Ok people, you all were right last time you were asked to vote.. . I again want to know what you all think. Will the Downs clan have a boy to level the playing field and bring balance to the house? Or will the ladies continue to rule the house… enforcing tea parties before bedtime, princess themes in (what was supposed to be) daddy’s mancave, and cute/adorable ballerina Tutus as the must have fashion accessory? Although I LOVE the endless hugs and kisses from my sweet lady Seanna, I would like to have a boy to fight the good fight with me when the ladies want to do girly things.
Oh man… this is scary. I’ll admit it, I’m scared all over again. I can’t imagine two girls.. I don’t know how I am going to do it. I’ll be outnumbered… 3-1.
*Insert Drum Roll*
Now Vote!
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Note: Voting will end on 5/21 at 3PM EST.
LIVE FEED from Dr.’s office will be posted here on 5/21 at 3PM as we discover the sex. So stay tuned!
“Between you and me a new door opened and someone, still faceless, was waiting for us there.” -Neruda
“Entre tú y yo se abrió una nueva puerta y alguien, sin rostro aún, allí nos esperaba.” – Neruda
And so it is..
It has happened again.
Her and I.
We have linked each other’s souls.
Hand in hand, we have escaped to that secret place that we have visited once before
where entwined, with tenderness — with fury,
reached out to touch the core of our love,
and touched the tree of life with our bare hands. Continue reading →
Went to downtown San Francisco for a few hours. I took one of the bus tours and literally had a chance to hit all tourist spots. I’m glad I took the tour since I was able to get the story … Continue reading →
Saw the movie Act of Valor tonight. At the end, it had this amazing poem by Native American Shawnee Chief, Tecumseh. I wanted to share it with you all. It’s truly amazing and I hope that it inspires you to make this life count, to pursue noble undertakings, and live so that when it’s time to be called Home, you have used all your talents and have no regrets.
- Alex
So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
Trouble no one about their religion;
respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.
Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people.
Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,
even a stranger, when in a lonely place.
Show respect to all people and grovel to none.
When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living.
If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself.
Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools
and robs the spirit of its vision.
When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled
with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep
and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way.
Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
Tonight, I took Seanna on her first date (well, technically it wasn’t just her and I, because mommy wanted to be a third wheel and come along). It was her first time at the movies. I think I was more excited … Continue reading →
While thinking about my 2011 personal goals, I reflected upon 2010.
Last year I attended a funeral.
That night, a young widow cried in front a casket. She cried with despair, hurting from unimaginable pain. She wept with her eyes closed and head down, weakened, desolate. Her eyes, fixed on the open casket, acknowledged no one else. The condolences from those arriving went unheard. She sat there motionless, staring at her lover’s cold, pale body, unreactive to the cries around her or the commotion of those that came to pay their respects and saw the deceased for the first time. She sat there, with dimmed, dark wet eyes, staring at the casket. Staring at the casket, in her own silence. A silence that was interrupted by her own hurtful, sudden weeping, brought on perhaps by an unsuspecting memory of their wedding or random night where he professed his love to her.
She yearned for her lover’s warmth, for his breath, for his voice to say her name one more time. But he laid there, motionless. Somehow she gathered strength to stand up. Slowly, with heavy steps, carrying with her the anchor of pain and loss, she approached the casket. With careful tenderness she caressed his hair, his eyes, his cheeks as she ran her fingers down his face. Her shaky fingers stopped at his lips, lips that she had kissed thousands of times before, lips that would never again kiss her. She addressed him, now in his final resting place, uttering words that sometimes we all take for granted or do not say enough. She told him that she loved him. And thanked him for making her happy.
But there was no response.
After the funeral, I took my wife home. The ride home was very somber. We just held hands and didn’t say much. We were absorbing everything we had witnessed. Everything we had learned. Upon arriving, I opened a bottle of my best wine. Wine that I had been saving for a very special occasion, our 5th year Anniversary that was still 2 years away. And I told her that that night we would celebrate we could have dinner together, celebrate that we could hold each other, and that we must be conscious of and appreciate that simple fact. Appreciate that an “I love you too” can be heard after an “I love you”.
We must not take those we love for granted for we never know when their time has come.
We never know when the last “I love you” has been said.
She will see him again. But she will have to wait. For now, she can only see him in some distant memory on a rainy night. Or a dream. Or the clouds.
In the meantime, you and I, we must value, must take advantage of the precious, invaluable ability to call our mothers, our fathers, sisters, brothers.. our soul mate, and tell them that we love them. Tell them that they mean so much to our lives. How important they are. How empty it would be without them. We must appreciate the fact that when we say such words, we can hear a response…
Unlike that night, that night when a widow cried in front of a casket.
And reaffirmed in me the feeling that
every day and every night is a blessing.
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- Tecumseh