New Yorkers:With polls opening in a few days, I found an excellent voter’s guide created by New Yorker’s Family Research Foundation (NYFRF). You type in your address and you will see the candidates who will be competing in the race for the various offices in your district. Please do not pass up the chance to be an informed voter!!! Go to their website and use “voter’s guide”. The candidates viewpoints on major issues can be easily compared on this site-this is a great tool to use, I encourage you to take advantage of it!!!!! I have my list of candidates!!!!!

I can describe to you where I think I am, but I am not certain if I am really there, what about you? Grieving is often unpredictable.One day we may feel we have the upper hand over the things that we are grieving, then the next day we may feel like we have only just begun to grieve our losses. It is OK to cry if you have to, stuffing a good cry never helps with anything, it can just result in becoming angry and frustrated in general. The most important thing is to recognize what needs to be done, grieve the loss, let go of the pain, and be healed emotionally.

If joy could be purchased from the shelves of stores or ordered in a catalog… Lord knows, it would be in high demand and the stores would be hard pressed to keep the shelves stocked! What tickles me most is my grand kids. They are so unconditionally full of joy-most kids have no problem turning any event into a very happy moment. Unfortunately, with kids … they can also quickly become sad, hurt and broken. We say that we have grown up when we learn to better “control” our emotions. Though  it may still happen that we see a “grown up” person have a tantrum in public…it is rare that we see an adult laying in the middle of the floor kicking and screaming because he/she did not get what they really wanted.  Grown up people get disappointed too and have other ways to express their pain, some ways are productive and some are not at all.  We are always looking for ways to feel happy, contented , at peace or filled with joy. It is important to find ways that are not going to cause us more pain in the long run.

The garden glows of brittle bronze…
While purple leaves bog shores of ponds..
The grassy fields once waved in jade-
Now, dance a golden… sun arrayed.
The vivid woods and forest by..reflect great rainbows to the sky.
Though we may mourn the freshness of spring and beauty of summer, autumn is but a painted promise of was lies hiding, waiting to come alive in the spring!

What can I say? Some people are just clueless!! I wanted a positive twist on what I was trying to say . I am so amazed how people can be working on the same cause, in the same appointed room, at the same time, yet be so unaware that other people are actually there or that they even count. When a King is about to enter into a room, those awaiting know that He is on His way and time seems to stop at the very presence that fills the room as He walks in. When our lives possess the same value as a King, then maybe people will not be so insensitive to our existence…or maybe they still will…we have to love them anyway…it is impossible without the help of The King.