Archive For The “Here I Am” Category
Like most people of my age, I feel a longing for what is lost and cannot be restored. But if the happy pursuits and casual beauty of youth prove ephemeral, something better can endure, and endure until our last moment on earth. And that is the honor we earn and the love we give if…
Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by Cola-Cola, fast food, and beer. Who’d have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously? – Bill Watterson A loving couple were in a busy shopping center just before Christmas. The…
If we can have transgender, why not transracial? Black lives matter. Axiomatically true. Suppose you go through life feeling like a brother from another planet. Just suppose. I’ve been profiled more than once. I ‘fit the description.’ Alone, under the thumb of The Man, just another cog, nothing you do, ladders without rungs, glass ceiling,…
Nothing about the virus has changed. And the vaccine isn’t here yet. More than 42 million Americans live below the federal poverty line, about the same as a decade ago despite economic growth since the Great Recession. The median income of Black households has increased only slightly in the same time frame, while households headed…
The right word at the right time helps you make sense of the world. It helps, but sometimes not a lot. ― Chris Lynch The magic mind moves until it touches down upon the plastic grass of the plastic town. The peeple walk stiffly conjoined by their fears their eyes have no visions but their heads…
He wasn’t a bad man and he never meant to hurt anybody. Same could be said for her. If you had to pick one song for somebody to dance to, what would it be? Barker Ajax always joked about “I Heard It Through The Grapevine” by Creedence Clearwater Revival. The long version, of course. But…
To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little. ― Criss Jami I so love ice cream, a beautiful woman, big bowl every night.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. – Douglas Adams Can you imagine? A major motion picture by Steven Spielberg. If that doesn’t work, a Rom-com with dogs and cats by Quentin Tarantino. As a last resort, might have to…
I can look at this title and think ‘oxymoron’, and still rejoice. Maybe twenty-five years ago, I wrote a heartfelt poem ‘The Ten Best Things About The Puppy Dying’ ttp://www.jackdogwelch.com/?p=19048 Losing Money was terribly sad and I was trying to look on the bright side. Last time I thought of that, a couple years ago…
“Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. ‘Cause that’s all that matters in the end.” All I ever wanted to be was Kris Kristofferson. Sometime soon i‘ll write a tune and take it down to Memphis town. Tried to be a song writer That’s as far as I got. She…