What Crosses My Mind

  • Listening Out Loud

    Watching the news, hearing the words, imagining the time, wondering about just right now.   Reflection in the way, causeways toward truth, the ignorance of time, we all want to find, a happy place.   Chapters in reserve, there’s no way back to resolve the issues we knew way back when we had no idea.…

  • Why Colin Kaepernick is Right for the Green Bay Packers.

    When the season began, and Kaepernick again became the center of a controversy for a quarterback with skills not being signed by a number of teams in need, I thought about the Packers, and because their position is secure with Aaron Rodgers, I didn’t give it a second thought. There wasn’t a need. Rodgers gave…

  • Observing Humanity at Ease

    Driving along the highway this morning, I came upon a woman walking alone on the side of the road. I found her to be an odd sight, it was raining, there wasn’t a sidewalk per se, and she was walking away from an industrial region of the city. I looked around to see a stalled…

  • The White Out

    In a sudden state of conclusion, a confusion, an interruption of our ultimatum, we were in a stirring rendition, of love, of fun, of childhood, when simply in the notice of our soul catcher, we were told it is time to go home.   Now in the quiet of the day, when laying back in…

  • I’m Struggling to be OK, and other “Trump is my President” Anxieties

    Last night I listened to 45 basically implode or become ‘unhinged’ as most news agencies reported, except for one I suppose. I walked into my home and my wife was exasperated with his demonstrative ranting at his Arizona campaign rally. Then I listened more as he defended all of his bigotry and ‘fake news’ accusations,…

  • Validation

    Is it a want, a need, a purpose, defines the living soul, the eyes of which, a world may rely upon to assist simple understanding.   The manner we posture, a walk, a glance, an utterance, measured by one, thought of as many aspects – how an introduction might manifest an outcome.   If by…

  • This Quiet Passion

    It is a love, a desire, a response to silence, for so many occasions, while the skies do glance the usual, always, the emotions might trigger, might respond, could offer a storm of wrath, or perhaps, when least we anticipate, a light rain, to cleanse our soul, allow our lives to breathe, beyond the casual…

  • Our Violent Humanity

      It would seem we haven’t had enough, Watching our neighbors fall to the sword, The world around us eschewing the evil Of a nation lost in a swirl of self-pity. – No one to blame but ourselves, Yet that never comes into play, We are soon to discover some outlet, Easy to say we…

  • When In A State

    I would if asked, Suggest my world an easy one, Though to the onlooker, It may seem quite the opposite.   Depends upon the day, I might quickly suggest, Have I been, browbeaten again, Or just left for dead, I’d want to guess.   I wish there might be a time, Like the night I…

  • What Is Integrity

    I’m asking, not knowing, I’m believing, not completely understanding. I do know this, a smile, a gracious compliment, a willingness to step above the fray, I know there are opportunities likes this, to find our soul. Is that it I wonder to myself a loud. is all I’m doing part of the greater measure designed…