State of panic...

written by Pamela Scholes


          I sat this early , dark morning at the hour of 4:30am here in Atlanta sipping my Java and letting my mind think about the events of the day. Normally I let the day go at the end of the day so that tomorrow gets more promise but there are those times when distraught enough that I can't let it go without putting it to paper. I sat in the quiet of my home and wondered what everyone else in the world was doing at that time. Half of a new day was over for some and others a new day only beginning. Time is strange how it shifts and moves in location. This era of time is strange as well and this is what I pondered this morning. They say if we do not change it then history will repeat itself and I swear, with all of my searching can I find much change-not much good change anyway. Our own IRS, Medicaid, and various areas of the government have fallen under intense scrutiny- a thing I do not think has ever happened.
          I am not out to point fingers or blame any ONE person as this failure was a wrongful slew of decisions. So much is made in haste and nothing is given serious deliberation as everyone is in such a hurry. Why?- We are steady rushing the world into a pace it can not possibly keep up with. People are desperate, I do not believe I have ever seen such acts of desperation from everyday working people who can't afford to make any ends meet. People are standing on the edge and no one is offering any help, any relief, or any promise of a turn around. These are desperate times, tough times and instead of banding together most have gone out on their own to survive however they can. I am not condoning these acts of desperation but I am certainly bringing it to the forefront. People do not know who to turn to anymore and it seems that no one can be trusted, from the lowest of the ladder to the highest rung. We have been sold a false bill of goods under the lemon law of "as is" and this little catch 22 has brought so many to a dead end. Don't judge a person until you have walked in their shoes for times are hard all over and people are lost with no one to lead them. I can't understand how it can not be so apparently clear to the upper echelon that this world is in a state of panic...

Sum up your life...

written by Pamela(pam)Scholes


         That's a very large question; I mean if asked to sum up your life, what would you say? Would you tell all of the good and the bad, would you admit your pain and often weakness? Would you tell those truths and even the half truths or just shove that under the rug? Would you speak kindly to the person in the mirror or would you sing your should have and could haves? Would you be proud, would you know that you had given every endeavor your best and would you let it be okay when you fell short? Would you speak of your dreams, those you have had and those you still have hopes for?
          Would you say that you always tried to do right by other's and right by your self and when not, would you be brave enough to admit the times you didn't do right? Would you say that you had known true love, that way deep down kind of love or would you have to say that you held back instead of letting go? Would you say that you had made many a friend, and lost some too but that those in your path-looking back- had changed your life? I could really run with this and ask countless questions but there is only one that matters and that is what YOU would say if ask to sum up your life...