EGYPT on my Mind...

I am here in Texas counting the days until my trip to Egypt. I will be returning the second week of October and will be joined that first week by my brother Carson. I am so excited to show him a place that is so dear to my heart. I have wanted to take him there for so long and now finally the opportunity is coming alive!
Hopefully he will also have the opportunity to go with me to Austria as well, but that is to be decided.

I also bought plane tickets today and that seems to make something inside of me just spring to life... like the thought of TRAVEL!

Passion

So many times I feel "strongly" about a certain thing. I feel as though in some way or another, that I am connected to this feeling. For so many years I have been "Passionate" about certain things, clinging to them as a leaf holds to a tree. Though the leaf may be only a small part of the big picture (and it is blown about with any disturbance in the air), the tree would not be complete without it. Just as the tree, this world would not be complete without each of us (people) doing that which we feel is our part to do.

What is passion? Wikipedia's definition is that "Passion is the emotion of feeling very strongly about a subject or person." I would agree that this is a true statement and affects each and every one of us in some way or another. But the tragedy is that some never follow their "passion," they follow life looking for money or material possessions and those never carry over into anything except the want for more. Why is it that we do not do what we like, love what we do, and want what we love? Would this world be a little more pleasant if everyone would follow their passion? Would their be those who are hungry, cold, or sick? If we all were happy from day to day, how much more would we be willing to do for our neighbor?

What is your Passion?

Here in Texas...

"You know you are sitting on the richest acre in the world" Ron said as we drink coffee... I say "what do you mean" me here in this little town of rural east Texas, "I am sitting where more oil has been pumped from any single acre in the world." Ron tells me later that at one time there were 28 pumpers on this one acre during the Korea and Vietnam...producing 80 million barrels of oil per month...

Just think I come to Texas to speak about what is going on around the rest of the world and I get a great history lesson about the very place that I am visiting... There is always something to learn...