Welcome as Always One thing I must share with you right off the bat is I have become a newbie all over again attempting to navigate around weebly.com. Been away a while and it is always changing and upgrading behind our backs... Thank you weebly.com great site. Please do gather around, Angel is the local "Greeter", scratch her on the ear and she will know where to go. She takes dog biscuits and any other offering you may bring. Please my home is your home. This year has seemed to off the charts with unrest all around us. I am thankful to have this small community to call home. A place that respects tradition and I so love old buildings and love the history behind them. Too me they are true sentinels of many stories written. This building is one I may research further. Gets one to thinking and wondering what we can give back with. The true value in what we do to improvements and making and accepting change. I always find it interesting to have a pulse or an interest in what matters. It is all about serving the best interests of where you live. Enough chatter and lets see where my fingers take us. Change How often do we stand back and watch our governments take the people in an opposite direction we become upset (using the word loosely). To be honest we become internally angry, we say all we have to do is wait until we get our one single vote. Here in Canada where I live we have a Prime Minister who is the son of a past Prime Minister. (Long story) His win to the top office in Canada with a resume so thin and non official he is clearly the wrong man for the job. Drama Class teacher, Snow Board Instructor and that is it. His party went after the votes that had never counted before. All of which are now being heard in a new voice, sadly the masses fail to see his fathers legacy when he broke the backs of all Albertans getting our oil to market. In one swift move uncontested he son has scooped up 650 Billion from the Canada Pension Plan and bought the pipeline right in Canada. Right from day 1 this Prime Minister has basically placed the power fully and completely under their control. Great play on their part but sadly it has effected our oil prices at the lowest they have ever been. We have yet another player and the is our Provincial government. They have sat back spending far into debt to a new all time deficit. A debt will never be able to repay. Yet here we are again having another tax on other taxes in an attempt to stay afloat ourselves. It affects seniors the hardest really. All those years of dedicated service allowed them to invest in monitory programs like the Canadian Pension Fund and yet another called CPP or Canada Pension Fund. Sadly again there is very little your one vote can do to change but you must vote. That same vote could make or break this great country we have. My prayer is always be for those left behind such as maybe your own children and or deadly likely on the backs of our grandchildren... The best I can do is pray for them and those who truly suffer. On The Run The older I get the closer I like to pay attention to things like the above chatter. I focus more and more upon those things in life that bring you joy. We all get far too caught up in the chatter of the world we fail to pay attention to our inner chatter. The one thing that I grasp with some respect is aging. Fight it all you like and I am sorry we have to claim it. Having spent the better part of my life here in Canada I can tell you one thing for certain is I love to watch the changes of the seasons. Winter falls flat to the bottom of the pile as the number one enemy in my books. Can we change opinions you bet, in my case I need to get over the snow outside for a change of view. Internally is when the creative side of me awakens in some form or another. I smile thinking of when the sun was pouring into the back backyard, fire-pit burning away and friends all around you laughing and telling stories and just living life together. Winter brings that change that we reluctantly cater into. You know the ones where you wear your favourites duds around, maybe a sweater. I smile as I look around beside me in the quiet of the basement, I can see all is in order. I bet if we took inventory of each others writing abode we would find the same. Tea or coffee, favourite books near for research, nice comfy chair. If you have a fireplace then you are in heaven as the only sounds are your fingers tapping the keys and the fait scent of smoke in the air. Rather comfortable really, soon the snow is replace with comfort and we just relax. Christmas Christmas for some is a hard time of the year. I have gotten better over the years with all that is happening but there still is that quiet voice that says remember when. They were some very dark days in my life. A place of little hope, smatterings of joy but the hardest part was the alone part. Too any and all who feel it, I promise to pray for you. Prayers of joy and peace return to you as you sit back and take inventory of the gifts you have been given. They are so many, the air we breath, listening to your heart beat a regular beat in your chest. Several years ago I met a man on the verge of committing suicide. Over the years it has been built this thin bond but it has always been there as I have prayed for him several times. The bond was again connected recently where he had reached the end. We spoke at length and in the end he became my Christian brother. The road ahead when you reach that depth can not been seen as all hope is lost. Through staying in contact and leading him in what I feel he needs, then and only then will be satisfied. Every life is worth being a part of. Again I am blessed... In Closing Never for one moment think there is nothing left. There never is, that need will go on until the day you find yourself in need. I truly believe seniors are called to be that second set of eyes and ears tuned into what is before us. Each day becomes a greater blessing as I reflect over the pain and suffering I have put this body through. I have been asked before if I would change anything. First response is to think of those hard times and ask yourself what you may have done differently. Instead I like to focus on what is today. What will the day bring and I relish in the fact that no matter where I have been led... it has led me here today. Hopefully along the way I have gained some wisdom and inner strength to encourage another. Time to get this flat butt off the chair and away from the screen. Spring as we like to think is here but again later this afternoon there is a call for rain and yes turning to snow overnight. Yikes I will be like the preverbal turtle and tuck my head in where it is warm and safe. To each attached are several monster Canadian hugs... © Rolly. A. Chabot 2018
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4/26/2019 08:12:10 pm
Good to see you back. Been missing you, and thanks for the update.
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5/1/2019 03:25:33 pm
Hi Bill...
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4/28/2019 11:40:02 am
So many things have changed in my life as well and it feels as if I have been on a carousel. I am now in Daytona Beach, Florida. My Sid is already 13 and acting like 3 and has become the King of the Rooftop of the house where I live and enjoys every minute. I am writing more than ever and making some kind of income. I also have kitty niece Oreo and a stray Tux who is not yet sure if we can be friends. Sending you and Angel much love and hugs from my side of the world.
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5/1/2019 03:21:36 pm
Hi Rasma...
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5/1/2019 03:23:36 pm
Hi Mar...
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