Vote for MoFo at JPG Magazine

Vote for MoFo at JPG Magazine, originally uploaded by marrngtn (Manuel).

I have submitted a picture of our own Headliner Mofo to JPG Magazine for the On Stage Series. Feel free to vote "Yeah!"

www.jpgmag.com/photos/841751

No Refill on Life

No Refill on Life, originally uploaded by marrngtn (Manuel).

This bottle is a lot like life. For this bottle, this is the end of the line. So many of us don't realize in life you don't get many "Do Overs."

Coming home last night from hanging out with the BEST Flickr Folks and Folks PERIOD...aka DC Social...I was thinking about my Dad, all the fishing, talking about life, talking about women, talking about relationships, talking about religion, talking about politics, talking about growing up in the former Heart of the Confederacy, talking about our heritage as a
family.

I discovered that I am FULL.

I am FULL of great dreams, memories, family and love. My life hasn't been perfect but its been like a GED...Good Enough....

So, I say to anyone who is estranged from their mother, father, brothers, sisters....NO REFILL...Once your empty and drained...NO REFILL..

Don't go empty because of disagreements and stuff that in the grand scheme of things is pretty stupid......For those of you of the Christian Faith remember this:

1 John 4:20-21
20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? 21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

Wow.....It is my prayer that all of those that have been so great to me in this time of stress and strain are FULL. If your not don't let another day go by with the meter running on you. In the END it will be about you and what you have done...Not them.

Peace upon you all my friends........

Holding On

Holding On, originally uploaded by marrngtn (Manuel).

I am finally home from a full day at the Hospital with my dad. I
posted a picture from my Blackberry earlier today but, this was what I
wanted the picture to be. There are 42 years between my dad and I, we
are father and son, we are best friends, we are fathers and we are
men.

I will cherish the memories that we have had no matter what. My
regret is that I don't have a son to share my journey in life with.
My daughter is precious and I would not trade her for anything in this
entire world. However, as man and a son I do know there is a
difference in relationship between father and daughter and father and
son.

Pop I don't know where the road goes from here but I will walk as far
as I can with you until I know I can go no further.

I am "Hooked" on this....

I love the mountains
I love the clear blue skies
I love big bridges
I love when great whites fly
I love the whole world [Les Stroud]
And all its sights and sounds
Boom-dee-ah-da, boom-dee-ah-da
Boom-dee-ah-da, boom-dee-ah-da
I love the oceans
I love real dirty things [Mike Rowe]
I love to go fast
I love Egyptian kings
I love the whole world
And all its craziness
Boom-dee-ah-da, boom-dee-ah-da
Boom-dee-ah-da, boom-dee-ah-da [Richard Machowicz]
I love tornadoes [Joshua Wurman]
I love arachnids [Bear Grylls]
I love hot magma
I love the giant squids
I love the whole world
It's such a brilliant place
Boom-dee-ah-da, boom-dee-ah-da [Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage]
Boom-dee-ah-da, boom-dee-ah-da [Stephen Hawking]
Boom-dee-ah-da, boom-dee-ah-da
Boom-dee-ah-da, boom-dee-ah-da
Boom-dee-ah-da, boom-dee-ah-da