I Wish You Love

Eventually everything must come to an end. Life starts with birth and for most of us we experience good AND bad things. No matter how long the experience lasts it eventually ends with the final ending we call death. But with every ending there are new beginnings. What the beginnings after death are we can never be quite sure of. It can be the heavenly things we dream of or the very least we disintegrate and our chemical remains are in the earth or cosmos, the skies, where we are part of new life forms, different from what we once were.

With the ending of anything there can be a good or bad taste left in one's mouth. We can fall into blaming others for failures or learn to close that book and go on to new beginnings with a lightness in our hearts knowing we tried our best but our best wasn't enough and anyone that was involved we wish the best in the true admonition of Jesus to even love our enemies.

Frank Sinatra's version of "I Wish You Love" is a perfect homage of loving even after the affair is over and it can be applied to any circumstance in my estimation but it fits the end of a love affair perfectly. Check it out:  

I Wish You Love (Frank Sinatra - with Lyrics) - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjpR8u7IgE4

Goodbye, no use leading with our chins, this is where our story ends,
Never lovers ever friends.
Goodbye, let our hearts call it a day, but before you walk away,
I sincerely want to say.

I wish you bluebirds in the spring, to give your heart a song to sing,
And then a kiss, but more than this, I wish you love.
And if you like lemonade to cool you in some lazy glade,
I wish you health, and more than wealth, I wish you love.
My breaking heart and I agree that you and I could never be,
So with my best, my very best, I set you free.
I wish you shelter from the storm, a cozy fire to keep you warm,
Most of all, when snowflakes fall, I wish you love.

I wish you shelter from the storm, a cozy fire to keep you warm,
Most of all, when snowflakes fall, hot time, I wish you love.
All kinds of love, a whole gang of love

Wonderful thoughts. I wish you the best of the best but like Saint Paul says, the most important thing I could wish you is LOVE! A love of family, a love of life to share with your lover, a love we could never share. It just doesn't matter because "Most of all I wish you love!".

Let Me Vent 2016

Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court passed away this week  of natural causes. Up to the point of his death I have heard nothing of his greatness. The fact is most of what I heard was he was an ultra-conservative to a fault. The Liberals certainly didn't like him while the Conservatives loved him. In a divisive society he seemed to be very divisive. Since his death all I've been hearing in the news, TV and print, that he was a great man with great ideas and he should be revered by all, liberal and conservative alike.

What the hell is going on here? It seems one has to die to be recognized or is it that both points of view are wrong and a little bit of both is the real truth about the guy or gal. Unless one is in the entertainment or sports (Sports is entertainment) industry the good things have to wait until one dies before they are said. This seems very, very wrong to me.

There seems to be a culture of "I" that is permeating every age group, from the young to the old. Whatever happened to the culture of "we"? It starts with our young in grammar school through College. The children make it known that they want to play sports, wear the best clothes, go to the best schools, eat only the foods they like. I want a car. I want to experience the College life. I want a job that pays a lot for doing less. They enter relationships and before you know it the couple is arguing over where and when they will do anything from the first kiss to marriage. The Bride says "I want...", a beautiful gown, all my friends and family to be at the reception and the groom wants a lot of "I" stuff too. They are married and then it becomes "I want..." I don't want...", children, a house, to move, to go to sporting events, my own bank account. What ever happened to "We plan to live a great life together doing what we agree to do."?

On all levels of age even sex has become an "I" thing. "I need to be satisfied!" and if not well then there is always divorce where I can be satisfied until I am not satisfied anymore. Whatever happened to "We", fall asleep in each other's arms because we love each other? Whatever happened to becoming one because we try to lose ourselves and become a new person. "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife and they shall become one flesh.".  The "I" is lost and becomes "We".

People argue over when they should retire and all one hears is "I don't want you to retire." Not an attempt to explore why there might be a need to retire physically or psychologically.  Usually it is because "I" want to do do this or that and I don't care what you want the only thing I care about is what "I" want. Lost in all this is "We".

Our Political life is reflecting this here in the United States of America. We are supposed to be working for a "more perfect union". This is a state of "We" not "I". Where we as a nation share values and work to achieve the values which unite us to form this more perfect union. Where we leave our mothers and fathers to cleave to one another as in marriage to become "One Nation". But we fight Conservative against Liberal, Tea Party against Progressive. We lost the "We" and have become a nation of selfish people who are more interested in "I", full of super egos wanting to fill only our own desires forgetting the needs of our fellow citizens who might need some of our abundance to close some of their needs which if not filled they might perish, and not quickly but very slowly.

They only way to bring needed change is to start with one's self. Individual change is needed. We need to return to the "We" concept and reject the cult of "I".