What If?

What could we do if......

Who could we be if.......

How far could we go...

How many could we inspire....

What would be possible?

How many could we feed and cloth and house...

How much love would there be to go around..

What if...?

What kind of world might it be if...?

Flight

I wondered

What it was like

To fly?

So I took a dream

And tied it together

With Desire

I guided it

With belief

And kept it going

With enthusiasm

And when there was a calm

In the wind

I pushed it along

With blind faith and commitment!

My dream grew wings

And I flew

The Best Rocky Road Rice Krispy Treats!

What you need:

A 9 inch baking pan or equivalent, must be at least 2 inches deep.

A pan of water

A glass bowl (Heat proof) to melt the chocolate in.

A Mixing Bowl

Rice Krispy's 

 One each, bar of cooking chocolate 150 Grams each

            White

            Milk

            Dark

Nuts of choice. Coarsely Copped, (I used mixed) one handful.

Large spoonful of Peanut Butter

Large Spoonful of Nutella

Icing sugar to sprinkle on top when finished

What you need to do:

1. Get the mixing bowl, large enough to mix contents in.
2. Break the bar of Milk Chocolate into squares.
3. Fill pan with water, but not so much that the bowl touches the water. (The bowl and pan must be of equivalent size). Make sure that no water gets into the chocolate as it will curdle and not melt.
4. Bring water to boil then reduce heat.
5. Place the squares of Milk Chocolate in the bowl and stir gently until melted. 
6. Add the spoon full of Peanut Butter, Nutella and Chopped Nuts, stir until smooth.
7. Add Rice Krispy's to the mixing bowl a little at a time and pour in the Chocolate mix until you have the texture you require. The chocolate, Peanut Butter, Nutella mix should cover all of the rice Rice Krispy's and bind them together.

Then:

When thoroughly mixed add the Rice Krispy mix to the baking pan and level the mix evenly in the pan. Then place in the refrigerator until firm. Aprx 30 minutes.

Then:

Melt the Dark Chocolate, remove the mix from the refrigerator and pour the Dark Chocolate over the Rice Krispy mix.

Replace back in the refrigerator for aprx 30 minutes.

Then:

Melt the White Chocolate.

You can either use the full bar of enough to drizzle over the Rice Crispie mix.

Put back into refrigerator until ready.

Sprinkle with Icing Sugar. Cut into squares of Rocky Road Rice Krispy Treats!

Bon Appétit 

50 years in the making.

I tuned 50 and suddenly the distance between great sex had gone from six days, to six weeks. I turned fifty and my eyesight had quietly faded, something I only realised when I failed the eyesight test when transferring my license from Maryland to Virginia. ( I should point out the woman administering the test was indignant about the fact that I couldn’t read the night time bottom row on the machine rather than the fact that I was apparently going blind) I had to drive with a limited license until I got glasses. How embarrassing. 

Daughter: "Daddy can we go to the mall tonight?"

Me: "Mommy will have to drive I can only drive in the day time." :(

I turned 50 and I was suddenly accused of having selective hearing, something that was brought on from eight years of firing a rifle while in the Army.

But the most unnerving thing about turning fifty in todays world though, is that how the world had changed. It has almost changed overnight and either the 50 something generation has embraced it or feel like they have been left out in the cold, confused and adrift. The industrial era high point, was in fact a lot longer ago than we realise, in fact, I left school in 1971 and factories were already closing down then. It seems like we turned 50 and at half time the rules of the game and the referee changed, but the playing field seemed to stay the same. (This was not the case) This, along with the advice of politicians, business leaders and well meaning family and friends changed while we were busy with our heads down and working hard, but we failed to see the warning signs.

Have all the skills that were so hard won just disappeared or are they transferable? Has the process of moving from the Industrial Era to one of Service and Technology really left us behind or are so many of my generation just unwilling to let the past go and move on, learn something new and rise to the occasion? There was a time when television and radio were the new technology. Maybe the speed in which they moved was just a little slower then.

The question is and should be; what do we do with the experience we have and the skills we have acquired? How do we transfer those skills into a useful tradable currency? Well the truth is that not much has changed at all. We still need a place to live and food to eat, clothes to wear and something to keep us occupied. We still have family and friends who are and should be the most important thing in our lives and the largest tradable currency is still relationships. Factories and manufacturing may have disappeared but the skills needed to succeed in them have not changed. No matter where we are and what we are doing for the most part we need to have a relationship with someone else in order to achieve our goals.

I think the reason for the distance in great sex, is due to the way we feel about ourselves and not the age that we are at.

Looking For Space

John Denver, poet, singer songwriter, activist and pilot. His real name was Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. Born December 31, 1943 and sadly died on October 12, 1997.

He left behind family and friends and a legion of fans, who loved his music. He also left behind a gift of songs and stories that live on to this day and still inspire many with their words of comfort and dreams.

It is interesting to see that in his early days John Denver had to promote himself because the record label he was with did not see a lot of hope for him. This was even after ‘Leaving on a Jet Plane’ had gone to number one in the charts. It is inspiring to think that with all the odds against success, he was unwilling to give in.

Sadly he leaves behind an empty space in our hearts and I am sure, so many stories left untold.

Click on the link to listen to 'Looking For Space'