Thank you, Todd!

And, yes, I believe that’s the company’s wrecker. I’ve other photographs where you can see the name painted on the side and would be happy to pass them along.

One more thing — that old truck — do you happen to know if it was once the company’s wrecker?

Simply awesome!!

All my heart to you, my friend.

When I saw your comment I just sat here and closed my eyes and smiled. I miss you too.

You are amazing, my friend. Amazing.

(I just now played the YouTube link. You are my new hero.)

I admire your work as an artist not only by itself but because what it represents, because of the immense feelings it rings inside me. And all that is possible because of you, your passion, your open heart about your fears, your insecurities, your almost no modesty (what an artist is for, anyway?) and your proud.

Sharing all those emotions, this way of living made me proud and open minded about faces of Art, Family, Faith, Passion, Compromise and Self-esteem and Perfection that i knew nothing about. And I’m thankful for it and I’m comprehensive and I face myself in all your tribulations, though I’m far, far away from you and your achievements.

To write is a necessity and a relief, a searching into the deep and a finding of dark secrets, obscure emotions and, as the same time, the most brilliant part of ourselves, hiding into the mud of our true very own self.

I face fear every day. Sometimes I’m just freeze of fear. Fear of what? You have written here the key. Maybe fear to be the greatest man I could be, the only one God made in me and that is waiting to be found at last. You have shown the way to reach and to be that kind of man, though as a man with acceptable weakness and wonderful twisted thoughts, feelings, emotions and matters.

You have shown me more than once that be a complete man could be possible. That living without fear is a liberation but as a fact and, as well, is an engaged with Life and Beauty and Goodness. No matter sex orientation, race, height, weight, bodybuilding types, fatty types, skinny types, egomaniacal crisis or just be as an ordinary man as life makes us to be. Greatness is every where and in every thing we do each day.

We don’t need to be an artist to be a true artist of our life. With you in Life that can be possible, and every one of us feel it inside, known inside and embrace it inside thanks, in many ways, to you too.

Thank you for come back, you Todd and all your Toddness. You make the world nice to be on it. And that’s a miracle only a true spirit can share.

http://youtu.be/xrkr9Ipj1XA

(And please smack him.)

My “No” box was checked, deservedly so.

“…knowing a good breeze would deliver it to their far away land.”

Adequate words fail. Thank you.

As part of a couple astonished to see how conventional (perhaps even outdated) our roles have become, those thoughts of inadequacy are equally, or, perhaps because it is what was traditionally expected, more strongly felt.

It isnt every enough TC. And yes my shirt is tucked in. Thank you for the post and for stepping in the gap on behalf of all the Rolands to your children.

Our area in now awash in color, and I forgot that simple fact about leaves.
Thanks for the reminder.

I’m one of the friends God gave Jeff. He told me to check you out. I told him I’m not ready to move on to guys yet. So then he suggested I check out your blog. Oh, ok! Good stuff. I love the interview format of this particular blog. (I might borrow that idea sometime…or outright steal it. Whatever God leads me to do) Looking forward to more!

(Note: Are you reading Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s?… Interesting.)

1. The Rest Is Illusion author Eric Arvin. This young struggling author wrote a wonderful coming of age story about love, fear, self-acceptance and death that it’s pure poetry and filled with well written characters.
2. Seventy Times Seven, auhtor Salvatore Sapienza explores the inner spirit of a young catholic priest in his battle to combine and to accept his own true nature with his love for God. Beyond religions, is a book about love and self-acceptance.
3. The New Earth author Eckhart Tolle. What a brilliant philosophical book. The author combines so gracefully different sources of Faith and combines and shows how to us, human beings, are capable to develop and to trascend beyond our own necessities and inner battles in search of true freedom in the dawn of the new earth. Nothing new, but fascinating.
4. Rosas Blancas para Wolf by Carlos Hugo Asperilla, because, in the mist of WW-II, on the German side, we can comprehend but never accept how that inferno could happened and how no one could escape from the hell in a never kind but actually comprehensive and touching prose. What a though and a brilliant story.
5. Manyôshu. Because Japanese poetry (when we, Occidentals, were lost in the mist of the Dark Ages, they flourished with a deep, touching and extremely simple poetry… Tannkas and, long time after, haikais are the best way to understand a distant but wonderful civilization that, today, just live about remembrances.

Books that moved me so profoundly… Oh, Todd, the list would be too long…

1. Memoirs of Hadrian of Marguerite Yourcenar. What a brilliant, deep, heartouch and wise novel. This is Literature, with capital letters. One of the most brilliant pen of our times.
2. Alexis of Marguerite Yourcenar. A short-tale, too deep and so touch. And it was written with just 24 years old…
3. Paula of Isabel Allende. You, as a parent, must read this beautiful book about live, hopes, illness and lost.
4. Love in the Times of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez. Just love, magic realism and passion.
5. Doña Bárbara and La Trepadora by Rómulo Gallegos. What a passionate books and they can discover you life in the Sabana (the southern-american version of cowboys) and the culture, the legends and the songs of those tough and supersticious people.
6. The Persian Boy by Mary Renault. Never Alexander the Great was so much correct painted and with so much love and understanding.
7. Twenty Poems of Love and A Song Of Despair… Because Love is more than words in Pablo Neruda’s hands.
8. The Horse of Troy Project Number 1 by J.J. Benítez (just forget the other 7)… what a story! One of the most humanly and lovely portrayed of Jesus I ever read (and I did it a lot.)
9. Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen. Far beyond the film.
10. The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After by Alexander Dumas… That’s a story… Pages flow and story goes and still be fascinating.
11. Theater of Spain’s G<olden Century… Never forget it.
12. Saint John of the Cross Poetry or how about love and faith is far away from rules and churches.

And I must stop here.
Thanks, Todd.

The DVR??? I would totally be freaked out!!

Go ahead take my HBO-don’t care
Take a few nights of Dinner out monthly -Don’t care
Take away Red Meat and Pop-OK NO PROBLEM

DON’T YOU DARE TOUCH MY DVR-IF I HAVE TO MISS 1 EPISODE OF BIG BANG THEORY,NCIS GOD FORBID, GRAY’S ANATOMOY someone will be hurt seriously!! Damn it If I have to work all day do laundry, cook and pick up the dirty socks you will not take my DVR!!
Shit I say PICKET THE HOUSE!!!