Hey, reader's how are ya today. Sorry the blog is late. At first I wasn't going to do one cause I was driving in to L.A,California , but decided to leave very early tomorrow morning. I live in Arizona as you might know and going to California you end up driving through the desert and, well it can get hot. I have A/C but its still better to leave in the morning before it gets too hot.
I will work on a blog before I leave so you will have Tuesday's blog for your reading enjoyment (or lack of)
I will tell you the reason for going to California. I have a good friend of mine who is ill. He had a blood transfusion and from what was explained to me, the transfusion he received was tainted with Hepatitis C. and he is undergoing Chemotherapy. Keep him in your prayer's please.
David will see you in a few.....
Monday, June 7, 2010
Sunday, June 6, 2010
San Diego, California.... And Why I Like, Forgive Me,Love It
Happy Sunday, y'all.
Recently I was asked why I loved San Diego, California they way I do. And for those of you who maybe wondering, I am not there right now as I write this.
Wish I was though.
I would have to start by giving you a little of the full story.
My grandparents took me and my younger brother's to the San Diego zoo and to Sea World a little over 20 years ago. We didn't stay at a hotel, cause my grandfather thought it was a 2 hour drive, we could do it and be back home at a reasonable hour. Alot of people do that. What I remember about both the Zoo and Sea World, was the scenery of the city. Don't get me wrong, from what I remember, I had a decent time at both parks and learned alot of things about its animals. I mean, lets face it, that's why you go to Establishments like that. To learn. The quote UN quote "good time" happens naturally.
So, anyway, I'm there just looking around at all of the trees, enjoying the cool breeze in the air,etc. When I got back home, the trip to San Diego was still fresh not only on my mind, but on one of my brothers as well, as I heard him telling some friends of his about the trip. One Reason
Second reason and you may laugh a little at this one. I am sure you are fully aware of the fact that I like movies and a little bit of television, but another thing that interest me about television is the different types of programing they have either in different parts of a state or even the state i was living. At the time I was in a suburb of Los Angeles called Downey. More on that in a later blog. So, there would be times if the waves in the electricity in air was, I don't know how to describe it, wasn't so busy, I could get stations from San Diego on my TV. Which was interesting because some times they would air shows that LA county TV station did not get. I found it interesting.
Years later when I was in my late 20's I went to an event with some friends of mine called Promise Keeper's, that year, for southern California anyway, it was held in San Diego. I remember sitting in the seats of what was then called Jack Murphy Stadium, now called Quallcom and once again, just looking around. You couldn't help but to do that, the city looked so beautiful. I had told a friend of one of my friends I was with that I wouldn't mind living here at some point. He responded, with he knew what I meant.
About 2 weeks ago I went back to San Diego for a business opportunity, and every morning from where I was staying I couldn't help but to take a look around and once again be amazed by how it looked. Hills of houses. Palm trees blowing.Aha, I can still take it all in from where I am at currently.
So, I hope that explains it a little.
Have a good Sunday, my reader's.
d.....out
Recently I was asked why I loved San Diego, California they way I do. And for those of you who maybe wondering, I am not there right now as I write this.
Wish I was though.
I would have to start by giving you a little of the full story.
My grandparents took me and my younger brother's to the San Diego zoo and to Sea World a little over 20 years ago. We didn't stay at a hotel, cause my grandfather thought it was a 2 hour drive, we could do it and be back home at a reasonable hour. Alot of people do that. What I remember about both the Zoo and Sea World, was the scenery of the city. Don't get me wrong, from what I remember, I had a decent time at both parks and learned alot of things about its animals. I mean, lets face it, that's why you go to Establishments like that. To learn. The quote UN quote "good time" happens naturally.
So, anyway, I'm there just looking around at all of the trees, enjoying the cool breeze in the air,etc. When I got back home, the trip to San Diego was still fresh not only on my mind, but on one of my brothers as well, as I heard him telling some friends of his about the trip. One Reason
Second reason and you may laugh a little at this one. I am sure you are fully aware of the fact that I like movies and a little bit of television, but another thing that interest me about television is the different types of programing they have either in different parts of a state or even the state i was living. At the time I was in a suburb of Los Angeles called Downey. More on that in a later blog. So, there would be times if the waves in the electricity in air was, I don't know how to describe it, wasn't so busy, I could get stations from San Diego on my TV. Which was interesting because some times they would air shows that LA county TV station did not get. I found it interesting.
Years later when I was in my late 20's I went to an event with some friends of mine called Promise Keeper's, that year, for southern California anyway, it was held in San Diego. I remember sitting in the seats of what was then called Jack Murphy Stadium, now called Quallcom and once again, just looking around. You couldn't help but to do that, the city looked so beautiful. I had told a friend of one of my friends I was with that I wouldn't mind living here at some point. He responded, with he knew what I meant.
About 2 weeks ago I went back to San Diego for a business opportunity, and every morning from where I was staying I couldn't help but to take a look around and once again be amazed by how it looked. Hills of houses. Palm trees blowing.Aha, I can still take it all in from where I am at currently.
So, I hope that explains it a little.
Have a good Sunday, my reader's.
d.....out
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Reality?.... Really?
OK, forgive me, my reader's for the lame title. I am having writer's block issues. I can't think of an interesting blog for today and I don't want to waist your time on nonsense. (well, guess its a little late for that!)
Well wait...... Its coming to me. Ah, there it is. An idea for today's blog.
Thursday night I was watching television and something occurred to me. I need to clear out my DVR unit. I had recorded so much stuff half of which, and I'll be honest here, I was never going to watch. So, I cleaned it out. Now I have much more space for recording. Hopefully what I record I will eventually get around to watching.
I am not really a big fan of alot of things that are on television today. I can't stand some of the pointless teen oriented drama's or the re hash of an old TV series being revived just because its considered a cult classic. When I do watch television it is programs I have seen before. Now, granted, they get boring after awhile. Especially after having seeing them so many times you can recite the dialog
One thing I cannot stand is reality television. Some of the most pointless and mind numbing crap on television today.
And it is sin full too if you ever stop to think about it.
the bachelor or the bachlorette: one guy or one woman having mini affairs with 20 or more other people just to see if they are compatible and sort of like Goldie Locks if you will he or she chooses who they think is just right.
Does it last? No, not all the time. Perhaps once or twice, but not all of them
I have never been married so perhaps I shouldn't say ,well write this, but that is not how you find your spouse. I am sure it is safe to say that when you started dating or now wife or husband you didn't say to yourself, "well there are 19 other people I can choose from cause something tells me he/she isn't the one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend knew you were doing that, your relationship would be over be fore it begun.
Than to make matter's worse, you hear about it a day or two later on the evening news or on talk shows. "Did you watch this show? did you watch that show? do you think they have a chance at being together or winning a talent competition?"
Its pointless. Just shut - up and get a life and stop worrying about other people's.
Not every reality show on television is bad. They're are some that actually have a good point to them and their not just talking about an over the hill celebrity who cant seem to get anything better than their own reality program
I am particularly fond of a reality show about a family of Little People living in the state of Oregon. Good show.
Well, once again thanks for reading. I will see you again in about 24 hours.
Drmeier
Well wait...... Its coming to me. Ah, there it is. An idea for today's blog.
Thursday night I was watching television and something occurred to me. I need to clear out my DVR unit. I had recorded so much stuff half of which, and I'll be honest here, I was never going to watch. So, I cleaned it out. Now I have much more space for recording. Hopefully what I record I will eventually get around to watching.
I am not really a big fan of alot of things that are on television today. I can't stand some of the pointless teen oriented drama's or the re hash of an old TV series being revived just because its considered a cult classic. When I do watch television it is programs I have seen before. Now, granted, they get boring after awhile. Especially after having seeing them so many times you can recite the dialog
One thing I cannot stand is reality television. Some of the most pointless and mind numbing crap on television today.
And it is sin full too if you ever stop to think about it.
the bachelor or the bachlorette: one guy or one woman having mini affairs with 20 or more other people just to see if they are compatible and sort of like Goldie Locks if you will he or she chooses who they think is just right.
Does it last? No, not all the time. Perhaps once or twice, but not all of them
I have never been married so perhaps I shouldn't say ,well write this, but that is not how you find your spouse. I am sure it is safe to say that when you started dating or now wife or husband you didn't say to yourself, "well there are 19 other people I can choose from cause something tells me he/she isn't the one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend knew you were doing that, your relationship would be over be fore it begun.
Than to make matter's worse, you hear about it a day or two later on the evening news or on talk shows. "Did you watch this show? did you watch that show? do you think they have a chance at being together or winning a talent competition?"
Its pointless. Just shut - up and get a life and stop worrying about other people's.
Not every reality show on television is bad. They're are some that actually have a good point to them and their not just talking about an over the hill celebrity who cant seem to get anything better than their own reality program
I am particularly fond of a reality show about a family of Little People living in the state of Oregon. Good show.
Well, once again thanks for reading. I will see you again in about 24 hours.
Drmeier
Friday, June 4, 2010
Racism & The Holocaust
Hey, reader's. Today's IF (interactive friday) is going to be a serious one. Not that the other two have not been, but this one is going to be more. I would like to talk about racism and the the Jewish Holocaust.
I have heard that there are people that deny the holocaust. They say there is no way it could have happened and over 6 million jews some how died a mysterious death. These people, as blind as they are, have a right to their opinion, but you can't over look the obvious. And that is that it did happen.
But as for me personally, I have been curious of why and how it happened than trying to have a debate on weather it did or didn't happen. And if I may touch on the Holocaust deny thing a little more, the people that do are mostly anti semitic. They would probably say black slavery didn't happened when there is documented proof that it it did
First, I think you have to begin with Adolf Hitler and why he hated Jewish people so much. I must say that in doing research for this, I was a little surprised to find our that he didn't always feel that way.
According to a German publication, "Mien Kempf" Hitler is quoted to have said the following: "for the Jew was still characterized by nothing but his religion , and there fore on grounds of human tolerance, I maintained my rejection of religious attacks in this case and in others."
According to the website, 'Majority Rights.com', Hitler was under the impression that Jewish people were causing divisions for Germans. Although, according to the website, German were not getting along with other Germans. And the Jews were their scapegoat.
What I have found out is that Hitler himself never harmed or killed any of the Jewish people, he had people do it for him which that with in it self is wrong.
But why Jews? It cannot be because of them wanting Jesus dead. In the grand scheme of things, the Jews DID NOT kill Jesus. His death was all ready foretold. "Surely He has borne our grief's and carried our sorrows. Yet, we esteemed Him stricken. Smitten by God and afflicted. But, He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement was upon Him. And by His stripes,we are healed." Isaiah:53:4-6
The question has often been asked by people, "how can a loving and just God have is own flesh and blood killed"? The question is an obvious one: for the sins of the world. Granted a little hard for the unchurched and even some of the Churched to comprehend, but that's what it was. So, if the hypothesis was "lets just blame the Jews cause they killed Christ" is just an excuse, when you consider that these murder's in Nazi Germany were not follower's of Christ. Interesting. The people that want to stand up for Jesus are the same people that don't' follow Him and in some case's even deny His existence. Hmm
And it is going on to this day. It is called racism. It is not just whites against blacks over skin color issues or why African Americans were slaves its an issue of hate which some people can not resolve. Un fortunately racism exist. Its a pimple on America's history. Colonial times where people, mostly in the south had huge amounts of property and didn't want or chose not to pay for hired help so they kidnapped other human beings from other country's and forced then to work. Treating them like garbage in the process.
Yeah, I said it. Kidnapping. And I'm white. In the book 'Roots' by Alex Haley, Kunta Kinte was a mere 15 years of age when he was taken from his homeland of Africa and brought to America. Fifteen. It doesn't matter how you look at it, these people stole someone else's child. There is NO excuse for that.
I have heard both sides of the spectrum. Racism still exist, Racism in America does not exist. I 'll put it to you like this . If the United States of America was a racist nation, we would not have elected an African American for President. Granted, not every American voted for him, even people in his own political party didn't vote for him, but he won by a land slide from what I remember of that election night almost two years ago.
I remember once asking some relatives about the holocaust because at the time they were in their early to late teens. One of them, an uncle of mine said they really didn't hear much, sort of like they were isolated from it. And perhaps so. America of 60 maybe even 70 years ago is not the same America of today. News from around the world gets spread more quickly and very little of it is censored.
In my screenplay I have 2 character's that deal with race issues. One is an African American woman and her adopted Caucasian son. I wrote it that way for 2 reasons: One is because before I started writing the script I was watching a commercial with a highly respected African American actress and I thought I would love to have her in this if it ever goes any where. Only problem at the time was where to put her. So I started thinking about another character in the script, named "JP" a teen ager in high school and it hit me, make both character's mother and son. One, the audience would not expect to see that, second of all it breaks racial stereotypes.
I have met several people in the course 40 years of all races and nationalities and race means nothing to them. One of them even said "race is something you can do on foot or in your car. It doesn't have to be something that makes you frown upon other people."
There are many film references I can give to you that deals with racism and the the holocaust, but I think I will only give two that I have seen that I think would help you. One is Steven Spielberg's Oscar Winning "Schindler's list" About a German, who during world war 2 saved over 2,000 Jewish people from slaughter. Second would be the television movie mini series "Roots. Based on Alex Haley's novel. Tells the story of a young, once again 15 year old boy being kidnapped and forced into slavery and the generations that followed. Both films are highly respected and I think deserve to be viewed not just for its entertainment value, but also for lessons that it teaches.
d....out.
I have heard that there are people that deny the holocaust. They say there is no way it could have happened and over 6 million jews some how died a mysterious death. These people, as blind as they are, have a right to their opinion, but you can't over look the obvious. And that is that it did happen.
But as for me personally, I have been curious of why and how it happened than trying to have a debate on weather it did or didn't happen. And if I may touch on the Holocaust deny thing a little more, the people that do are mostly anti semitic. They would probably say black slavery didn't happened when there is documented proof that it it did
First, I think you have to begin with Adolf Hitler and why he hated Jewish people so much. I must say that in doing research for this, I was a little surprised to find our that he didn't always feel that way.
According to a German publication, "Mien Kempf" Hitler is quoted to have said the following: "for the Jew was still characterized by nothing but his religion , and there fore on grounds of human tolerance, I maintained my rejection of religious attacks in this case and in others."
According to the website, 'Majority Rights.com', Hitler was under the impression that Jewish people were causing divisions for Germans. Although, according to the website, German were not getting along with other Germans. And the Jews were their scapegoat.
What I have found out is that Hitler himself never harmed or killed any of the Jewish people, he had people do it for him which that with in it self is wrong.
But why Jews? It cannot be because of them wanting Jesus dead. In the grand scheme of things, the Jews DID NOT kill Jesus. His death was all ready foretold. "Surely He has borne our grief's and carried our sorrows. Yet, we esteemed Him stricken. Smitten by God and afflicted. But, He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement was upon Him. And by His stripes,we are healed." Isaiah:53:4-6
The question has often been asked by people, "how can a loving and just God have is own flesh and blood killed"? The question is an obvious one: for the sins of the world. Granted a little hard for the unchurched and even some of the Churched to comprehend, but that's what it was. So, if the hypothesis was "lets just blame the Jews cause they killed Christ" is just an excuse, when you consider that these murder's in Nazi Germany were not follower's of Christ. Interesting. The people that want to stand up for Jesus are the same people that don't' follow Him and in some case's even deny His existence. Hmm
And it is going on to this day. It is called racism. It is not just whites against blacks over skin color issues or why African Americans were slaves its an issue of hate which some people can not resolve. Un fortunately racism exist. Its a pimple on America's history. Colonial times where people, mostly in the south had huge amounts of property and didn't want or chose not to pay for hired help so they kidnapped other human beings from other country's and forced then to work. Treating them like garbage in the process.
Yeah, I said it. Kidnapping. And I'm white. In the book 'Roots' by Alex Haley, Kunta Kinte was a mere 15 years of age when he was taken from his homeland of Africa and brought to America. Fifteen. It doesn't matter how you look at it, these people stole someone else's child. There is NO excuse for that.
I have heard both sides of the spectrum. Racism still exist, Racism in America does not exist. I 'll put it to you like this . If the United States of America was a racist nation, we would not have elected an African American for President. Granted, not every American voted for him, even people in his own political party didn't vote for him, but he won by a land slide from what I remember of that election night almost two years ago.
I remember once asking some relatives about the holocaust because at the time they were in their early to late teens. One of them, an uncle of mine said they really didn't hear much, sort of like they were isolated from it. And perhaps so. America of 60 maybe even 70 years ago is not the same America of today. News from around the world gets spread more quickly and very little of it is censored.
In my screenplay I have 2 character's that deal with race issues. One is an African American woman and her adopted Caucasian son. I wrote it that way for 2 reasons: One is because before I started writing the script I was watching a commercial with a highly respected African American actress and I thought I would love to have her in this if it ever goes any where. Only problem at the time was where to put her. So I started thinking about another character in the script, named "JP" a teen ager in high school and it hit me, make both character's mother and son. One, the audience would not expect to see that, second of all it breaks racial stereotypes.
I have met several people in the course 40 years of all races and nationalities and race means nothing to them. One of them even said "race is something you can do on foot or in your car. It doesn't have to be something that makes you frown upon other people."
There are many film references I can give to you that deals with racism and the the holocaust, but I think I will only give two that I have seen that I think would help you. One is Steven Spielberg's Oscar Winning "Schindler's list" About a German, who during world war 2 saved over 2,000 Jewish people from slaughter. Second would be the television movie mini series "Roots. Based on Alex Haley's novel. Tells the story of a young, once again 15 year old boy being kidnapped and forced into slavery and the generations that followed. Both films are highly respected and I think deserve to be viewed not just for its entertainment value, but also for lessons that it teaches.
d....out.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
It's Complicated.
Hey, Reader's. Short blog today. I am doing research on tomorrow's blog so, I can have the accurate information for you. I hope you like it. Its gonna be a little sad, cause its a tragic piece of world history, I hope you get something out of it regardless.
David Meier
David Meier
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Best Film Experiance
Happy Wednesday, my reader's.
Here's a shocker for all of you, Wednesday's blog topic: What is the best film experiance you have had in a theather? Come on, everyone has to have one. That is something I simply will not take no for answer on.
Ok,can't think of one off the top of your head. That's fine. I'll come back to those of you later in the blog.
I think one the best theather experiance has to be when I saw Steven Speilberg's "Schindler's List". I was in San Fransisco visting my cousin around the time the movie came out and of course every one was talking about it, so, my cousin, Clint and I went. I remember it was playing in a theather that had a balcony to it. I had only been to a few balcony type cinemas b4 so that in it self was a treat. The view we had of the film was also quite good. Once again, due to the balcony seating.
Second one would be when I was about 9 or 10 years old and seeing Star Wars 'The Empire Strikes Back' I remember I saw it twice on the same weekend.
The "Space" shots really got to me. The 'Death Star'sequences, Luke Skywalker find ing out who his father was. Splended backgrounds. The theather screen it self made the experiance even more delightful. Beats the first time I saw the film.
That was at a drive-in. They dont have too many of them anymore. For those of you reading who might not know what a drive-in theather is or your country doesn't have them, let me explain briefly. Drive in theathers got their start I would say around the 1950's. The object. To see a movie with the whole family in the comfort of your vehicle. Little speaker that fit on to your window that you had to tune to a radio station to get the sound of the picture you paid for.
Good idea, huh?
Not in my opinion. Here's why.
for starters, that speaker thing didnt work half the time, so you would see the movie, but with no sound.
than you would have your distractions, like various cars in the way, noise from fellow movie goer's.
Worst part about a drive in theather is the safety. I can not recall any violence ever happening at any drive in I ever went to, but thats wasn't what I was trying to say. Safety as you didnt know what you were walking into.
Now, since this was out side and at night, alot of people if they had them would take their children, thinking at some point they will fall asleeep so here they are in their pajamas, ready for bed, with one exception. They're barefoot, so either walking from the facilitys or to the consession stand you didnt know what you would walk into and I lost count of how many people I saw who got glass in the soles of their feet because it wasn't cleaned all that well. Including myself.
But, I digress.
So, who ever took me to see the 'Empire' I thank you. You gave me an experiance that I have not forgotten.
Now...back to those people that don't have a theather experiance..... You're with holding information and that isn't good.
There are 3 movies I would recommend for you. One, is "Schindler's List" Deals with the Holocaust and one mans quest to save thousand s of Jewish people from slaughter during Hitler's reign. (speaking of the holocaust, I will have a blog about that some time soon.)
Second movie would be the musical "Grease" Great film, good singing by John Travolta who at that time was in his acting prime thank's to a small television show called 'Welcome Back, Kotter'. I only add it becauae there is a scene of a drive in theather if any of you still dont quite get the concept. (wasn't the best idea in the world, I grant you)
and than the third film is Star Wars "The Empire Strikes Back" Great film about a long time ago in a galaxy far far away.
David.
PS:If you still don't get the concept of a drive in theather, think of the closeing credits to the Flinstones where Fred's car turns over due to Dino. It was at a drive in. Well, sort of.
Here's a shocker for all of you, Wednesday's blog topic: What is the best film experiance you have had in a theather? Come on, everyone has to have one. That is something I simply will not take no for answer on.
Ok,can't think of one off the top of your head. That's fine. I'll come back to those of you later in the blog.
I think one the best theather experiance has to be when I saw Steven Speilberg's "Schindler's List". I was in San Fransisco visting my cousin around the time the movie came out and of course every one was talking about it, so, my cousin, Clint and I went. I remember it was playing in a theather that had a balcony to it. I had only been to a few balcony type cinemas b4 so that in it self was a treat. The view we had of the film was also quite good. Once again, due to the balcony seating.
Second one would be when I was about 9 or 10 years old and seeing Star Wars 'The Empire Strikes Back' I remember I saw it twice on the same weekend.
The "Space" shots really got to me. The 'Death Star'sequences, Luke Skywalker find ing out who his father was. Splended backgrounds. The theather screen it self made the experiance even more delightful. Beats the first time I saw the film.
That was at a drive-in. They dont have too many of them anymore. For those of you reading who might not know what a drive-in theather is or your country doesn't have them, let me explain briefly. Drive in theathers got their start I would say around the 1950's. The object. To see a movie with the whole family in the comfort of your vehicle. Little speaker that fit on to your window that you had to tune to a radio station to get the sound of the picture you paid for.
Good idea, huh?
Not in my opinion. Here's why.
for starters, that speaker thing didnt work half the time, so you would see the movie, but with no sound.
than you would have your distractions, like various cars in the way, noise from fellow movie goer's.
Worst part about a drive in theather is the safety. I can not recall any violence ever happening at any drive in I ever went to, but thats wasn't what I was trying to say. Safety as you didnt know what you were walking into.
Now, since this was out side and at night, alot of people if they had them would take their children, thinking at some point they will fall asleeep so here they are in their pajamas, ready for bed, with one exception. They're barefoot, so either walking from the facilitys or to the consession stand you didnt know what you would walk into and I lost count of how many people I saw who got glass in the soles of their feet because it wasn't cleaned all that well. Including myself.
But, I digress.
So, who ever took me to see the 'Empire' I thank you. You gave me an experiance that I have not forgotten.
Now...back to those people that don't have a theather experiance..... You're with holding information and that isn't good.
There are 3 movies I would recommend for you. One, is "Schindler's List" Deals with the Holocaust and one mans quest to save thousand s of Jewish people from slaughter during Hitler's reign. (speaking of the holocaust, I will have a blog about that some time soon.)
Second movie would be the musical "Grease" Great film, good singing by John Travolta who at that time was in his acting prime thank's to a small television show called 'Welcome Back, Kotter'. I only add it becauae there is a scene of a drive in theather if any of you still dont quite get the concept. (wasn't the best idea in the world, I grant you)
and than the third film is Star Wars "The Empire Strikes Back" Great film about a long time ago in a galaxy far far away.
David.
PS:If you still don't get the concept of a drive in theather, think of the closeing credits to the Flinstones where Fred's car turns over due to Dino. It was at a drive in. Well, sort of.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Siblings.
Happy Tuesday, reader's! You know what? I think it is my one month anniversary for this blog.
Anyway, today's topic is family. A few weeks ago I wrote about Parenthood, today I would like to talk about brothers and sisters. Like I have allready mentioned, I have 5 younger siblings, whom I love dearly as I am sure you , my readers do if you have siblings.
In the course of 40 close to 41 years I have encountered alot of sibling's and just to a degree watched how they interact. And what I have noticed is that it is no different than my relationships with brothers and sisters. Some of them get along quite well. Others do not.
I once knew of 3 sisters, ok, they were my grandmother and two of my great aunts, my grandmother's sisters. For awhile they didnt speak for years. I dont know why, wasn't my business to ask, but I do recall the day my grandma got the call from one of them. They were on the phone for hours. I guess time does heal wounds.
They have been close ever since and its been over 20 years.
But however, there is a down side to having siblings. One is when they visit and decide whats your's is their's and what is their's is still theirs, you just better keep your hands off of it. Interesting concept. They come to your house and say "hey bro, this is nice" Your responce is " yes it is , now put it back. It's not there for people to play with". It would be great if they would listen and do what you asked.
Over the weekend my grandma and I had relatives over. House full of people. It was fun for the most part but I could see the effect that it had on my grandmother. It isn't like she doesn't love them, she does, but what she doesnt like, is the mess they make and how loud my nieces and nephews can get.
Once again, to a degree, my privacy was invaded. They used my shower and didnt put stuff back. It took me over an hour just to find my tooth paiste because, I guess one of them ran out.
But what can you do? It really isnt't an issue, its just things that get to you and probably get to them as well.
As I write this two of my sisters kids are still here. I can hear them. Its nice to watch the rivalary/friendship of these two.
One film that comes to mind about siblings is Woody Allen's masterpiece "Hannah And Her Sister's" Released in 1986 it explains the complexities of sisterhood. To who is struggling with life issues to one of the sister's having an affair with the other's husband. All in all it is a great film and I would recommend it for anyone.
I'll close with this: My grandmothers sisters. One has since past away due to illness, the other is in an advanced stage of altzheimers. My grandmother still loves them and misses them. Brother's and sister's. Age doesnt make a difference. You're there for them. They are there for you.
d....well, you get it by now.
Anyway, today's topic is family. A few weeks ago I wrote about Parenthood, today I would like to talk about brothers and sisters. Like I have allready mentioned, I have 5 younger siblings, whom I love dearly as I am sure you , my readers do if you have siblings.
In the course of 40 close to 41 years I have encountered alot of sibling's and just to a degree watched how they interact. And what I have noticed is that it is no different than my relationships with brothers and sisters. Some of them get along quite well. Others do not.
I once knew of 3 sisters, ok, they were my grandmother and two of my great aunts, my grandmother's sisters. For awhile they didnt speak for years. I dont know why, wasn't my business to ask, but I do recall the day my grandma got the call from one of them. They were on the phone for hours. I guess time does heal wounds.
They have been close ever since and its been over 20 years.
But however, there is a down side to having siblings. One is when they visit and decide whats your's is their's and what is their's is still theirs, you just better keep your hands off of it. Interesting concept. They come to your house and say "hey bro, this is nice" Your responce is " yes it is , now put it back. It's not there for people to play with". It would be great if they would listen and do what you asked.
Over the weekend my grandma and I had relatives over. House full of people. It was fun for the most part but I could see the effect that it had on my grandmother. It isn't like she doesn't love them, she does, but what she doesnt like, is the mess they make and how loud my nieces and nephews can get.
Once again, to a degree, my privacy was invaded. They used my shower and didnt put stuff back. It took me over an hour just to find my tooth paiste because, I guess one of them ran out.
But what can you do? It really isnt't an issue, its just things that get to you and probably get to them as well.
As I write this two of my sisters kids are still here. I can hear them. Its nice to watch the rivalary/friendship of these two.
One film that comes to mind about siblings is Woody Allen's masterpiece "Hannah And Her Sister's" Released in 1986 it explains the complexities of sisterhood. To who is struggling with life issues to one of the sister's having an affair with the other's husband. All in all it is a great film and I would recommend it for anyone.
I'll close with this: My grandmothers sisters. One has since past away due to illness, the other is in an advanced stage of altzheimers. My grandmother still loves them and misses them. Brother's and sister's. Age doesnt make a difference. You're there for them. They are there for you.
d....well, you get it by now.
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