Dark Side of the Moon

   Having painted the town red, we looked to trip the light fantastic. Not sure what that light is, but it sure looks and sounds good. We spin we circle, we circumnavigate, but even with all of that, we somehow have found our way here. We enter the jungle with the agreement of you go your way and I'll go mine. So we go off alone, each on our own path. Well, each to his own way to a point, but what of the importance of our collective ways? 

  Time, there never seems to be enough of it. Alarms are ringing and church bells chiming saying, Wake Up! A moment of consideration first you say, Spirited debates like Virgin Vessels launched from our location, what retrieve is yet to see. Waste and clutter, a waste of time. A time to create, a time to contemplate. 

  All cream rises to the top, and so it is with the people of God. they've become the best they can be by learning the ways of God. Reality moves ever forward, the speed of its changes are best seen from your new perspective. But by the way and time you've found your way home, you realize that you have come full circle. 

  Home, it's so good to be home. Home is where your heart is and it has been said that the heart is a lonely hunter. Home, warm and safe, snuggled among family, a comfort so lacking in our rush to come round another time, and all this time you have circled only in your personal orbit. Come out and join life. Music interlude, end. 

  This piece is best read in concert with the song. Written while listening and reacting in time with the music, trying to write on pace with the music but trail off after the first two songs, my fingers were tied in a knot. Might I suggest Pink Floyds album version Uncut but joined as one single song. This album is special to me personally. My brother and I saw them together with not even a beer in us, and like everyone not in the band sat mesmerized as if frozen in each moment. It took us three hours to find our car, and again, no drugs or alcohol, straight. Read the script with the music. 

  Again, our family wishes your family a happy and blessed Thanksgiving!   

Jonah and the current Age

  Most of you have heard about the fable (story), about Jonah, the man who was swallowed up by a big fish for three days until puked up on the shores of Nineveh. However you pronounce the name of the city, those of you who know will think that maybe the city's name might come up in the writings from Tolkien and C S Lewis. Anyway, first let's set the above scene straight. The story about Jonah the prophet is not a fable, but a fact. 

  Jonah was a prophet who lived between seven and eight hundred years before the birth of Christ, which of course began this our modern age. You can wax eloquent if you like with words denying the reality of an all knowing entity, One God! the one who started it all , And, is at the center of it all. The Bible is the oldest known verifiable book in the world. Five thousand years in the making, two thousand plus years into the modern age and the Bible is more relevant now than ever. His voice sounds like the rushing of many waters, it is the sound of all languages and spoken words all as one sound, a very impressive sound, for each hears in his own language and dialect. In the small summation that is in my Bible above the actual writings of Jonah. The Bible lives because it has been taught to many writers and witnesses through thousands of years because it remains true today yesterday and tomorrow. The author of the book is the Lord our God as a teacher, the Holy Spirit, told to men and many witnesses throughout history. Written by mere men yes, the thoughts of God as taught by His spirit, told to men and written down, recorded and accurate through the near eight thousand years that is recorded in the book. Simply put, the Bible is not physically written by Him, but written about Him, written down. You can trust the accuracy of what you read If the Bible was a book of fables and lies, it would not have survived some eight thousand years. The Bible is the living and active word of God. Read it, for in it are the teachings and the ways of God, written to men. People, just like you and me, a solitary invitation to come to know God. The one and only God, the absolute purity of the reality of truth. 

Have a happy Thanksgiving, hold family close, love each other, bury the hatchet, come together. Thank God for family and all that you have, but thank Him for being Him, Do it as a family, and He will join us at our table. Jesus isn't fickle, He just never forces Himself where He is not welcome. Pray together as a family, go ahead and try it. Afterall, You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.    

Punctuation

  I'm me, I used to be him, but I'm not the one you met before. That was the slogan above the door of Wisdom-quest, which was my first blog going back to the Google plus days, G+ was a social site for nerds, Google canned it. I always liked the opening line, I had forgotten it, but it has been nagging at the edges lately, and so there you have it. The line was a good example of circular reasoning in the comedy side. It is sort of like circular reasoning and spin class in one. Compensated reality, it comes in many forms. Don't ask me because I don't know what it means, it came to mind so I typed it, thought it might even get a chuckle? The question mark denotes doubt as to whether the line is funny. 

  Punctuation: Now there is a topic for a Monday morning. Consider the dot we call a period. It means complete stop, end of sentence but not the end of the subject at hand. Then of course there are comas as I just used and they denote a pause in thought, a time of transition to the continuance of the sentence. If my remembrance from elementary English is wrong, that the mark that denotes the joining of two words is called? I was going to say hyphen, but wrong punctuation mark. An example of the wrongly named hyphen is with the word haven't, which is the two words, have not, as one. Another word on comas. They are great a place to draw a breath if reading a speech aloud. Then of course there is the always exiting exclamation points, they denote emphasis and of importance of the last sentence or word to the writer. Of course if we were to go on using punctuation and their meaning a comedy bit I could hear coming from George Carlin, who was a linguist of the funniest order. Did you know that without at least an element of truth there is nothing funny about any joke? But the placement of exclamation points may not transfer from writer to reader so easily. One man's excitement could be another man's dread. When I started this piece my intent was to write a comedy using punctuation as the basis for the comedic piece. Linguistics and humor go well together as our friend George knew well. Linguistics can be hilarious. But then my intention went to a dire matter, far more important than me playing with language, and that is, Education! We who can read can laugh at things like this, but the disturbing fact is that the majority of kids in this country from grade school to college are reading at levels far blow other cultures. 

  America please. Imagine the most powerful scene you can conjure up in your mind, and commit that to as deep a thought as your mind allows, but also consider the following, This November at election time, add one more urgently important subject, that being education. Yes finance, and yes about all the regulars, but add to your concern the education of our children, their children and so on. Bumper sticker moment: Our children are our future!!    

My Fellow Americans

   How has it come to this? How was the left's plan to divide us so affective, they almost got us, but like cockroaches, now that they have been exposed, they come out publicly and say terrible things, no longer hiding but some how emboldened, while we sit politely by. But now that the pendulum has begun to come to rest at center, and some over swing is bound to happen. So as the pendulum swings back it causes the gong hammer to strike the heavy bell and the deep and heavy bell sounded out a warning throughout the land. 

  The sound is so profound that not a one can say they have not heard it. Now is the time, we must act like good citizens. But we must do more than recognize it, we must heed it's call and protect it. No matter born here or naturalized, citizens of the United States of America, without violence, the time of realization is at hand. Some of you whether for financial gain, or your misguided ego, now is the call, raise up your voices as a mighty shout! Raise up your voice as one people united by the freedom we enjoy. United as one voice, stop whining about racism and other so called things you think you've earned. Fool! Are you deaf and blind? Let's keep it simple, look at your tv anytime of day. Dr. Martin Luther's Dream has been realized and everyone knows it. If you just watch commercials, most all of the commercials that blast at us selling whatever, the actors are more minorities as actors. It is a fact that there are more black and minority people by far, and supposedly, white people are still the majority. Hey? Should I get mad at that?

  No, I've lived long enough that the pendulum always swings back. The trick is to hold it at center, but on all reversed swings there is always an over swing, an over correction, but eventually it will center only if at rest in the middle. The physics are correct, it's the mood of the nation which force the pendulum, and cause the nation too far left or too far right, center is always the stated goal. But it is impossible to hold the bell hammer from sounding. Because we don't control it, He does. 

One final thought and I thought it might might sum up the above perfectly and this sentence earned it's right to stand alone,  My Latin is a bit rusty, but it is this country's crede: E Pluribus Unum. from many, One   

   

Focus

  Three times I made writing pad and pens ready, went about sitting semi comfortably, pen in hand I sat down ready to go and could not remember the title of the intended piece. So now what? Still I struggled to remember anything about either three. No notes, no quotes no story. Clearly what was needed was focus. I could not remember the ones from before, nor about what, and for that matter, why am I here now at the keyboard, why am I typing this? Best summed up with the word desire. But again, desire for what? The word came up and now it must be dealt with. Hopefully this will clear it up for all of us, including me. But perhaps I can explain it this way. I have had this Blog for a long time now, and I feel like however many of the readers there are, few or many, that I owed it to them? don't ask. 

  Also, lately I have been transmitting from atop the highest radio tower in Gotham City on X. So the plan was to use that as an immediate access, but only for 250 characters. Anything longer than that which needed better clarification, I'd do here at Blogspot.  So I'm really not ready, and this was spare of the moment, as I knew another post from here was about do. At any rate I'm here now shooting from the hip just pecking away at the thoughts as they come. Focus? As far as the Desire aspect of things, that is much too deep a subject psychologically to deal with now. But Focus? that we can do. I won't trouble you with the dictionary explanation, but I will tell you that being able to focus is extremely important. 

  Here's a suggestion, Sort out the thoughts of your mind and coral them by immediacy and importance, Then calmly remove one thought out aside from the rest. Give this chosen thought your complete attention, and allow not even other thoughts not pertaining directly to the subject or the point at hand. Hey! Was this more than 250 characters?