2010 - The Year of the Suggs... I predicted at the close of 2009 that 2010 was going to be our year, The Suggs. We were going to strike it rich, be famous, healthy and party like there was no tomorrow. Well... We ain't rich, infamous is a better description, and the parties have been pretty much nonexistent. But 2010 in retrospect was indeed a winner for us Suggs. We're all still here, a good thing considering all the other choices. We're bigger, badder and better than we ever have been and it keeps getting better day by day!
We've all made new friends, slain a few enemy's along the way, hidden the bodies well, and in the end, we have bettered ourselves day by day. It takes decades to build an empire, and that fact of life has not been lost on me. So with the first decade of the 21st Century quickly closing in on us, we'll take the next step, together, as one, as family, and welcome in not only the New Year, but the second decade of the 21st Century. What we do today, determines who we are and where we will find ourselves tomorrow. That one has taken me a lifetime to learn.
Suggs, our family name. Made up of many names from many different countries and cultures. Mostly American Indian, English, Irish, Scottish with names like Barnes, Bishop, Payne, Sisson, Dunnaway in our pasts, we come from a proud heritage of loyalty, strength, and warriors. My ancestors fought in Viet Nam, Korea, WWII, WWI, Civil War, The War of 1812 and the Revolutionary War. I myself served in The United States Air Force as a cop from 1980-1986 and during that time we saw the end of the Cold War, the fall of the Communism and The Berlin Wall, and engaged in battle in Grenada and Libya. So yeah, we've stood up and have been counted, the names of our family war dead are on a monument somewhere, and I'm very proud of the fact that we are some of the people that has kept America, my America, the land of the free and the home of the brave.
As 2011 looms near, I like to think that I have not lost my warrior spirit and that I can still see the world through the eyes of my Indian ancestors and recognize what is truly important in life. Cherokee, Blackfeet and Apache blood flows through my veins with every beat of my heart, put their by my Indian ancestors, and carried on in the blood of my children. They know of not what greatness they are descended from. It is for them to discover as have I. And they will, in their own time. Knowing who you really are, where you really come from, the battles that have been waged and won, and the blood that has been spilled, won't, change who you are. It hasn't me.
For 2011, I'll trust it to a Gladiator's prayer and ask for little more.
"Ancestors, I ask you for your guidance. Blessed mother, come to me with the Gods' desire for my future. Blessed father, watch over my wife and child with a ready sword. Whisper to them that I live only to hold them again, for all else is dust and air. Ancestors, I honor you and will try to live with the dignity that you have taught me." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0172495/quotes?qt0404409
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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