Today

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once... So, keep believing in yourself, live life full & do what you love. Do things that echo long after you're gone. Always tell the people you love that you love them. But more importantly, ...show them. Make today count. Tomorrow is uncertain. ~h

Farewell, 2014

This past year was so difficult for so many... People I love & care about, also, myself. We lost so much when we lost loved ones - our worlds crumbled & will absolutely never be the same. 

In that same breath, I'm am so very thankful to see family, friends I have missed & didn't see in so very long - too long. A reminder that we take for granted each day. We are all guilty. We have good intentions, but life gets in the way. Then we are here. Sad. 

I want to tell my family & friends how much they are loved, how much they were missed. I know how difficult it is to look forward to a "brighter year" right now. All we can do is uplift one another, find courage in one another & support one another. The best way we know how. 

That all said, I want to extend my very best in 2015, starting today,...for the best people I've ever known. Many of you, Family... Friends... You know who you all are. If you don't, it will be known by my actions. And know that I will always be here, through happiness or sorrow...but hopefully because there are truly many new bright days to come. 

~Heid

Golden Rules

Treat others as you wish to be treated,

And you are blessed. 

Treat others as they treat you,

And you may be cursed. 

~hR

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The Sea reminiscent of our youth. The innocence & fun we allowed ourselves to be; to experience life with no inhibitions, to love unconditionally, to play & submit ourselves to each moment, never squandering. Before our troubles or concerns, we were free. Another time, perhaps a lifetime away for some.  Still, we can express ourselves even if limited, to not take for granted, to appreciate each moment, to experience the best we can, our lives & those we love around us.



July 2014
Hyde

Happy Fall!

Happy first official Day of Fall!
Wishing a Leaf turns over with great things ahead, for all of you.

Do good. Be good.

If you discovered you were dyin', & only had a little time left, would you be kinder? Love more? Do the things you love often? Try something new? Speak words unspoken?

Well you are.
We all are.

CREATE

Happiness is not obtained from others. It comes from within. Peace is not something you seek. It's something you create and deliver. ~hR

LIVE

I am not afraid of death.  I'm afraid of not living. ~hR

God

I wish people cared about the Earth, its People, its Wildlife...its Nature, its Sea....
as much as the One they believe created It.  ~hR

Thank You

As we rise from the following day of the 13th anniversary of 9/11, and go on with our busy lives, please continue to remember the innocent lives lost..that were also just living their life...

And also the heroes that risked everything to save his fellow man, woman.  The very people that do this on a daily basis.. That often go unseen because there is no anniversaries for every heroic act that is achieved daily.

Thank a Vet. Thank a Police Officer. Thank a Serviceman-woman.  Thank a Firefighter. Thank a Rescue Worker.  Thank a Volunteer.  A Doctor, a Nurse...

While we must move forward and live our lives, do so not without gratitude, but appreciating the amazing people that assist us in life, every single day.  Thank you. ~Hyde

People who think they're funny
When they're really not funny
Make me laugh.

Rescue on the way!

Go to the post: https://www.facebook.com/L.I.BeachesRock/posts/10152357097367677

Aug 24, 2014: Today is TWO YEARS since we rescued Jax!  It's been quite a journey, and it often hasn't been easy, but he's such a LOVE! And he's come SO far and we are SO proud of him.  Jax (we named) was in a kill shelter in KY.  He didn't have much time left. I just look at this face and think: WHY!? Would someone beat him.  WHY would someone dump him (which, btw, was a very disgusting, filty place).  He's very happy now, and proud we could help him get there.  THIS PHOTO is the FIRST time Jax ever saw a Beach!  And he LOVES going to the Beach.  Well, he loves going ANYWHERE! haha, but, he really loves the Sea.  We're so happy he's a part of our family now, and that he's doing so well.  Don't buy, adopt!  These guys need us! I can't imagine Jaxon losing his life so young for a senseless reason!  I can't promise adopting will always be easy, sometimes they come from nightmare places... but I can promise you.... it'll be worth it! ~Hyde

FACIN' IT!

Why do people not like their "Crow's Feet"?
This is a sign of your JOY!  The times you laughed..
'Marks' of the happiness you had in your life up 'til now -- so much so, it left a mark for the World to see!
It adds character to your face, I think it's BEAUTIFUL!
It shows how beautiful you are inside...so much so, it couldn't contain.........
Smile, Laugh, Embrace!

Suffering

Hyde Rock
August 12, 2014
#RIPRobinWilliams

 Often I think, after I pass... how would I like to be remembered? No joke. It crossed my mind, many, many times. It's changed my perspective on life, myself, the way I behave, who I am as a parent, a person...a stranger...... People call someone who "opts out" a coward. I don't remember Robin that way. How much strength one can endure, is a personal decision. Everyone deals with issues differently. We all grieve differently, as well. He was also sick... and did seek help. I see someone who carried some personal heavy burdens, perhaps.. but someone who brought so much f***in joy in our lives to be grateful for, so much love and happiness that came out of ONE person!! To MILLIONS of us!! Please do NOT judge a person by their last act, but by all their acts as a whole! Robin deserves much more than that! I can't believe some of the words I have read!!

Good, loving, people, .. artists, comedians.. entertainers, many are very sensitive, the bad part of being an artist - the very reason they are so good at what they do - is also their demon. Their heart is so big, and sometimes it carries the weight of the world. Judge not, but rather, be a good listener... support one another and learn from this. Sometimes when you're the strong one all the time for everyone else, everyone expects you to never need someone to be strong for you.

Facebook thread:
https://www.facebook.com/hyderock/posts/10204673545068194?comment_id=10204674661736110&offset=0&total_comments=7&notif_t=feed_comment

Goes a long way........

Do something kind for someone each day. You don't know what kind of difference you may have made for them, no matter how small the effort. What's small to you, may be huge for them.

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To ellipse... or to not ellipse...that is the question.

1/2 2014

Tomorrow is July 1st. 
Half of 2014 came and went. 
If the first half wasn't so great,
Here's your chance to make the second half even better. 
Live in the moment & be conscious of it. Live it full. 
Best, hR

Be Humble or Get Humbled.

TBT 3

My #TBT cont... My walls were filled with all the latest posters, most likely purchased from Record World or Spencers. I was going to marry Andy Gibb, and date Eddie Van Halen. David Cassidy had some competition with Rick Springfield. Then there was Def Leppard, but we're talkin' before then. Van Halen to Leif Garrett, Peter Frampton to the Bee Gees filled my walls. Scott Baio, little Chachi. Billy Idol to Billy Joel. I had it all. I'm leaving a bunch out.

I had LPs and Cassettes that filled the other half of my room. Music was my life. People that played music, were my life. I probably wouldn't have been able to paint without these people. #meditate You weren't cool if you didn't have a Stones "tongue" symbol somewhere - on your wall, on your t-shirt, bumper sticker on your car. Music got you through a lot of shit. I made so many cassettes from my cassettes. Most of Maxell's earnings were from me.

Compilation cassettes were my thing. If you got one as a gift, I probably thought you were cool. Or, I thought you needed to listen to real music...because your taste was awful. Either way. I would play the 45s, flip them all day, something no one would have time for today, right? I mean imagine how difficult that would be, trying to find a free moment between texting and fb messages to turn a turnstile ...and then it's only one song, there's no spotify or pandora or itunes looping. It required you to actually do something for yourself and get up off your ass. Similar to Television when it had no remote, you had to get up and change the channel. Cassettes were ok, I mean the rewind thing was kinda frustrating if you were impatient or pissed it was busted, but I made sure I had a player that did the automatic flip, so it had continual play. So maybe I cheated a little. But that was hi-tech then. If analog tape would get stuck and I would be pissed. How many times did you put your pinky or a pencil in that spinner to try to fix a tape?

When CDs came out in the mid 80s, I was horrified. They were going to do away with everything I knew and loved and what is this shiny metal thing? This is going to play songs? It will get scratched!! How stupid! I worked at Record World, so I was kinda keen on it all, and wasn't happy. It seemed so 2020 and we all know that that was like a lifetime away, back then! We saw cars flying in the sky in our heads, like the Jetsons. Maybe Aliens from another planet invading. I was hoping, anyway. Space Invaders of the Third Kind. In the '80s, 2020 sounded like so scary and futuristic.

Now we're almost there and as technology has been impressive, yet it kinda disappointed me. I mean, I thought by now, I'd be flippin' someone off for cutting me off at the corner of that last cloud. So here we are in 2014, and we're not really here. Zombies. Robots. Same thing. We have more opportunities to connect, we have every ability to reach someone in so many ways, but we are further apart. I've grown weary and filled with Weltschmerz. Hence this novel.

We spend more time on websites with people we may never meet than people we already know and care about. We trade a hug for a smiley, a poke for a handshake. We interact less, we meet less, we call less. With all the wisdom and advancement we have today, we seem to be going backwards. Is this what they call progress?

Talk amongst yourselves. See you next week. #randomshit #coffeetalk

TBT Diary 2

May 29, 2014

 MY #tbt continued wkly...

Summer nights sitting around the picnic table in our backyard, eating the BBQ dinner, jumping in the pool & sprinkler. Dad rigged the TV set outside so we could fall asleep watching under the stars on the patio. Sometimes a coat hanger was the antenna. Sometimes we woke up with a zillion mosquito bites. There were no cell phones, you answered a phone with a cord that extended a few feet if you were lucky, limited privacy, but there was a voice - almost tangible person; there was no texting, no internet, just people with real connections, making real experiences. Roasted marshmallows, chlorine hair, daisy dukes, cassette in the tape recorder, golden retriever sharing my ice cream cone. (No portable 8-track, but in our car/house).

TBT Diary 1

I have often written my "throwback" stories on facebook, but recently I began again.
I thought I should start also sharing them here.
 Last week's:

 May 22 near New York, NY

 #tbt running in puddles in the rain down the street barefoot, mud splashing, thunder overhead, putting mom's mail in the local postbox (on the street), running back, still in the rain, splashing in puddles, hoping for the thunder to stop to jump in the pool, did it anyway, ("heidi get out of the pool!" "after one swim, ma!"), spray people with the water hose in the interim. run down the street with barefeet in the rain, splashing in puddles..........rinse, repeat. --that's MY tbt!

Dreams, Aspirations

I'm a strong believer that when you work hard, it pays off. Don't be one of those that put all their faith in fate, thinking it'll just fall in your lap. It won't. Nothing comes for free. It requires passion, determination and perseverance. Belief in oneself! If you don't believe, no one will!! If you don't take risks in life, fear of failing or someone telling you "no", you'll live with regret and "What Ifs". There is a bigger risk in not trying or not giving your all, than to stick your neck out!! You won't know what you can accomplish 'til you try - and believe me, you'll surprise yourself. What's the worst thing that can happen? Explore, discover, create!! Do your best, be your best and NEVER give up on your dreams. EVER. ~Hyde

Touche'

Studies say that being sarcastic is not only a healthy mind but if done on a regular basis, it adds 3 years to your life! However, I'm writing this sitting down which is known to take 30% of your life if you do it daily for a long period of time. Therefore: "It's a catastrophic success".

Warmer weather on the way, looking forward to shooting some new locations this year. Here's what I have posted so far: Photo albums link [ http://tinyurl.com/LIBRphotos ] Videos link [ http://tinyurl.com/LIBRvideos ] Enjoy, Hyde

An Artist

Every day I awaken, I think of how to challenge myself. What I do to bring happiness in my life, but mostly others. How do I want to be remembered? By the adversities I face, or continue to endure, that do not define me but rather push me to seek the greatest life can offer? Yes, that's who I am. I am an artist, of not one but many genres. A mother, a lover of wildlife, nature and the Sea. My Spirit for these will never perish. ~Hyde

2

so i was thinking .... "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me", kinda conflicts the theory of "three strikes you're out", so, i'm going for the self-made term "two strikes you're out" which is more practical, because, after all, i always say, "all good things come in threes", and the forementioned goes against everything i believe in.

Clouds

Jan 31 2014

Clouds washed over the Sky. It appeared a Storm was coming. The Waves crashed relentlessly, pushing the salty sea around them. They could taste it on each other's lips. He placed the duvet over her, she shivered. Few stars were out that night, but the Bon fire held them warm. He pulled her closer in his arms and she fell into him. The touch of his skin brought her comfort. He needn't say a word. She just wanted to be here forever.

Within

Happiness & Peace are not some things given to you by chance, nor is it something you find by luck. It's something you create every day within yourself, and something you give to others unconditionally.

A brief personal record of Thanks

It makes me feel really good to know that other artists trust me; they create something they hope to be a powerful message, they are optimistic that their work will be successful, or at least, send a positive message to the world, to express their own personal visions....and they choose me to help them convey that message, to lead or co-lead in their personal projects. I am truly so honored to be considered for all these things, people I have worked with in the past and the ones to come. I just wanted to share this because I feel so overwhelmed with gratitude, with everything I've endured in life, to be given these amazing opportunities.

Special Thanks.

The last week of January marks my 22nd (re)Birthday. #1992
Forever grateful for the many men and women who came to my rescue back in '92 and gave me another chance. Because of them, I stand here before you today. I try to live my life more fully, teaching my kids the same - and also show my appreciation as often as possible. 
Happy Birthday to Me. Thank you. #emt #ems #police #firefighter

#centereach #longisland

I'm so rich

Now all I need is Money

Life

Like I always say...

When life intimidates you. 

When it gets you down or it

Doesn't go your way.. 

Just remember

We are floating on a circular Rock

In the middle of space 

Among hundreds of billions of Galaxies

That's how you get through life 

~Hyde

22

It's that simple.