"The Blackfeather Convergence"

Never fight unless your life is in danger

Never hit another human being unless they hit you first. Never fight unless your life is in danger or someone else's life is in danger. Never hit another until you are sure those around you are safe. Never hit another unless they hit you first.

It gives people an advantage knowing that they can get the first shot it, but in general people don't really want to hit me. Unless they are related to George Bush. I hope you all remember his hero was Wally George.

Candace, the best years of my life

I started this, but the title says it all. The best years of my life were spent sitting across the bar from her.

I would change so many things in my life if I could. But sitting in a bar with Candace will always be the best moments in my life.

As time goes by

I watched kids play in the pool at the front of the apartment in which I live. The pure joy of being a kid.

Happiness today always has a twinge of melancholy in it. Mostly when I laugh there is now a knowledge that it is fleeting. I enjoy things, but there is so much sadness, so much suffering. So many people hurting. So much pain in peoples eyes, so much need for love, so little joy. So little rest.

Everyday more of my mother's people dead, everyday America celebrates their deaths.

Hope will kill you faster than anything.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQYQTFudrqc

Downtown are built only one time

I have lived in various parts of Orange County virually all my life. I have seen the mass urban sprawl or cookie cutter houses, condos and apartments. I have seen the endless amount of strip malls, each one looking like another one. Miles and miles of areas that can be picked up and put in another town, another state and fit in.

But Downtowns are only made once. I am new to Bakersfield and one of the first thing I really liked is that you have a very nice downtown area with incredible untapped potential. But I have seen other downtowns with incredible potential be destroyed by the wrecking ball, never to seen again. In their place now are strip malls and xeroxed neighborhoods.

I just hope that the residents of Bakersfield realize before it is too late that you have a wonderful downtown that needs your support. Cities with a strong downtown have a "soul" in a way that miles and miles of strip malls can not replace.

I have seen too many beautiful old structures be torn down because of their uniqueness, because they were from a different time. A time that will never come again. I hope the people here will drive by and appreciate the unique qualitys of downtown, and I hope you will support the merchants that believe in what a downtown can offer.

When a downtown is gone it will just be pictures on a wall. Downtowns are only built one time.

I Love Caryn Richman

Caryn Richman, I love this woman.