Tri-State Tales Tinged by Patis

Trying to document all the fun stuff that happened in 2007, let me time travel back to :

July 2007

Live Earth was a great experience: all those artists, big and bigger, performing for a great cause. My personal favorite of course, as a converted and proud Jersey boy, was Bon Jovi!

He brought the house down, down I say!

Ever since then, I have gone green, or am trying hard to be less wasteful and consumption-driven. Energy efficient lights were bought, more car pooling was done, heck, I even shut off electronics I am not actually using.

Small gestures, I know, probably not much in the grand scale of things.

But hey, doesn’t an avalanche start out as a trickle of a few rocks anyways? If enough of us get it going maybe it could lead to something …

Or at the very least be not as big a part of the problem in being judicious stewards of this blessed Earth we all call home.

B

I certainly did miss blogging. Yes I did. Yet to write, I did not.

I read again some of my previous work, and I missed the creative process. I was funny, I was serious, hell, I thought I could tell a story half decently.

Much has passed since the last entry. Mostly joy and wonder enveloped our lives in the past year. But in the same span, the last quarter brought to the forefront the reality, and frailty, of human life.

Dear reader, I share with you, not in sadness, or admonition, or to patronize, with our mantra during 2007:

" Life is short."

2008 has come, and now I see that this maxim is even more so completed with:

" Live in the moment! "

What do I hold dear? I hold dear my faith and my marriage. I treasure my family and my friends that I love. I deem as precious the ephemeral moments of bliss and happiness that being with these people bring; that no material wealth can purchase or prestige be able to provide.

Life is short, so do live in the moment.

And that is why I am writing again.

B