I just finished reading the National Bestseller, Chosen by a Horse. I found these words near the end stunning and remarkable.
"My mother's death was my death - a death and a birth at the same time. The death of the child I still only knew through my mother's eyes and the birth of someone unrecognizable - this new child, faceless without her mother mirror. A child with no proof of her own existence. The death of a mother is an annihilation of that first love, which is narcissistic and...

Found out last night you took your own life a nearly a year ago. wth, man? She wasn't worth it. I hope you're with the Father now.
I'm thankful for the time we worked together in the Marine Corps. God bless those who mourn.

A poem a wrote to this beautiful Norwegian woman.. It is called The Scandinavian Queen.. I don't write much poetry , especially love poetry, but I thought I would give it a try... Actually, this is the first love poem I wrote.. It was simply for fun, but the beauty of this girl was quite inspirational...


Scandinavian Queen

The beauty of the Scandinavian Queen
Melting the ice of the Artic Sea
All who stare into her eyes
Will be mystified...

I realized the meaning of kindness on Sunday.
My son finally wanted to go fishing on Sunday. While in Santa Barbara pier, I ordered some clam chowder and sat on an umbrella covered table and chair. Shortly after, a lady arrived who liked my table, so she invited the rest of her family to join. The rest of tables were either taken or did not have an umbrella. It was rather a large family , so by the time their food was brought to the table, we were definitely short of space. I was kind of...

The spread of literacy to the masses is arguably the most far reaching cultural change of the last two centuries. One of the first countries where this took place was Great Britain. Jonathan Rose's The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes uses much autobiographical material to tell us how the workers experienced their quest into written knowledge, roughly from 1760 to 1960. It is a historians' history, packed with information and references. It transforms our understanding of a driving...