Life is your Masterpiece

When you look around at your life, everything is a result of your past actions (obviously exempt is the things you started out with since birth).

Your job, your relationship, your health, the things in your apartment or house.

All these items are a result of how your masterpiece has taken place thus far can we change it if you want...

Before we get into that start by think to yourself, how did i acquire all these things? Did you wake up one day and say hey i want to fireman, a teacher, an accountant, an it consultant? Did you want to have a girlfriend/boyfriend who's smart, funny, and attractive? Or a house with 5 bedrooms for all the little ones you'd have?

I believe a lot of starts by thinking. If your thinking of actions that make you happy, then continue what your doing. If your having trouble thinking of things that make you happy then just simply write things down that make you grateful.

Once you have a list of what makes you grateful. This can be things you have or things you want, but once you have that list think about how you could incorporate more of this into my life? You obviously don't know how your going to accomplish it but if your driving at night from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia you can only see as far as your tail lights will take you and trust that the road will bring you to your destination.

I thought of this recently:
negative thoughts and positive thoughts are both absorbed into your masterpiece.
negative thoughts show up quicker
however positive though take time to develop but are more lasting

The key is to start by doing the small things, maybe clean your house, calling a friend, or just thinking about something that makes you happy and putting it into action is what you need to do to make your masterpiece truly wonderful.

if we didn't start with the small things then how else would this quote even be possible?

One small step form man one giant leap for mankind.
~Neil Armstrong~

Weather

When did the weather channel
                                           get so colorful,

          a masterful mixture
                     of greens and reds,
pushed back and forth,
                           by streams of air,

                Raining down on our hopes and dreams.

Funnel Cloud

Sitting in a room
         you feel that rumble,

But try not to stumble,

When you look out the window,
                      And gaze at the cloud,

Like a rock on water,
     Skips over your house.

A Long Dig

A start to something

There are individuals who believe that instead of climbing to the top of mount Everest, they'd rather make a tunnel to go through the mountain. They have no tools, no plan, just banging away day after day at the mountain side. Now there are also towns people that walk by on a adjacent path to the dig site and glance at this occurrence. Occasionally they'll give a shout out like "Use tools", and with bloody brows the headbangers take a branch and a rock to make a hammer... and they start to think... With better suggestions comes better progress going through the mountain and gradually they realize that some tools are better to be used then other tools.

There is however a point in the dig when the rock is so compact that no tool will work on the dig... They'll again begin to bang their head at the mountain, but this time no one can see them for their progress is off the beaten path.. they check around, back track, try new tools at different locations, and trying different areas to get through the mountain.  After hours of trial and error an old miner coming from the other side of the mountain laughs out loud and wonders what's the matter.

The miner examines the rock and explains "Your idiots if you continue down that path" in a clear southern accent.  "The surrounding rock will just lead us to the same dead end" spitting his chew on the ground checking the quiet canaries cage. The miner suggests that they backtrack and start climbing the mountain, for he knows the shortcuts and caves in between that will make their climb easier.

The men reluctant to give up, consed to the old miners wishes, lugging there tools up to a higher location. 

****** Fixed, last paragraph, but the story will eventually lead somewhere ******

The College Files

Hippies + Rock
Hippies hate rock music,
Rock music hates hippies,
In order to gain acceptance hippies created punk music which is rock music and pain.

Pillars

A lie of a life,
to build the pillars high,
and watch them crumble,
as bombs explode,
and flack darkens the sky,

There are things you can have,
But also things you can't achieve,
Just analyze the possibilities,
and leave.

Concentrating the Mind Trip

Just an empty seat,
Spaced out far and wide,
dwelling,
scatters your mind across the globe

Rich Mans Dream

sugar coat your life,
laying on the street,
too poor for bankruptcy
but rich enough for whiskey,

Help your Neighbor

Disintegrate,
in disbelief,
the consequences of our unique reactions,
are crashing down,
crushed in a rubble heap,
destroyed with an occupant underneath.

Surveillance

A required checkpoint,
monitors the needy,
IDs the source of lifes energy,
and rips it out with an old box cutter.

Test Results

Results reflect,
upon ones life,
the no so,
distant,

Futures remain,
hopeful,
resilient,
to breath,
to break through,
unscathed,

the talking man,
unseen,
unknown,
decides whether or not,
yes,
or no,

For a brief moment,
the results arrive,
around,
what's expected,

talking briefly,
she's whisked away,
by another for her space,

excited,
on her phone,
she's introduced,
to her next candidate,
circling around the faceless landscape,

for the intelligent one.

Updates

First i would like to say Kennedy Drive is getting back in the studio... October 21st we plan to record the first part of out new CD. Additional times will be needed to complete this CD, but the oldest songs will be recorded first so we can concentrate on newer songs... kennedydrive.com will be coming up around that time too. I'm thinking that I'll post little giblets from our jam sessions to make the site interesting (i have about 3.42 gigs of us just jamming).

More recently I've received a new server that I'm using as a UNIX box.. Currently I'm running FreeBSD on it and sometimes wonder who the hell figured this OS out.. I successfully installed UNIX, connected it to the internet, downloaded packages such as pico, but i still need to figure out how to make aliases (which i think i messed up when editing my .cshrc file and have to re-install UNIX for a second time.. (in other terms I'm just creating shortcut commands))..

As for my job at rite aid, I'm starting to know what I am doing for most situations. I'm also slowly seeing myself move up the ranks of the company only being at my job for 5 months, viewing older techs slowly moving on to different jobs and taking their job responsibilities.. But I'm seeing a lot of older tech just move on...

Therefor I've also decided that its best t look for new opportunities that may arise... This Saturday I applied for a position at SU as a DBA/Systems Administrator... If nothing else i'll get a simply no and continue working at Rite Aid...

Peace

In reorganizing my blog I felt it useful to post the bands website for our old archived stuff enjoy if you find this... http://www.myspace.com/kennedydrive