SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2022 AT 10 AM
PASCO COUNTY TOYS FOR GIRLS AND BOYS
MOTORCYCLE PARADE - Register 10am - 1pm Kickstands up at 1pm, Short Ride to Downtown NPR, To Drop Off The toys and Cash Donations To Sunrise Of Pasco County, Inc. Starting at Harley-Davidson of New Port Richey, $20 per person and/or new un wrapped toys for young girls and boys. There Will Be: • Vendors • Live DJ • Food Trucks • Silent Auction Items. All Proceeds from this event are going to: Sun rise of Pasco County, Inc. Domestic & Sexual Violence Center
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2022 AT 12 PM
WRENCHFEST FLORIDA 2022 - We are super excited to be bringing back our event WRENCHFEST FL for the 2nd Annual show. Riveters Tampa will be hosting the event once again. Great Food Cold Beer All Rat Rods Hot Rods & Motorcycles are invited. We will once again have a great lineup of Rock-n-Roll for your listening pleasure. Florida Full Throttle Maga zine Vintage Motorcycle Show. Be sure to watch here for further updates. DM Throttle America for spon sorship & vending opportunities info: ThrottleIncBrandie@gmail.com
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2022 AT 7 AM
BERT'S BARRACUDA 6TH ANNUAL CHRISTMAS
TOY RUN - Join Bert’s Barracuda 6th Annual Toy. We are excited for this year’s toy run especially since it is the only police escorted & longest beach & bridge ride.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2022 AT 9:30 AM – 5
PM SUNCOAST BROTHERHOOD ANNUAL TOY
RUN - Come on out to the oldest and best Toy Run . Kick stands up at noon . Please bring an unwrapped toy or gift cards for our Foster Kids . We still only charge $5 per person. Music donated by The Beard ed Brothers. Starts and ends at the Dunedin Ameri can Legion Post 275 - 360 Wilson St. Dunedin.
There is change in the air and that is good! Full Throttle Maga zine has a lot of changes coming for the new year! First off is we have a new office location. Our New Office is located on Grand Blvd and Sunray Road. Very Easy to find 2417 Grand Blvd Holiday Fl 34690. Feel free to stop by and say hello! Second, we are going to have to do it, and I’m sure everyone isn’t going to be happy but with inflation going the way it is we are going to have to go up a few bucks on our ad prices. Starting in January a Full-Page ad is going to be $600, and a half page ad will be $350. It’s not much but it has to be done with the prices of everything else go ing up around us. I wish I didn’t have to do this. Hope fully it will change in 2024, that’s all I am going to say. There are sooooo Many toy runs and charity rides this month it’s going to be hard to keep track of them all. We are starting one on the first Sat in Dec (Dec 3rd) going to Sunrise of Pasco County, Inc. They are domestic and sexual violence centers. Register at NPR Harley from 1am till 1pm with Kickstands up at 1pm. We will ride to the center, drop off toys and money collect ed and then go on our way. There is also Wrenchfest that day at Riveters on Dale Mabry Highway and that week end is the make good weekend for Gator Bike Fest as it had to be rescheduled because of the hurricane. Sunday the 4th is going to be Bert’s Harley big toy run, they are attempting to set a world record on having the great est number of bikes in a toy run, I believe the number is above 1,700 or about that. They should get really close to that number this year. One Ride I am planning on this
year is the St. Pete Fools Charity Ride, this event is December 10th and is a police escorted ride over the skyway and it is hosted by OCC Road house and Bert’s Barracuda Harley. December 18th is one of my favorite toy runs of the year! It is the Suncoast Brotherhood Toy Run and it starts and ends at the American legion Post 275 in Dunedin. This is always a police escorted ride and the Bearded Brothers Band will be playing back at the Post when you return. They always get so many toys and stuff for the kids they lay it all out on tarps and it makes your heart smile when you see all the great items they collect and donate to needy families. That same day, Dec 18th, the Bay Area Riders are doing their Miles for Smiles ride. They meet up at Tampa Joes’s on Anderson Road with kickstands up at 10am. January is right around the corner and this year GIBTOWN BIKE FEST is very early in the month. Gibtown Bike Fest is January 6th – 8th this year, a week earlier than their normal date. They have tons of bands playing all weekend long and they will also have Billy Lane from Sons Of Speed there this year. This event happens at the Showmans Club in Gibsonton, of course the home of the world famous “PeeWee Burgers”. They will have a ton of great vendors, rides, carnival acts and so much to do, that is why they are the most entertaining bike fest in the world. Check out more info at www.gibtownbike fest.com In January Full Throttle also helps host one of the biggest poker runs and the first one of the year for the past 5 years called Twinkie’s 5th Annual Around The Bay Poker Run. We are starting at Cowboy Corral This year and ending back at Cowboy Corral. Stops include The Dirty Mullet, Red Star Live, Hula Bay Club and Cow boy Corral. Registration for this ride is up to 12noon with the last bike out at 12noon, $20 will get you three poker hands and we pay for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and worst poker hands.
Congratulations goes out to Jim and Christine for getting married at Quaker on November 12th. Jim and Christine are leather and sewing vendors in the area and they are at almost every event! They had hundreds show up a few Saturdays ago and it was great! I’ve known Jim for a very long time and it’s great seeing him happy and Christine is very happy also. Don't drink and ride and I'll see you soon.
Hey hey we made it to the end of 2022… This is when the Tampa Chapter looks back to reflect on the year to see how many organizations we helped, and there are too many to list. A BIG THANK YOU to everyone in the biker community, please keep buying those cards & tickets, we can only do all this with your help!!! We do nated $1000 to L.Y.N Fund https://www.thelynfund.org/ they help cancer patients by paying their monthly bills. Diva Robin quickly volunteered for the cause by growing her hair for a raffle buzz cut during Ladies Bike Night, she was sporting a new hairdo at the end of the night.
We kicked off the holiday season with Fran Haasch’s 14th Annual Food Drive for F.E.A.S.T, kudo’s for all who helped sort and pack literally ton’s of food. Tis the time to spread cheer and sing
Christmas carols to Senior’s at Sable Palms in Largo.
With Daylight Savings Time, it gets dark VERY early. Please be safe and wear bright reflective gear and don’t forget your night driving glasses. Snowbirds are here, they are not used to motorcycles on the road.... ride like you are invisible and please arrive alive. The Diva Angels wishes everyone a happy and safe holiday season, we hope it is full of peace joy and happiness.
Check out our website http://www.divaangels.org/ to find a chapter near you or visit us
on Facebook at https://www. facebook.com/DIVAANGELSTAM PABAYCHAPTER/ we are a 501c
(7) not for profit organization. Ride safe and rubber side down. COME RIDE WITH US!
Diva Hel – Diva Angels Tampa Bay Chapter
“I feel safe with you”. Words seemingly more powerful than “I love you”. An epiphany that recently hit me when I said it to someone for the very first time in my life. I have said “I love you” a plethora of times in my life. But, “I feel safe with you” are words that had never come from my lips for fear of its misunderstood return. Words matter, they do and these ones are fraught with emotional labor’s intensity beyond mea sure. Safety is a sentiment more powerful, more essential than or conditional to the sentiment of “I love you”. Above all else, “safety” is what my desperate soul had been screaming for an entire lifetime. It is the bedrock, the foundation for any relation ship, friendship, partnership or any human relation. It is in right, a basic human fundamental need.
I will let ladies in on a secret. In this age of man-bashing and dare I say gender wars, with increasing demands and ex pectations for men to be more vulnerable, this is the ingredient that men require. That is an of fensive declaration to the male ego but truthful regardless. It is an innate need non-negotiable before a man will open the gates of vulnerability up to you. Safety is the name of the game. That is, emotional, psychologi cal, spiritual, intellectual, physi cal, and financial. If our partner or potential partner cannot offer the confidence that we are safe in those dimensions of life, we will not ride. Isn’t it the same for you ladies?
Would you ride passenger with someone who you are attracted to but who is reckless, egotistical, narcis sistic, abuses drugs or alcohol, who does not take all precautions to ensure your safety? Before we ride, we assess if it is safe right? Why then is it a multitude of us will compromise safety for the illusion of love or love for the illusion of safety? Thanks to Hollywood, we let our profound thirst for love idolize and romanticize relationships as if relation ships in and of themselves were the answer to all our soul needs. Looking at the world out there and social media’s
growing influencers with opinions, rela tionships continue to be a growing po larizing pool of expectations, rarely met. It is understood then why there is much breakdown in the state of relationships. Some take the requirement of “safety” to unhealthy levels. They will expect perfection and use that as a mean to not commit out of fear of being hurt. It is all about me me me me and respect me and what do you bring to the table
safe in the casket or coffin of your self ishness. But in that casket—safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreak able, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell”
and if you don’t do this or that then you you you you and you alone own the demise of what was once love and now becomes hate.
I love CS Lewis’ “There is no safe invest ment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will cer tainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it care fully round with hobbies and little luxu ries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up
We look for our soul-mate, our twinflame. We all have demons to deal with. Some worse than others. When we meet another soul embattled with the same scars and the same wars, the bonds between hearts quickly forms through affinity for we truly are equally yoked. When your souls share the same views, approach life and communica tions in the same constructive manner, when you have won the same victories on your individual paths, when your hopes, your views, your fears, your purpose, your insatiable souls seeking communion of hearts are so close that you communicate with ideas and even in silence, you know it’s a 1 in 10,000 connection. This symbiotic state of duality unified in the invisible realm triggers an incredibly powerful faith in the essential ingredient of “emotional, spiritual and intellectual safety” leading one to finally be willing to let go, give invaluable trust, dare to dream and envision an eternal unconditional bond. That is the only condition essential to men yes and also women to truly be vulnerable. That your weaknesses aren’t going to be weaponized against you is paramount. (Read that again!) In fact, think for a moment if we were to see vulnerability as a strength and not as a weakness. The reality of that is as simple as know ing that your flaws are perfect for the heart that’s meant to love you.
The importance of having a partner who points to the battles you are capable to win rather than reminding you of the falls you took getting there is something that will fuel purpose within that will cause a man to conquer any dragons, mountain, cities or inner demons. The opposite I assure you will
destroy your relationship with this man. That is something preachers and their kids and, self-proclaimed Chris tians I have known struggled to practice. Jesus knew He was not safe with us mere mortals yet He fearlessly chose to show us at a great price that at the end of the day we must press forward and learn to ride this life with hopes to experience love regardless of the pain. For we know well, “love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance” 1 Corinthians 13:7
At the end, the soul who recently inspired me to say “I feel safe with you” closed the door to deeper connection in the face of one of my scars but I still made a friend for life. I opened the door and I gained an ally. Not everyone can handle all our demons. That’s our job. So long as we own our battles and show we consistently, persistently seek to grow with a relentless appetite to conquer this life, we need no Hollywoodianromance. Creating our own safety for our well-being is the first step towards a fulfilling life. We must work on ourselves before we can be there for others, for
To love is to have pain and to have pain is to love. “If you are in pain, love and truth is what you want” – Jodan Peterson. Take a step towards love and open-up your
heart to the possibility of being loved the way you need. While there will be mo ments of pain you will rise through with the grace and wisdom to know its value to your heart and mind and soul.
The intersection between love and pain is humility. Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely. Love is an act of faith. Underneath it all, it is a journey where the path taken will at some point in life be shared with that safe soul and you will know that heart because they will never be above you, never below you but, always beside you. Be honest about who you are, what you want and how you ex pect to be treated. The good and the not so good. Truth and stan dards only help you sift through people that aren’t meant for you. And that’s ok.
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