e3 : “entertainment, epistemology, empowerment.”

My Buddy : “BAM~BAM” has challenged me to a:
Body Composition + Fitness Competition

We’ve taken STATS and BEFORE PICTURES~

Example A:

We’ve finalized the Specific and Measureable Rules~ with the Ceremony Dinner being on:
December 1st 2006.
Mark that date on yer Calander, kids!!!

The Winner gets:
a) Dinner for Two with the “2nd place” Couple prepared by Chef Howie

[formerly my Executive Chef @Palisades]
December 1st Awards Dinner to be held at:

b) A Big Bouquet of Flowers for his girlfriend
c) A Marquis Crystal Vase (aka The Stanely Cup)
d) A commemorative Award Plaque
with Hand Calligraphied RESULTS final Stats
e) A beautiful Rose Wood Before/After Picture Frame

f) And the absolute braggin’ rights to say he kicked the Other’s ass!!!

Nice.

Oh, and also the gift of Increased Cardio Vascular Health & Fitness, yaddah~yaddah~yaddah…

More Prizes to be announced as the Stakes get Higher!

The “loser” gets, ironiclly the exact same meal experience for he and his girlie @ SeaSTAR….

But picks up the Tab and Tip!!!

It’s a 3 part Contest:
Overall Body Composition %
Overall Cardio Improvement
and
The 5~Judges Assestment

Should be a Blast! Competition should be tough!

Place yer BETS~
and Stay tuned as I post ongoing Results!

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If Tomorrow Never Comes
Written by: Kent Blazy, Garth Brooks

Sometimes late at night
I lie awake and watch her sleeping
She’s lost in peaceful dreams
So I turn out the lights and lay there in the dark
And the thought crosses my mind
If I never wake up in the morning
Would she ever doubt the way I feel
About her in my heart

If tomorrow never comes
Will she know how much I loved her
Did I try in every way to show her every day
That she’s my only one
And if my time on earth were through
And she must face the world without me
Is the love I gave her in the past
Gonna be enough to last
If tomorrow never comes

‘Cause I’ve lost loved ones in my life
Who never knew how much I loved them
Now I live with the regret
That my true feelings for them never were revealed

So I made a promise to myself
To say each day how much she means to me
And avoid that circumstance
Where there’s no second chance to tell her how I feel

If tomorrow never comes
Will she know how much I loved her
Did I try in every way to show her every day
That

she’s my only one

And if my time on earth were through
And she must face the world without me
Is the love I gave her in the past
Gonna be enough to last
If tomorrow never comes

So tell that someone that you love
Just what you’re thinking of
If tomorrow never comes

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Our Deepest Fear

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It’s not just in some of us;
it’s in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

~Nelson Mandela - From his 1994 Inagural Speech

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“What One great thing
would U dare to dream~
if U knew U could NOT fail?”

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the hardest part about u leaving?
is that the love didn’t stop.

for awhile it even magnified…
and sustained that magnification!

this feelings i was experiencing was so BIG,
it was so scary then.

the feelings i had,
had grown beyond me~

My heart had opened so fully…

what remained when u left,
was such a Magnificently, Remarkably Big thing.

where does One get the Resources?

what does One to do with “Unexpressed Love”?

***

“Sometimes i get to feeling
i was back in the “old” days…
long ago~

when we were “kids”
when we were “young”
things seemed so perfect
~u know…

the days were endless
we were krazy; we were young~
the sun was always shinin’
we just lived fun.

Sometimes it seems like lately-
[i just don't know~]
the rest of my life
seems
just a “show”.

Those were the days of our Lives.

The bad things in life were so few.

Those days are all gone now,
but,

When i look~
and i find~
I still love U.”

These are the Days of our Lives.

They flow in the swiftness of Time.

Those days are all gone now…
but
somethings remain:

When i look?
and i find…

no change.

Those were the days of Our Lives.
The bad things in life were so few…

Those days are all gone
now
but one things still
true:
when i look~
i still find:

“I Still Love U.”

~ f r e d d y m e r c u r y

***

At 12:18am on July 30th 2006 it happened~ almost 3 years to the date.

The love (finally!) transformed.

No,

I transformed!!

i just needed to be still ~ proccess.
thank God i have the forum 2 do that here, now.

Oh, i still love u.

i love that u have found ur hearts happiness. sincerly.

i am happy that u have expressed love and let go.

i see that u are fullfilling ur destiny now.
~u could not have reach that point fromwhere we stood could u?

perhaps U and i are not so diffrently afterall*

yeah, i still love u. always will.
i love u. i love me.

i am at peace, now, too.

~

thank u for being a butterfly in my life~
who came
showed me things wonderful and new
and brought
a truly
unique
beauty
so big.

i forgive u.
i still love u.
truly.

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2 years out of high school,
in september of 1986~
one of my first jobs was working up in Canada aboard:

Y a t c h t _ O l y m p u s

click the pic to take a peek!*

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For that one,
brief,
moment in time ~ I saw love…

The sun
rose….

the sun
set….

all the stars and the moon~
a baby’s first breathe…

All in just that One Moment.

All at one time
in her loving eyes.

It was in that moment
that i realized
that i
was not
the centre of the universe.

That Moment love shows herself….
the moment love reveals herself 2 U

invites U 2 play…. and come dance with her~

when she wraps U in her amazing arms, and kisses Ur cheek~
u will be awestruck!

For she is truly: A m a z i n g .

For that is what love is.
That is who she is.

And that is the Nature of her way.

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i love the tenderness
of a woman
when she is loved~

the tenderness
in her eyes…
and the sweetness of her gentle breath~

and her soft moans,
….when she is content.

~truly the greatest reward a man can attain~

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The love u “miss’?

the love u love?

It is not the love that u got from her.

The love U miss and the love U love:

is the love u gave 2 her

.

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N a m a s t e :

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Terry Fox was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and raised in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, a community near Vancouver on Canada’s west coast. An active teenager involved in many sports, Terry was only 18 years old when he was diagnosed with osteogenic sarcoma (bone cancer) and forced to have his right leg amputated 15 centimetres (six inches) above the knee in 1977.

While in hospital, Terry was so overcome by the suffering of other cancer patients,
many of them young children,
that he decided to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research.

He would call his journey: The Marathon of Hope

After 18 months and running over 5,000 kilometres (3,107 miles) to prepare,
Terry started his run in St. John’s, Newfoundland on April 12, 1980 with little fanfare.
Although it was difficult to garner attention in the beginning,
enthusiasm soon grew,
and the money collected along his route began to mount.

He ran 42 kilometres26.2 miles a day!!!!
through Canada’s Atlantic provinces, Quebec and Ontario.

It was a journey that Canadians never forgot.

However, on September 1st, after 143 days and 5,373 kilometres (3,339 miles), Terry was forced to stop running outside of Thunder Bay, Ontario
because cancer had appeared in his lungs.

An entire nation was stunned and saddened.

Terry passed away on June 28, 1981 at age 22.

The heroic Canadian was gone, but his legacy was just beginning.

To date, more than $400 million has been raised worldwide for cancer research
in Terry’s name through the annual Terry Fox Run, held across Canada and around the world.

Race Results
Terry Fox Run
Oct. 3, 1999
Seattle, WA
5 miles #221 JASON RAPINAN 33 M SEATTLE WA 42:12 total time 8:27@ Mile

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In buffing up my resume [and my physique] for my december return to fitness~
I came across some pretty neat anchor awards that remind me “Who I Am” in the Game of Sales and Management:

Officially Recognized and congratulated for outstanding performance in Management:

All time company record in total revenue: $152,383 [may 2003]

PRECISION EXECUTION, baby!

#103 Memberships in one day on an Amazing ST Grand Opening will be a bit tough 2 beat~
but Let’s see what I can do this time around!

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Destiny

“Ur destiny is not a matter of chance,
it is a matter of CHOICE;
it is not a thing 2 b waited for,
it is a thing to be ACHIEVED.”

~william jennings bryan

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“2 Surrender is 2 cease 2 struggle.”

grace

love

closure

acceptance

love

“We are healed of a suffering….
only by experiencing it to the full.”

~ marcel proust

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“Try thinking of l o v e or something.”

-christopher fry

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~ anais nin

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“U gain Stregnth; Courage; and Confidence by every Experience
in which U really stop and look

F E A R

in the face”.

U are able 2 say :
” I lived through this Horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.”

“U must do the thing U think U cannot Do.”

~ eleanor roosevelt

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“Once accept Ur own death? All of a sudden Ur free to live.”

“U no longer care about Ur “reputation.”"

“U no longer care except so far as Ur life can be used tactically~
to promote a cause that Ur soul believes in.”

-saul alinsky

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The operative word: TH!NK

Positive thoughts yield positive results. [this includes abundance and riches]

~john roger & peter mc williams

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“Great Men are they who see that Spiritual
is stronger than any material force~
that Thoughts rule the World.”

-Emerson

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Being raised up in black churches…I’ve always been inspired by Gospel…
and Soul music too:

Born into hard times, in a hard part of the country
in less than friendly times for “her kind”~

U can feel it when she speaks or performs…

“I’m still Melody…. …and I’m still cool.”

mavis staples~ inspirational gospel singer
and
occassional vocal lead for:

~ under the Stage name of: “Ms. Melody Cool”

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