Do you believe?

Well, it seems that today is Easter Sunday.

What seems fascinating to me is that children actually believe in the Easter Bunny and Christians actually believe Christ arose from the dead...that may be a bold statement for many people believe in many fantasies.

Now I feel, and have always felt for the most part, that without organized religion our world, or country, would be chaos. Religion has it's part in creating a right and wrong, what is good and what is bad or a black and white and even a gray or grey. There is nothing wrong with that at all. Many people in this world need some sort of "belief" or "guidelines" in their lives. But aren't we overdoing it just a little? Or is it by some galactic positioning that this year's Easter Sunday is a "super duper holy day!"

I say that in the trail of USA Today's article, "How Easter and Christianity undermine Atheism". USA Today went on to say, "Because aside from all the logical arguments for God's existence and all the miracles and all the truths contained in Scripture, one simple fact remains: 2,000 years ago, on that first quiet Easter Sunday morning, Christ did rise". Now mind you this article was an opinion piece, yet not labeled as such. So I would take this as actual reporting of the news. This writer has made two assumptions; that Scripture is the Holy word of God and that there was a resurrection of Christ. I suppose being an American, we are all to believe this to be fact.

In another article, the writer spoke of the Second Coming of Christ being seen on Twitter and other forms of social networking. I personally think this is a wee bit far fetched but the "Holy Bible" says, "...every eye shall see him" and I guess, if an eye is reading their tweets, then it will be interrupted with coverage of the 2nd Coming. How terrific that is. We probably won't even have to wait until the middle of the night to see it, like we will next week for the Royal Wedding. I bet it will be simultaneously broadcast in whatever time zone one lives in.

Call me cynical but I do believe we all have a higher power - it just may be called something different but I also believe tolerance is more needed in this world today, even on my part, than Easter Bunnies or re-enactments of the crucifixion being headlines as Prime Time events.

Just a thought from someone who thinks as eternity is the time between now and bedtime.

So I did something different today

Yes, it's true. I actually took some pictures of the yard and made a little video. All with my iPhone 3 and iPhoto editor. Amazing thoses Apple products are, Yes sir.

The end of Tax Year 2010

Well, it’s April 18 – and I finally get somewhat of a break. Yes, folks, tax season is over and we made it! I, quite honestly had my doubts at times, but Dad pulled through and we did it! And he pulled through with some quite complicated returns too. We did have his associate Veda here for the first of the season to fall back on if we needed to but she evaporated back to the Bay Area in mid-March.

Now mind you Home Health Care has about had it with him, but I think he’s had it with them too. Scheduling was a real issue during the early part of March. All the data entry they do and 10 minutes of physical therapy…every visit. His patience just couldn’t take it. Then there was the Nurse’s aide who came at 7:30 am to help bathe him…or should I say, bother him. It was way too early and messed up the entire day. But, I think we’re pretty much done with that now. At least I hope so.

He’s is doing much better health wise, but his legs continue to bother him – which is part CHF and his bad knee – so it’s quite an ordeal for him to get around. He is continuing to use the walker –which is a nice security, but I think I’m going to move the Dining Room table into the kitchen between the stove and the sink for all the trotting back and forth with clean and dirty dishes I’ve done.

We had a deal, I cooked, he cleaned. Well, now it’s I cook, I clean! (It’s just not fair but I’ll have to just get over it.)

It was very good for him to interact with clients and you could tell they really appreciate him, his knowledge and the care he takes with them.

Through it all, and I always try to have a project going each year, I was able to complete the remodelling of my closet, which had been an absolute nightmare. So I’m happy with that but I did let my Broker’s license slide and have 45 hours of Continuing Education to complete. I had started it in early March, but I just couldn’t handle sitting at the computer all day and then most of the evening trying to do the courses. So now maybe I have some time to get that done. Californina is so messed up. The grace period for a broker is one year. Thank you, but really.

I just realized Easter is Sunday, so I, strike that, we wish everyone a Happy Easter! We won’t be having the egg hunt this year though. We barely got the grass mowed. The exciting news is that I personally witnessed the polinization of the Bing Cherries, the Nectarine, the Frost Peaches, the Elberta’s and the Bosc pear tree. Yeah! It should provide a nice bounty around August or so.