The Hanger - Rocket Talk

Here is a little wisdom picked up On The E-Waves from Mom. I know I can always count on Mom sending something along to remind we of something good. Like the following email that came just today called:

Slow Down

And although I have read similar, the point is still the same and bears notice...

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READ THIS VERY SLOWLY... IT'S PRETTY PROFOUND.

Too many people put off something that brings them joy just because they haven't thought about it, don't have it on their schedule, didn't know it was coming or are too rigid to depart from their routine.

I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night in an effort to cut back. From then on, I've tried to be a little more flexible.

How many women out there will eat at home because their husband didn't suggest going out to dinner until after something had been thawed? Does the word "refrigeration" mean nothing to you?

How often have your kids dropped in to talk and sat in silence while you watched 'Jeopardy' on television?

I cannot count the times I called my sister and said, "How about going to lunch in a half hour?" She would gas up and stammer, "I can't. I have clothes on the line. My hair is dirty. I wish I had known yesterday, I had a late breakfast, It looks like rain." And my personal favorite: "It's Monday." She died a few years ago. We never did have lunch together.

Because Americans cram so much into their lives, we tend to schedule our headaches. We live on a sparse diet of promises we make to ourselves when all the conditions are perfect!

We'll go back and visit the grandparents when we get Steve toilet-trained. We'll entertain when we replace the living-room carpet. We'll go on a second honeymoon when we get two more kids out of college.

Life has a way of accelerating as we get older. The days get shorter, and the list of promises to ourselves gets longer. One morning, we awaken, and all we have to show for our lives is a litany of "I'm going to," "I plan on," and "Someday, when things are settled down a bit."

When anyone calls my 'seize the moment' friend, she is open to adventure and available for trips. She keeps an open mind on new ideas. Her enthusiasm for life is contagious. You talk with her for five minutes, and you're ready to trade your bad feet for a pair of Rollerblades and skip an elevator for a bungee cord.

My lips have not touched ice cream in 10 years. I love ice cream. It's just that I might as well apply it directly to my stomach with a spatula and eliminate the digestive process. The other day, I stopped the car and bought a triple-decker. If my car had hit an iceberg on the way home, I would have died happy.

Now...go on and have a nice day. Do something you WANT to.....not something on your SHOULD DO list. If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Make sure you read this to the end; you will understand why I sent this to you.

Have you ever watched kids playing on a merry-go-round or listened to the rain lapping on the ground? Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight or gazed at the sun into the fading night? Do you run through each day on the fly? When you ask "How are you?" Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done, do you lie in your bed with the next hundred chores running through your head? Ever told your child, "We'll do it tomorrow." And in your haste, not see his sorrow? Ever lost touch? Let a good friendship die? Just call to say "Hi"?

When you worry and hurry through your day, it is like an unopened gift....Thrown away.... Life is not a race. Take it slower. Hear the music before the song is over.

"Life may not be the party we hoped for... but while we are here we might as well dance!"

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This is good advice for all those out there in the Webisphere and beyond.

Thanks for visiting,
Rocket Johnson

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Here is some different foods of thought to ponder. While surfing around as I often do, I stumbled upon this site. I'll write a different review about the StumbledUpon site that I used to find the works of Geoff Haselhurst, excerpted below. Check out Geoff's site... it is VERY THOUGHT PROVOKING!

Home: Metaphysics of Space & the Wave Structure of Matter (WSM) as the Most Simple Science Theory of Physical Reality

Introduction to Metaphysics / Philosophy of Ecology, Evolution & Nature
Deep ecologists claim that before knowing what we ought to do, we must understand who we really are. (Michael Zimmerman)

As Humans have evolved from Nature they ultimately depend upon Nature for their survival. Until we understand what we are as humans (what matter is) and how we are connected to the universe (reality), it is impossible for humanity to be wise, and to be able to evolve cultural knowledge that enables us to live in Harmony with Nature. As Freya Matthews (Deep Ecologist) writes;

What is wrong with our culture is that it offers us an inaccurate conception of the self. It depicts the personal self as existing in competition with and in opposition to nature. [We fail to realise that] if we destroy our environment, we are destroying what is in fact our larger self. (Freya Matthew)

Deep Ecology is a philosophy movement which promotes an awareness of the oneness and interconnection of all life and its cycles of change and transformation. As the founder of Deep Ecology, Arne Naess, expresses;

Life is fundamentally one. (Arne Naess)

'All is One and Interconnected' is not a new idea, its foundation lies with the ancient philosophers. For thousands of years, philosophers have gazed at the stars and known that One thing must exist that is common to and connects the Many things within the Universe. As Leibniz profoundly says;

Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another. (Leibniz, 1670)

Unfortunately (and most likely tragically), this knowledge of our interconnection to the Universe (Nature, God) has been lost (or is naively considered as not important) to modern day humanity. We are 'bleeding at the roots because we are cut off from the Earth' as D. H. Lawrence writes.

Humanity has become disconnected from Nature in our modern world of cities, cars and economics. The 'particle' conception of matter has contributed to this incorrect conception of self, founding the illusion that we exist as discrete bodies without relations to all other matter. Recent discoveries on the Wave Structure of Matter (WSM) show that human beings do not exist in isolation, but are in fact structures of the Universe. Thus they do not have dominion over the earth and all living things by divine decree, on the contrary, Humans are intimately interconnected both to all other matter in the cosmos, and to all other life on Earth. It was the realisation of how rapidly Nature was being destroyed on this planet which led me to the study of Philosophy and Physics, and to understanding the Wave Structure of Matter.

I hope you enjoy where this may take you.

Rocket Johnson Reporting
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I would like to let everyone know that in spite of the amazing destruction that is evident everywhere you go in Biloxi these days, there is still hope in the eyes of those who visit! Our journey took shape after we decided to use the FREE room offer we get regularly from the Isle of Capri Casino. Our plan was to celebrate a late Valentine's wish to get away for just one night. In the light af day, we decided to dedicate this journey to shoot a photographic journal of the on-going recovery effort along the Mississippi Gulf Coast

Well, we did, and it was an inspiring journey through an area that was exploding economically prior to that dreadful day that changed life as we know it... for Evertbody! Not just Gulf Coast residents either. Every US citizen has been effected by this tradgedy. I'll follow this story with some comments I received while photographing this Hurricane Katrina Update.

Harry Reeks' famed Biloxi Fisherman still has a gleem of hope and even a slight smile in his eyes as he lays patiently in the sand with his net still in hand. I did a little searching and found a wonderful photo collection by Bill Strong with The Biloxi Fisherman before Katrina ravaged the Mississippi Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005.

After our visit with the Fisherman, Brenda and I started driving west along Highway 90 toward Gulf Port. I hope everyone will take a few moments to remember those who's lives have been effected by the ravages of Hurricane Katrina, the most destructive hurricane in recorded history.

You would have to go there yourself to truly appreciate the impact and magnitude of this awesome force of nature. Let's journey together. Please be sure to let me know what you think when about my first real photographic journalism project for PlanetWebSite.

Rocket Johnson Reporting from Biloxi
A Hurricane Katrina Update!
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