I’ve been thinking. That, sometimes, is dangerous. But, I’ve been thinking about life … now that is really dangerous. I’ve been wondering about who I am and who you are and why we are. As a friend once said to me years back when I came up with similar questions, “What for?”
“What?”
“What for you wanna know?”
I thought for a moment and then said to myself, “He’s right. What for I wanna know?”
My father was born in 1898, my mother was born in 1907. My father and mother both rode in wagons pulled by horses and my father was a delivery boy with a buggy in Chicago. They went from horse and buggy to Model A’s and T’s,lived during the War to End all Wars WWI, the depression, WW II, Korea, Vietnam, witnessed Sputnik and John Glenn, and the First Step for Mankind. They did not live long enough to see cell phones and desk tops, lap tops, and the like. However, I am sure they would have taken it in stride. But I wonder if something was lost to all of us way back when the first Ford was rolled off the assembly line and we entered the “modern” age? Imagination was my childhood friend, not a TV screen.
So, we come to another July 5. And what have we learned on the days slipped into history this year. What lay ahead, what was behind. I know not the answer. For the past begets the future. Just as the Phoenix rises from its ashes, so does our future rise from our past. And the day before yesterday today shall become tomorrow before today became yesterday.
| Three Presidents did it, yet we never hear about itI FOUND THIS TO BE VERY INTERESTING. I WONDER WHY IT WAS NEVER BROUGHT UP.
What did Hoover, Truman, and Eisenhower have in common? Harry Truman deported over two million Illegal’s after WWII to create jobs And then again in 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower deported 13 million Don’t forget to pay your taxes… |
| The problem with public housing is, the residents are not the owners. The people who live in the house did not earn the house, but were loaned the property from the true owners, the taxpayers.Because of this, the residents do not have the “pride of ownership” that comes with the hard work necessary. In fact, the opposite happens and the residents resent their benefactors because that very house is a constant reminder they did not earn the right to live in the house. They do not appreciate the value of the property and see no need to maintain or respect it in any way.
The result is the same, whether you are talking about a studio apartment or a magnificent mansion full of priceless antiques. If the people who live there do not feel they earned the privilege, they will make this known through their actions. The picture below illustrates this point…
The Resolute Desk was built from timbers of the HMS Resolute As a matter of fact, get the hell out of the peoples’ house and take your arrogant staff with you. |
