“It’s My Life!”
December 8, 2009
This is a recent document that probably is my storybook – “It’s My Life!” Wait and waiting… an exercise in patience. ENJOY!!! Wait and waiting 3
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This is a recent document that probably is my storybook – “It’s My Life!” Wait and waiting… an exercise in patience. ENJOY!!! Wait and waiting 3
Good morning. Right now it is 10:46 AM on December 9, 2009. It is my ex-wife’s birthday. My daughter’s mother’s birthday. She is 57 years of age today and I am not allowed by request to call Denise to wish her a birthday greeting. I last spoke at length with Denise and Alethea on December 9, 1998, a little more than 2 months after arriving in the Philadelphia area from Key West, Florida, where I had lived since 1990. Following a September 1998 hurricane, I came to the Philadelphia area to visit with my daughter and newly born grand-daughter. That has yet to happen in my life. I have been in this region of the country for this express purpose for eleven years so far.
In the past decade, I have been able to take advantage of the cultural and economic resources and social services in this region and I am stable, healthy and balanced. I am not as angry and as vengeful as I have been throughout most of my life. A dish best served cold… I have heard that statement for many years from many people in many cultures. It seems a consistent posture to humankind.
It seems to me the best revenge against an enemy is SUCCESS.
It seems to me SUCCESS BEGINS INSIDE MYSELF. My effort and my self-respect demonstrated in all my manifestations create the arena within which my success is realized. My success outweighs your failures and anything I may harbor against you is detrimental to my strategy for success in my endeavors. I control the volume of intrusion allowed after the fact. I cannot control your initiated efforts; I can control my reactions to a great degree. Let us concede that I cannot presently control the blood flow from a bullet wound that may have been administered by a pistol held and triggered by you. Let us agree against that experience of control.
When I direct my effort toward revenge against you, my foreign affairs outweigh my domestic affairs and my personal posture becomes emotional, shortsighted and self-centered. This is my observation of being human. This occurs. We do this.
In seeking a better posture I discovered that a spiritual path may be the solution to the problems I faced. Let us assume I am my own worst problem and that this is true for each of us. Let us agree that this is inherently being human. This is what we are. We are our own biggest problems.
Tomorrow, December 10, 2009 at Noon, I have a court appearance as plaintiff against Roger Bender for threatening my life. I met Roger Bender through Jerry Sager and Billy Klotz on October 7, 2007 on a Sunday night. We drove from Jerry’s home to my apartment and I accepted a consulting posture with Billy for a $300.00 initial payment, a weekly fee and a scope of services to be provided. A corporation was created online with Billy and Roger as incorporators, Billy as sole corporate officer and each with a 50% equity position in the corporation’s finances.
That initial meeting has become tomorrow’s court appearance. Shit happens. Life is funny.
It’s 4:10 a.m. on Sunday, 5/16/10. I am awake and hospitalized until Tuesday, my scheduled discharge. I came here to the ER because I was having excruciating lower chest pains, difficulty breathing and uncontrolled oral fluid loss.
Based on the chest x-ray, I underwent lung surgery to drain a blood and pus-filled infected lung. During my post-surgical term in ICU, I had a heart attack. After the infection was addressed, I had a heart catheterization and stent installed in my “rca”. The blockage was cleared and I am a “medicine man” now.
This now is my life. More will follow. This is my blog site and this is my update on Sunday. Be nicer today than yesterday and let us all reap the joy of life and social interaction, virtual and actual.
Shalom.
Dr. Jeffrey W. Pergament, DD
Ordained 10/2008