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Grandparents Life Lessons

My grandmother taught me to be careful about curses. When you wish bad upon another, there is a consequence, a price to pay. Tweets wished for “Bad Weather” in Washington for our Country’s Birthday. Funny, what’s happening to California. Call it karma, justice or righteousness, now police and Veterans can’t get a cup of coffee…
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Positive Direction

All we need. In struggles; the courage to keep pushing. The determination to succeed. The compass of justice.

Chaos 2

I don’t think I’m alone. Tired of children telling me how I should live. They won’t take time to listen to my stories. That’s okay. They won’t listen to recent Echoes. Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Kaiser and Emperor alike. Ancient myths from cultures very alike in values. Student’s don’t even read classics anymore. Plays classics once…
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How Did You Feel?

I’ve been asked, and maybe you too! How did you feel? Did you “Feel” today like you did before? I’m screaming inside, my skull is too small or too big. I “Feel” like I do because I am here. Brought by my Fore Fathers and Ancestors to this point, also largely by my own choices.…
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Half A Century Thru My Lens

With all the Upheaval in Today’s Society I close my Eyes and think back whenever something just doesn’t seem or feel right. Lately I’ve been going back 50 Years. To about Grade School, 5 to 12 years old. We were very good at keeping our mouths shut at the appropriate time (always) and ears wide…
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Streaming

I saw cloud. I saw distributed computing. Bitcoin, social media. I was just becoming a mess and the pain sucks.

Monsters

Everybody sees “MONSTERS” but are blind to the really scary things  

Justice

It’s what we all seek in life. PLEASE, don’t  test me again. My mother brought me up soft and my father made sure I was hard enough. It’s the balance we all seek. Rich, Poor, Short or Tall. Regardless of culture, the way to get through is BALANCE!  

Friendly Fire

I had soldiers try to stop me from stopping a ring the was mugging soldiers. A .45 1911 pistol was pressed into my forehead after I had been handcuffed, shoved into a dark room and beaten with baton. Just for stopping 3 or 5 soldiers from whupping a fellow sergeant. There were witnesses, a CID…
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Is it Really that hard to eat Well?

I grew and made this salad in less than a month.