Excuse Me, Are You Listening?

I’ve been having a grand time with my two youngest children, Amir, 4 and Anissa, 5. Gianni, 14, is in high school and that’s been an interesting experience for me.

A man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh." – Genesis 2:24

In our last edition we featured a story entitled "Always & Forever:  A Story of Life and Death – Part I

Dear Readers, It has been a tumultuous two weeks.  I was on City Council on Monday, October 2, 2006 to complain about our Poetry program

The air is getting crisp and the squirrels have started collecting food for the winter.  The birds and people who fly south for the winter are making preparations to leave.

A mural that includes Trinidad Sanchez, Jr. is evidence of how well
loved he was in San Antonio, Texas.  His likeness was added to the
wall after his death.

On August 20, I made a pilgrimage to San Antonio, TX to say goodbye to my mentor and friend, Trinidad (Trino) Sanchez Jr.   It was one of the the greatest spiritual experiences of my life.

It was beautiful.  I could only believe that we would be done before the rain.  The poetry finally came to an end but it was a performance by all that I will never forget.

Dear Readers,
I was reading Duke University’s newspaper and found that they did an interesting study on friends.  The study reveals that Americans have fewer friends outside of the family.  Go figure.

Anissa finally had an opportunity to see the ocean and she “wasn’t even afraid of it”.

Dear Readers,

(This is a continuation of the column in the June 25, 2006 – July 8, 2006 edition)

Dear Readers,  

     Everyone loves e-mail.  I love e-mail.  There are a lot of great benefits to using e-mail. It affords you the opportunity to get your message to someone without wasting a lot of time on the phone or writing a letter and putting it in an envelope and waiting several days for the person to get your correspondence.