When you wonder why more people didn't write about someone and you are writing about someone from another country. You soon realize the answer. Part of research is asking WHY?.

I had a gut feeling that the person I asked if she remembered me when I was little wouldn't. Only now do I remember she never really interacted with me. I just observed her and what she discussed being much older.

When I see events or activities that older people talked about long, long ago come to life, I realize how short time is and how small the world really is. How connected each one of us really are.

We can always change the way we treat each other and when we realize fully the impact of what we do to each other. The most difficult concept is how we try to control the earth and how unforgiving it can be because we can never control the elements fully. As many interconnecting chambers and plates of varying degrees can work alone or in one of many combinations of which we have no true concept of until it happens and then it is too late.

One of my grade school teachers asked how do we want to be remembered. I remember writing "That I cared". Nothing about being famous, richest person, actor, or some famous painter or athlete. Just that people remember that I cared.

I enjoyed seeing the long pen and the history lesson on former President Nixon by the moderator and the author.

Life is about living and learning each day ....and sometimes just mellowing out.

It just came to me when I was watching a video by Matchbox Twenty for "How far we've come". I never really thought about it. I bet lot of you have. If you look at the peace sign you'll notice the resemblance to the pendulum. The middle and the distance on either side of the middle is the balance of negative and positive or left wing, right wing.

Even though I grew up in the hippie times I never became part of it and never really looked at the sign. Just thought it was a symbolism of what our countries represented.

It is what we are striving for a balance to live with one another. The song sung by this young group see the earth is coming to an end and they'll just pretend to see how far we've gone.

We still have lots to do and the every person on this planet has a purpose no matter how small or how big to keep this planet going. We have to stop the destruction of putting holes in the earth and not refilling them. We have to replenish so that our kids, kids will have something to work with, not pretend that nothing is wrong but fix it try to hold the planet together.

There are possibilities when we work together, the young, middleaged and the old.

Have you ever had an experience where you see some one and feel that you met them before?

I recently picked up a book at the library and when I opened up the back cover I saw the photo of the man. I thought it was strange at first until I started reading the book.

The book is called "The Man Who Forgot How to Read" by Howard Engel. He tells his story of his stroke and how he had to relearn his favourite pasttime and what he did for a living. Reading and writing.

When he talked about his early years of writing he reminded me of a young man who came to the nursery school/daycare that was operated on the property of an orphange and tried to tell the story of Jack and the Beanstalk to all of us. Only when the strings got tangled did the kids notice his left hand and didn't want to help with untangling the puppets. He was very hurt and I tried to help him because he was a friend of my best friend's father and he made us laugh when he'd retell nursery rhymes using our names Charles and Trudy (ages 4).

He a few years later he performed at the parish hall for the brownies/girl guides and boy scouts and know one noticed his left hand because even though the marionettes got tangled once he masterly untangled them without stopping the performance.

I saw this person recently at a distance at the Word on the Street in Toronto near the ceremony for the firefighters.

So Is it Coincidence or just by chance?