How many of us have come across an old bridge on our journey in life and saw all of the broken and open areas and wondered if it would be safe enough to cross, if we could just pick our way through the bad areas?

It has been a couple of months since I last posted. My wife and I were out dancing and I was taken down by a heart attack. The Good Lord was on my side and we were rushed to Mayo Clinic. They and the folks from Rural Metro Medical Transport did a great job.

The best way to succeed is to find what you like, find what your good at and then practice the basics until they are second nature to you. Take what the good Lord gave you and build on it. We should never bury our "Talents", the bible says to multiply our Talents not to bury them.

There are moments in all of our lives when we need to lift our heads up, look around and decide to stop the world as we know it and breath. When is the last time you took a half hour to go to your favorite spot to watch the sun set. Better yet, when is the last time you went looking for a new place to add to your lists of quiet moments.

Wind, you may spend half your time thanking the good Lord for it and the other half of your time cussing it. Without the Windmill, it is a question of if the West ever would have been won. Water is the one thing that needed to be harnessed in order for the people, stock and crops to survive.

Sometimes life spins and kicks and bucks and we find ourselves upside down to the world, the good thing as just like this rider, most of the time after the ride has knocked us to the ground and sometimes given us a kink in the neck, as Americans, we still need to get up and knock the dust off of ourselves.