the measure of a life lived

 

On craggy cliff below imperium sky

there the playful sea birds cry

the traveler pause’

above stormy sea

and contemplates eternity

making meanings from

the journey done

then measure taken

assessment past

lays down all burdens at last

Float in the wind while it is your time

Hey I saw your post the other day about being pressured to hook up with a woman, I thought I would give you a little of my thinking on the subject, don’t think I am presuming to give you advice, I am just telling you my story because I think it may be different than many other people so I offer it as an example of how all people are not the same. I date alot, I like people, I like flirting, I like the boost to my self esteem when some one thinks I am special in a romantic way, I like letting other people know when I find them attractive or exciting, I hope it boosts their self esteem and encourages them to be the people that they are and not cave in to peer pressure and try to be “like everyone else”. I really don’t like being too intimate with people, especially not sex, that is too private, too personal, too important for me. I reserve that level of trust and intimacy for my immediate family, my parents, my brother, and a couple of children that I have raised. And those are not the people I have sex with. I really don’t like having sex with anyone and I have never found anyone that I want to sacrifice my life and my future and all my plans for. Just like you said in your post, you would not sacrifice your relationship with people you are eternally bound to, in order to get a relationship with a woman that you just met. So what is wrong with the way I live. I don’t feel the need to procreate for the good of future generations. I don’t need to get a trophy blond on my arm to impress people. In short, I don’t need marriage, I do need and I get love from people: good friends; and I devote my life to learning and growing as a person, as I believe all people should. So what is wrong? Well, for many years, I felt like I was neglecting my duty, as if I was eating unhealthy or being an alcoholic, as if not seeking a mate was a sin or weakness that was tragically wasting my life. I don’t believe that anymore, I accept that I don’t want to be married. I like devoting my life to climbing to a higher plane of moral and philosophical purity. Well that is me. So my message to you is march to your own drummer and feel sorry for the people who don’t see that if you are different it is only because in some ways you are superior. Diversity is good, people are not all the same, we should not try to pretend that we are. Well one other piece of advice, which I don’t want to offend you with, but I am going to say it because I like and admire you very much (I hope that increases your self esteem). People have often mistaken my not being interested in sex with women with being gay. They are mistaken, being gay means being interested in sex with men. Men who are gay are out looking for sex with men. That is totally the opposite of believing that sex is too private and personal and important to trust to share and trust other people with. Although I am not afraid of being gay nor do I find it revolting, in fact I admire men for beauty as often as I admire women, in fact, not to offend you, I see that you are very beautiful, but sharing sex with people is not what I want, men or women. and I don’t want to bind myself to any other living soul. I admire and celebrate the divinity of all living things but my soul is not half a life looking for a mate to complete me, I am a unique life and my time on earth is devoted to perfecting my soul. In short, I am a holy man on a lifetime pilgrimage and I blow like a leaf in the wind, lightly touching other souls but never with the force to divert their own pilgrimage through life. These ideas are very alien to Western Commercial Culture, but historically, many people have believed what I believe and lived as I live now. I hope I have not offended you with my story.

You inspire me. You always have.

Hey what schools are you looking at. Are you getting athletic scholarship. Community college is not a bad option for the first 2 years no  matter what you gonna do after that.  The reason they don’t give scholarships to places like solano community college is because it’s almost free anyway.  I really don’t know a lot about athletic scholarships so I can’t  tell you there . But I have had quite a few friends who got atletic scholarships way bigger after they went to community college for 2 years . You know I’ve always thought you were an A  student.  But when it comes to living on your own everybody has to learn how to do that for the first time and it’s really hard to learn to live on your own and also learn how to start going to college at the same time it’s so much easier if you do 1 at a time . community college is a great place to learn how to start going to college because it’s not so big that people don’t notice if you having trouble and come over and help you

Madre te amo

Yo nunca hubiera sido nada sin mi madre.

Ask for help

All things become possible when people help each other. Cunning greedy people who exploit  other people want you to believe that you shouldn’t ask for help.

I hope to be…

I think the American People are hungry for leaders like yourself who have spent their lives struggling against a social system that does not reward the strong and courageous. I think America has had enough of fast talking swindlers running our government and businesses. I think America is ready for plain speaking, honorable, devout, citizen leaders like yourself to step up and take back our country. I am proud of you cousin for standing up to fight for doing what is morally right. Bless you.

I want to do something big with my life, cause I think I have a responsibility to help as many people as I can. Like it says in Spiderman: with great power comes great responsibility, that has been the moto of my life, and I think now is the time to change things, The world is just waiting for the catalist. Did you read in War in Peace where Tolstoy says great leaders ride the cresting waves of momentous social change. Education has to change. Salman Khan has now taught more than 36 million lessons.

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When good people help each other

I’m looking to hook up with you my friend I’m in concord but traveling toward Sacramento. I need money I need work we need to talk. When good people help each other everybody gets more.
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finding new parks all the time to play at

Love you sweetheart, how are your letters going to the other Universities? I’d go ahead and send them even though Nebraska said you needed the two other Math courses. Perhaps some of the other colleges count more from your Actuary tests. Or, perhaps they have another need in their college for a different math course to be taught that might not require the extra courses. Doesn’t hurt to find out I guess.

If you get a chance to teach math in Sacramento you could put off those studies at Stanford until you finish the school year; they may still have some other studies going on; hopefully that are paid or free. They didn’t say how much they pay, but I suspect that it is not nearly $450 a week, or certainly not as much as teaching in Sacramento High School. I am sure the studies would be very enlightening and make you feel much more free and peaceful with yourself. It’s hard to explain what it really does for you but somehow it takes things you have always known and puts them to bed so they no longer have a negative affect on your life, it is sorta like you have been set free from certain hangups, But it is sorta of an emotional ride you take even though almost everything you discover that helps it also feels like you have always known that but suddenly have a different perspective, or it no longer has an emotional hold on you, It is not what someone tells you, it is something you just suddenly feel and know. The nice thing is that in all the goofs we made, you always knew we loved you with all our hearts beyond anything else in the world. It was so much fun and such a wonderful adventure reading many books everyday and talking and playing and taking you & Paul to all the parks, aquarium, the little animal farm, the zoo & petting zoo, Lawrence Hall of Science & Palace of Fine arts for discovery and a million, zillion other things, sometimes I think I had just as much fun as you did. Remember how we would just pack up after you guys got home from school and go have barbeque pork picnics; or how we would drive all over finding new parks all the time to play at. Then, of course, when we moved here and all the wonderful fun (and hard work on Christmas trees) you guys neither one, ever complained, even once, ever, about the work or even once had to be asked to do it , just like mowing the lawn at Panama for Comic books! What fun, what a wonderful childhood you guys had for all of us!!! In fact, I think I had just as much fun in your childhood as I did in my own! Not that childhood was any sweeter than your grownup years, you couldn’t make us more proud or happy. We love you so, and miss you always, but we are very happy that you are doing what you think is right for your future, that’s very important, hopefully it will be a very long, long happy future. Love you! But you are going to have to come home a little while and collect some of your million clothes so you don’t have to replace them to go to work or school, That would cost as much as an airline ticket!

Love kids

You have to jump up and hit kids sometimes if you really love them. You can’t shelter them from the real world, if you cross somebody’s line you are gonna get hit.
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