Joli soleil (pretty sun) is visiting Mom in Nebraska!

"Laissez les bons temps roulet!"

Hi, I love bikes, been on them all my life. I was born in France, raised in upstate NY. I won’t get into more detail about myself than that, if you want to know, just ask. Instead, I’ll write about things I’m thinking about, things others say, collections of others' thoughts that run along mine, and just stuff going on in my head ‘cuz its always buzzing about something. Take it for what you will, love it, hate it, but I hope you find some of this interesting, anyway. . .




Is there anyone who ever remembers
changing their mind from the paint on a sign?
is there anyone who really recalls
ever breaking rank at all
for something someone yelled real loud one time?
oh, everyone believes
in how they think it oughta be
oh, everyone believes
and they're not going easily

belief is a beautiful armor
but makes for the heaviest sword
like punching underwater
you never can hit who you're trying for
some lead the exhibition
and some have to know they tried
it's the chemical weapon
for the war that's raging on inside
oh, everyone believes
from emptiness to everything
oh, everyone believes
and no one's going quietly

is there anyone you can remember
ever surrender with their life on the line?

we're never gonna win the world
we're never gonna stop the war
we're never gonna beat this
if belief is what we're fighting for

what puts a hundred thousand children in the sand?
belief can, belief can
what puts a folded flag inside his mother's hand?
belief can, belief can

-John Mayer

Is man God's greatest blunder, or is God man's greatest blunder????

THE MISTAKE EXCUSE

“I’m only human, I made a mistake!"
“your honor, I’ll admit, I made a mistake”
“he’s only a teenager, he made a mistake”
Um… uh huh.
Is anybody else sick of people overusing this??? Look here, mistakes are innocent blunders, usually accidents, they don't require much thought, they just happen. Making a mistake is adding salt instead of sugar, getting off the freeway an exit too early, or forgetting a doctor's appointment. A mistake sounds innocent, its expected to be forgiven/forgotten. You are NOT allowed to use it for killing, abusing your kids, cheating on your taxes or husband/wife, financially (or otherwise) raping the congregation from the pulpit, being a mayor who does drugs and engages in prostitution, or bombing innocents under a lie! People are in the habit of using “mistake” as an excuse for atrocious behavior to divert responsibility for sick and reprehensible actions!
Examples of a "mistake":
(1) You add two and two and get the sum of five.
(2) You take a right turn when you should have taken a left.
(3) You think someone meant something they did not.
(4) You think someone can do something when they are not able to.
(5) You see someone in the supermarket and think he is someone you know when he isn't.
(6) You accidentally delete a computer file you really need.
GET IT??
Peace…
-caroline






THE BUZZWORD WORD “CHOICE”
Here’s another tired word. I’m hearing this word tossed around on the news and stuff and in every advertisement screaming in my face for my attention. I HAVE CHOICES! We have too many choices of too much junk in my opinion anyway, I don’t need to hear this from every smiling face trying to shove something down my throat! You have your choice of 3,000 different styles of cell phones, birth control, diapers, cars, bandaids, Viagra, cereals, toothpaste, shampoos and millions of every conceivable type of unneeded and unnecessary junk choices our modern society can possibly think up. We want CHOICES! Ahh! Enough! We’re drowning in junk now on this planet (save that for another time), and we‘re being stupefied into buying this stuff by idiotic buzz words being parroted by morons with no creativity or original thought. I have CHOICE-FATIGUE!!
Later,
Caroline








Wings....

If you could have wings, Sagittarius,would you want them? (yes) I mean, if you could use them to fly, would you want them? (yes) But they would be really big. And what if you couldn't ever take them off? And when you were walking around, people would stare at you, and they wouldn't necessarily understand that you could fly? Or, if people thought they meant something they didn't really mean? And if you had them forever, you would still want them? Yes, I would want them, I would take them so long as I could fly.... S.Stewart






How will I paint this garden I've destroyed green?

Can I get back to where I've come from?

'Cause there are people, who believe in life.

Well, how do we get to where we come from?

Peace and love ain't enough these days.

Evolution says time is running out,

We've been here too long... Seal






Every 8 seconds, someone is born. Every 11 seconds someone dies.



Some Native American Philosophy...

If I have been correctly informed, the whites may do bad for all their
lives, and then if they are sorry for it when they are about to die, all is well.....Black Hawk

Lose your temper and you lose a friend; lie and you lose yourself. ...Hopi

"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a
buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."...Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator




... more to come...

1999 Kawasaki VULCAN My '99 Vulcan, Sampson. Bought him in '04 in Virginia and I've put alotta miles on him!