Young children are often asked what they want to be when they grow up? Their answers are usually some vocation that they are acquainted with such as a fireman, a policeman or they may say they want to be what their father or mother does. I believe that most people end up doing what they…
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On Physical and Spiritual Survival
I have donated my blood every couple of months, most of my adult life. My type O blood is the kind that is suitable for use in stabilizing babies and small children as well as adults. Blood is an amazing liquid. It is the elixir of life without which there is no life, at all….
On The Search for Freedom
Freedom can be looked at in many different ways but seldom as it is in Jean-Paul Sartre’s “The Flies”. He describes the tragedy of the human condition, and it is the paradox of freedom. A tragic situation arises between two different and often contradictory courses of action. A strong man is always free to choose,…
On Doing Time
Fortunately, I have never done time, but I have had a good friend who did actually do time in prison. His name was Gene, and as a youth he was a member of a very unstable family. His parents divorced and he lived with one for awhile and then the other. His father was an…
On The Social Magnets in Life That Pull on Us
My younger brother, Martin, was a poet and a philosopher of sorts. While he was serving in the U.S. Coast Guard we often exchanged thoughts via letters. His letters included poems and philosophies that were critical of the norm. He sometimes described things that he thought were wrong with families, society and life. In one…
On Don’t Forget
There is a saying that used to be popular : “Never forget where you came from.” Even though some may not forget, there may be some who may not want to remember. As a grown son, my little family never made it to where my birth family lived and worked but I never forgot. My…
On Pretending
Pretending has several connotations and some of them good, even funny, and some are an important part of growing up; others are just plain human nature for many of those of us who are a part of the human race. When I was a young child I remember my two older sisters pretending to be…
On Angels
I have written about Angels before but usually the ones that come back to earth as messengers to reveal new information to a prophet of God. This message is about all angels, even earthly angels, angels that live all around us, and there are many of them. There are many of us who have become…
On Self Respect
There are good people who feel they are just not up to par with those around them. They hold back from the group and you will always find them standing in the back behind the others. I have sometimes said, and also heard others say, when being awarded or rewarded, “I’m not worthy” and not…
On Marriage
You may have heard the term, ‘Point of No Return’. Nowadays they have added two more, ‘Points of No Return’, meaning, where once a decision is made you can no longer turn back. The term was originally referring to air travel where a plane, for example, has flown out into the ocean and no longer…