please come back and visit and see what I am up to.
Duane
