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I’ve been thinking about our fortune,
And I’ve decided that we’re really not to blame
For the love that’s deep inside us now is still the same.
Listen to the tide slowly turning,
Wash all our heartaches away.
We are part of the fire that is burning,
And from the ashes we can build another day.
“You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink,"
is an old saying that is not exactly
true,
because anybody that's ever been
around horses
would know if the horse didn't
want to go to water-
I have been asked why do I like horses. Look into one's eyes.
There you will see generations of
horses who have served the humans
for thousands of
years faithfully for nothing in return.
Beaten horses, starved hoses, horses
who no longer possess a spirit.
They deserve to be loved and respected
as much as humanly possible.
The Crossans - Hellraisers of Castlemilk
- excerpts
1900 Dublin -
The Storms of Fate
The
early 1900s was a period of tumult for Ireland.
The nationalist movement was gaining momentum backed by the guerilla warfare tactics of the newly-formed I.R.A.
Strength,
toughness, and street smarts were useful to the Irish rebel leaders, including the renowned real-life rebel, Michael Collins.
And
there in their midst was a young lad from Glasgow, James Crossan, about to be swept up by those storms of fate…
1914-Scotland
Hellraiser
- "Paddy" Patrick Crossan
World
War I - Sir George McCrae's Battalion or "McCrae's Own" or, locally, as Hearts Battalion". The entire Heart of Midlothian first team joined up in November 1914. Hearts were top of the Scottish Football League at
the time.
"No
club sacrificed more in the First World War than Heart of Midlothian. Sixteen players from the club joined up, most of them enlisting
in the 16th Battalion of Royal Scots, the oldest infantry regiment in the army and nicknamed 'Pontius Pilate's Bodyguard'.
Seven
members of the first team were killed in action. The battalion suffered 229 casualties on the first day of the battle of the
Somme with another 347 wounded. That the 16th Royal Scots made greater inroads into the German
line than any other battalion that day seems a paltry consolation.
Crossan
was gassed and never recovered his health before his death in 1933. They had
put themselves into a position of winning the league title, yet many were asking why play football when your countrymen are dying a few miles away just over the channel?"
1941
- Clydebank, Glasgow
Scotland
Rosemary
Crossan
World War 2- On March 13, 1941, Clydebank was attacked by over 200 German bombers (Luftwaffe). As the bombs dropped, all hell broke loose…the planes kept coming and the whistling
of the bombs unending. Rosemary was too numb to believe what she was seeing and
experiencing. Her thoughts kept asking, "where are they, my mother and father,
my brothers, are they alive or dead?" The night was about to get worse as wave after wave of bombers flew overhead…
1968 – Vietnam
Hellraiser - Ronald Crossan
Did Ronnie want to go to Vietnam?
Hell no! Drafted!
He was nailed at the Canadian border.
He was given three choices and Vietnam
was his best bet.
He survived Vietnam
with an honorable discharge;
however his hellraising past caught up with him.
He was dead before he reached his 26th birthday.
1986 - Los Angeles - My brother
Each day the voices were growing louder...
He threw himself at the oncoming car with such force
that his body smashed into the windshield
and bounced down the highway like a ragdoll...
Our hellraising ways
always manages to come back and
bite us in the ASS!
Student: Sir, you said you must change the world.
How can you change it, sir?
Krishnamurti:
What is the world?
The world is where you live - your family, your friends, your neighbours.
And your family, your friends, your neighbours can be extended
and that is the world.
Now, you are the centre of that world.
That is the world you live in.
Now how will you change the world?
By changing yourself.
Jiddu
Krishnamurti
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See you all in Heaven
One day.
Although, a few of you,
I’m not too sure about.
You were, after all,
Hellraisers.
Given the many times
I have cursed God,
I might be joining you!
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A FEW WEE JOKES BEFORE
YOU GO:
Three guys, ENGLISH-IRISH-SCOT,
are walking along the beach,
and come across a lantern and
a Genie pops out of it.
"I give you each one wish," says the Genie.
The IRISH GUY says,
"I’m a fisherman, Dad's a fisherman,
his Dad was a fisherman
and my son will be one too. I want all the oceans
full of fish for all eternity."
So, with a blink of the Genie's eye "AlKaZoom"
the oceans were teaming with fish.
The ENGLISH GUY was amazed, so he said,
"I want a wall around England,
protecting her, so nothing will get in for all eternity.
With a blink of the Genie's
eye "AlkaZoom"
there was a huge wall around England.
The SCOT asks,
"I'm very curious.
Please tell me more about this wall."
The Genie explains, "Well, it's 150 feet high,
50 feet thick,
protecting England
so that nothing can get in or out."
The SCOT says, "ACH, fill it up with WATER.
"This is one
race of people for whom
psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever."
Sigmund Freud (about the Irish)
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Having a BAD day,
are you?
This seems to work
for me!
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ABOUT
YESTERDAY
WITH
ME AND THE MISSUS …
HER POV
I thought he was acting weird.
We had
made plans to meet at a pub to have a drink.
I was
shopping with my friends all day long,
so I
thought he was upset at the fact that I was a bit late,
but he
made no comment.
Conversation
wasn't flowing so I suggested that
we go
somewhere quiet so we could talk.
He agreed
but he kept quiet and absent.
I asked
him what was wrong; he said nothing.
I asked
him if it was my fault that he was upset.
He said
it had nothing to do with me and not to worry.
On the
way home I told him that I loved him,
he simply
smiled & kept driving.
I can't explain his behavior.
I don't
know why he didn't say I love you too.
When
we got home I felt as if I had lost him,
as if
he wanted nothing to do with me anymore.
He just
sat there and watched T.V.
He seemed
distant and absent.
Finally,
I decided to go to bed.
About
10 minutes later he came to bed,
and to
my surprise he responded to my caress
and we
made love,
but I still felt that he was distracted
&
his thoughts were somewhere else.
He
fell asleep - I cried. I don't know what to do.
I'm almost
sure that his thoughts are with someone else.
My life
is a disaster.
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Trials Keep You Strong,
Sorrows Keep You Human,
Success Keeps You Glowing,
But Only God Keeps You Going!
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You must be the sun
Only you can light my world with a smile,
And while you're gone
the angels cry with me
Even they agree
Only you can chase the clouds away…
You are like a star
Only you can make my one wish come true.
If only I could share
my life with you
I'd be in heaven, too
Only you can chase the clouds away …
With you the sun will always shine.
Life would be just fine
With
you love, my wildest dreams will come true.
Tomorrow's far away,
Tonight my heart sure would like the chance
To
ask your heart and soul if they would care to dance.
Then you and I will ride the wind
Turning on the moon as we pass him by.
And long before the children
question why
The sun's not in the sky,
You and I will chase the clouds away …
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