A video is worth a million words!
Flyball is a sport for dogs (and their people). It's a race over jumps for a ball.
It is also described as addictive. Watch this video and you be the judge.
Monday, January 16, 2012
Friday, January 13, 2012
2012: A New Beginning
Hello!
It is a NEW year and I want a new beginning for myself and for this blog.
I know that readers have found this blog because they are searching for information on flyball. (The dog sport that is a race over jumps for a ball!) That passion will not go away but, I have found the topic to be somewhat limiting if the only purpose for posting to my blog was to say something about flyball or my love for MY dogs or, just my love for any and all dogs. Recently, I have been reminded that there is much more to life.
This post is an introduction to the many topics in which I have an opinion. Let's face it, in life, nearly everything is a matter of 'opinion'. The food we eat, the cloths we wear, the stuff that entertains us.
I came across an idea in a self-help book which sums it up pretty nicely: "Facts are facts. Everything else is everything else." ..meaning, unless you are dealing with facts, everything else is someone's opinion. This blog just happens to be MY opinion.
I think that opinions are good to have so long as we recognize that they ARE 'just opinions'. Everyone has one and nobody has an opinion that is worth more than anyone else's. Unless you get paid to have one and then, I guess you can be considered to be an expert on a topic in which people will pay you to listen to your opinion. Just remember, even if you get paid to have an opinion, that doesn't mean people will actually do what you advise them to do. (Based on your opinion, of course!)
So, expect the 'unexpected' on this blog. Be willing to be surprised and be open to the idea that we can disagree with each and still be appreciative of our 'uniqueness'. You just might find yourself in a bigger world. I know that I am looking to expand my world and my understanding of it.
What kinds of topics might you read about on this blog? Well, for starters, I will be commenting on ABC's new TV series, "Pan Am". I'm an avid fan and I won't apologize for that. I would like more people to watch the show so that ABC wouldn't be sitting on the fence while they decide if the show is worth a second season. I think that fence-sitting by TV execs as to the future of programming is exactly the reason many people will not invest their time watching new shows only to have the rug pulled out from underneath when their new show is CANCELLED.
Another thing to watch out for is a completely new design and makeover for this blog. I'm even toying with the idea to move it over to Wordpress. There is a way to migrate a blog to Wordpress and, because I have other blogs that I write for on Wordpress, it would be so much easier to work from one platform, one 'dashboard' for all of my blogging.
At any rate, I'm starting out with this announcement so that readers are not wondering how this blog goes from being about how to teach my dog flyball to diatribes about the latest episode of Pan Am, some new recipe I am trying out, or maybe a sprinkle here and there of what kind of weather is happening outside. (Right now, the first serious snowfall for this winter season is occurring and the temperatures are falling like a rock!)
This blog will become about what matters most in life: Finding out what our dreams are and doing something to help them become true. My new heroine is a fictional character on Pan Am. Colette Valois convinced her Captain to let her fly the plane. That scene's symbolism was apparent from the first time I watched it unfold. Identify what your dreams are and then take action to make them come true. Colette did simply by saying something.
One of my dreams is to become a writer. Perhaps, one of those people who get 'paid' to have an opinion. First step is to practice writing. It doesn't matter if anyone reads this or not. What matters is to write, Write, WRITE! ...and then write some more. Some days, I won't feel like writing and that's when it will become the most important thing to do. We all have to work when we don't feel like it.
...but, my readers have an important job to do and that is to comment. I'm not just looking for complements but,also if I have holes in my logic or simply, an uninteresting topic. If you have a topic you want to read about, I want to know about it. This blog should be entertaining as well as useful. Then again, anything that appears here is "Just an Opinion".
I hope that anyone who made a New Year's resolution has been successful keeping it. Until my next topic, I wish you a Good Day!.
Chris
It is a NEW year and I want a new beginning for myself and for this blog.
I know that readers have found this blog because they are searching for information on flyball. (The dog sport that is a race over jumps for a ball!) That passion will not go away but, I have found the topic to be somewhat limiting if the only purpose for posting to my blog was to say something about flyball or my love for MY dogs or, just my love for any and all dogs. Recently, I have been reminded that there is much more to life.
This post is an introduction to the many topics in which I have an opinion. Let's face it, in life, nearly everything is a matter of 'opinion'. The food we eat, the cloths we wear, the stuff that entertains us.
I came across an idea in a self-help book which sums it up pretty nicely: "Facts are facts. Everything else is everything else." ..meaning, unless you are dealing with facts, everything else is someone's opinion. This blog just happens to be MY opinion.
I think that opinions are good to have so long as we recognize that they ARE 'just opinions'. Everyone has one and nobody has an opinion that is worth more than anyone else's. Unless you get paid to have one and then, I guess you can be considered to be an expert on a topic in which people will pay you to listen to your opinion. Just remember, even if you get paid to have an opinion, that doesn't mean people will actually do what you advise them to do. (Based on your opinion, of course!)
So, expect the 'unexpected' on this blog. Be willing to be surprised and be open to the idea that we can disagree with each and still be appreciative of our 'uniqueness'. You just might find yourself in a bigger world. I know that I am looking to expand my world and my understanding of it.
What kinds of topics might you read about on this blog? Well, for starters, I will be commenting on ABC's new TV series, "Pan Am". I'm an avid fan and I won't apologize for that. I would like more people to watch the show so that ABC wouldn't be sitting on the fence while they decide if the show is worth a second season. I think that fence-sitting by TV execs as to the future of programming is exactly the reason many people will not invest their time watching new shows only to have the rug pulled out from underneath when their new show is CANCELLED.
Another thing to watch out for is a completely new design and makeover for this blog. I'm even toying with the idea to move it over to Wordpress. There is a way to migrate a blog to Wordpress and, because I have other blogs that I write for on Wordpress, it would be so much easier to work from one platform, one 'dashboard' for all of my blogging.
At any rate, I'm starting out with this announcement so that readers are not wondering how this blog goes from being about how to teach my dog flyball to diatribes about the latest episode of Pan Am, some new recipe I am trying out, or maybe a sprinkle here and there of what kind of weather is happening outside. (Right now, the first serious snowfall for this winter season is occurring and the temperatures are falling like a rock!)
This blog will become about what matters most in life: Finding out what our dreams are and doing something to help them become true. My new heroine is a fictional character on Pan Am. Colette Valois convinced her Captain to let her fly the plane. That scene's symbolism was apparent from the first time I watched it unfold. Identify what your dreams are and then take action to make them come true. Colette did simply by saying something.
One of my dreams is to become a writer. Perhaps, one of those people who get 'paid' to have an opinion. First step is to practice writing. It doesn't matter if anyone reads this or not. What matters is to write, Write, WRITE! ...and then write some more. Some days, I won't feel like writing and that's when it will become the most important thing to do. We all have to work when we don't feel like it.
...but, my readers have an important job to do and that is to comment. I'm not just looking for complements but,also if I have holes in my logic or simply, an uninteresting topic. If you have a topic you want to read about, I want to know about it. This blog should be entertaining as well as useful. Then again, anything that appears here is "Just an Opinion".
I hope that anyone who made a New Year's resolution has been successful keeping it. Until my next topic, I wish you a Good Day!.
Chris
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