Why I can't accept Park 51

To all those "peaceful" people who say "Let the mosque be": Imagine this.

You're house is set on fire by a mental patient who escaped. You're whole family died. The fire spread to some of your neighbors homes. Their families died. Roughly 50 people have died in total. You use your insurance money to rebuild your homes. You suffer through the heartache and try to move on. Your insurance company calls and says "Hey, we have some more funds to extend to rebuilding your block so we're going to build a large 9 floor mental institution across the street, four floors bigger than the one around the corner. It'll help the neighborhood understand that not all mental patients are violent."

~ A Stolen Notion

The best thing I'd ever heard from George Bush

"This relationship is based on love. I have nothing but admiration for that man and he had never let me down."

~George W. Bush

to Matt Lauer regarding his father, former president George Bush, during his first post presidential interview

I wish to hear more sons repeat these words.

I'm speaking to their fathers.

Take 5 to...

1. When you wake up sit up and stay seated on the bed. Let the blood flow through your body for a minute. Do a couple of neck and shoulder rolls, twist at your waist, pull your legs up to your chest a couple of times, and roll your feet at the ankle.

2. Play anything that your child(ren) or pet likes to play.

3. No matter what laugh with your child(ren), or listen to them laugh.

4. Get a picture of a place you'd like to visit. Cut it out of a magazine, pull it up on a website, or get a personal picture that you already have. It can be a beach, a foreign city, a spa, or simply the home a family member you haven't been able to get to. Look at it, think about getting there, be there.

5. Read about something new. Anything.

6. Clean up a room in your house. (It'll usually get the ball to roll into another room)

7. Stand in the shower and just let the water run over the top of your head or sit in the warm bath.

8. Apply some makeup (Ladies). Lotion up (Fellas)!

9. Take a walk.

10. Read a good blog ;)