Breathe deep in the gathering gloom
Watch lights fade from every room
Bedsitter people look back and lament
Anothers days useless energies spent
Impassioned lovers wrestle as one
Lonely man cries for love and has none
New mother picks up and suckles her son
Senior citizens wish they were young
Cold hearted orb that rules the night
Removes the colors from our sight
Red is gray and yellow white
And we decide which is right
And which is an illusion
This month started out pretty good. I signed up for a membership at a nearby fitness center for only $10 a month. My brother had a birthday and last month my mother had a birthday and it was my parents anniversary. I got a lot of work done around the house in putting in a new tile floor in the laundry and continuing to work around outside.
So, yes, you can say I have been productive and it makes you feel good to be able to do useful things.
In August the house next door was receiving new occupants after being empty for many months. They are really nice people and Bill is very outgoing. I have been helping them out with some things from unloading some boxes from a truck to working outside with Bill on his property which had been neglected over time.
Yep, things are shaping up…except for one big thing. I still have not found a job.
I also spoke with some lawyers last month (consultations aren’t free) about some unresolved issues related to prison that I have filed pro se in three different courts. It seems lawyers are a totally different breed and the law isn’t always just. One issue is that I was held in prison for two days longer than my sentence and nobody wants to take any responsibility. That doesn’t surprise you does it?
It was ironic that one of those telephone conversations with a lawyer came on a day when an issue on the TV show Friday Night Lights was about what is legal and what is reality. One of the main characters was talking with her lawyer and he told her, “There is the law, and there is life.”
Raise your hand if the law has frustrated you. Actually raise your hand if you have ever been frustrated by something you know is right but can’t prove or get anyone to recognize it, and if they did there was nothing you could do about it?
Things were pretty good until I spoke with the lawyers. That is where that day went to hell. The feeling of helplessness, unable to correct what needs corrected and unable to get others to follow the rules when that is expected of you. Yes, lawyers are a strange breed – no wonder they only seem to have lawyer friends. Well…I guess that’s an unfair generality, they are people too.
One lawyer listened and pretty much agreed I had a point with one issue and then said “Good luck proving it.” Another lawyer (same firm) listened, questioned me, came close to dismissing me and then said she would put it before the partners. The return call was basically that I am on my own.
I talk about golf a lot because it is part of my life. It is more than a game. There is a program call The First Tee that has nine Core values. They are Honesty, Integrity, Sportsmanship, Respect, Confidence, Responsibility, Perseverance, Courtesy and Judgment.
The First Tee is a program to teach underprivileged children about golf and life. Reading those Core values you can see how the two are interchanged. As we go through life we should think about the values we want to display and follow on our path. What does this have to do with lawyers? Nothing, they have their own values…in my opinion.
