Hurts like it should

So i feel like a one string banjo, every post is all about keep it simple, work hard, life's not so bad, keep friends close.

Well what about the times when you feel lonely sitting among friends? For those that find life hard and complicated wishing they could turn back time to try it again? For the people who no matter what they do seem to get it wrong and never measure up?

Well from the guy who repeated over and over the concept of pushing through comes a little bit of country style understanding and emotion.

Now even the best of us fall to the pressure and pains in life, some of us grab a bottle and like a liquid eraser start in on the feelings and memories, some fill up the time with non stop work and play and like running across hot coals don't feel more than a twinge, and one of my favorites grabbing the keys and entering the black zone, a place where thoughts and emotions get blurred with the passing scenery like blacking out in a plane crash. The problem with these solutions? The liquid eraser only covers it up for awhile, the coals still burn your feet, and the planes gone down, any way you look at it you end up in pain. Now I'm not here to tell you how to fix problems, there are plenty of people better than myself who have covered that topic, I'm merely here to acknowledge that pain is real, and it strikes whenever it wants, at whatever it wants.

One of my favorite songs by Chris Knight talks about how you can't hang yourself if you don't have enough rope. It also says "i'm thankful for all the things i have and all the things i dont i got dreams that will come true i got some that won't" if i could only accept what will come true and what wont i wouldn't keep trying to hang myself with yarn. All i'm saying is pain comes in small medium big and super sizes, each one costs more than the last and sometimes you don't think you can get through the whole thing, but you're not alone, we've all been there and we'll all be there again. So I hope if nothing else you know I too have things which drag me down, but I keep standin up. Hope you do the same.

anyhow thats all for now, God Bless the U.S.A

Luke

Moonlit Beach

So early this morning I was sitting on the beach, watching the waves roll in, as the fog followed behind it. It was there in the sand that I came to realize just how little I need, and how life isn't really so complicated.

sometimes it's hard to take your own advice to heart. But the powdery sand, rolling waves and early morning haze help make everything clear: I don't have the answers, but maybe I don't need them. Anyhow this was just a short post after my night on the beach.

Pop that Blue collar

This Economic ressesion that we are in has revealed a sad change in Americans, during the Great Depression people blamed themselves for the fall of the economy, they tried all they could to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, all or nothing type attitudes. The welfare that arose out of the terrible economic climate in that time was met with appreciation and as a chance to turn things around, today in America welfare is not met with appreciation but rather expectation. People expect the government to fix their problems right the wrongs that turbulent times have created.

It's time to get back to the nose to the grindstone-blue collar attitude that pulled this country to prominence, the never say die attitude that America is so well known for. Let's not lay down and expect the government to pick up the slack. Put away those credit cards, pick up a hammer and start fixin whats wrong, be a neighbor to someone in need, start creating communities again, unplug that ipod, turn off that cellphone, go outside see your neighbors, feel the sun, listen to the traffic or the ocean or the swiriling wind; watch fields of wheat dance in the wind, watch cars speed on by, watch children playing in the streets- Thats America-wake up the sleeping Giant that the Axis feared in WWII, the sleeping Giant of American courage, bravery, independence and community.

It's time to seek out hard work, put away the complaints, give the shirt off your back, and keep what matters close, stop thinking in dollars and cents, start thinking with a little heart and soul. Either in the concrete jungle or back out in the woods, it's time to remember who we are.

So raise a glass, pop a top, those who can give, give, those who can't, reach your hand up not out. In the end we're all in this together, better or worse, so let's take the burden back, let's be worthy and proud to be citizens of the United States of America.

Thats all I got this SanDiegan Morning, God Bless the USA, keep it simple, lifes not fair but sometimes it's not fair in your favor. O and as far as golden tounged socialists (there's been alot of em) that want to make everything fair for everyone, and take healthcare out of the private realm, well just go look at the constitution...http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.overview.html