Recconnecting with People!!

Hello I just wanted to note that a stroke of good fortune happened today as a life long friend contacted me and offered to help me today. Wow it sure has been a while since I last talked to him and it is wonderfull to read his mail today. I am greatfull for his kindness and understanding thoughout all the years I have known him. I just wanted to sit here and say thanks to him and all the friends I have which is not many but they are all important to me. I know that many times when no one would step up to help me these people have done that and I am fortunate to have friends like them. So Have a blessed day to all my friends that I know in person and stay well and happy!! Take care now!!

Rick N.

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Correction of Error of Post!!

Hello Friends I just wanted to quickly get this update done as I made a mistake on the page address I called it www.1source.com actually it is www.suite101.com so for the mistake but now it is fixed.. have a great day now!!!!

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Hmm. Learning About My Readership!!

Hello friends I just got myself quite a shock at the list of countries that read my blog as I never been to that menu and oh my I can say I am stunned at how many people have come to my blog page. Ok Ok I been been ignorant and thought no one was reading this page at all till I just clicked on a world view map and got my eyes opened. Ok my life is not easy and right now it is very hard but I guess I thought no one would ever read my blog here. Hmmmm.. Guess I am wrong and sorry to my reader for being blind as to what I post here and not knowing that this page is read in I counted about 19 countries around the world. I appologize for not knowing and since it is that well read it means I will try now from here on to improve this page with more content and less of my personal woes and pain of life. Since I am the editor I will try to bring more quality journalism to this page and who knows maybe this page will the catalist for starting a regular newspaper online which I have thought of doing many times. I have written many books and some are published with those that did get published making it to the New York Times best seller list so that i am still proud of. So with that note at the end of the day I will continue to write to this and improve on it since now I know it is worth while doing it.. I also want to note that I just started today writing on a journalism forum called 1source.com and hope to make some good things happen with that soon. I started a new music page to promote my music on OURSTAGE.com/JohnNorton and in spite of my lifes woes I still plan on making a music video and show of my tunes that I have written. I unfortunately have not done anything with my www.exploretalent.com/johnnorton page to get movie and modeling contracts but I will have to turn to doing more about that sooner. Have A Blessed Day Now To EVeryone!!!!!!!

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Recent Update to Blog And My Life!!

Well all my friends it is the beginning of the worst part of the year that ugly nasty thing called winter is here being that is December 7th today. I see that my readership has increased recently which is just really great as I finally got to putting a page counter on this page that actually works. I tried many different page counters but they all failed till Google finally put this available to me and I love it cause it works with no bugs. I just proofed my page and I do see a few links have failed to work and shortly I will get to fixing them sooner. Sorry my friends and visitors for the not being as prompt on the updates this year but I still am dealing with computer and bad money problems. I would love to be here more and keep this page more interesting but I am financially failing and about all I own this month. To add insult to injury my car blew a fuel pump and it is stranded at my friends house while I work out how to get money to fix car. Well as of November 30th I got evicted out of the temporary apartment that I was living in and the same week I got my supplemental income cut off too. So the money I planned to use to go home to Forida at the end of November is a no a total zero as in I am broke and stranded in a place I hate with a passion with winter cold. Well since December 1st I have slept in my car until my friends have told me politely that they don't want to see me very often about 4 times a month. I am told by all my variety of friends how wonderfull their lives are in comparison to me being stuck in a winter place that is going to end up killing me sooner if I can't get a real house to live in and money from somewhere. Tonight I am forced to walk the streets freezing to death and it makes me really realize how little people really care about me when I have no job and and I am stranded in a place that is going to end my life. Even if I go back to my car at a friends house they don't want me hanging around and trying to keep on living with what I own including seeing my dog which they have been caring for since December 1St.. I appreciate all the help I have gotten from these people but they never are able to see my point of view and that is I never have had much in life and all I got I worked for and some came more recently from a family trust fund for me. I am trying to hang on to what little I still own and my two vehicles and my dog and when you don't live a life of over $4000.00 a week in income like all my other friends do you learn how to do the impossible and live with little to nothing for money. You really find out how much people care about you when your given a lecture about being a fourty something yer old man who is a failure and given 4 bucks and dumped at a homeless shelter and told bye and see you next week or in a few weeks. I now know this is why I hate this state and the attitude of people here who only care about you if you got money and a fancy house and plenty of toys. As soon as you show themyou got nothing the tune changes to what are we goiing to do with hima and get lost loser and come back a week or so or never from a homeless shelter and sorry pal I am not paying your bills or anything else. Real friends would not care about how much it costs or how long you would stay with them just that you would have a place to live away from the freezing cld of winter that kill people. You soon learn none of that matter if you don't show any money and other things of wealth.. this is my story today!!!

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Changing Careers

Well it is Monday for sure and today I am feeling kinda stuck creative wise so I decided to write something. It all ways seems that Monday is the harderst day to get something done and be involved in a work project. I still think a career based on productive output is better than stagnation.it is difficult to change a career when you have done it for so long and like it. Money issues all ways put a limit on ones life and achievements. Living longer is a blessing and something to appreciate but money and career can and will lift you up or sink your life. Funny how one single thing in life called money has the power to bring good to you and increase your life or totally destroy it. Unfortunately most people fall into to category of being wrecked by money and that is from being broke most of the time. I guess that is why the bible says money is the root of all evil when you never gave it or enough of it to live long on earth. Just think if everyone has a million dollars then no one would die early in life and the entire population of earth would be a achieving and globally advancing civilization. Food for thought given the state of our current economic woes that all nations face currently. If everyone on earth was rich then who would need war and all its weapons. If every living person on earth has a million dollars then all the crime and poverty would disappear then as a human race we would not need prisons and a justice system or for a matter of fact much of any social programs that we bow have. Life for all humans would be great and even the animals would benefit too from our new found wealth and freedom. Think about how much better everything would be for all of earth. This is my thoughts for today and a proposal to improve all of earth and mankind. Blessing to everyone and have a wonderful day now my friends.

a new year!

Surely I got a lot of changes recently that make me look younger and a pretty young blonde told me my age is not a factor in her mind cause she thinks I sm youth looking for my age. I smiled and thanked her for her kindness. very nice to be commented on what she said I'd good looks. I never put any efforts into my looks since I feel that would make me look shallow person which I am not. Time sure has gone fast and you do notice that age number more past fourty something..
Well it sure has been a while since I posted to here. I just had a new birthday and now I am 42 but some days I feel older.

Meeting New People!!

I thought I would reflect on this days events and in perticularly one younger women. I met her today while riding the bus to get some food that I needed and she told me that she is twenty nine years old and has lived in many places. I am amazed to hear her describe all the places including Italy and California etc. that she has lived and been too. She was most imformative about all aspects of the places she has been which was interesting to me since I never have been there. The more I talked to her it made me realize how much she had accomplished in her life and that my life has gone pretty much no where compared to hers and she is about half my age. It forced me to reaccess my own life while talking to her and learning from her alot of new things about what it is to be a traveling successfull person. I thought in my life that I have seen and done alot but then you meet someone new and listen to their life story then you realize all the things you have missed out on. It is hard to swallow that someone who is half your age has gone more places and done more fun and interesting things in life than you have done which really is awefull. My age is a further insult that I have not done all the interesting things that she has done including living in many interesting places which I have never even seen let alone ever have lived in nice places like her. Granted I may come across as being jealous but in truth I am not at all feelling that way but instead just realize how much of a small box my life has become unfortunately for me. So I just decided to write about it here as a way of venting my frustration at how life has become so stuck in a box and seemly not many ways of changing it these days. That is all I got to say for today but it is allways good to share things sometimes when your out of ideas and creative process which I find this year is all about.

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Actor John Forsythe Died Yesterday!!!

I wanted to comment on John Forsythe Death today and include his obituary peice as I allways thought he would someday follow in the footsteps of Ronald Reagan and become President of The United States. He sure had the personality and caracter to do the job and when he was on the tv show Dallas he just made me more convinced he show go run for the Presidential Oval Office. He Would have made a great President and probabily would have also been reelected to a full second term in the White House. It is sad we will never know how great he could have been in the Oval Office since he has died now. Sometimes in life you meet a person and it just screams out a certian caracter that is right for public office and this man sure had the right stuff. Here is his obituary and this is my tribute to a real great man who should have been called and elected MR. PRESIDENT.

LOS ANGELES – John the handsome, smooth-voiced actor who made his fortune as the scheming oil tycoon in TV's "Dynasty" and the voice of the leader of "Charlie's Angels" has died after a yearlong battle with cancer. He was 92.

Forsythe died late Thursday at his home in Santa Ynez from complications of pneumonia, publicist Harlan Boll said Friday.

"He died as he lived his life, with dignity and grace," daughter Brooke Forsythe said.

Despite his distinguished work in theater and films, Forsythe's greatest fame came from his role as Blake Carrington in the 1981-89 primetime soap opera "Dynasty." Forsythe lent dignity to the tale of murder, deceit, adultery and high finance, which often brought Carrington into conflict with his flashy, vengeful former wife, Alexis Colby, played to the hilt by Joan Collins.

Forsythe was an important part of another hit series without being seen. From 1976 to 1981 he played the voice of Charlie, the boss who delivered assignments to his beautiful detectives via telephone in "Charlie's Angels."

Forsythe evidenced little of the ego drive that motivates many actors. He viewed himself with a self-effacing humor, considering himself "a vastly usable, not wildly talented actor."

In a 1981 interview by a reporter, he also said: "I figure there are a few actors like Marlon Brando, George C. Scott and Laurence Olivier who have been touched by the hand of God. I'm in the next bunch."

With his full head of silver hair, tanned face and soothing voice, Forsythe as Carrington attracted the ardor of millions of female television viewers. "It's rather amusing at my advanced age (mid-60s) to become a sex symbol," he cracked.

While he had small roles in a couple of films in the early 1940s, Forsythe's first successes were mainly on the stage. While serving during World War II, he was cast in Moss Hart's Air Force show "Winged Victory," along with many other future stars.

After the war, Forsythe became a founding member of the Actors Studio, recalling it as "a wildly stimulating place for a guy like me who was a babe in the woods. I never suspected there was that kind of artistry and psychological approach to acting."

Declining a return to Warner Bros., Forsythe began appearing in television plays as early as 1947, and he continued his Broadway career. A role in Arthur Miller's "All My Sons" led to the awesome task of replacing Henry Fonda in "Mister Roberts."

He was next able to create a role of his own, as the naive Army officer in occupied Okinawa in "Teahouse of the August Moon." The play was a huge success, winning the Pulitzer Prize. "It gave me a sense of worth as an actor," Forsythe remarked.

The call to Hollywood was irresistible, and Forsythe came west to star in such films as "The Captive City," "The Glass Web" and "Escape from Fort Bravo." His best break came in 1955 when he starred in Alfred Hitchcock's one attempt at whimsy, "The Trouble with Harry," about a corpse that kept turning up in a New England town.

But Forsythe's film roles were limited because he was already busy in television. The comedy "Bachelor Father," in which he played a Hollywood lawyer who cared for his teenage niece, lasted from 1957 to 1962, appearing successively on CBS, NBC and ABC.

His later films included "Madame X" (opposite Lana Turner) and "In Cold Blood," Hitchcock's spy thriller "Topaz," "The Happy Ending" and "Goodbye and Amen."

"And Justice for All" (1979) marked a departure for the actor. Director Norman Jewison cast him as a judge with a kinky sex life.

"He wanted to create suspense on whether the judge was guilty of such dark deeds," Forsythe said.

He credited the role for causing him to be considered as the unscrupulous Carrington in "Dynasty."

"The producers didn't know what the hell they wanted," Forsythe recalled. "They talked to me in terms of J.R. in 'Dallas.' I said, 'Look, fellas, I don't want to play J.R. Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I've learned all these years: when you play a villain, you try to get the light touches; when you play a hero, you try to get in some of the warts."

He was born John Lincoln Freund on Jan. 29, 1918, in Penn's Grove, N.J.

He won an athletic scholarship to the University of North Carolina, had a stint as public address announcer for the Brooklyn Dodgers, then launched his struggle to become an actor against the wishes of his father. Having had his name mispronounced all his life, he adopted the name of Forsythe, which came from his mother's family.

He toured the country in a children's theater troupe with his first wife, actress Parker McCormick, and began appearing in radio soap operas and Broadway plays.

His first marriage ended after the birth of a son, Dall. During the run of "Winged Victory," Forsythe married another actress, Julie Warren. They had two daughters, Page in 1950, Brooke in 1954.

When not acting, Forsythe maintained a strong interest in politics and sports, often playing in charity tennis tournaments. A devoted environmentalist, he also narrated a long-running outdoor series, "The World of Survival."

In lieu of flowers, Forsythe's family asked that donations be made to the American Cancer Society.

The family said there will be no public service.

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