With Or Without You

Where is the person who said,"Let's jump into the van as soon as the concert is over and drive to Joshua Tree"?

It looks and feels as if he is long gone at times. In fact more often than not, it might be fair to say that I might not even recognize him if I saw him at any given moment.

But every once and a while there is a fleeting image that passes by. Either through my line of sight, or through an auditory canal,or perhaps, maybe through some conscious or dream state that I may,or may not be,aware of.And who or what I see is familiar.

So why are you sitting wherever you may be at this moment reading this?

Simple answer.

We seem to know each other.

A little background story.

I'll wake up on a Tuesday morning,feel like doing something for fun, and look at my kids and say,"Hey! Who want's to go see a movie and have some lunch down the hill?"

Yeah,sure they're ten and eight years old respectively,but damn if they don't know how to enjoy an opportunity handed to them on a platter full of fun and say ,"SURE!"

There's the familiar person I know.

But then there is this other person that I see who will wake up many days and appear to get lost in the same familiar patterns that are his life.And I would like to think that that person is unfamiliar to me.But the truth is,that person is all to familiar to me.

Is he unfamiliar to you, too?

Or do you recognize him all too well?

So that brings us to today.

November 25th,2010.

I'm all about Holidays. That is easy to see since my last "blog" was written on Christmas of last year.

But today is Thanksgiving......and that's a big one with me.

Thanks.

Yeah,that's cool.

Let's just have a holiday when we can say Thanks.

So here's my point.

For all of you who recognize, and hopefully like, the guy who is willing to take off to Joshua Tree, the movies, Colorado, Arizona,Florida,the preserve,down a river in a houseboat,or a baseball game, to name just a few places and things, I just want to say ................."Thanks".

And for those of you who recognize the other person who gets lost for lengths of time,yet still seems to be there,I also want to say ........"Thanks".

Thank you for the ride that has been my life so far.Thank you to everyone who has gotten into the van and..................gone somewhere...............and hopefully made some memories also.

It's all about the ride,folks!