Life is good if you take responsibility.

It is hard to believe that this year I will turn 65 and Joy 61. We have been married for 41 years and in our home on Earls Ct for 31 years. We have 6 Children and 14 grand children, two daughter-in-laws and 4 son-in-laws not to mention the one grand child on the way.

When Joy and I meet on New Years Eve I was 23 and she was 19 years old. We were so dumb and young. What did we know? Now that I know I don’t know much it really doesn’t help. We did feel we had control of our lives and could get out of this life what we wanted.

I can tell you that you don’t have a lot of control over others, including your family once they are out of the house. We hope for so much for the families we love and have to realize that God has his own plan and the only thing we can do is try to do what is right.

Our world right now is so backwards. Having been raised on the capitalistic and responsibility program, I really don’t understand bail-outs, since they seem only to help a certain part of the country and not the people that really need it. The only part that we will all share in is the cost.

Real estate is California is a mess. People who don’t have a clue are deciding what should be done. In-experience is the problem with the REO and short sale system. Decisions are made based on the company layout not on what would be the best for the beneficiary, country and loan company. It makes me sick to see such incompetence when decisions are made that have no common sense attached. That is what happens when the one making the decision will not suffer the consequences that will result.

Let me give you a clue, control you own assists, don’t let someone else do it for you. You can have a great deal of trust in someone and then they because they have the power will make a decision based on their desires not yours. I could not be more serious! Some one in power needs to have inspiration and a real desire to serve. Rewards are good only if consequences are also there.

When you hear someone blame someone else you know they are looking for a way out of the circumstances they are in, without taking any responsibility. This is an absolute truth! So if you hire someone to do a job and they start to blame others realize they are failing and don’t have a plan that they are confident will work.

Is this so hard to see? Just look!

I love this country and I am so glad my children were raised here. I hope it will not change so much that they will not see and feel the rewards that come with hard work and honesty. I also know experiencing and taking responsibility for ones acts helps us to learn and be better people.

Dad