Yes, I know its been 3 years....much has happened in that time but I'm back. I happened to open my blog yesterday and read some of the posts to my friend Kirstie in Easton, MD on the phone. I guess that is what prompted me to compose again.... I wrote "Keep Humanity Ever Flowing", this morning and posted it on FB and decided to post it here as well. Keep Humanity Ever Flowing.... Try not to mind it much if you feel lonely, alone or unloved, lost or empty....these are the very human emotions intricately necessary as a part of our living fuel to generate harmony among us and the humanity path to peace... Your not alone and never feel that way. Be reminded that this is the very threshold of us acting on reaching out loving , giving, sharing, helping and caring.... The only way to not feel lonely, and to feel loved, found and abundant is to keep on giving to those around you... Everyone is in need of a helping hand, a kind gesture and a smiling glance...love in many packages... The only way to receive love is to embrace it and make the effort to give it away....the happiest people are the most charitable..the most content people are those who deny themselves... So stop the waiting, the wailing, the internalizing and self pity...dry your tears as I must and go love someone who needs it as you do, maybe even less... Everyone has their volume of woe. Lets keep picking ourselves up to make time for people and slow down the habitual trail of busy achieving...its that very cycle that gets you to that lonely place...Reaching out saves you from its decline in spirit...and lifts you up. Your not alone and never feel that way. This is the path of humanity and peace... Luv Camilla 3.6.13

When everything seems to be going against you, remember the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. ~ Henry Ford

Henry Ford (1863-1947)
I will build a car for the great multitude.

Ford Quadricycle, Henry Ford 1896





I decided to honor Henry Ford this week. I admire his was of thinking. He brings much inspiration by the example of his life and how he followed his dream. His quotes are simple, to the point and easy to understand. He is clearly one of the great minds at the turn of the century.

Morning with Henry Ford week:
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. ~ Henry Ford

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ~ Henry Ford

Don't find fault, find a remedy. ~ Henry Ford

When everything seems to be going against you,
remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. ~ Henry Ford


Here is a little of Henry Ford's history :

In 1891, Ford became an engineer with the Edison Illuminating Company in Detroit. This event signified a conscious decision on Ford's part to dedicate his life to industrial pursuits. His promotion to Chief Engineer in 1893 gave him enough time and money to devote attention to his personal experiments on internal combustion engines.

These experiments culminated in 1896 with the completion of his own self-propelled vehicle-the Quadricycle. The Quadricycle had four wire wheels that looked like heavy bicycle wheels, was steered with a tiller like a boat, and had only two forward speeds with no reverse.

After two unsuccessful attempts to establish a company to manufacture automobiles, the Ford Motor Company was incorporated in 1903 with Henry Ford as vice-president and chief engineer. He proclaimed, "I will build a car for the great multitude."

Although Ford was not the first to build a self-propelled vehicle with a gasoline engine, he was, however, one of several automotive pioneers who helped this country become a nation of motorists.

In October 1908, he did so, offering the Model T for $950. In the Model T's nineteen years of production, its price dipped as low as $280. Nearly 15,500,000 were sold in the United States alone. The Model T heralds the beginning of the Motor Age; the car evolved from luxury item for the well-to-do to essential transportation for the ordinary man.

Today, help someone "secretly" - do a kind thing for someone anonymously. ~ Zig Ziglar

I am honoring ZIG ZIGLAR this week :
Here are some of his quotes....

Morning with Zig Ziglar week :

People often say that motivation doesn’t last.
Well, neither does bathing - that’s why we recommend it daily.
~ Zig Ziglar


Today, help someone "secretly" - do a kind thing for someone anonymously.
~ Zig Ziglar


It is amazing what a smile will do, it's a little curve that sets things straight.
~ Zig Ziglar


Little men with little minds & little imaginations go thru life in little
ruts,smugly resisting changes jarring their little worlds.
~ Zig Ziglar


So inspired as always by ZIGGY, ...its so important to dream big...think big..do things that make your world big..give big....to have a BIG life !!!!

I was talking to a business colleague on the phone today from Chicago. I distribute a great product of his...We discussed mistakes and failures and how some blunders can be bigger than others...He said " When you get hit...the bigger the hit the bigger the loss"..but I said to him after a brief pause..."But keep in mind the lesson learned will be Bigger and it will be harder to forget in the bigger picture of success !!!!! "

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat. ~ Nelson Mandela

Morning with Nelson Mandela week :

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
~ Nelson Mandela

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. ~ Nelson Mandela

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.
~ Nelson Mandela


Nelson Mandela never turned off the heat...
He was a man who got things done, followed through, kept his word no matter the cost and never strayed from his beliefs . These are attributes many do not possess. He willingly put others first, sacrificing his own life for the good of others, the good of humanity, the good of his country...He served for years in prison for his beliefs and then many years later as president. This is a life to read about. This is a life lived to inspire everyone...

A kindred soulmate found at the Buddha Bar in ChinaTown SF

I did a Jack Kerouac tribute a few weeks ago on FB and Twitter honoring him by posting Morning with Jack Kerouac week : June 14th - 20th, 2009.

Its not on this blog because I started this blog a week later. If you go to FB or Twitter and scroll back you'll find it...

In regard to Jack Kerouac......

Recently I met a Merchant Marine Seaman at the Buddha Bar in Chinatown, SF. I went with my friend JayBird. It was an unusually sunny late afternoon setting, having been a glorious day in SF. This guy we met was a poet sitting next to us at the bar and quoted some of his own works along with much of Jack Kerouac's....He had all of his works memorized..nothing recorded....on paper,or word doc, nothing published...

We were mesmerized by this new found author and his passion as he quoted to us from his very own private library of writings only to be found in his memory on a shelf tucked neatly in his mind. We were honored that he was so inspired to share with us...The sun started to set outside and the clamour of the streets settled a little...We still listened without distraction as he spoke... quoting himself in the dim light of the Buddha Bar as the city outside made its noises into the newly found nightfall, nothing disturbed each word we held onto until he paused before the next..


I recently reunited with a dear friend Kevman on FB. We had both spent many hours over a decade ago reading, writing and going to bookstores together studying and honoring the great writers..especially Jack Kerouac and the beat generation. This is what brought writing about Jack Kerouac and this Seaman at the Buddha Bar this morning...Anyway, Kevman, would have loved this poet. I'm sure they would have sat for hours quoting Keroac, Ferlinghetti. Ginsberg or Burrough's to name a few over a pint of brew.

The seaman discussed liking Kerouac better than any writer ever & made the Lowell pilgrimage. He knew ALL of Kerouac's works, his history and life, absolutely everything.....amazing.....kindred spirit.....soulmate. It made all that I knew about Kerouac miniature, dimming in comparison, silencing me to hold on to his every word. He had given much thought to his poetic justice and I was enhanced gratefully; exhilarated realizing that we found a treasure as our paths crossed today.

Then the brawny sailor, husky and thick, tattoed and scared...none the less a profound and gentle poet...his hat tipped to one side, was off to the vast Pacific once again, he had been in the SF port for only a few days which was long enough to give his sea legs respite. The Pacific princess would be calling him to return home to ponder the things he loved and record the world he knew, wave after wave his very own thoughts, enlightening his solitary life and he would once again recite vigilantly into the night, while holding onto the deck rail, to his audience,the wind and the starry celestial dome....while all the others on the ship were below the deck soundly sleeping.

Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished. ~ Nelson Mandela

These are the quotes chosen for today in honor of Nelson Mandela....


Morning with Nelson Mandela week : I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying. ~ Nelson Mandela


Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished. ~ Nelson Mandela

What is goodness anyway? Who is to judge what is good or bad and at what point does something or someone become good or bad? Who draws that line? Aren't we all capable of both intertwined with our daily struggles and contradictions as we seek to be true to ourselves? Is it not our individual discernment guided by our conscience or what we've learned or gathered through life's experience ? Do we really fit under one category. An Italian old priest Padre Ferme once said "Our soul is like brass, we need to polish it daily to see Christ's reflection in it" I may have been 17 years old when I first heard that but never ever forgot it and have shared it throughout my life many times.

The meaning of Guru is bringing one from darkness to light...enlightenment. Padre Ferme was one of the many Guru's in my life.

I have found though, " Those whose light shines brightly among others, because of their reflection of God's love can make others see brightly their own fault like any light and they may in turn want to diminish it....
It cannot be done...this light that shines brightly out to others, comes from within...sometimes achieved through trials and tribulations...or sacrifice ...Its a gift as light and love is from God....However you as an individual or congregation see God...as energy maybe, truth, simply one's conscience, a true devotion, service to others or a religion you find solace in... " People like Michael Jackson, Nelson Mandela and many other often misunderstood yet never allowing their light to be extinguished....

I've always been a free spirit...seeking light...my heart always sought to see the good in all mankind, everyone. It was especially a joy to see a sparkle in a soul that no one else could see, the lost cause type of person, the underdog...yet the glimpse of goodness could be so clear ....I think that was a gift from a higher place, and it always brought a silent secret smile to my face. Camilla

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. ~ Nelson Mandela

Back to Morning with Nelson Mandela week :

I got so caught up with MJ's memorial I didn't post Nelson Mandela's quotes for yesterday 7.7.2009 so here they are now..

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall. ~ nelson Mandela

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously
give other people permission to do the same. ~ Nelson Mandela

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. ~Nelson Mandela