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Thank-You to EVERYONE who has supported me and helped me with my website and book throughout the last 10 years. My book on Columbine and school violence is finally coming to completion. I couldn't have done it without all of you. Please, take a moment today to remember Columbine - it's the tenth anniversary on 4/20/09. Also, please read this Westword article and be prepared for more to come from Chad. I will update my website as he makes progress. His view is important; it goes far beyond anything you have seen thus far. "Imagine a timeless world where magic, seduction and love turn your life upside down..." 
Carry each joyful moment with you as though it hasn't passed; but do not allow your happiness to depend upon your ability to recreate those moments - you can never recreate them and you will die trying. If you set conditions on your happiness - "I'll be happy if only I could experience -this- once more, or -that- for the first time" - you will spend the rest of your life trying to relive the past -- and the present moment -- the Here and Now -- will escape your consciousness as though it is your final breath on this Earth. When you experience something wonderful and amazing - the healthy way to hold onto it is to continue to allow yourself to feel the way you felt while you were in that moment - without the pain of wishing to be in that moment once again. You don't need to be in that moment to feel its joy. Be as joyous now as you were then. Don't allow yourself to become addicted to conditional happiness. When your happiness depends on any person, place or thing - your emotions will turn into a roller-coaster disaster. Change is constant - people come and go in our lives, our current location changes day to day and possessions disappear without warning. When you are happy - truly happy at the core of your soul - you can love everyone and everything around you with all of your heart yet love just the same if it all disappeared tomorrow. Why? Because being truly happy is all about living in the moment. Unconditional happiness exists when you stop looking for a reason to be happy. Stop looking for a reason to love and just Love.
... people are so afraid to lose what they have that they try to chain down what they love. People, things. They chain everyone around them down until finally they start gnawing off their own legs just to escape... Don't chain down or clip the wings of those you love - allow them to fly freely and follow their own life path. Enjoy the time when their path intersects with yours. When their spirit soars across your night's sky - embrace that beauty and express that love and appreciation freely... but realize the moment you chain them down is the moment that beauty will disappear. Think about it. If you stand in awe of someone because of who they are and you admire them while they're on their life path... once you chain them down to yours, they can no longer walk along their own path. Tied to you, they can only be dragged across unfamiliar terrain by their necks. And where is the beauty in that? By chaining down someone's beauty you will lose it. As long as they're in your chains, you'll never see their soul glide across your night's sky. Isn't that what draws you in? Selfless love. Love is selfless. Selfless love is being able to admire someone's beauty, their path, their passion - and support them in whatever direction they want to go in - even if you're not included in their master plan. Love for the sake of loving. Not for what you may get in return. Put aside your wants and needs and think about it. Pack up your chains. Pull up the anchor. It's time to set sail...
Angels are God's Hands
He sits before a tangled road, a trampled path so trodden; leaves have all grown black and dead, lost and long forgotten. Beyond the blackened entry way, sit faith and premonition; angel's breath does block the sound, of failed destination. Once he sat before this path, so many years before; leaves were proudly dancing green, and paved the way with Lore. Angels filled the sky above, with wings so pure and grand; he wished for peace to find him soon, for love to take his hand. 'Twas no surprise to him, you see, for faith had led him there; the angels sought to bring him love, but said he must beware. God so gave this man a choice: "watch the angels fly; let them be the ones to choose, and none will pass you by." He showed the man a life of love, the happiness he craved; every dream had been fulfilled, he lived a life unscathed. "But Angels are the hands of God, and if you pull one down; I'll seal the path I've shown to you, without so much a sound." Copyright 2009; Cal Emerson
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