Finding Focus

                     “It is not your obligation to complete the task (of perfecting the world) but neither are you free to desist from doing all you can.” This quote comes from a collection of ancient Hebrew writings entitled Pirkei Avot. The English translation is “Ethics of the Fathers”.  So, with this thought in mind, I am starting a blog in this obscure corner of the internet.  It is not so much because I think I am particularly important, or that I have any especially meaningful information to share. In fact, to the contrary. I am just a person, a little different, but not so very, from anyone else. I live in Staten Island New York, in a hundred-year-old home. I haven’t kept it up so well, but it’s warm in the winter, and even warmer in the summer. It has an old wood burning stove in the kitchen and a painted pine picnic table in the dining room. I have an estranged wife and three delightful children. Most have moved on for now, but my youngest daughter Siobhan still lives home.

                       Somewhere along the way I picked up three dogs, two cats, seven chickens and a little squirrel named Annunziatta all of whom I have become rather attached too. Annunziatta died last year. It was heart breaking for me.   I survived little Nunzi’s passing and I am grateful for the time we had together. She was a gift to me from God or the Universe, whichever you choose to call it.

                       I am attempting to bring focus to my page before inviting guests to my Blog. The only way I can see to do this is by continuously writing and see where my writing takes me. I have some stories that written earlier that I might repost., just because they were things that I consider important events in my life but I can’t really see that anyone would be interested in knowing that much about me. I would prefer to direct my blog more towards a specific subject than to just chat about myself. At the moment I am prewriting my next post on Microsoft word. This seems to be working. I just got an email that one person, my friend sue from Yoga is now following my blog. Thank you, Sue. You are wonderful. I remember meeting you and that you are a beautiful French woman and you vacation in Ischia. The Isle where My dad was born. So I am going to continue writing and posting and hopefully my direction will become clearer as I go on.

                      To anyone following , Please feel free to comment on any issue you might be interested in talking about.