Friday, December 18, 2015

Well, well.... Since 2014....what has happened?  My Daughter got married! I got married! My studio has been completed for a while. (Well...are these things EVER completed?) My collection of guitars and basses swells. My guitarist and musical soul mate, James Kelly lost his battle with cancer and left a void in my soul, killing the ambitions of our project Invoking Scarlett. My time with him was way too short but in that limited time he awakened a long lost addiction towards musical creativity in me that I had boxed up and stored years ago when my children were born. He was the absolute best guitarist I have ever worked and created with and is irreplaceable in this world. My career in horticulture has seen some rough roads and scary times. I had no idea what EBIDA (Earnings Before Interest, Depreciation, & Amortization.) was until it turned into something ugly that could literally relieve me of my 9 to 5 income. I guess when you take a tree, shrub, and perennial growing and supply company into the 200 million a year in business realm, it becomes a whole different thing and attracts the vultures from all corners to feast on our hard work. Damn sometimes I really hate business!
   Without a doubt, when it comes to politics I am a conservative. How do I handle the fact that some of my family are liberal? Facebook is the biggest culprit as that social media service allows me to have a "page" that is exclusively mine and I should be able to do commentary on my personal page as I like. Problem is that it is a social interaction electronic worldwide media event and anybody in my "Friends & Family" group are encouraged (not by me) to post their opinions and liberal beliefs in rebuttal to my often conservative comments about politics. It is driving me to post on my personal page that this is my sacred electronic space that I can comment to my hearts desire about what I like and don't like and it is not a place for ANYONE else to post should they disagree. I don't friggin care if you disagree! *DELETE*!
    Post your thoughts on your own page and I won't rebut you on your page, as that is the courtesy standard I go by. But come into my world and rebut me on my turf and I will chew you up and spit you out right before I block you from my electronic world.
    Sorry to come across as such an ass cause I'm really not. I just don't like being backed into a corner by non-foundational liberal bullshit comments. Those folks might as well be sleeping with Michael Moore and drinking from his Kool Aide trough.