"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do." - Benjamin Spock
Jose Aviles
http://www.avigifts.com
http://www.avicast.blogspot.com
http://www.jose-aviles.blogspot.com
Monday, September 20, 2010
Today's Quote
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Today's Quote
"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends." - Abraham Lincoln
Jose Aviles
http://www.avigifts.com
http://www.avicast.blogspot.com
http://www.jose-aviles.blogspot.com
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Today's Quote
"Most people fail in life because they major in minor things." - Anthony Robbins
Jose Aviles
http://www.avigifts.com
http://www.avicast.blogspot.com
http://www.jose-aviles.blogspot.com
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Today's Quote
"Life, is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming." - Myrna Loy
Jose Aviles
http://www.avigifts.com
http://www.avicast.blogspot.com
http://www.jose-aviles.blogspot.com
Friday, September 10, 2010
Daily Quotes 9-10-10
"Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life" - Harvey MacKay
Jose Aviles
http://www.avigifts.com
http://www.avicast.blogspot.com
http://www.jose-aviles.blogspot.com
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Today's Quote 9-8-10
"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly" - Sam Keen
Jose Aviles
http://www.avigifts.com
http://www.avicast.blogspot.com
http://www.jose-aviles.blogspot.com
Monday, September 06, 2010
Today's Quote 9-7-10
"To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world." - Brandi Snyder
Jose Aviles
http://www.avigifts.com
http://www.avicast.blogspot.com
http://www.jose-aviles.blogspot.com
Friday, September 03, 2010
Today's Quote 9-3-10
"To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness." - Robert Muller
Jose Aviles
http://www.avigifts.com
http://www.avicast.blogspot.com
http://www.jose-aviles.blogspot.com
Thursday, September 02, 2010
Today's Quote 9-2-10
"They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything." - Bil Keane
Jose Aviles
http://www.avigifts.com
http://www.avicast.blogspot.com
http://www.jose-aviles.blogspot.com
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Today's Quote 8-29-10
"To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness." - Robert Muller
Jose Aviles
http://www.avigifts.com
http://www.avicast.blogspot.com
http://www.jose-aviles.blogspot.com
Monday, August 23, 2010
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Today's Quote 8-22-10
"Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again." - Alex Tan
Jose Aviles
http://www.avigifts.com
http://www.avicast.blogspot.com
http://www.jose-aviles.blogspot.com
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Today's Quote 8-21-2010
"While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future." - Ronald Reagan
Jose Aviles
http://www.avigifts.com
http://www.avicast.blogspot.com
http://www.jose-aviles.blogspot.com
Friday, August 20, 2010
Today's Quote
"Don't walk in front of me. I may not follow. Don't walk behind me. I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend." - Albert Camus
Jose Aviles
http://www.avigifts.com
http://www.avicast.blogspot.com
http://www.jose-aviles.blogspot.com
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Today's Quote
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
Jose Aviles
http://www.avigifts.com
http://www.avicast.blogspot.com
http://www.jose-aviles.blogspot.com
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Today's Quote 8-18-10
"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose." - Tennessee Williams
Jose Aviles
http://www.avigifts.com
http://www.avicast.blogspot.com
http://www.jose-aviles.blogspot.com
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Today's Quote
"Most people fail in life because they major in minor things." - Anthony Robbins
Jose Aviles
http://www.avigifts.com
http://www.avicast.blogspot.com
http://www.jose-aviles.blogspot.com
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Today's Quote 8-15-2010
"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul." - Saint Augustine
http://www.avigifts.com
Jose Aviles
Saturday, July 10, 2010
MY FATHER, MY DAD Marine Corps CPL Jose D. Aviles
Today I visited the grave site of Marine Corps CPL Jose D. Aviles AKA My Father. I found out this past Friday July 9, 2010 that on June 8, 2009 My Father passed away in a Veteran Affairs Hospital in Bronx, New York. I haven't seen and/or heard from my Dad since 2001. What makes me feel worse than anything is that in April of 2007 I moved to New York and lived less than 30 miles away from the Hospital where he spent the last minutes of his life. I feel so bad, I feel terrible and now I wonder (think)"Did I do everything in my power to find him?", "Did I exhaust all means to find him?". Those questions are going to be with me forever and I just don't have an answer to them and probably never will have one. Thanks to my awesome Wife I was able to track him down to an address in the Bronx and when I thought that I would find him I got the phone call from the Hospital to answer my questions and later told that he was gone. When I heard that it felt as if the ground was pulled from under my feet, then and only then I realized that the last time I heard his voice telling me that he witnessed the September 11 attacks in New York City was the last time that I heard his voice, that the week he spent with me in late 2000 or early 2001 was the last time that I would see him and now I would give anything to see him again. He was alone when he passed away and was buried with Military honors and a Chaplain and I wasn't there to pay him my respects. He was hardly around when I was growing up but no matter what, he was MY FATHER, MY DAD and I wish I would've seen him again. Today when I saw his name engraved in the headstone I realized that it was true that he was gone (until then I was kind of in denial). No matter what happened through our lives when I was growing up, nothing matters as far as why you wasn't around, what matters to me is that you are gone and will never forgive myself for not finding you earlier, for not doing whatever it took to find you, but above all you were and will always be MY DAD. DAD I LOVE YOU and I MISS YOU.
V/R,
Jose A. Aviles
SSG, US Army
LOVE YOU ALWAYS
Jose Aviles
Sunday, July 04, 2010
Good 4th of July
Well,
Today was a good 4th of July. Didn't do much during the day but in the afternoon my wife and I went to do a little shopping and came back home. I made myself a snow cone with Blueberry syrup and played the Nintendo Wii while my wife watched her favorite TV series on DVD (Charmed). After playing th Wii for a little while my wife and I went to eat at Olive Garden. We came back home and same routine, play Wii and watch "Charmed" (makes me feel like Charmed is more important than me). Now we are laying in the bed watching Charmed while our Puppy Precious is bothering us and walking all over the bed. Precious is bad (in a good, funny sort of way) but fun at the same time. I guess it's until tomorrow.
PS.
Precious won't be still on the bed, maybe it's time for her to go to her own bed.
Jose Aviles
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