Someone recently told me that atheism is counted as one of the top 3 religions in this country.  If, as I had always thought, an atheist doesn’t believe in any god or God, how is it a religion?  What does an atheist worship?  What code of conduct is expected or morality code for an atheist?  All religions of which I am aware include expectations for behavior, through following commandments, prayer, church, worship, or something.  So I just wondered how atheism is considered a religion.  While I’m rambling, I have to also wonder who listens to the media anymore and expects to hear any true facts?  Where C-Span covered the Restoring Honor Rally live and hundreds of thousands attended, CBS counted 37,000, but NBC counted 300,000, so which one is speaking fact?  Ironically, the Al Sharpton march, attended by 3,000, was covered on the Today Show in detail with his message of divisiveness and racism.  Nothing was said about the message from the Restoring Honor Rally with its message of love, unity and patriotism.  I know I’m beating the horse bloody, so to speak, but, in a world that considers atheism a religion, the Kardashians famous, Jersey Shore good programming, excessive human brood mares as celebrities, it was hopeful and encouraging to listen to people speaking of hope, honor, real life heroes, and bringing God back into our country and our hearts.

“Honesty is the best policy.”  When did this change?  I know I’m so guilty of fudging the truth when it comes to protecting someone’s feeling on hair, fashion, weight,….  But, when, in the definition of professionalism, did lying become the norm?  Yes, politicians lie all the time.  Is this okay?  Apparently, lying is the way of things.  For instance, a reason for not joining a new networking group is given, oh, sorry, I’m teaching that morning.  But, ironically, that teaching commitment was, in reality, another group.  Are we so stupid that we wouldn’t see it?  I don’t think so.  I so respect someone willing to tell me the truth.  That is worth more than rhetoric, more than alleged educational qualifications, more than anything.  If someone lies about something stupid, what makes anyone think they would tell the truth about something important?  I will never understand the hypocrisy that people who lie and hurt think they are so above retribution.  Oh well, life in the real world, I guess.

I love to paint.  I love to paint tiles, windows, bottles, canvases.  Ironically, I hate, hate, hate to paint fences.  In trying to teach our son the benefits of working to earn something, I somehow ended up on the sharing end of fence painting our dog enclosure.  It is excruciatingly hard.  It is exhausting.  It is not fun and I’m waiting for my “gift” for such generosity.  Nothing looks as large as something you have to prep, clean and paint.  Think about it, men, all things look bigger when work is involved.  Ha.

Just got back from a perfect beach vacation at Stone Harbor, New Jersey.  Perfect weather, perfect shell collecting, creative ideas for art projects galore,but, even more importantly, renewing our commitment to healthy chocolate business and network marketing concept.  In this market, we’re still at the top of the pile.  This is like getting in at the top of Mary Kay or Microsoft.  Did you hear about the original partner in pre-Microsoft who got nervous and asked for his $5,000 investment back?  His share is valued at over 500 million (or billion, I forget) dollars.  Unbelievable! I really feel strongly, can you tell, that Xocai has such great potential and the only investment is in buying chocolate to eat.  Seriously, what is the hesitation?