Listen to it now

Sit Still, and close your eyes
What’s behind the other door
No more silence, don’t kill this thing we got called love
Just searching for the perfect drug

When Love comes calling
Don’t look back
When love comes calling
Don’t look away

And I’m standing over here
Watching you over there
Smiling, happy, unaware
Oh, life is spinning round
You’re going underground, forgetting who we were
Let’s try and keep it just one more day

You take your love
And throw it all around
Like it’s nothing special
Just a sound
Let me say one more thing
I don’t think you realize
That a day is like a year sometime

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Love this song, just downloaded Mobile’s album off of Sympatico Puretracks (Bell holds a majority interest in Puretracks).

Come on over, let me watch you
Let me hold you, let me touch you

Right or wrong I should have stayed up ’til the break of dawn
Ever since our eyes did meet
I long to see
Your eyes surprised me like a moon on a cowboy movie screen
I never found out what it means

I must be out of my head
It must be something I said
So come on I’ll waste my life
You think I’m out of my head
But I’m romantically dead
So come on I’ll waste my life on you

Come on over, let me watch you
Let me hold you, let me touch you

I’m right, you’re wrong
You should have come to me before too long
You’ll never leave my sight again
To keep you then
Your eyes deny me like the sun on a night sky movie scene
And I just don’t care what it means

I must be out of my head
It must be something I said
So come on I’ll waste my life
You think I’m out of my head
But I’m romantically dead
So come on I’ll waste my life on you

And I hate to be the one
The one to drop the bomb
You wouldn’t wait around
But I’ll be watchin’ you
Woooooo you! yeah you
Woooooo you! yeah you

I’ll watch your every move
You can’t know we can’t hurt
You got no choice I got you

I must be out of my headIt must be something I said
So come on I’ll waste my life
You think I’m out of my head
But I’m romantically dead
So come on I’ll waste my life on you

I must be out of my head
It must be something I said
So come on I’ll waste my life
You think I’m out of my head
But I’m romantically dead
So come on

I’ll waste my life, I’ll waste my life, my life on you

I had the wonderful opportunity of attending an offsite event a number of years ago @ Queen’s University. The the was the ‘Olympics’ and the team spirit that unites us all. One of the key messages conveyed during the event was this notion of ‘Servant Leadership’

I only now have begun reading the work, and the concepts introduced to me during that memorable event.

Servant Leadership is about six things:
Be Authentic (Be real, be you)
Be Vulnerable
Be Accepting
Be Present (there’s nothing like the present moment)
Be Useful

I have a nice token of remembrance from that event – its a collage of pictures.

Each team was given a way of being, and we were tasked with creating a piece of art. Each team member was encouraged to participate and add to the creativity. The piece I worked on was titled ‘A Moment in Time’ and I have it proudly displayed above my work desk at home. I look at it almost daily.

Sometimes I look back and think how really attuned I was to being present – in the moment. I think with age it becomes more of a challenge to really live in the moment. I want to return to that place…I want to be real and authentic. I want to make sure that i’m not just being efficient, but rather I want to be truly effective.

I’m only part way through chapter one, but so far its a great read.

‘I am proud – deal with it’ (that’s what I wrote in my final year book). I had guts then. I was true to myself then.

How would I describe myself now – I don’t really know, I’ll have to get back to you when I have some time to meditate and look inward at who it is that I’ve become.

Are we all really united? I personally, don’t believe so. I believe fragmentation is what’s occurring. Fragmentation has its advantages; Niche Markets are all the rage, and if your company has not clearly defined its own, then there might be a problem. Unlimited Possibilities! We are at the cusp of a new era in Reality – interconnectedness. Fragmentation brings about the technological breakthroughs which drive our ‘global’ economy forward. Honk Honk. Globalism.
My research into bio-tech have dwindled over the past few years, but let us not forget our parents, and grandparents are getting older. My Dad talks about companies specializing in ‘geriatrics’ today and how they will be the big winners tomorrow. I have no idea if that last statement is true, I guess only time will tell.

Phil said something to me last night which caused me to think about ‘something’, differently. Life really is like a ball of fun. At least I think so.

Today is April 15th, 2006. Phil and I got up around nine o’clock and started getting ready for our trip down to Misty Mountain. We arrived around 130 and were greeted by Auntie Marjie, Uncle Nat, Auntie Jeannie, Uncle Dave, Mom, Dad, Rachel, Claudio, Chris Rebecca, and their daughter Ava.

The sky was bright blue, and the air was warm. Right now I’m sitting on the west deck gazing into the blazing fire. Dad and Dave gave us the ‘OK’ to break down one of the ancient picnic tables. It was a good table, serving us well on the mountain for over 13 years. My dad has this thing with camp fires…he loves them and gets excited when there are people up to share it with him.

I’ve always enjoyed the weekend getaways to the cottage. On a clear night, the stars are especially spectacular. The Milky Way is a sight to see while on the mountain top. There is no light pollution to ruin the spectacle. I remember spending nights in my youth staring for hours into the night sky. Life was simple then. My uncle Nat is our resident expert of the night sky. He has a MEAD telescope which when properly aligned to the night sky allows the interested stargazer to see the rings around Saturn, and the craters on our great moon. Meteor showers are a great sight to see, I wish I had the time to observe more of them.

Peaceful tranquility – what a majestic place this is. The pond is full of life. Bass, tadpoles, and water critters. Misty Mountain is an ongoing experiment in nature. Over the years numerous tree species have been introduced. It feels just like yesterday when I helped plant the line of blue spruce down the west side of our acreage, they were barely a foot high. Now they tower at least twenty feet into the sky.

The crickets and frogs are making their usual mating calls by the pond. Phil and I noticed the tadpole gel sacks. The gel sacks contain thousands upon thousands of tadpoles. They are located within the secondary overflow pond. This smaller pond is used as a breeding ground for water life before being introduced into the main pond.

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