Lives Matter

I watched a video today. It caught my attention as I have been concerned over media hype on the "Black Lives Matter" demonstrations. As I watched, read and followed media reporting, what this one woman said had meaning to me. Why? Because she said what many of my friends, family, and co-workers all say.....How can anyone, defend criminal behavior? How can anyone respond to it with  criminal behavior and believe that is somehow acceptable?

The people who display criminal behavior are frightening and dangerous. Criminals are people who threaten each and every one of us: whether it is our lives, our property or the lives and property of others; they threaten our security. They act with criminal intent and cause intimidation, fear, suppression or violence. I don't think there is a person out there who has not felt or knew when they were being victimized by the unkind, unreasonable or unlawful actions of another.


Martin Luther King's message about the "content of the mind" rather than the "color of the skin" is what I believe in. Why is a person's skin color the issue here, not the actions of that person's mind?

 I feel and believe it is an attempt to divert attention away from the choices that person made that put them in harm's way, and to remove the responsibility away from that person... when harm came.

I view this attempt at an excuse for bad behavior the same way I view bad behavior excused because of religion, culture, environment, family, circumstances etc,etc. . Not happening, nope!

 I  am held accountable for my actions...and you are held accountable for yours.

Perfume - the essence of memory

I caught a scent the other day
and I was swept away.

Into the childhood memory
Of of fresh turned earth, and
new mown hay.

I caught a scent the other day, and
turned my face to the sun.

And smiled to think
a Memory
is just a scent away.

Ponderable

We need to remind our youth....

That when you adopt an idealology of violence to "change the world".
You fail to realize you are the inheritors of that world.

Influence- The Subtle Weapon

Influence leads to Credibility.
Credibility leads to Trust.
Trust leads to Belief.
Belief leads to Worship.
Worship leads to Power.
Power leads to Arrogance.
And People Can Die.
Remember This.

Choose Wisely.

Logo For Terrorism and War

Killing the future...one child at a time.

October: All Hallows' Eve

All Hallows' Eve sweeps across the sky
as Death follows the sun riding the moon.
And over a pale,pale land
it's shadow spreads and Magic blooms.

While All Soul's Night unfolds,takes hold;
Death's Shadow then beckons the dead
to cross the border from Memory
And a pause in life begins.

As the dead wander over the border
a chill whispers on the wind.
Myth and Legend come alive
and Halloween reigns in.

So beneath a Harvest Moon
watched over by the Shadow of Death
we share our food, wearing costumes
and celebrate life with our Dead.

Living With Fear

9/11 made us all ground zero.



And as all the generations before us.......and all the generations that follow us....

We Endure.