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I once heard that if you give up hope on someone, you are slamming the door on the face of God.

Have you ever done that? Have you ever thought “Oh, he’ll never change.” I know I have. One example is how I felt about my father.

I often joke about English being a second language to both my parents. Spanish being my mothers first and English being a second language to my father, because he grew up in Louisiana. The southern part of Louisiana.

Therefore I am not bi-lingual but I am multi-lingual. It is just that anthropologist have not yet given a name for the languages I am actually capable of speaking.

However, if someone were to say “He was a ripplin’ and a cutting up, a hackin’ and a hewin’.” I would know what they were talking about. Do you? Okay then. That should count for something.

Most of my memories of my father have him doing something, fishing, watching T.V., or fixing something but a beer was always close in reach. Not mine, but his. Even in all the old black and white photographs. There is dad, just as handsome as can be, with a cowboy hat, t-shirt, jeans, boots and beer bottle in one hand and holding on to a child with the other.

My father didn’t have many outside interest beyond fishing and hunting. If you want to add insult to that injury, know that God blessed him with six daughters, not sons. You grow up thinking things are normal until you are old enough to compare your family with the families of your friends and realize your family is different.

Normal families had cats, dog & birds as pets. We had them too, but we also had chickens, turkeys & goats. They served two purposes. One, the kids can play with them and two, when times get rough you can eat ‘em. Did I mention that we didn’t live in the country but in the suburbs? The children also participated in the slaughtering of these animals, who at one time were thought of as pets. Not the children the animals. My father grew up poor and these were survival skills he was passing on, which is great, because now if a wild goat ever wonders in my back yard….. well, I’ll know what to do.

We loved and enjoyed our time with our father when we were small but there comes a time when teenage girls go their own way and Dad’s are left to themselves. Unfortunately, my dad spent way too much time alone and seemed to miss so much going on around him, even when he was invited to join in. He preferred the isolation and the beer.

Two years ago my father fell and could not get up. He was alone and on the floor for three days before being found. He had broken a shoulder and was in such poor physical condition he couldn’t move. I can’t tell you how terrible we all felt for not having checked in on him.

He spent months in the hospital, due to discoveries of multiple health challenges and surgeries. It was a long road to recovery for him to get back home.

I was grateful that hospitals don’t allow patients to drink but they do allow family members to visit, and the family rallied around him.

My father came home and regained his health. Life without drinking has opened up a whole new world for my father. He enjoys visiting with his grandchildren and sitting in for a family game of poker.

He takes walks, makes friends with his neighbors and LOVES to shop. He is constantly buying everyone presents, almost to a fault. He is funny, friendly and enjoyable to be around.

This last Christmas he joined the family and it was the first holiday, in twenty-eight years, we had both mom and dad in the same room. He is making his peace and our lives are more enjoyable with him.

Yes, sometimes we do slam the door on the face of God but the good news is God is still able to re-open the door, long enough to show us what is on the other side.

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The other day we were all sitting in a Coffee Shop and one of the gentleman there mentioned something about lawyers and we got into a 2-hour conversation on the subject. I am thinking to myself as a retired entrepreneur who started out as a small business person, well I sure as heck do not wish to talk about lawyers, heck if they all died tomorrow, I would make reservations to Disney Land.

Well this conversation went on and on and on until one other gentleman stood up and said;

I have to get back to the ranch, but before I go I wanted to leave a thought with all y’ all and you can let me know what you think then. He said good meeting you son.

I guess because I was not from around there and he figured we may never see me again and perhaps he is right. Nevertheless he said;

Which is worse Pig Crap or Lawyers?

Well indeed this changed the conversation completely to much more serious tone. In fact what is worse a load of stinky rotten pig crap cooking in the hot sun and moist air all day smelling up a storm or a lawyer?

One gentleman said you know we have some hogs down by the farm and well that smell gets might bad. Another said well lawyers you know they really are about the worst thing in the world you know?

Well it was a toss up but the Lawyers finally won and we all departed, I got to thinking later that we were probably right Lawyers are worse than disgusting smelly pig crap in the hot summer sun with moist air. Consider all this in 2006.

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Meat is murder – I understand that – but what if it weren’t murder? Would it be alright to eat it, then? The reason I was thinking of this was that I almost hit a couple of wild turkeys while driving to work today and it occurred to me that if I had hit them it wouldn’t be murder at all and their meat would be free of the stigma of cruelty that taints most meat. And I should be able to eat themwith a clear conscience. (In Wisconsin if you hit wild animals you are allowed to keep the meat for yourself, so it also would have been total legal. I suppose you can’t try to hit them and you have to stay on the road, but other than that it’s okay).

That example was hypothetical, but I’ve got a real-life one that makes my point better. A co-worker of mine – a vegetarian – hit five deer at one time on the road, then donated the venison to a food shelf. Here you have a non-meat-eater providing un-murdered meat for charity.
It seems to me that in this case, eating those deer is almost virtuous.

This is fine so far, because basically I’m still talking about road-kill, tasty road-kill, but road-kill nonetheless. And most meat just isn’t obtained in this way. But what if all the meat that was consumed in America came from animals that died from natural causes? Would anybody have any problems with that?

Here’s how I think it would work for, say, beef. Instead of cattle farms you would have cattle communities. These ‘cattle communities’ would be set up so that they provided everything a cow would need to live a long fulfilling cow life. It would be a resort almost for them. They would receive the finest care available till they gently close their eyes at the end of their happy lives.

Then we eat them.

Steve Sommers is the author of Breakfast with the Antichrist. Visit his Website at http://www.breakfastwiththeantichrist.com

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When he was six my little brother Davie graduated from driving toy trucks to driving the real thing. He persuaded Daddy to let him drive the truck — alone — across the fields of our Montana farm and around the farmyard. Davie knew all about truck driving by then. He had seldom missed a movement Daddy or Grandpa made while driving.

It was an eerie sight watching Davie drive that truck, because you couldn’t see him. It appeared the truck was driving itself. Then you’d locate the top six inches of his little blond head above the dashboard, eyes peering intently ahead. In those days he didn’t drive in a seated position: he drove with his tiny bottom just brushing the edge of the seat, while his feet grasped for the pedals and his neck strained to keep his eyes above the dashboard. He drove well, putting his whole body and mind into it. In fact, he drove so well that in the fall he was allowed to drive the truck, full of wheat, over the farm fields to our granary in the barn.

That day he glowed with happiness.

When he was eight, he was permitted to drive the family car IN THE DRIVEWAY. He would spend entire Sunday afternoons doing so. He’d back the car to the end of the driveway, stop, change gears, drive the car forward forty feet to the garage, stop, change gears, back the car to the end of the driveway, stop, change gears…

One Sunday afternoon when he was nine he began showing the results of these training exercises. It was a raw March day, when the snow had melted and the soil just thawed, turning the field beside the house into icy clay gumbo. Which gumbo was several feet deep. Davie — who by then had let us know that David, not Dave and never again Davie, was his name of choice — David took the truck out into the middle of the gumbo and deliberately mired it up to its hubcaps. All afternoon we’d hear the truck roar and spin, roar and spin… a five-minute silence, then roar and spin, roar and spin. A miserable, cold, windy afternoon, and even David would be driven in to warm his freezing hands and get a drink of water.

David’s reports were always cheerful. Early announcements explained how truly hopelessly mired he’d gotten the truck. Later reports described efforts with chains, boards, and gunny sacks, all performed with his bare hands in freezing mud.

“It’s halfway out!”

Much roaring from the field.

“It’s almost there, just a few more tries.”

Sounds from the field as of a truck in its last agonies.

“It’s out! It’s out! I got it out!”

A look at the kitchen clock. “I guess I have time to get it stuck again before dark.”

About the Author: Go STEAMIN’ DOWN THE TRACKS WITH VIOLA HOCKENBERRY, a storytelling cookbook — and find Montana country cooking, nostalgic stories, and gift ideas — at Janette Blackwell’s Food and Fiction, http://foodandfiction.com/Entrance.html — or visit her Delightful Food Directory, http://delightfulfood.com/main.html

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3 Surefire Ways to Combat Rising Gas Prices
by Tim Ward

I have heard the rumblings of many of you in
Readerland about the recent spike in
gasoline prices. In fact it’s all I seem to
hear about lately. But at least it keeps you
from rumbling about the infrequency of my columns
and articles. Nonetheless, I have decided to
try to help you get through this crisis by
generously providing: 3 Ways to Combat Rising
Gas Prices!

1. Don’t Drive Your Car

This is, of course, the most obvious solution.
If you never take the old Plymouth out the
driveway, then it won’t matter that at current
gas prices it takes $125 to fill up the 30 gallon
gas tank, or that you only get about 2.51 miles
to the gallon. If you never drive, you could
care less.

Of course, I know what you’re going to say. “But
Tim, I have places I need to go-like work. And
the kids have school and soccer practice. And
then there’s grocery shopping and yoga lesssons
and dinner at the Richardsons and blah blah blah
and….” Ok, I get the point. Not everyone can
sit around the house writing not-so-funny articles
and searching the Internet for Drew Barrymore
photos like me. I fully understand that some of
you have a life. But just because you don’t drive
your own car doesn’t mean you can’t get around.
The answer?

2. Carpool

It’s seems so simple now doesn’t it. Instead of
using your gas-Use Someone Elses! Have someone else
pay $5.50 a gallon for gas to take your kids to
school. Make someone else dip into their retirement
fund just so they can cover the gas bill needed to
get you to the office and back everyday. Make someone
else get a second job so that they can have a full
tank of gas in their SUV when your daughter needs
to cruise the mall. It’s so simple.

Of course, the concept behind carpooling is that
everyone takes turns driving. So in a normal carpool
situation you would eventually be required to use
your car and spend your money driving others around.
But this is not a Normal Carpool Situation, this is
a Tim Ward Carpool Situation (TWCPS). In a TWCPS you
avoid using your own car by making it so that the other
carpool participants would rather walk barefoot on 120
degree asphalt than ride with you. You achieve this by:

(a) never washing or cleaning your car. Leave it
looking and smelling like the county landfill.

(b) Have the worst behaved child in your family sitting
in the front seat at all times. Feed the child lots of
candy so he/she is always superhyper.

(c) Refuse to discuss anything in your car except your
spouses bad bathing habits, bodily fluids, hang nails,
chest hair, etc.

(d) Only play reggae music on the radio. Loud!

You shouldn’t have to worry about anyone wanting to
ride with you ever again.

3. Ride the Bus/Subway

Many cities have a mass transit system that is an
alternative to driving your own vehicle. If you live
in a city that doesn’t have one don’t worry-you can
always move. Of course, riding public transportation
does have a few drawbacks, but these can be easily
overcome if you follow these simple guidelines:

1. No matter what happens never, ever make eye contact
with anyone. Making eye contact is an invitation for
someone to mug you.

2. No matter what happens never, ever give up your seat
to anyone. This is seen as weakness, and will be taken
as an invitation to mug you.

3. No matter how tempted you are never, ever strike up
a conversation with the person sitting next or across
from you. This is very annoying and can be taken as an
invitation for someone to mug you. Or worse, for someone
to talk back.

4. Always make sure you are alert to get on and off at the
right stop. Getting off at the wrong stop can lead to
immediate mugging.

5. Never, ever take children with you on public transportation.
Fellow passengers hate children. Children make you definite
mug victim material.

Well, there you have it. 3 ways to deal with rising gas prices.
Hopefully, you will be able to use these methods to keep
from spending twice your car’s Blue Book value just going
to Walmart. Hopefully, next time your friends are grumbling
and ranting about the mounting gas prices you will be able to
just sit back and smile, content because the issue no longer
concerns you. Hopefully, I’ve once more helped my loyal readers
in a time of crisis. And all I ask in return as a simple
thank you next time you see me. Just make sure we’re not on
the bus. I’d hate to have to mug you…

About the Author

Timothy Ward publishes the Ward Wide Webzine, a publication that refuses to bring you anything but the best articles and internet marketing tips. it is also slam-packed with humor and laughs. Subscribers are expected to interact through contest and submissions. To subscribe now visit:
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Bad workouts. We have all had them at some time or other. When you need to train so intensely to break the muscle down it is hardly surprising that the odd bad session occurs. After all, we are only human and we cannot be 100% consistent all the time. (I would question that when it comes to Ronnie Coleman but I am sure even he has had his bad days).

But there are bad workouts and bad workouts. I am not talking here about the ones we know are going to be bad. You know the ones I mean… you arrive at the gym knowing you are going to perform badly. You have had a stressful day at work, failed to eat properly, you feel tired… all these things sap you physically and mentally. You walk into the gym knowing that day’s workout is not going to be one you want to remember.

And I am not talking about those days when your training suffers because you get distracted. Successful bodybuilders need very strong mental focus. You have to have the right mind set to lift with proper form and push your muscles beyond that failure point… and that is not helped by hearing that twit on the other side of the gym clanging the dumbbells together like they are a couple of cymbals at the top of every shoulder press rep. Or by watching the grunting idiot swinging far too much weight around; more to massage his poor ego than to build some mass. Face it: any serious lifter has to witness so much stupidity in the gym that it is a wonder that you can get a half decent workout in without peeing your pants laughing at what other gym members think lifting weights is.

So, picture it. You have eaten well. Just come off a rest day. You’re working your favorite body part. You are psyched, in the zone. Nothing or no-one in the gym can stop you putting in a killer session today. You stride purposefully up to the hack squat. Do some stretching. And start some warm-up sets. Hmmm… feels a bit heavy but I’ll keep going. You put some plates on, getting ready to go all-out… you can hit 20 reps today. You can feel it. But your quads think differently. You max out at ten and you’re a quivering wreck… what the hell happened?

Bad workouts with no excuses are a bodybuilder’s nightmare. After all, we plan our training and nutrition so that bad workouts do not happen. Doubt starts to creep in about the plan you have. Am I eating right? Am I resting enough? Am I lifting right? It can sap your motivation when a setback like that occurs. And the stress about how the next session will be can be intolerable.

The key is not to panic. As with any sport you are training a human body. We may know a vast amount about how the body functions but there is no doubt that there is even more that we still need to learn. So, go into your next workout thinking that the bad one you just had was a blip and nothing more. You are still on the right road to the physique you want. Never feel it is worth changing your diet or training routine just because of one bad day.

But do not forget about it. Use it as a learning experience. I have found that my quads have their weak days every now and then. It is just how my body works. I know that if I have a bad quad day I need to rest them just a little bit more. Bodybuilding success comes from knowing your body and how it reacts. Everyone is an individual. No amount of personal training or advice can replace hard earned experience from the gym. And a bad workout is still good experience. Learn from that bad session and move on a wiser bodybuilder.

The most often cited reason for a bad workout is over-training. There is no doubt that over-training is a major issue for bodybuilders. Many of us are over-training and are not even aware of it. A bad session like this can be a symptom that reveals a need to take the foot off the gas just a little bit. To be honest, if you have periodic rest phases over-training should not be an issue for you. Let the body recover completely or your gains will be minimized. If your bad workouts become more consistent it is your body’s way of asking for a break. Listen to your body. It is the reason you are training in the first place. Treat it with respect and you will achieve your goals. Treat it like crap and you will look like crap.

Most importantly, remember that attaining a great physique is a long term goal. You are not going to morph into a muscle babe overnight. It takes time and patience to add pounds of muscle. Years of dedication and consistency are necessary. Focus on the long term. One bad session every three months is only four bad sessions a year. That means you must have had at least 200 great workouts in that same year. And it is those great ones you should focus on. Add all of those up and you get what you are working for: an incredible physique that you can be proud of.

About the author:

Jason Goy runs fbbworld.com: a website that presents the female bodybuilder as she wants to be. It features articles, in-depth profiles and photographs of top female bodybuilders who showcase their physiques and share their knowledge to inspire and help you be the success you want to be as a female bodybuilder. If you’re into female bodybuilding check out fbbworld.com.

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