each day is new

The other day, I was coming out of a store when I noticed a fire and rescue truck parked near my car. I noticed the fireman walking around the parking lot and looking in cars. Apparently someone had called them to help someone in the parking lot. They found the car and began their questions and appeared to have found the right car.  As I was leaving I looked around at the on-lookers and crowd that had gathered and noticed a look in their eyes, a look of compassion all around. It was touching.. The look of compassion, when someone feels for another, it is a natural emotion that should be felt, but in today's world I feel that it goes lacking often. Yes, people can gather round in an emergent situation and care, but do we care enough to care. As I began to think about this look I wondered if only people had a little more compassion for each other on a daily basis how much better off we would be. Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell amon...

So I must share with you all that I got sad when I found out Merle Haggard had passed away. He was one of my dad's favorites and  an icon in my home growing up,  and an Icon in Country Music. Merle, Hank Jr, Waylon and Willie, was the music of choice for my dad to listen to while he drank. My dad has been gone almost 20 years now, I often find myself following these guys on social media to just keep that connection with my father. While my dad died at an early age of 50, the day after his birthday,  he would listen to these guys often. Isn't it funny what we hang on to and what we connect with and how we connect. Seriously, The once hard time of a father that drank a lot of alcohol and did other things, I now find solace in that same music that made my life "hard" during that time.  I actually have a playlist titled country memories with all the old music on there,  Waylon,Willie, Hank Jr, Merle, Bobby Bare, and I am forgetting some for sure. Life is...