What's Going On?

There's a radio show I listen to called "The Catholic Guy with Lino Rulli" for entertainment, learning and to make my ride more enjoyable.  A segment on this show is called "What's Going On?".  I find myself asking that question more frequently as time goes on.  We are living in a world where planes are shot down and no one takes responsibility, where a nation is torn in two and both sides are bombing each other, where people are so busy fighting about their differences that they lose sight of what we have in common.  I don't think of myself as being innocent and seeing the world through rose colored glasses but there is beauty in our diversity and embracing it would be so much easier than fighting about our differences.  Why can't all the extremists in every facet of this world see that?  Maybe I am more innocent than I think but I want to know what's going on?

Change of focus

I started this blog years ago with the best of intentions to blog regularly and on life in general, baskets, kids but regular blogging did not happen.  I've been mulling it over for a while and I think the focus was off, I have so many other things that I would like to talk about.  I'll still write about those topics but I'm also going to write about other things and thoughts that are important to me, that inspire me, intrigue me, make me question or just plain get my mouth running.  I think changing my focus will allow me to write regularly and maybe, just maybe there will be some discussion down the road.  Here's to changes, let's embrace them and use them to make us who we are meant to be.

Still plugging along

Ever feel like life's going too fast and you're moving too slow?  That's life lately.  I had planned on taking this year that I am not working to do all the things I dreamed of doing while I was working.  Four months into my year and I have not accomplished much of what was on my list but what I have managed to do is take time to smell the roses.  Are we sometimes too busy living that we forget to notice what's important?  I know my year will end before I want it to but I hope that when I go back to work I remember to smell the roses.