Dear Readers, Followers, Time Travelers, Reviewers, Bloggers, Posters, Imagination Enthusiasts, Romantics, Philosophers, Dreamers, New Year Theorists, Victorians, Steam Punkers, and Everyone Else....

Welcome to my site and the first entry of 2014!!!

I do apologize for this being so late and completely skipping January 2014 some time that first week to write just about ANYTHING I could have written that month. It seems to have swept me by and I could have thought I had written back then some time, turns out I didn't!

So I apologize for leaving that month UN-contemplated.

It is the middle of February and I am sure that again, you would have thought, because I did, that something would have been written on the most Hallmarked Celebrated day of the Romantic Year, Valentine's Day!

I can tell you that a lot has happened and continues to happen on many levels and in many areas of life. As I hope it is happening for you as well!

You will notice that I am going to try and age the graphic slightly to match the coloration that seems to be streaking my actual goatee these days. I hope you enjoy that. It's experimental at this time, and I might be more creative with it through the year, we'll see. Enjoy Test ONE as it stands to open 2014 for my Blogtemplations this year!

So I will ask once again, have you written to yourself one year from now? If you haven't, get it done, I have tasked a few others to do this specifically and I am hopeful that they do it, you should too. Then stash it away and continue on life as usual.

I am also going to tell you that change is good, and I have celebrated a year of change myself which I am grateful for. The question then came up, "So now what?" and I sometimes ask friends of mine about what happens next after a year of change,  and I have had various answers. One has said, "Do the next logical thing.", another has shared "Keep growing and learning.", and I would be thankful and humble if you, my readers, would offer your suggestion as to what to do next! I ask because I am interested in what you think and say, and as you experience life, I would hope that your answers, opinions and thoughts are different in every stage, phase, and part of life.

Dear friends, let's keep contemplating, sharing with friends, opening conversations, debating topics, deepening friendships, exploring each other in relationships, and explore yourself and the person you are becoming next.

Thank you for reading my site today, please leave comments, and send me email through pages on this site. I look forward to continuing this site and expanding on these Blogtemplations randomly!




-The Establishment

Dear Reviewers, Reflectioneers. Memories of 2013, Past Purveyors, Old Acquaintance, The Forgotten, The Good and The Bad of 2013, People in Mourning, and People in Celebration, and of course all my Readers,

I would like to say Thank you to everyone who is reading this Blog and who read one or many of my thoughts in 2013.

I began 2013 with this similar image declaring 01.01.13 and I thought it would be fitting to end this year with the similar graphic that began it. So much has happened in 2013 and it now allows me to shed a coat and a cost of living expense that I am thankful to let go of.

I hope that you, my fair reader, come to experience moments of letting go and how freeing and renewing that moment is, and how it allows you to live your life a little brighter, a little more enthusiastically, and with a little more energy and passion than you did before.

I am sure and hopeful that in your circles of friends and relationships, that you are speaking and contemplating about your past 2013 year and how much you have grown, what changes you've seen, and what dreams succeeded, what dreams failed, and what you learned from all of it! If you haven't well, as you know, put it on your list for next year!

I am encouraged by what I learned about myself this year and by what I am learning of others. This is surely NOT the end of this Blog Site and I looked at my past to learn what changes I wanted to make, and I am looking forward to what I will take with me into the New Year as well as what I am leaving behind in 2013 when it passes.

I hope you write a letter to yourself and seal it up till next year so you can open it and find out what you thought of yourself in the events of the year. If you have not written a letter to yourself to be read at the end of 2014, I suggest you take some time this month and write one as a fun activity. Someone I value and respect shared this idea with me and I have been passing it on to as many people as I can. It seems like another growing moment to learn from, and I always encourage moments to grow and learn about yourself!

So I began this day watching News channels share the passing of 2013 across the globe and while I had some working hours, I also contemplated the significance of the 31st beginning in one place and ending in another, and throughout the day the new year is passing constantly, and here in my corner of the world globe, my time to see 2013 pass is rapidly approaching. It was quite interesting that celebration across the world was seemingly more about today and less about January 1st, however, I do hope that January 1st is celebrated as much. I sometimes wonder if both the 31st and the 1st should be Holidays across the world cultures.

So please be kind to yourselves, be safe in your celebrations, be forgiving to everything you are leaving in 2013, look for peace, seek the highest power of your spirituality, be courageous in following through with what you learn from your spiritual connections, and share your contemplations with others, you are a gift to the people you know, as they are gifts to you.

Peaceful Rest to 2013, a year I will be humble and thankful for in many ways, and happy to be letting go in many others.




-The Establishment

Dear Morning Risers, Christmas Day Celebrators, Wednesday Morning Regulars, Unique Observers, Blogtemplation Readers, and All Human Kind...
As the sunlight peaks over every fence, and the roof shadows pull back to allow the ground to warm and flora to flourish or in the snow covered parts of the world; sunbeams to reflect off the huddled water crystals, I welcome you and everyone to the hopes of children and people across faithful followings that today is spent in love and gathering. Today let your heart flow over and arms out stretch to feel joy and tenderness in and from and with the ones you call Family today.
May your lives be encouraged to love, may your soul feel it`s worth, may generousity flow through you in the reflection of others, may your joy be boundless and happiness come to you from new and wonderous places today.
I write to you today to ask you to discuss and contemplate the miracle of life, the miracle of hope, the adventure of selfless time in the company of others, and the desire of serenity and courage in the wisdom of truthful action!
Yes, it is a continuing time of transformation and change, reflection and recounting the time of the past 359 days of the year and to make the last 6 days of this year provide you significant thoughtfulness to guide you and motivate you into the next new 365 and 1/4 days!

I send my blessings of Peace to you all my readers and friends I have not met.

Happy Merry Celebrations Wishes Contemporary Exaltations and Joyful Peace of Mind and Contemplation!!!!

-The Establishment

Dear Peaceful Families, Gifters, Recievers, Givers, Relations, Friends, Carolers, Celebrators, Singers, Warm Wishers, Holiday Cheer Leaders, The Generous, The Blessed, The Humbled, and Everyone who reads this blogtemplation

I am honored this year to celebrate the season with transformed spirit, and as a recommendation to all reading, I highly praise anyone who has or is taking on the task and personal depth of change, transformation, and inner development. I believe that sharing your insight along the way, and especially at the major turning points of your personal change, with others is and can be powerful and rewarding.
I encourage and support all of you to discuss and contemplate your experiences and hopefully the joyful inner peace that comes to you at the end of such transformation. Please express to each other the value of your new visions and wonderous realizations and growth of emotional intelligence you may come to know. I`ve seen and also experienced a very rewarding feeling of something I can only try to describe as pure joy! I hope you have the chance in your life be it yesterday, today, or tomorrow in your journey to be a part of or share pure joy, innocent pure joy that pours from your heart and fills your soul, as it is an expression of life work and can be a marking of illumination in your life that is only ever more wonderous when shared with others.
This EVE I do wish all of you the warmth and blessings of being with Family or people you call Family in your life!

I have been already overwhelmed with tearful joy in moments I am experiencing this season as new.

Take in and enjoy the true meaning that I am sure you have heard discussed or expressed throughout the spiritual culture in the world.
PEACE be with you all, and always with you.

-The Establishment

Dear Celebrators, Visionaries, Party People, Rockers, Believers, The Faithful,Time Investors, The Soulful, The Heart Warmed, Readers and anyone connecting with experiencing the cycle of a year...
I would like to share the joy that comes with celebrating an aniversary! Be it 1 year or a series of years, marking the passing of that year and of that point of reference is a big deal, or can be when celebrating and marking a positive event in your life. So maybe that cues the first point of order, make it a positive event or moment you are choosing!
The sun was brighter this morning, I am thankful, greatful, joyful, sentimental, mindful, reminiscent, humble, and randomly emotional throughout the entire day! I hope that your experiences with anniversaries are particularly promising and positive for you be them today or any day of the year. Which brings my next point, which is that we have some choice in making the beginning of an anniversary event. Not like the actual change of a new year, or worldly holiday events, or other society events that mark the pass of time and a year. I say make conscious choices to change some part of your life significantly and positively, then celebrate that anniversary through the rest of your life maintaining or growing that moment of change!
Discuss with your friends, loved ones, family, co-workers and people you engage in deep thought and discussion about changes you should and can celebrate an anniversary about. Let me know how those conversations work out.
Thank you everyone for stopping by my site today, celebrate your anniversaries and tell me all about them!

- The Establishment

Dear Number Seekers, Astrologists, Numerologists, Readers, and the like...

I know this Blogtemplation entry would have been better posting on the actual date, so please forgive the day late paradigm of this post. As I have written, I am making it higher priority to have self awareness of my mistakes and to make amends in the action of my processing.  

I actually had great joy myself on November 12th for additional personal reasons, and I hope that the day was filled with joy for you as well in your daily life. The study of numbers is not in my regular routine, however I do find it fascinating when I look into how numbers play into life and the greater timeline of human existence. If you are one that is more knowledgeable in the Numerology world, my bandana is off to you in recognition. If you are just one of many thrill seeking readers that enjoys an occasional glance at the unique observation of moments when numbers line themselves up, like in the case of November 12th, 2013, or as suggested; 11-12-13, the I hope you cheered the moment with your friends or had a humorous chuckle over the event!
    Other notable dates have been December 12th, 2012, or 12-12-12, and the infamous daily number sequence 1:23am/pm or other daily moments like 12:34am/pm, 2:34am/pm, 3:45am/pm, 4:56am/pm. If you have notable dates in numerology or related to dates and number sequencing, please share or comment to this Blogtemplation. In your circles of friends I hope you playfully banter, socially remark, and otherwise build conversation and friendships along the way in relation to quirky and interesting topics such as numerology.
    I am always reminding you to delve into conversation, contemplation, and time spent challenging the mind in deep thinking and sharing of ideas. Today is no different. Thank you for reading today, I could not let this numerological event go on without notice. Take heart in what interests you to spend time contemplating and sharing your findings with others. Till the next Blogtemplation entry, exercise your conscious state of mind!

-The Establishment 

Dear Readers, Open minded seekers, those with willingness, visionaries, discoverers, questers of inner journeys and social connectedness, as well as anyone who reads these words perhaps for the first time,
    Welcome to a new month and new thoughts! You may notice that the image today is simple and mostly white open space. This is symbolism of the beginning of a new month and thoughts that have not yet circulated or have come into fruition or frame of mind as of yet. One course I would like to maintain is Self Inventory, Reflection, Responsible progression, and Amending and growing, wrapping up with simply put, Awareness.
    I hope that many or all of you are taking time to do some personal inventory these days, and reflection from your present time and space. You may be in reflection from the immediate Halloween experience you had on October 31st, which is very commendable, or you may be in reflection from your weekly grind. I hope that both bring you peace and insightful learning about yourself and changes you believe you should make or things you need to accept in life.
    I think the 1st of any month is a good opportunity to start over, or start new, or embrace a chance to view, new or differently, possibilities in your present life. I am feeling particularly open and connected to spirituality today and hope to bring in peace to my life for further strength and drive for many tasks and responsibilities I have these days as well as in the week prior and the week ahead.
    I hope that you are finding time to join circles of friends to talk, share, discuss and open up yourselves about reflection and moments you are growing or amending your life. In your contemplative social moments, I hope that there are many voices of encouragement and support you are able to lean on and gather wisdom from as you share. I continue to find enjoyment and strength in times when I can listen or speak contemplatively about lessons that life teaches as we live it.
    So dear friends, readers, seekers of wisdom, please write me back, comment, and send mail to this blog to let me know how your social circles are thinking and what lessons life is opening to you at the beginning of this new month of November!
    Welcome to November 2013 and all the blessings, gifts, moments of thanks, and connections to friends this month brings!

-The Establishment

Dear Readers, Action takers, Faith growers, Human spirit encouragers, Visionaries, Non-Traditionalists, Contemplators, Story tellers, Experiential  enthusiasts, Journeymen and women of the mind, People exploring inner wisdom, and everyone else who may glance at this site and upon these words,
    Thank you for happening upon or coming to read this site on your random regular basis. I have noticed that there is some following of readers, and while I appreciate the unique experience of knowing I have visitors, yet you/they don't click "Like" buttons, and you/they don't comment back, it is a nice comfort to know there are viewers and readers. So to that, WELCOME!!!!
     Today's entry and contemplation is to ask yourself and your friends around you to discuss further; Are you aware of your faults as well as your strengths? Not just in a way of knowing your handwriting could be neater, or your nutrition could be more healthy, or your fashion sense doesn't fit in with certain social circles, or you wish you were more knowledgeable... No. I ask you to consider if you are aware of you and your internal character. Do you know how your actions and behaviors affect others? Do you understand how your dynamic fits and works with or against people you work with, are friends with, or are related to in your family? Could you consider that you have faults that might need work, and beginning to evolve yourself might be a worthy project to take time and effort in!
    I have been taking a journey myself and examining character traits to find out and discover where my faults are. It has been very interesting so far, and I would like to encourage anyone who takes on this journey, that it is very revealing and also very rewarding as I continue to make progress and change and transformation in my life. I strongly advise anyone to begin such a journey and evolve yourself through personal inventory, reflection, awareness, acceptance, change and action.
    Today's image includes a house blueprint and I ran out of time to add red arrows suggesting wall realignments, room changes, design alterations, etc. So take heart that an image of looking at the interior design blueprint of a home is similar to the deep look at self and reviewing your my own personal blueprint is as revealing. I implore you to be brave in your self discovery and share with friends what you find as well. Be gentle when you take feedback though, it may surprise you if you're not prepared. Continue on though, and I hope your growth is powerful for you!
    So dear readers and friends, enjoy your personal evolutions, talk, discuss, share, evaluate and improve your self awareness wisely! I hope your contemplations with friends and self are amazing and inspirational.

-The Establishment

Dear Readers, Seekers, the Humbled, those made Aware, those hungry for Knowledge, the internal conversationalists, those redefining self, the inventory makers, the boundary writers, the personal story tellers, the thinkers, the doers, the visionaries, the transformers, the realists, the encouragement progression, the solution to change is all around you in the friends you make and get to know, and every one else reading today....


    Thank you for reading today's entry and contemplation. I ask you today to share with your friends, your neighbors, your social circles, your hang out locations, and any where and any time you speak or talk to pass the time or engage to seek to know more about each other. Talk. Share. Communicate deeply and open up conversations and risks of thought that bond and create longer lasting friendships and connect you as human beings in ways that transform you and your thoughts. I ask you to be respectful of each other's boundaries and push only to improve each other, not to take down for destruction or mal intent. Build each other up. Restore each other. Encourage each other. Recover a faith in spirit and in personal journey to find a better state or condition of living. I ask you to discuss your personal inventory and internal natures, though not in specifics, I persuade that you are gentle with each other and speak in traits of character, and in common experience. I'd hope that you say something like "You know how when...", or "You know that one thing that happens..." and I hope that you laugh and share and experience life together one wonderful day at a time. 
    I'd like to share that I recently experienced a moment of surrender and while it was intense as moments of contemplation, reflection, and self growth are, it was also freeing and releasing of stress and tension and many other feelings that can wear down the human spirit. If you find yourself in a moment of surrender, I do hope that you are ready for it, and not that one or myself can ever plan to be ready for it, but I do hope that you know, implicitly KNOW what you are surrendering and who or what form of spirit or spiritual understanding you are surrendering to, please take some time and figure out what form and understanding of spirituality you are surrendering to, so that you are ready when the moment comes to fully participate and experience that surrender. It can be a very life changing moment, and I hope it benefits you when it happens.
    I took a look at a thesaurus for the word "Transformation" and for other similar words to "Improvement", "Recovery", "Change", and I noticed that I wanted to see more, I wanted more diversity of terms and I just wanted more words to describe the amazing event that surrender and transformation bring in the human experience. So I challenge you this week in your conversations and contemplations, if you invent your own word, or unique phrase to describe the internal experience of surrender, or you have a story about surrender, please share it, comment, or write to me all about it. I look forward to the creative energy and exploration of the human experience that we all have and share. Let me know how you are doing out there in the world and within your own personal worlds of transformation and change.
Contemplate, Share, Grow, Change, and Encourage Progression on your journeys!

-The Establishment

Dear Readers, Honorees, Survived, Families, Celebrants, Supporters, Responders, The Prayerful, the Mindful, the Care Givers, the Mournful, the Grievers, the Shoulders to cry on, the Encouragers, the Loving, the Fighters, the Driven, the Heart dwellers, the Seekers, the Thought senders, the Souls of the departed, the Souls of the Living....
Today was indeed a day to Honor the remembrance of what occurred physically and emotionally, and the impact and changes it affected in all of us socially and immediately. I am sure that much has been written today, the radio stations shared on it, the media took up the cause, and government officials, did their official duties to carefully and wonderfully show their support.
To those of you who lost loved ones, let me be yet another voice to offer condolence for your loss, and encouragement to continue to survive and grow in your own ways.
To those that were part of the responding voice and action that converged on New York, thank you and thank you for every action that occurred, be it in letters and mail, indirect or direct action and time given to all the aspects of that day and days to follow and weeks to follow.
I hope that conversation was on high today in contemplation, deep thought and meditation.
I don't have any specific message today except to encourage the sentiment that is already a universal thread to everyone who remembers where they were when they heard or saw the news.
I can share that my child was born after September 11th, but in the year of 2001. It is amazing how my child asked me about the events of the day. My child has a friend in class who was born today. This generation is slowing arriving into their elementary school years and in some ways will be a mark of time and history.
I hope that you hug and love your family and friends.
I hope that you share and educate this first generation of children that were being born on and after this date in 2001.

 I send my deepest thought, my deepest regard, my deepest sentiments, my heartfelt encouragement to everyone on this day.
I hope you share, I hope you comment about your experience on this site and let me know what today means for you, and what you remember. I look forward to your stories and continued conversations.

Be Well and Gentle to your Family, Friends, and yourself.

-The Establishment