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Tag: quoteIt is the creation of humor and the need for those to spread it that truly enlightens us all. I believe that when we can laugh at anything and everything we can not only come together unexpectedly but also dispel the very worst and darkest parts of our greatest ideas and desires to make the world what we think it should be. -JK
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Going forward, sometimes, about the best you can do is hit a challenge head on and hold on tight. There are no nice parts, it’s just hard. Its important, though, not to give up; on your options, the total realm of possibilities and the things that matter more than the circumstances. Its easy to declare war… it may even be necessary to fight one… but I’ve never been a part of one that wasn’t a mess or that didn’t have casualties. The former you can usually cleanup, the latter you just lose. -J. Keys
The hardship of our past, the fine wine of our lives…
By J. Keys
Today: The hardship of our past always seems so long ago when it was really just around the last bend; just as the challenges in our future and our hopes to make it another year, stronger, are indeed around the next. -JK
Originally Posted on March 15, 2008: “You know I really enjoy going back over so many of these words I’ve written; particularly my creative writing. Yeah, I know, it sounds like I’m tooting my own horn but I’m not. I read these things… these poems, stories and thoughts and they bring me back; not to the past but to who I really am and get so lost from (seemingly more and more). I think this kind of thing defines the fine wine of our lives. Those memories and reminders that always last and continue to call us, making and keeping us… for the better (As “Slide by the Goo Goo Dolls finishes in the background and “Dig” by Incubus begins) -JK
It can often be difficult to know, in any tense, a passionate person. Their delight in challenge, both to themselves and others, can easily be misperceived as a threatening or argumentative gesture. But is in knowing others and knowing why that fuels their reasons and their ways. And it is within that passion that they draw out both the wicked and the willing… and are never unclear… about either. -J. Keys
I’ve known Patti for almost 14 year now and although I’ve never known her to be anything less than a razor sharp professional, it is the heart she puts into everything that underlies every single good thing that she is and does. So much of life can be war and I only go to war with those I can rely on and trust. Patti has always been there and I’ve always counted her there. That’s her style and way, all the way. – J. Keys (Me)
It is an almost invisibly thin line between pragmatism and faith, though most either disagree or don’t understand this. A cliche is often uttered that “it takes a thief to catch a thief”…but the truth of the matter is that life, action and survival takes knowing the extreme and opposite of anything to understand it, defeat it or to elevate beyond it. Good, bad, light, dark… sides of the same coin in which the point, divided by an almost invisibly thin line, is so often missed. – J. Keys (Me)
Belief is all important. It is a sense and system employed outside of circumstance and beyond the finite nature of what we think we know and only see in front of us. It allows us to go places and accomplish tasks that our feet and hands cannot. It is a fundamental precept that gives birth to two of the greatest elements of our humanity; faith and hope. Without belief our lives may be filled with many things but those sames lives will never be truly full. -J. Keys
“You know all we have in the end is hindsight. The problem is we never use enough foresight to begin with which is what makes looking back so bad. People start pointing fingers, ‘should have, would have, could have’ done this or that. But the greatest problem isn’t what we should have done or what even went wrong –it’s what we must do next without screwing up all over again.”
-J. Keys