Archive For The “Here I Am” Category
Mankind is like dogs, not gods – as long as you don’t get mad they’ll bite you – but stay mad and you’ll never be bitten. Dogs don’t respect humility and sorrow. – Jack Kerouac I love the mad ones, the crazy ones who chase sunbeams and butterflies and girls with thick glasses.
Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven’t thought of yet.” – Unknown My little brother and I tried to start Children’s Day. Might have been the late 1950s. Back before Black History Month or Martin Luther King’s Birth Day. There was Mother’s Day shortly followed by Father’s Day. Shortly followed by…
Does he even know that there are service members who are in harm’s way right now, watching him, looking for their commander in chief to show leadership, rather than to try to deflect blame? – Senator Duckworth Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’ The president has repeatedly disparaged the intelligence of…
I knew how good love could be — I knew it was the best thing I’d ever done in my life — and yet here I was alone. I was taking chances with my life. I kept telling everybody that I was all right, but I wasn’t.― James Patterson, Jack & Jill You know I love you…
Am I the only one who thinks it’s ironic Fox Sports fired an announcer for using a anti-gay slur? – Barker Ajax I had something salubrious and edifying already written, but I lost it when my wife interrupted me to tell me how much she loved me and how happy she was we found each…
“The way I see it, you are ambivalent or need to process all that I have told you. “Would you like to know how Benjamin Franklin came to a tough decision when he was doing all the great things he did?” Something I remember from sales training – the Benjamin Franklin Balance Sheet Close. A…
And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s…
I believe I speak for all hidden creatures, when I tell you we want to stay hidden. We are the true citizens of America, back when it actually was great. Before you all got here. And started crapping on our native land. Used to be the biggest danger getting run over by a herd of…
Every man alone is sincere. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Opened a new book today and in the first few pages, I found these lines…. In the lowlands I have no comrade, not even the lone man’s friend— Her who suffereth long and is kind; accepts what he is too weak to mend: Down there they…
If we want our children to grow up in a democracy — not just with elections but a true democracy, a representative democracy…then, we’re going to have to be more like John Lewis.” – President Barack Obama I know what you’re thinking – that soldier looks shell-shocked. Honest to God, of and in whom I…