A New Poem.

I have just finished a new poem. It is a revision or a part 2 of a Poem I had written back in my early college years when I as still a young and immature individual at times. This time around in part 2 it is a bit more focused on the actual topic of the poem and is more raw.

Beyond this, I am still working towards my goal of going freelance if ever so slowly. I know that I need to get moving a more blistering pace though and intend to do much work next week when I will home on my own for the better part of the week.

Here is an excerpt of the Poem "A Time In Life 2"

There comes a time, a time in life

When a person becomes lost, lost with despair

And everything that is done, is done in strife

Were you feel that nobody, nobody seems to care

And you can never get a grip, a tight grip

On the way things are, how they are to be

And there is hardly a soul, a soul with a tip

To give you freedom, freedom to see

Who you are, who it is that you seek

Where nothing ever seems, ever seems to be right

And you just feel, feel so damn weak

And even though you, you put up the good fight

And it just falls, falls short of the goal

And you are stuck, stuck in a prison

And it eats, eats away at your very soul

Robert Jordan's Death

I heard the news today on the radio that the death of one of my beloved authors occurred yesterday, Robert Jordan, Jame Rigney Jr. I was all to aware of the illness that he was fighting and that his eventual end might come sooner than expected. Yet, the actual shock of hearing about his death is still one that is reverberating through out my very core.

I first read the Eye of the World when I was a sophomore in high school and was immediately a fan forever. The size and scope of the overall story that was being written was absolutely breathtaking and mind blowing and it continued to amaze me with each book. It is because of stories and characters like those found in the work of Jordan that eventually make me decide that I too wished to create characters and stories of my own and put them into such grand circumstances as those found in Jordan's work.

His works have had a profound influence on me and he will be greatly missed.

Getting Serious...Once More

I will once again resume posting on this blog and begin to get serious about my writing. It is no longer a matter of when it is convenient for me to write now, but I must now write out of necessity.

Posting To Resume

Sorry to anybody out there who has actually be paying attention to this blog. I was in need of time to collect myself and my thoughts for the last several months. I shall return to posting next week and will be doing so on all my blogs as well.

New Year, New Beginnings

    There is something special about New Year's Eve and the coming of the New Year. That something special is the fact that the new year of life is upon them, while the past year is over. In many ways it is a completely blank slate to work with, to correct whatever the transgressions of the previous year right. It is the chance to once again pursue those goals that you were never able to achieve in the previous year. This is why people celebrate during New Year's Eve, reveling in the fact that that past is gone and a whole new future is open to them.

    It is the reason why many set New Year Resolutions in an attempt to achieve a goal or set of goals that will bring improvement upon their lives during the course of the next year. Yet, I personally, have a greater appreciation for the next coming year then I have during the course of the past few years. The reason is that I finally feel that I will be able to escape the cage that I feel my life has been locked into during the course of the last three years while having to support my disabled mother. I feel finally that I will be able to escape this cage.

This will be through two means and are the two primary goals that I will reach by the end of this coming year. The first is one of the primary keys to escape that cage and that is to finally earn my degree from Marquette University. This key that was out of reach for me while being locked into that cage has now been handed to me through the friendly offer my good friend from high school's father. A contract and a bargain has been struck between the two of us that will lead me down the road of earning my degree finally.

The other key that will get me out from the cold steel of the rat ridden cage is the process of creating E.I.C. and get this business venture up and running. I already have begun work on many of the aspects for the business, but there will be many fine tweaks and a possible rethinking of many of the services being offered and a broadening of what I mean when I say Excellence in Communication.

So here's to the New Year, to New Beginnings, and to taking the steps to fulfilling dreams.

Lack Of Posting Explained…E.I.C. Created

Some of you may have noticed that there has been a lack of serious posting by me over the course of the last two months. I apologize for this lack of posting on my part. The reason for this lack has been many fold, but the main culprits have been depression, anxiety, and overall tiredness. The causes for these various emotions are many, but boil down to still having to support my mother after 3 years and working a job I don’t particularly care for and with individuals that are difficult to stand.

Yet, to combat these variables I have also been contemplating for the last 6 months about starting my own business. Thus, recently, I have been putting the ruminations of the last several months into an actuality. Thus, E.I.C., excellence in Communication, has been created and will be the business and mechanism to vaunt me forward in my overall career and life goals.

I plan to being creating new posts on all the blogs in the coming weeks. So please stay tuned.

Karzai Owns the White House Press Corps.

Today, in a joint press conference, the Preisdent and Presiden Karzai of Afghanistan were asked about the war on Terror.

Below is a transcript of what transpired.

Rush: We have the Hamid Karzai bite. Here's the question from some info babe named Jennifer. (doing sniveling reporter impression) "Even after hearing that one of the major conclusions like, you know what I mean, of the National Intelligence Estimate in April was that the Iraq war has fueled terror growth around the world, why have you continued to say, Mr. President, that the Iraq war is, you know what I mean, made this country safer?"

KARZAI: Terrorism was hurting us way before Iraq or September 11th. The president mentioned some examples of it. These extremist forces were killing people in Afghanistan and around the world for years, closing schools, burning mosques, killing children, uprooting vineyards, vine trees, grapes hanging on them, forcing populations to poverty and misery. They came to America on September 11th, but they were attacking you before September 11th in other parts of the world. We are a witness in Afghanistan to what they are and how they can hurt. You are a witness in New York. Do you forget people jumping off the 80th floor or 70th floor when the planes hit them? Can you imagine what it will be for a man or a woman to jump off that high? Who did that? And where are they now? And how do we fight them, how do we get rid of them? Other than going after them. Should we wait for them to come and kill us again? That's why we need more action around the world, in Afghanistan and elsewhere, to get them defeated. Extremism, their allies, terrorists, and the like.


(The above was taking from Rush Limbaugh.com and the full transcript can be read by clicking the here)