I must apologize for my lengthy absence from this blog as I have been overcoming several crises of a personal nature and have not had the time to attend to this.
Being that it is Christmas Eve, I would not be able to forgive myself for not posting on my favorite Holiday of the year. So here I is!
Christmas is typically experienced as enjoying good times with family and friends, snuggling with your loved one on a cold and snowy evening, and generally soaking in the contented feelings of love and friendship. And it should be.
Having moved from the frigid wastelands of northeast Ohio to the tropics of southwest Florida, I am missing the wintry Currier & Ives scenes from outside my windows and the bone-chilling, frost-bearing winds that threatened to freeze my very bones. Well, maybe not the wind.
Nor am I missing straining my back shoveling that heavy, wet snow. Neither am I missing having to shovel my driveway and walking back to where I started two hours ago only to find a new two inches taunting me.
Still, it is somewhat disconcerting to wake up on Christmas to a sunny 80 degrees. And did you ever try to decorate a Christmas Palm tree?
Anyway, I would like to take this moment to wish everyone around the globe a very Merry Christmas and a safe, healthy and prosperous New Year.
See you there!
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Monday, August 18, 2008
Inhuman Nature
It is interesting, in the study of relationships, how a pair of individuals, bound together in marriage, can be completely different unbinding in divorce.
One can only stare and wonder in abject amazement, where, from humble beginnings, such hedonistic and self-indulgent tendencies were given rise from. These deeply disturbing sociopathic tendencies that slowly dissolved not only the nature of the relationship as it had once formed and grown, but also the very substance of the person that once had been the closest person to me in my entire life.
Sadly the observable trend continued to deteriorate into a state of sustained alcohol-induced paranoia and wildly delusional behavior. I can only imagine that mine is not the only story out there, nor is it the worst of its kind. It is, however, much more than I can bear to deal with.
It is, therefore, with great sadness that I choose to end this relationship, not for the bleak emotional wreckage that it has become, but for all of the great and vast potential it once had that has since been consumed by intemperance, self-gratification, glib indifference, erratic behavior, contradictory thinking, and constant drunkenness, all of which, of course, are vehemently denied.
I turn my back in disdain and move forward, alone, into a better life.
One can only stare and wonder in abject amazement, where, from humble beginnings, such hedonistic and self-indulgent tendencies were given rise from. These deeply disturbing sociopathic tendencies that slowly dissolved not only the nature of the relationship as it had once formed and grown, but also the very substance of the person that once had been the closest person to me in my entire life.
Sadly the observable trend continued to deteriorate into a state of sustained alcohol-induced paranoia and wildly delusional behavior. I can only imagine that mine is not the only story out there, nor is it the worst of its kind. It is, however, much more than I can bear to deal with.
It is, therefore, with great sadness that I choose to end this relationship, not for the bleak emotional wreckage that it has become, but for all of the great and vast potential it once had that has since been consumed by intemperance, self-gratification, glib indifference, erratic behavior, contradictory thinking, and constant drunkenness, all of which, of course, are vehemently denied.
I turn my back in disdain and move forward, alone, into a better life.
Friday, May 30, 2008
The Slow Uphill Climb
The fall down isn't the part that kills you, it's the sudden stop hitting the bottom that does it!
Well, I am glad to say that I not only survived the fall, but also the sudden deceleration in my velocity coming to a sudden and, quite extreme, stop.
I have secured employment in my field of expertise at the beginning of the year and things are going very well in that aspect.
I am slowly recovering from deep, deep indebtedness caused by trying to survive on credit cards whilst unemployed, and I am preparing to initiate the final proceedings for terminating my very much failed marriage. I guess the third time ISN'T the charm after all...
SO, intrepid readers, keep an eyeball peeled for the forthcoming tales and adventures as I claw and fight my way back to the standards of my previous life.
Well, I am glad to say that I not only survived the fall, but also the sudden deceleration in my velocity coming to a sudden and, quite extreme, stop.
I have secured employment in my field of expertise at the beginning of the year and things are going very well in that aspect.
I am slowly recovering from deep, deep indebtedness caused by trying to survive on credit cards whilst unemployed, and I am preparing to initiate the final proceedings for terminating my very much failed marriage. I guess the third time ISN'T the charm after all...
SO, intrepid readers, keep an eyeball peeled for the forthcoming tales and adventures as I claw and fight my way back to the standards of my previous life.
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