Your Trials and Sorrows Develop You

Skye - you sweet little thing. You make me want to sit around the campfire singing "Kum Baya" or however you spell it....

I once interviewed for a job where the interviewer asked if I ever smoked pot. I said "sure - I grew up in the '70. I probably smoked 10 tons of it." Needless to say, I did not get a call back. Maybe I should have run for office....

That's very pretty and inspiring.

SoCal/MissDixy

The weed was probably 'inspiring" too. Be glad SoCal you didn't get stuck under the thumb of a dictator.:p

Miss D thanks I liked it too.

People take on much more weight than is necessary in our world - we are in complete control of how we move through our lives and yet few of us know it.

I was stuck under the thumb of a dictator. My father was a vice cop in Oakland. He killed someone in a bar fight that tried to kill me when I was 3 years old. Our father was a terrible tyrant. We all lived in terror, including our mother. He was a good cop, just a lousy father and husband. He told us that the Dirty Harry character was developed after him, except that he felt Harry wasn't tough enough.

What happens to you is not as important
as how you react to what happens.

Why did that someone try to kill you when you were only three years old?

My father arrested him for drug possession. He had a couple of joints on him. But back in the '50's that was a serious crime. When he was released, he drove his car onto our front lawn and tried to strike me but hit an oak tree first, only grazing me. Later, when he got out of prison for attempted murder (of me) he came back to the neighborhood to shoot my father. My dad got the drop on him in a bar and shot him in the head. Because he was a policeman and the convict had just gotten out of prison and was in our neighborhood with a gun, dad was exonerated. I mentioned that he always told us he was the role model for the Dirty Harry character, although we never got real proof it was true.

My father arrested him for drug possession. He had a couple of joints on him. But back in the '50's that was a serious crime. When he was released, he drove his car onto our front lawn and tried to strike me but hit an oak tree first, only grazing me. Later, when he got out of prison for attempted murder (of me) he came back to the neighborhood to shoot my father. My dad got the drop on him in a bar and shot him in the head. Because he was a policeman and the convict had just gotten out of prison and was in our neighborhood with a gun, dad was exonerated. I mentioned that he always told us he was the role model for the Dirty Harry character, although we never got real proof it was true.

Skye great post.