LIVING IN FIRE. FIRE & ICE. BREAKING THE IRON BOND. THE HATE READER. WHAT HIS CRUSADE COST. FOLLOW THE FISH. PEOPOLE IN MOTION. BEHIND THE SCENSE. TRACKING THEIR TRACK COACH. THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS. THIS IS THE ANSWER. INSTITUTUTE TRANSFORMING CLASSROOM LANDSCAPE. TO SLEEP PERCHANCE TO DREAM PERCHANCE TO MESS WITH REALITY. A BEAR ARTIFACT. HE GETS THE PICTURE. EXPLORING ART. ENDEAVOUR ARRIVES. VEGGING OUT IS ACTUALLY A SIGN OF INTELLIGENCE. INSTEAD OF JUST READING ABOUT ADVENTURE, IMAGINE HAVING MORE OF YOUR OWN. THE TRUE MEASURE OF SUCCESS IN LIFE ISN'T MONEY, FAME, OR POWER. IT'S LAUGH LINES. CREATIVE POWER. ETERNAL UNREST. UNSETTLING DETAILS. ON SHAKY GROUND. MOUNT HOOD. DEGA VU. WORLDS OF INSIGHTS. RECURRING WONDERS. UNLOCKING THE CLIMATE PUZZLE. GLOBAL TEMERATURE RISING. THE WET GET WETTER. AND THE DRY GET DRIER. A GLOBAL EFFORT. ROMAN TRIBUNE. GOOD NEWS--THE OZONE LAYER IS IMPROVING! SOMETHING IS WORKING. YESTERDAY, AFTER WRITING MY BLOG, HAVING WATCHED SOME NEWS AND READING THE NEWSPAPER . . . I DECIDED TO WATCH AN AFTERNOON OF I.D. NETWORK OR INVESTIGATIVE DISCOVERY--SOMETHING LIKE SNAPPED OR KILLER COUPLES. I COULDN'T GET TO THE EPISODES FOR SOME REASON. I COULD, HOWEVER, GET TO I.D. NETWORK, "BEHIND MANSION WALLS" A SERIES ON THE RICH AND THE FAMOUS. WHAT WERE THE FIRST TWO FREE EPISODES ABOUT? PERFECT. THEY ARE ENTITLED "SPOILED ROTTEN" ABOUT, TWO YOUNG MEN, FROM VERY WEALTHY FAMILIES, ONE IN AMERICA, VIRGINIA, A FIVE GENERATION OLD MONEY FAMILY, AND ANOTHER, AUSTRAILIAN PLAYBOY, NEWER MONEY, BUT WITH THE SAME TYPE PERSONALITY AS THE LONG TIME RICH BOY, WITH THE WORLD AT HIS FINGER TIPS! BOTH MURDERED THEIR GIRLFRIENDS OR BOTH COULD NOT TAKE REJECTIONS OR ANY TYPE OF EMBARRASSMENT, AND WITH UNTOLD RAGE, THEY WITHOUT, EVEN THINKING OF THE CONSEQUENCES--SNUFFED OUT THE LIVES OF TWO VERY BEAUTIFUL AND TALENTED, SMART, YOUNG WOMEN! IN BOTH CASES, THE PARENTS OF THE BOYS WERE DEVASTATED, ON ONE THE PARENTS, BASICALLY, OBSTRUCTED JUSTICE, DESTROYING A CONFESSION NOTE, EVIDENCE OF THE CRIME, AND BOTH WERE SENT TO PRISON, FOR 24 MONTHS . . .BOTH YOUNG MEN FOR LIFE! FACT PATTERN NUMBER ONE: (1) BOTH SENIORS; (2) BOTH ATHLETES; (3) BOTH ATTRACTIVE OR HOT; (4) THEIR MATCH WAS OF INTEREST TO THE COLLEGE CAMPUS; (5) BOTH WERE ON THE COLLEGE LACROSS TEAM, WHERE I BELIEVE THEY MET; (6) THEY WERE THE "IT" COUPLE ON CAMPUS, UNTIL SEVERAL THINGS HAPPENED, THAT I WILL SPELL OUT; (7) BOTH USED ALCOHOL, POSSIBLE DRUGS . . . THE DAY OF THE INCIDENT, THE YOUNG MAN, STARTED TO DRINK DURING A GOLF GAME WITH HIS FATHER AND CONTINUED DURING THE DAY: (A) WHAT LED UP TO THE MURDER? THE GIRLFRIEND CAUGHT BOYFRIEND ENTERTAINING SEVERAL YOUNG HIGH SCHOOL LACROSS RECRUITS IN HIS APARTMENT WHEN THE GIRL CAME OVER TO SEE HIM--SHE EMBARRASSED HIM IN FRONT OF THE YOUNGER GIRLS, WHO KIND OF GIGGLED ON THE COACH AS THE TWO GOT INTO A HEATED ARGUMENT; (B) AS A RESULT OF THE INCIDENT, OF COURSE, THE YOUNG, POLITICAL SCIENCE MAJOR, SOON TO BE COLLEGE GRADUATE, WITH TONS OF HER OWN SELF-ESTEEM, DECIDED TO BREAK OFF THE RELATIONSHIPS AND DATE OTHER MEN, BECAUSE SHE WAS GOING TO BE LEAVING ANYWAY, AND THE TWO WOULD SOON HAVE A LONG DISTANCE RELATIONSHIP; (C) HE COULDN'T HANDLE HER BEING WITH OTHER MEN? LIKE, WHAT DO MEN, NOT GET ABOUT THIS--YOU DON'T GET TO BE WITH OTHER WOMEN, THEN, DEMAND, THAT THE GIRL, ONLY BE WITH YOU! FUCK THAT SHIT! (D) DUDE STARTS TO FREAKOUT, AND STARTS TEXTING HER NON-STOP AND SHE IS BLOWING HIM OFF. HER GIRLFRIENDS AND OTHERS ARE GETTING WORRIED, BECAUSE THE TWO HAVE A VOLITILE AND HOT, PASSIONATE RELATIONSHIP, THAT HAD, ONCE BEFORE, ENDED IN HIM BASICALLY, ALMOST BEATING HER TO DEATH, UNTIL SOME OTHER LACROSS TEAM MEMBER HEARD HER SCREAMING, AND BUSTED IN THE ROOM--BOYFRIEND JUST BLEW IT OFF AS PLAY AND THE OTHER GUY SAID, THAT WAS NOT PLAY AND CALLED HIM ON HIS SHIT! (E) NOW, THE YOUNG RICH SPOILED BRAT, HAD NEVER BEEN TOLD NOW BY HIS DOTTING PARENTS, OR HIS GRANDPARENTS, SO, THIS YOUNG WOMAN'S REJECTION WAS MORE THAN HE COULD TAKE . . . HE WAS A HUNK, AND HAD NEVER HAD A GIRL REJECT HIM, AND BETWEEN HIS EGO AND HIS MONEY, AND HIS TEMPER, PLUS HS VERY PHYSICAL BODY . . . WHEN THE CONFRONTTATION CAME, SHE WAS NO MATCH FOR HIS 200 POUND PLUS SOLID MUSCLE POWER, EVEN THOUGH SHE WAS ATHLETIC HERSELF, SHE WAS IN TROUBLE--SHE SENSED TROUBLE THROUGH HIS TEXTS, THAT BASICALLY THREATENED TO KILL HER; (F) SO FUELED WITH AN OVERDOSE OF ALCOHOL, AND WITH HER REFUSING TO ANSWER HIS TEXT MESSAGES, HE WENT OVER TO HER HOUSE OR APARTMENT; .(G) AT FIRST, HE TRIED TO GET HER TO OPEN THE DOOR--SHE TOLD HIM SHE DIDN'T WANT TO SEE HIM. HE POUNDED ON THE DOOR, SHE WAS GETTING INCREASINGLY SCARED OF HIM--EVENTUALLY, IN A RAGE HE KICKED IN THE DOOR! (H) SHE WAS ON THE BED SCREAMING FOR HIM TO LEAVE HER ALONE, AND HE CLAIMED THAT SHE STARTED TO SLAM HER HEAD AGAINST THE WALL, SAYING GET OUT, GET OUT! (I) HE FINALLY GRABBED HER LIKE A RAG DOLL AND PULLED HER TO THE FLOOR, AND WITH ALL THE POWER OF HIS PHYSIQUE, AND ANGER, HE BEAT HER TO DEATH! (J) THEN STILL ANGRY, HE TOOK HER LIFELESS BODY AND HE SAID HE JUST TOSSED IN ON THE BED, COVERED HER, TOOK HER COMPUTER WITH ALL THE EVIDENCE AGAINST HIM, AND LEFT; (K) THE ROOMMATE DISCOVERED HER FRIEND'S LIFELESS BODY, AND CALLED THE COPS! GOLDEN BOY, FINALLY BROKE DOWN, NOT WITH THE COPS, BUT IN HIS JURY TRIAL, AND CRIED FOR WHAT HE HAD DONE AND WHAT GRIEF HE HAD CAUSE TO HIS FAMILIES NAME! BOTH YOUNG LIVES SHATTERED! THE CAMPUS MORNED. SCENARIO TWO: (1) THE AUSTRAILIAN PLAYBOY, BIG TIME PARTY BOY, WITH FRIENDS OUT TO A TRENDY CLUB ONE NIGHT, SEES, A HOT BLOND, A 17 YEAR OLD MODEL, COME WALTZING IN THE CLUB, WITH FRIENDS . . . THE TWO HOTS MEET UP AND THE PASSION AND ATTRACTION IS ON; (2) AS MOST PLAYBOYS DO, HE STARTED TO PLAY WITH OTHER PLAYMATES, AND SHE BROKE UP WITH HIM. NOW I DON'T EVER GET THIS, BUT IT FITS THE PATTERN OF SOME OF THE MEN, IF NOT ALL OF THE MEN, WHO ARE PISSED AT ME! WHO DO THEY THINK THEY ARE, AND WHY DO THEY THINK YOU ARE NOT GOOD LOOKING ENOUGH TO PAY THEM THE FUCK BACK, AND WHO CAUSED THE BREAK UP--HIM OR HER? HIM! GET REAL. (3) AGAIN, WE HAVE THE SPOILED BRAT, WITH BOTH WEALTHY PARENTS AND RICH GRANDPARENTS, WHO DOT AND SPOIL THE KID, NEVER TELLLING HIM NO, AND NOT REFUSING ANYTHING FROM HIM, BUT THIS BRAVE YOUNG WOMAN DID! HE MADE HER PAY! (4) SO WHAT HAPPENED TO LEAD UP TO THE MURDER?: (A) AGAIN, SHE WAS A HOT NEW MODEL, AND HAD NO PROBLEM ATTRACTING ME, IN FACT SHE WAS BEATING THEM OFF! (B) ONE NIGHT HER FRIENDS AND HER, END UP AT THE SAME CLUB, DANCING AND DRINKING, AS THE FRESH, NEW, OLD, BOYFRIEND, PLAYBOY, WHO THREW MONEY, AT BOTH HER AND HER FRIENDS, WHILE THEY ARE TOGETHER, NOTHING TOO GOOD, AND HIS PARENTS OWNED A FASHIONABLE JEWELRY STORE, IN WHICH HE COULD LAVISH HER WITH WHATEVER SHE WANTED; (C) SHE COMES IN DRESSED TO KILL OR BE KILLED IN THIS CASE . . . HER BLOND HAIR, SHORT SHORT HOT PANTS, BLUE SHIRT, REVEALING HER GREAT BODY, AND, HER LONG TAN LEGS, INCLUDING WEARING ONE OF THE EXPENSIVE GIFTS THAT HE HAS GIVEN HER--NOW MEN, LEGALLY, A GIFT IS AN ITEM, YOU CAN'T TAKE BACK, EVEN IF YOU BREAK UP WITH THE WOMAN--IT IS HERS AND IF YOU GO TO COURT OVER THE ITEM--YOU LOSE! JUST SOME LEGAL ADVISE--IF YOU ARE GOING TO REGRET GIVING YOUR GAL SOMETHING, DON'T GIFT IT TO HER, OR IF YOU ARE STILL IN THAT PLAYBOY MODE, BETTER STOP THE GIFTING! (D) HE SEES HER AND STARTS TELLING HER SHE IS DRESSED, TOO REVEALING AND CALLS HER A WHORE. SHE TAKES HER DRINK AND THROWS IT IN HIS FACE! HE IS FURIOUS, AND INFRONT OF HIS FRIENDS, AGAIN, THAT OLD EGO, AND EMBARRASSING HIM, SEEMS TO BE A COMMON THEME IN THESE DATING VIOLENCE MURDERS! (E) HE GRABS HER AND SLAPS HER VERY HARD ACROSS THE CHEEK--MAKING HER FURIOUS, AND SHE STORMS OUT OF THE CLUB WITH HIM FOLLOWING HER! (E) HE FINALLY, SWEET TALKS HER INTO GOING BACK TO HIS PARENT'S HOME WHERE HE LIVES, AND THE SECOND, THE COUPLE GET ALONE, HE HIT HER OVER THE HEAD WITH A LIKE SLUGH HAMMER, KILLING HER INSTANTLY. HE COVERS HER LIFELESS BODY, WITH HIS RED COMFORTER, LEAVING HER AS IF SHE IS PEACEFULLY SLEEPING IN HIS BED, AS HE LEAVES FOR WORK, AT THE TIME HE NORMALLY DOES: (F) HE KNOWS HE IS IN DEEP SHIT, SO HE PACKS HIS CLOTHES AND TAKES HIS PASSPORT AND HE IS GETTING OUT OF DODGE! (G) THE GIRLFRIEND HAD A REPUTATION OF SLEEPING IN, AND BEING HARD TO WAKE-UP. KILLER'S MOM COMES IN AND TRIES TO WAKE THE DEAD GIRLFRIEND AND REALIZES SHE IS COLD TO THE TOUCH AND DEAD; HOWEVER, SHE DOESN'T CALL PARAMEDICS FOR AT LEAST AN HOUR TO GET HER HELP IF SHE MIGHT STILL BE ALIVE. (H) MOM AND DAD, FIND THE CONFESSION NOTE THEIR SON LEFT, TELLING THEM HE KILLED HIS GIRLFRIEND AND HE WAS LEAVING. MOM AND DAD TAKE ACTION, BURN THE EVIDENCE AND TRY TO GET THEIR SON TO COME BACK, NOW, WITH ALL THE EVIDENCE CLEANED UP AND DESTROYED. THE DAD IS NOT SO HOT ON THE PLAN, BUT HE GOES ALONG WITH HIS WIFE, WHO IS DEAD SET ON MAKNIG SURE HER BABY BOY IS PROTECTED AND NOT BLAMED FOR THIS MURDER . . . ALL OF THEM GET SENT TO PRISON, PARENTS FOR BEING ACCESSORIES THE MURDER, AFTER THE FACT AND FOR OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE OF THE BRITISH TERM FOR THAT, AND THE YOUNG MAN, WITH THE WORLD AT HIS FEET, ABLE TO DO ANYTHING HE WANTED, IS INCARCERATED FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE, DEVASTATING HIS PARENTS. THE FATHER OF THE BEAUTIFUL BLOND, IS ALSO, BEYOND, DESTROYED, JUST DAYS BEFORE, HE HAD BEEN IN BRITAIN, WITH HER, AT THE BEACH, AND HE HAS ALL THESE HAPPY, COOL PICTURES WITH, HIS BEAUTIFUL, VIVACIOUS DAUGHTER, NOW DEAD. HE SAID HER PRESENCE, IS MISSED, DAILY, THAT THERE IS AVOID THAT CAN'T EVER BE FILLED WITH ANYONE OR ANYTHING. YOU COULD SEE THE PAIN ON THE FATHER'S FACE, AS HE MORNED THE DEATH OF HIS DAUGHTER, AND SHOWED THE PRODUCERS HER LOVELY PICTURES OF JOY AND HAPPIER TIMES! WHAT IS THE SOLUTION TO THIS TYPE OF DATING VIOILENCE? FIRST, WE ALL KNOW, THAT MEN, ARE LARGER AND STRONGER THEN WOMEN. TEACH YOUR BOYS, THAT, MEN, BOYS, DON'T HIT SISTERS AND MOTHERS! START YOU, AND FATHERS, OLDER BROTHERS, HAVE TO BE EXAMPLES OF THIS TYPE OF RESTRAINT, STARTING AT BIRTH BASICALLY! NEWSFLASH, DADS--80% OF THE YOUNG MEN IN PRISON UNDER THE AGE OF 18, ARE IN PRISON FOR KILLING THEIR MOTHER'S ABUSERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HE GETS THE BIG PICTURE! I HAVE NEVER BEEN HIT--PHYSICALLY--I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I WOULD DO OR HOW I WOULD RESPOND. THE FLIP SIDE OF BEING RAISED IN A FAMILY WHERE IT IS JUST NOT OKAY TO EVEN HIT A PESTY SISTER, IS THAT THE GIRLS OR SISTER, LEARN THAT BEING HIT IS NOT OKAY! THEY WILL RESPOND, MUCH, LIKE, THE 17 YTEAR OLD MODEL, AND BREAK UP WITH YOUR ASS! NOW, WAS SHE RIGHT TO TOSS HER DRINK IN HIS FACE? LOOK AT THE TOTALITY OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES--HE YANKED HER BY THE ARM, TOLD HER SHE WAS DRESSED, NOT TO HIS APPROVAL, WHERE HE HAD NO RIGHT TO TELL HER THAT AND SHE WAS HER OWN PERSON, ABLE TO DRESS AND ACT ANYWAY, SHE WANTED TO AND BE WITH ANY GUY SHE WANTED TO! THEY HAD BROKEN UP! SO, HOW SHOULD SHE REACT, TO THIS CRAZED, JEALOUS, MANIAC? BOTH MEN AND WOMEN HAVE ANGER ISSUES. WE DON'T ALWAYS KNOW HOW WE WILL REACT. BUT, AT LEAST IN THE SECOND DATING VIOLENCE SCENARIO--THE MURDER WAS PREMEDITATED, AND THAT CARRIES WITH HIS MORE SEVERE PUNISHMENT. I THINK HE ORIGINALLY WAS GIVEN THE DEATH SENTENCE, BUT THE JUDGE, REDUCED IT TO LIFE IN PRISON. WHEN THERE IS A CRIME OF PASSION, SEEN, AT TIMES AS TEMPORARY INSANITY, BUT HARD TO PROVE, WHEN, DUDE HAD ALREADY SAID HE WAS GOING TO KILL HER, THE REASON FOR STEALING HER COMPUTER . . . THERE COULD HAVE BEEN A REDUCED SENTENCE, FOR PASSION, BUT, THE EVIDENCE ON THE COMPUTER SUGGESTED, THAT, HE HAD THE "INTENT' TO KILL HER, EVEN BEFORE THE INCIDENT! HER FRIENDS HAD ALL ENCOURAGED HER TO BREAK UP WITH HIM, BUT SHE DID AND DIDN'T, SORT OF. LIVING IN FIRE! THERE ARE RED FLAGS THAT BOTH GUYS AND GALS NEED TO SEE IN OTHERS. WITH BOTH OF THESE YOUNG MEN, THE SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT, AND NEVER BEING DENIED WHAT THEY WANTED, PLAYED INTO WHAT THEY DID . . . BUT THEY WERE OF THE CLASS OF MEN, WHO MOST WOMEN, MIGHT NEVER HAVE REJECTED, NOR, BROKEN UP WITH, SOME WILL PUT UP WITH A SHIT LOAD OF CRAP BY THE GUY, BECAUSE OF HIS MONEY, OR HIS BODY, OR HIS ATHLETIC ABILITIES; HOWEVER, WOMEN, WITH AS MUCH, GOING ON, AS BEAUTIFUL AS THEY ARE HANDSOME, FROM AN EQUALLY RICH FAMILY, BUT THE GIRL, WAS WAY DIFFERENT THAN THE GUY, EVEN THOUGH SHE CAME FROM MONEY, SHE HAD VERY DIFFERENT VALUES, AND SERVED IN LIKE SOME, VOLUNTEER WORK, AND WAS GREATLY CHERISHED AND MISSED, NOTHING LIKE A SPOILED BRAT, LIKE HER KILLER. HER DEATH WAS MOURNED ACROSS THE CAMPUS! BUT, SHE HAD JUST AS MUCH GOING ON, AS, HE DID, SHE HAD A HOT JOB, WAITING FOR HER IN NEW YORK, AND HER FUTURE WAS BRIGHT WITH OUR WITHOUT HIM! SOMETIMES, IT IS THE SPIRITED ONES WHO, GET BEATEN OR MURDERED, JUST BECAUSE THEY DON'T NEED THE MAN, AND THAT, CHANGES EVERYTHING! SOME WOMEN ARE CONTROLABLE WITH THE MONEY AND FAME, AND JUST GLAD TO BE WITH THE GUY--OTHERS ARE PERSONS IN AND OF THEMSELVES AND HAVE TONS OF OPTIONS, WHETHER SINGLE OR MARRIED! IN OTHER WORDS, THEY HAVE A LIFE, SEPARATE AND ASIDE FROM THE MAN! IN THE PLAYBOYS WORLD, THIS HOT YOUNG MODEL WAS NOTHING MORE, THAN, ALL THE OTHER WOMEN HAD BEEN TO HIM, SOMEONE TO HANG BEAUTIFUL JEWELS ON, A TOY, TO SHOW OFF, AND DRESS UP--THIS CHICK WAS FINE WITH THAT, BUT, WHEN, PUSH CAME TO SHOVE, SHE LOVED HERSELF, MORE THAN SHE LOVED HIM! THAT IS THE WAY ALL WOMEN SHOULD FEEL. YOU CAN ONLY LOVE SOMEONE ELSE AS MUCH AS YOU LOVE YOURSELF! REMEMBER THAT. MEN TOO! WHAT WOMAN, IS WORTH, GOING TO PRISON OR HAVING THE DEATH SENTENCE ON YOUR BACK, FOR? I JUST CAN'T SEE IT? LET PEOPLE GO. I LOVE THE IDEA, THAT, IF YOU LOVE SOMEONE, LET THEM GO, AND IF THEY COME BACK TO YOU, THEY MOST LIKELY LOVE OR ARE GROWING IN LOVE WITH YOU, AND IF THEY DON'T COME BACK--THEY NEVER DID! OBSESSION CAN MESS WITH HEADS, OF BOTH THE OBJECT OF THE OBSESSION AND THE OBSESSED. SOMETIMES THE HARDER THE CHALLENGE IS, THE MORE OBSESSED THE MAN BECOMES! HUNTING AND GATHERING? THAT OLD PRIMAL INSTINCT OF MAN? DON'T THINK, THAT, IF I CAN'T HAVE HER, NOBODY CAN HAVE HER. I HAVE FOUND, THAT THERE ARE PLENTY OF FISH IN THE SEA! WITH EACH ONE I THROW BACK OR RELEASE INTO THE WILD SINGLE LIFE AGAIN, SOMEONE EVEN BETTER COMES ALONG OR AT LEAST COMPARABLE. MEN ARE LIKE TROLLY CARS, THERE IS ONE COMING AROUND THE CORNER, EVERY TEN MINUTES! JUST LAST WEEK, I WAS THINKING ABOUT SOME OF THE MEN, I LIEFT IN SEATTLE, OR OTHER PLACES--SOOOO HOTTTT! THEN A TROLLY CAR CAME BY? WHAT THE FUCK IT IS SNOWING? THAT TROLLY CAR IS ONLY USED AS I RECALL FOR THE FARMER'S MARKETS, IN THE SUMMER? HAD IT OUT FOR THANKSGIVING? POSSIBLE. JUST REMEMBER--YOU CAN'T HAVE IT ALL! LIFE IS NOT ALWAYS FAIR. DEAL WITH IT! BECAUSE THE ALTERNATIVE IF EVEN WORSE! WHAT GOOD IS A DEAD WOMAN? OR MAN! WOMEN KILLLING MEN IS NOT AS COMMON, BUT, IT HAPPENS! THE FEMALE KILLER TWIST. NOW THIS IS INTERESTING--WHY DO YOU DIVORCE SOMEONE, IF YOU STILL LOVE THEM, OR STILL WANT TO HAVE SEX WITH SOMEONE? I DON'T GET IT? OKAY, SO IN THIS, THERE ARE TWO HAPPY COUPLES: (1) EACH COUPLE HAVE ONE OF THE SPOUSES OF A FORMER, MARRIAGE THAT ENDED IN DIVORCE, AND A DIVORCE FOR SOMETIME! (2) DIVORCED WIFE LANDS A WEATHY BRAIN SURGEON, WHO IS WORLD RENOWNED, WHO LECTURES AND TRAINS AND IS TOP IN HIS CLASS--SHE HAS EVERYTHING MONEY CAN BUY AND MORE! THE TWO MET ONLINE; (3) HER EX-HUSBAND, HOOKS UP WITH A FELLOW CO-WORKER AT THE FACTORY HE WORKED AT OR WORKS AT. THEY HAVE A MUCH MORE MODEST LIFE, BUT THEY ARE EXTREMELY HAPPY TOGETHER. SOMETHING JUST CAME TO MIND, AS TO WHY THE WIFE, MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE KILLER--DID THE RELATIONSHIP WTIH THE CO-WORKER HAPPEN BEFORE THE DIVORCE OR AFTER, BECAUSE THEY FACT PATTERN MAKES A DIFFERENCE, AT LEAST TO ME. NOT THAT, THE WIFE IS ENTITLED TO HIER HUSBAND'S AFFECTIONS FOR THE REST OF HER LIFE, BUT, THAT MAY HAVE BEEN WHAT LED TO THE DIVORCE, WHETHER WANTED OR NOT, THAT COULD, GIVE A MOTIVE--BECAUSE, THE OTHER WAY AROUND DIDN'T MAKE SENSE, YESTERDAY. JOANN SHERLOCK HOLMES SECRIST, ON THE PROWL! LOL. I AM WHO I AM! ANYWAY, BOTH COUPLE ARE HAPPY FOR SOME TIME; (4) AS JUDGE, JURY AND EXECUTIONER, AS I HAVE BEEN CALLED, IN SENTENCING, I WOULD SURELY, CONSIDER, AS A MITIGATING FACTOR, THE TIMELINE OF THE EVENTS, AND THE CULPABILTY OF THE PARTIES INVOLVED--THIS ONE IS A BIZARRE ONE; (5) AS LIFE WOULD HAVE IT, HEALTH, WEALTH, AND LOVE ARE FLEETING THINGS! SO, MR. VERY RICH, NEUROSURGEON, GETS IN AN ACCIDENT, AND LIKE, MOST WITH EGOS, THE BIGGER YOU ARE, AS I DID MYSELF, THE HARDER YOU FALL, WHEN, LIFE DOESN'T GO AS PLANNED. THIS GOOD DOC, HAPPILY MARRIED, AND IN A FUN RELATIONSHIP WITH ALL SOMEONE MIGHT WANT, GET IN THIS ACCIDENT, AND, HE TURNS TO ALCOHOL, AND DRUGS, AND HE IS DEPRESSED AS HELL! HIS LOVELY WIFE, TRIES EVERYTHING IN HER POWER, TO FIX HER MAN, TO MAKE HIM HAPPY AND TO TRY TO GET THINGS BACK THE WAY THEY WERE, BUT THAT FAILS; (5) SO JEALOUSY OF HER FORMER SPOUSE'S HAPPY MARRIAGE, STARTS TO GET TO HER . . . DID HE CAUSE THE DIVORCE, THAT LED, TO THIS CURRENT SITUATION? THE DR.'S WIFE, TELLS COPS, AFTER THE BODY IS DISCOVERED, OF THE EX-HUSBAND'S WIFE, BY TWO DUCK HUNTERS, IN THE MARSHES, WITH PLASTIC WRAPPED AROUND HER HEAD AND HER BODY PUMPED WITH THREE SHOT GUN BULLETS, LEAVING A PRETTY MESS OF A HANDSOME WOMAN, NOW JUST A BLOODY PILE OF NOTHING IN THE WATER, THAT, SHE WAS ACTUALLY HAVING AN AFFAIR WITH HER EX-HUSBAND, AND HER DR. HUBBY FOUND OUT, AND HE WANTED, TO KIDNAP, THE EX-HUSBAND'S NEW WIFE, AND RAPE HER, SO HE KNEW HOW HE FELT--THAT WAS THE STORY; (5) SO, THE TWO, RICH, PEOPLE, NOW, JEALOUS OF THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACKS, COUPLE, ARE GOING TO GET REVENGE--BUT NOT ON THE HUSBAND? BUT HIS NEW WIFE? DID THE AFFAIR PRE-DATE THE DIVORCE? IT COULD MAKE A DIFFERENCE. AS LONG AS EVERYONE IS HAPPY AND ALL PEACY, NO BIG DEAL RIGHT, BUT, AFTER THE DR. IS DEPRESSED, IT MIGHT. SO THE STORY GOES THAT, THE TWO, ARE WAITING FOR THE NEW WIFE, AND THE DR. FLAGS HER DOWN, ON HER WAY HOME . . . HE HAS HIS TRUCK HOOD UP, AND IS ACTING LIKE HE NEEDS ARE RIDE TO GET SOMEONE TO HELP WITH THE TRUCK REPAIRS . . . NORMALLY, SHE WOULD NOT STOP, BUT, DUE TO THE FACT THAT SHE WAS SO CLOSE TO HOME, SHE PROBABLY DIDN'T THINK ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN! (6) THE DR. GRABS THE WOMAN, AND TURNS HER AROUND, AND HAND-CUFFS HER . . . EX-WIFE, GETS OUT OF THE TRUCK AND STARTS TO WRAP PLASTIC WRAP AROUND HER HEAD, SO SHE CAN'T BREATH . . . WHILE THE DR. AND HIS WIFE ARE TRYING TO GET THINGS READY THE WOMAN, BREAKS FREE, AND RUNS . . . THE COUPLE JUMP BACK IN HER CAR AND TAKE OFF AFTER HER, CHASING HER LIKE A WILD ANIMAL, SHOOTING A RIFLE AT HER AS SHE RUNS, TERRIFIED AND SCREAMING FOR HELP THROUGH THE FOREST! (6) EVENTUALLY, SHE FALLS, AND THE COUPLE GETS HER AND TAKES HER TO THE EDGE OF A LAKE, AND, THE WOMAN'S STORY IS, THAT SHE JUST COULDN'T SHOOT THE NEW WIFE, SO THE DR. GRABBED THE GUN AND PUMPED, THREE SHOTS INTO HER BODY AS IT FELL INTO THE LAKE JUST OFF THE SHORE! (7) BUT WHEN THE DEVASTATED, NEW HUSBAND AND EX-HUSBAND IS QUESTIONED BY COPS, AS IS THE CASE WITH ALL, DEATHS OF SPOUSES, AND AFTER THE EX-WIFE, SAID THEY HAD BEEN HAVING SEX, THE COPS ARE SUSPICIOUS OF THE HUSBAND--IS HE IN ON THE KILLING TOO? HE TELLS THE COPS, HE WAS NOT HAVING AN AFFAIR WITH HIS EX-WIFE! (8) THE COPS RE-EXAMINE THE EVIDENCE: (A) A DEAD BODY; (B) SHOT GUN SHELLS, BUT NO GUN; (C) A PAIR OF BROKEN GLASSES ARE SEEN AT THE CRIME SCENE . . . HERS! . . . NOW PREVIOUSLY, THE STORY GOES, THAT, THE DR. WAS ABUSIVE, BECAUSE, THE COPS, WHEN THEY SEARCHED THE DR.'S HOME, THEY FOUND A CAMERA, WITH PICTURES OF THE WIFE, WITH BOTH EYES BLACK AND BLUE, SO THEY FIGURED THE GOOD DR. WAS AN ABUSIVE HUSBAND, AT FIRST AND THE INSTIGATOR, DUE TO THE AFFAIR BETWEEN THE OLD SPOUSES! BUT AFTER THEY FOUND THE BROKEN GLASSES, THEY REALIZED THAT, THE BLACK EYES WERE DUE TO THE IMPACT OF THE SHOT GUN, BLAST HITTING THE WOMAN, IN THE EYE, ON THE KICKBACK! (D) THE CHARGES WERE THEN, REVERSED, MAKING THE EX-WIFE, THE KILLER, NOT THE DR., AND HIM, JUST AN ACCESSORY TO MURDER, WITH BOTH GOING TO PRISON FOR A LONG, LONG TIME! THE GREEN MONSTER OF JEALOUSY! STOP IT! YOU ARE WHERE YOU ARE! DEAL WITH IT. ARISTOLE WROTE AN ESSAY, AND I THINK IT IS WORTH NOTING--IT IS CALLED, "VIRTUE" . . HE, WISELY, SAYS, A MAN OR WOMAN'S LIFE CAN'T BE JUDGED, HAPPY OR UNHAPPY, UNTIL THE DAY THEY DIE! WHY? BECAUSE LIFE HAS ITS UPS AND DOWNS, ONE YEAR IS GOOD, ANOTHER YEAR HELL! WE MAY BE JEALOUS, WHICH NEVER DOES ANY GOOD, OF SOMEONE, AT ONE STAGE OF LIFE AND THEN, THEIR LIFE TURNS TO HELL, THE NEXT MINUTE! LIKE THE GOOD DR. THE ENVY OF ALL THE TOWN! HE HAD A MANSION, COLLECTOR CARS, AND COULD, GO AND DO ANYTHING HE WANTED TO DO! BUT A FREAK ACCIDENT, OR ONE HIS FAULT, TOOK HIS GIFTED AND SLENDID LIFE AWAY, LEAVING HIS HANDS, HIS TOOLS, TOO SHAKY TO DO SURGERY EVER AGAIN. LOOK AT THE TWO YOUNG MEN, IN THE DATING VIOLENCE DRAMAS AND CRIMES--THEY HAD IT ALL--WHO WANTS TO CHANGE PLACES WITH THEM NOW? YOU DON'T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT, BUT YOU ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU NEED! WE ARE HERE ON EARTH TO LEARN TO GROW, AND TO CHANGE! EVERYTHING IS NOT GOING TO GO OUR WAY, OR RARELY DOES! WE CAN CREATE SELF-INFLICTING WOUNDS, THROUGH STUPID MISTAKES OR JEALOUSIES--WE CAN LIVE HIGH RISK LIVES, OR WE CAN TRY TO PREVENT, STUPID SHIT, AND RISK, TO MORE CLOSELY GUARD THE LIVES, FAMILIES, AND FORTUNES WE HAVE! THERE ARE THREE BASICS YOU NEED TO BE HAPPY: (1) TIME; (2) ENOUGH MONEY FOR YOUR NEEDS; AND (3) HEALTH! ALL THESE THINGS CAME INTO PLAY IN THE COUPLES LIVES. A SPLIT SECOND, CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE, ENTIRELY! PROTECT YOURSELVES, THROUGH, TEACHING, TRAINING, INSURANCE, AND WHATEVER MEANS YOU CAN, TO MINIMIZE DISASTERS IN LIFE! SOMETIMES IT IS OUT OF OUR HANDS, AS IT IS IN MY CASE--I CONTROL WHATEVER I CAN, NEVER JEALOUS AND FIND JOY IN THE LIFE I HAVE, RIGHT NOW! I CAN'T THINK OF THE LOSSES, BECASUE THAT WILL DRIVE ME CRAZY. I AM WHERE I AM, AND SO ARE YOU . . . WE ALL DID THE BEST WE COULD WITH THE CARDS WE WERE DEALT! WE FOUND LOVE JUST WHERE WERE ARE! IF THESE THREE MURDERS OR TRUE CRIMES, DON'T HELP YOU, NOTHING WILL! LOL. JUST LAST NIGHT, AND, THIS MORNING, I FOUND SUCCESS, MEASURING MY LIFE BY NOT THE MONEY OR THE FAME OR THE POWER, BUT BY THE LAUGH LINES . . . MEET ME DOWN BELOW

HUEY LEWIS AND THE NEW RULES AT THE POV.

LOL.

THE HOMELESS CROWD IS WILD, CRAZY, COLORFUL, UNTAMED, LACK, RULES, AND OFTEN ARE PISSED AT LIFE, AND CIRCUMSTANCES, SOME WITHIN THEIR CONTROL, AND SOME WITHOUT!  THERE ARE MANY VETS, MANY ABUSED, RAPED, OR ASSAULTED WOMEN, AND THEN, THERE IS THE REST OF US, WHO HAVE NO EXCUSE, BUT FOR SIMPLY, GOING TO WAR, AGAINST THE RIGHT OR WRONG PEOPLE, DEPENDING ON HOW YOU LOOK AT IT . . . VETS OF DOMESTIC WARS--I NEED A MEDAL OF HONOR!  POVERELLO--HOUSING OUR HEROES!  LOL.  THAT WOULD BE NICE.  ME AND A REAL VET, SITTING TOGETHER, LAST NIGHT, DOWNSTAIRS, AS THE NEW HOUSE RULES WERE POSTED AND LEWIS TRIED TO ENFORCE THEM--GIVING NOTICE AND A RIGHT TO COMPLAIN, BITCH AND MOAN, TO THOSE PRESENT, AS THE NEW RULES, TO THIS UNRULY CROWD, IS BEING TRIED AND TESTED, FOR THE FIRST TIME ON  THEM AND AS, LEWIS, PRETTY LAID BACK DUDE, IS TRYING TO ENFORCE FOR THE FIRST TIME, AS, MEN ARE DRAPED OVER THREE CHAIRS, ASLEEP, SNORING, WITH THE NEW RULES, SAYING THEY CAN ONLY HAVE TWO CHAIRS!  LOL.  GOOD LUCK.

AFTER POSTING, AND TELLING A FEW JOKERS, TO GET OFF THE FLOOR, THEY CAN NO LONGER, SIT OR LAY ON THE FLOOR, NO TAKE MORE THAN TWO CHAIRS TO SLEEP ON, HE IS STARTING TO GET RESISTANCE, ALREADY . . . COME ON, WE DON'T FOLLOW THE RULES!  LOL.  LEWIS, BLAMES SOMEONE FOR WRITING THE RULES, HE IS JUST DOING HIS JOB!  NEW SHERIFF IN THE POV.  SO THIS OLDER DUDE, COMES, WALKING OVER TO ME AND LARRY THE VET, AND HE SAID, HE BETTER READ THE NEW RULES, SO HE DOESN'T GET IN TROUBLE.

(1) RESPECT EVERYONE . . . WELL THAT ONE IS NOT GOING TO WORK, WE DON'T RESPECT ANYONE HERE!  LOL.  WE ARE STARTING TO LAUGH . . .

(2) BLAH, BLAH, BLAH . . . HE COMES UP WITH SOME SMART ASS COMMENT ON THAT ONE TOO--CAN'T REMEMBER THEM, BUT SO TYPICAL

(3) WITH EVERY RULE, THE DUDE DISMISSES THEM!  WITH SOME REALLY FUNNY STATEMENT ABOUT THE STATE OF THE POVERELLO OR AFFAIRS AS WE ALL KNOW THEM!

LOL.

THE DUDE WHO WAS SITTING ON THE FLOOR, YOUNGER, LAID BACK, GUY, SIMPLY, GETS OFF THE CHAIR, THAT LEWIS HAS JUST MADE HIM SIT IN, AND HE SIMPLY REMOVES THE LIST OF 6 RULES FROM THE WALL!

I CALL HER THE SHERIFF . . . THE MEN CALL HER THE DRAGON LADY . . . BUT ON, THANKSGIVING, CHRISTIE, THE ENFORCER, CAME BACK FROM HER DESK JOB TO HELP WORK THAT DAY . . . AS SHE CAME IN, THE WAY WAS ARE ALL ACCUSTOMED TO HER, BARKING ORDERS AND ENFORCING THE RULES, WHAT THERE ARE LEFT, ONE OF  THE NEW STAFF, SUMMER, I THINK, CAME IN THE DINING AREA AND SAID: "GOOD, CHRISTIE IS BACK, NOW MAYBE SOMEONE CAN ENFORCE THE SOMETHING AROUND HERE!"  LOL.  SHE IS APPRECIATED BY THE LAW ABIDING AND THE REST?  SOMEONE SAID THE REASON WE ARE HOMELESS IS WE ALL HATE RULES!

SERIOUSLY, THIS PLACE IS SOMETIMES, TOTALLY FUN!  I WAS PROUD THAT, THE POV. LEADERSHIP WAS AT LEAST TRYING TO USE "DUE PROCESS" BY PUTTING EVERYONE ON NOTICE, BEFORE THEY GOT KICKED OUT FOR THE NIGHT OR 86'D FOREVER!

TO INDIAN CHICK LATER LAST NIGHT--WHERE'S HUBBY?  HE IS CAMPING OUT BY THE RIVER--HE PREFERS TO SLEEP THERE!  LOL.  HE IS WITH HIS BROTHER, AND THEY WILL SING HALF THE NIGHT AWAY, AND THEY HAVE HAD A BIT TO DRINK!  MAKES SENSE . . . TRY THE RULES ON THE NATIVES!  LOL.

KEVIN, HOMELESS FOR 14 YEARS, LIVING ON SSI, OF $750 PER MONTH . . . COMMENTS ON "LOW INCOME HOUSING" OR THE MORE "PALPABLE" TERM OF "AFFORDABLE HOUSING!"

KEVIN, WANTED TO LIVE IN SEATTLE WHERE I JUST CAME FROM.  HE SAID HE STOPPED BY SOME, WASHINGTON HOUSING, SAW THE "HUD" SIGN, AND OTHER SIGNS ON THE DOOR, THAT SUGGESTED, THIS WAS THE RIGHT PLACE FOR HIM TO COME GO GET HOUSING.

THE DUDE INSIDE, WAS DRESSED TO THE 9'S!  DRESS SHIRT, TIE, NICE SLACKS AND EXPENSIVE SHOES . . . HE TAKES ONE LOOK AT KEVIN, AND SEES, IS BACKPACK, HIS BEANIE CAP, AND VARIOUS OTHER SIGNS OF POSSIBLE HOMELESSNESS, AND SAYS, THIS IS NOT THE RIGHT PLACE FOR YOU!  LOL.  NOT LOL.  I WAS JUST CRACKING UP, BECAUSE, I KNOW SEATTLE MARKET!

KEVIN IS SOMEWHAT OFFENDED, AND TELLS THE GUY, THIS IS SUPPOSE TO BE "LOW INCOME HOUSING!"  NOW TELL ME, WHAT, THE LOWEST RENT YOU HAVE, ON YOUR LIST IS, AND I WILL DECIDE IF I CAN AFFORD IT OR NOT!

$1500 PER MONTH!

WHAT THE FUCK?  THAT IS NOT "LOW INCOME HOUSING!"

I KNOW THE FEELING--I LOVE THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF GREENWOOD, ABOUT 15 MINUTES OUTSIDE OF DOWNTOWN SEATTLE . . . ONE MORNING I SAW A SIGN ON A LANDON APARTMENTS, IN GREENWOOD, PERFECT, THIS IS AN OLDER BUILDING, RIGHT ON THE PARADE ROUTE, NEAR STORES, COFFEE SHOPS, ETC.  I AM LOOKING AT A STUDIO.

$1300 PER MONTH!  WHAT THE FUCK?  LOL.  THAT IS MORE THAN I LIVE ON EACH MONTH!

THEN KEVIN GOES ON TO TALK ABOUT, "WAGE EQUALITY" . . . SO, HE IS ALL EXCITED, TO HEAR THAT SEATTLE AND OREGON, BOTH LIBERAL STATES, ARE ADOPTING A "LIVING WAGE" FOR WORKERS, OF $15.00 PER HOUR.  GREAT . . . BUT THERE IS A CATCH . . . THIS IS ON AN ADJUSTABLE THREE YEAR PERIOD!  SO BY THE TIME WORKERS GET THE EXTRA DOUGH, INFLATION AND RENTS HAVE GONE UP ENOUGH, THAT, THE NEW "MINIMUM WAGE" IS NO LONGER SUFFICIENT FOR JACK SHIT!

I WON'T TELL YOU THE REST OF WHAT HE SAID, BUT HE TOLD ME TO GO, LOOK UP, THE DEFINITION OF "AFFORDABLE HOUSING" OR JUST THE WORD, "AFFORDABLE" . . . SOMETHING ONE CAN AFFORD!

SEATTLE GROWING PAINS . . . HEAD TAXES, AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING!

NEW HIGH TECHIES, ARE RUNNING MIDDLE CLASS FAMILIES OUT OF TOWN, TO LESS CONVENIENT CITIES!

LIFE IS NOT OVER UNTIL IT IS OVER!

FROM THE WISDOM OF ONE OF THE HOMELESS DUDES . . . "WHEN YOU THINK OF IT, THE ONLY THING WE REALLY HAVE TO DO--IS DIE!"

I GUESS THAT ABOUT SUMS IT UP!

KEVIN 14 YEARS, NICEST GUY YOU EVER WANT TO MEET!  6 YEARS FOR ME . . . THE AVERAGE AGE OF DEATH ON THE STREETS, IS BETWEEN 35 AND 45!

LAST NIGHT, AS WE, ALL WAITED OUT IN THE COLD FOR 45 MINUTES TO AN HOUR, SOME DUDE NEXT TO ME, SAID, I HAVE BEEN ALL OVER HIS COUNTRY TO HOMELESS SHELTERS AND THIS IS THE WORST ONE YET!  BECAUSE OF THE COLD AND STANDING FOR 45 MINUTES.

THEN, THIS MORNING, KEVIN, WHO GOES BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN PORTLAND AND MISSOULA, WORKING HERE AND THERE, SAID, IF THE HOMELESS IN SEATTLE OR PORTLAND COULD SEE THIS PLACE, THE POVERELLO, THEY WOULD THINK, WE HAVE TOTAL LUXURY . . . THEY ARE IN RAT AND BUG INFESTED OLDER HOMES WITH MARGINAL FOOD.

WE ARE WHERE WE ARE.

SMILE AND CRY.