Danny's Doting(s)

  I am a reminiscent sort for sure. I have a wonderful life now, but I long for the speed, power, stamina, and fast healing of my youth. And the down to earth simplicity of it. I seem to have tapped out my Scottish resilience since my hernia surgery and am nowhere what I used to be and I miss it. The degradation and demise of my strength amounts to this: I used to pick up and carry a 150 pound tractor wheel weight in each hand when I was a young man wheeling and dealing tractors. Since my botched hernia surgery, lifting 100 pounds would probably put me on my back in bed with pain killers. It has also put a definite, do not cross this line limit on my eating habits. When we were very boisterous Scottish young lads on our side by side Queens Line farms, Tuesday night was movie night. The MacKay boys and I would take off excitedly for the new Ahnold blockbuster or some loser slapstick comedy. If it was the glorious summertime and a nice evening, we would pile into their beautiful red ...

  Love is very misunderstood by many people, but especially the young. This can be for anyone, but particularly for them. Most people know the saying, 'You can't buy love', but there's much more to it than that. You can't borrow or rent it, either.  Love is intangible and yet obvious and almost palatable when it is present.  The most important aspect of determining if love is present is if it is freely given . Love can be faked, but it is easy to separate the wheat from the chaff by the litmus test of whether it is unconditional . Love isn't shy. It isn't held back. It doesn't come at a cost. It doesn't have a 'best before' date stamped on it. Love is given with sincerity, with generosity, with enthusiasm, with joy, and even with abandon. If you have to beg for it, it most definitely is not love. If you have to pay a price of any sort for it, it is not love. If it can be turned off without an absolutely  major fault on your part, it is not lo...