Red Cross invites public to annual meeting Wednesday
The Colonial Crossroads Chapter will hold its annual meeting at 5 p.m. Wednesday, June 23, at the Summit Recreational Center, 100 Morris Ave.

We at times write down, think or say many things that have been said before, not remembering from where we have picked up such ideas. At times inspiration comes from that which we have seen or something or other that has been said, this being the catalyst that produces a chain of further thought which we then develop into a brand new product or completely different idea.

We know we are a force unto ourselves but we are made up of many bits and pieces of times past, that which are called our genes, unheard of by most ordinary people until recently but now a part of our daily converse. We can and many of us do go back down the line to find out from where we came, to have many surprises, good and not so good, sometimes finding that we are not really what we thought we were.

All this mix up is going on around us constantly, that of other people's thoughts and the past events of other lives which we hear of or read about. We talk frequently to what we may term strangers, those that we just happen upon, not staying in their company for very long but gaining maybe from them something we need to know. When two people meet, however briefly, neither of them is exactly the same person as they were before that meeting, something from each has had an effect, either slight or profound, upon the other.

We are influenced in life by many ways and views, this goes on from when we were very young, collecting our knowledge from one and another, either consciously or subliminally. We do pick up from all sorts of people in life's ways, some we like and others we do not care a great deal for. Sometimes we wonder to self why it is that we simply do not like a certain person, it can be that we and they do not mesh in the ways of giving off vibrations that we cannot see and are not aware of but they are there just the same. With other people we just know on first sight that we like them and will be happy in their company.

We can all learn from another person or from life itself, just by reading a book or a newspaper we are taking in what others are making of the situation they are writing about. If you do not feel happy with any one thing, reading or being told, put it upon one side because for that said time it will not be for you, at a later date you may then pick it up and feel that it makes sense. We are all the same in life, we take in things even if we think we do not; whatever we hear, see, think or feel is there, being stored up in our memory banks to be made use of at another time.

We all have choices to make in all sorts of ways whether they are of the good or the ill. Sometimes we come up with good ideas so suddenly and so different from the train of thought we were following that we wonder where they have come from. This of new ideas is not rare, they are all over the world being put together by the many, to be then brought into the material world to be made.

We all take from this pool of thought that is running throughout our world, thought is the first step in the making of all things we do, so we are not what we may think we are, just bits and pieces of one another in many ways and sorts and of all that is around us. So keep going, keep learning and while so doing, think seriously upon what makes you what you are.

John is a happily married man, retired and of rather mature years who has found a great love for meaningful poetry now that the necessity to earn a living is no longer the overriding facture in life. This pleasure has now turned into a hobby because his wife, June is a successful poet with over one hundred poems published in both newspapers and books of poetry by a well known publisher.

Please visit poetry in my head The website was set-up with the intention of spreading her work more widely, in the belief that its content can give pleasure and a more enlightened view of life to many people, to enable them to read and appreciate it.