Why now? --For the new edition of the original  novel I wrote 11 years ago?  

There are certain things a person has on the honey-do list.  This was one of them.  I have a number of writings I want to complete over the next couple of years.  I also 

have a few more things to accomplish that have been asked for over the past couple of decades, and unfortunately I was met with too many obstacles.  The obstacles

have slowly been dying off, one at a time, so we can finish what we came here for.  Trying to complete a task is exceedingly taxing when other people keep shoving

their noses in the oven before the pies are baked.  

  Bottom line, I've had a hard road and not much support.  I lived in a basement for a number of years and was exposed to asbestos on a regular basis.  I had a heart attack and 

was clinically dead for four minutes December 13th, 1997.  These are only two reminders that time is limited and I look carefully at the things I want to accomplish before 

the bell tolls again.  

If there is one thing I am going to finish, it is this one book ( which has been re-edited and is ready to go) and the two mini-books which follow it. Something strange happened to me long ago; this was the only way I could express it. 

Our charitable endeavors have gone very well this year.  A few more things need to be accomplished and these will hopefully be done in the spring--or at least some headway will be made

at that time.  

In life, each of us is haunted by something at some point in time.  I have learned that in most cases, places and things aren't haunted--people are.  We either spend our lives

fighting the shadows and specters which linger in our souls, or we learn to make friends with it, embrace and marry it.  The later will create much peace once we find out what

it wants and make good on it.  What seems like something dark and sinister often is something we can't see ourselves living without--whatever it may be, so we learn to

love it, because we can't let it go, and it can't let us go, either.  

People are like ghosts, too.  They come back to places because they have unfinished business.  Once they see it through, then they can finally rest. It may take many years, though, to finish 

what needs to be done.

The next time you find yourself wondering what task to complete first, just keep in mind the things which are most dear to you.  When we look inside of ourselves we can find those

answers.  Other times, when we look around us, we get those answers.

During the earlier part of the year it was revealed to me what could have been my future had I not made the decision to walk away from a couple of situations.  When I saw how someone's soul

was just eaten away by one of the most horrible human beings I had ever had the bad luck of knowing, it left me cold to the bone.  My advice to young people is that if something gets

really uncomfortable, run away from it.  Chances are, it's not a person, or circumstance worth wasting time on. Sadly, we need to run away from our own families at times, because they

can be destructive monsters.

There is no time like the present to accomplish what you need to. Waiting for a better day is a bad idea, because a better day never comes.  The better day is the present day.