Some of us learn true love from people who know how. And some of us learn how to love with people who don’t know how.

Somewhere along the line someone loved me when I didn’t know how. Now I find myself in a place filled with people who do -and now it’s my turn to… I suppose 🤷‍♂️

THE MAGNITUDE OF THIS CHALLENGE -TO LOVE UNLOVABLE PEOPLE, FOR ME IS… I can’t stop thinking about being surrounded by so many people who have made it so difficult for me to love -“Not til you’ve walked a mile in my shoes” -Jesus- 😔

Believe it or not some people see death as the ultimate thrill!

How is it that so many of us come to see the world in such polarizing ways?

Pets not only make great companions, but they are great at teaching us…

•Preparing us for parenthood

•Patience

•Unselfishness

•Responsibility

•What true love is-unconditional

•How to live with and accept others as they are

•Keeping it simple & doing the next right thing

just to name a few.

*”You’d think man would be man’s best friend”. Jonathan speaking to Mark from an episode of “Highway to Heaven”.

It is claimed that the first time the phrase ‘man’s best friend’ was used, was in 1789 by King Frederick of Prussia. “The only, absolute and best friend that a man has, in this selfish world, the only one that will not betray or deny him, is his DOG.” He was talking about his Italian Greyhound when he used this phrase.

There’s something about man’s cities that looks very cold.

How is it that most of us come to dwell inside of these man made caves? Does it date back to the womb? And how is it that some of us come to make the sky above us our home?

Some people don’t know the difference between a person who’s being an authoritarian and someone who has conviction.

If you had to choose between your daughter going out with a 16 year old her age who is cunning and was cunning and dishonest and is dishonest and…. Or a 30 year old man who was honest and responsible and capable of caring and respecting your daughter peryour daughter… which would you choose? The law says it’s legal for the former and not the latter.

If you can’t solve my problem at least act like you give a damn. I just got off the phone with a representative from my bank who couldn’t solve my problem and acted like he could give it damn. It’s like I said before, if I get on the phone upset and my frustration increases with you then you are an escalator not AD escalator.

Yesterday the topic in the meeting was anxiety. I remember thinking to myself… remembering back to the days when I felt ashamed for the things I had done -and when I would go out into the world and look people in the eye I would feel this great anxiety. Then those days vanished -I became just another of the walking dead as I like to call it. There are millions of people walking around in the world who have done shameful things and appear to feel nothing when out-and-about, facing a fellow soul. This is never a good thing.

When I was a child I had all sorts of reactions to the things I had been subject to. I tried to remind myself that in spite of the fact that they caused me so much trouble with the people around me they were perfectly normal emotions and reactions. The real problem would have been had I had nothing whatsoever whatsoever in the face of these experiences – course the people around me didn’t care for them. They never even bothered to ask what was wrong – they merely thought I was a misbehaved child. In many instances they seemed to prefer scolding or punishing me rather than sitting down and trying to figure out what was wrong. It takes a special person to sit down with a difficult person to sit down with a difficult person to sit down with a difficult person and have a heart-to-heart rather than becoming bitter, or judgmental, or retaliatory. Those people were far and few in between in my life.

The universe will always have more of God in it than of man!

Anyways, I’m not here to bash people but to simply be a part of a process which brings enlightenment. I may @ times blur the lines as I tend to get upset regarding the direction our world is going in (I’m only human just like you) -and the influence it is having on children who don’t have the necessary perspective, life-experience, proper guardianship to distinguish various messages coming out of our world these days. It doesn’t take much to condition (convince) a child that something very wrong isn’t, or isn’t “that bad” as long as… especially if it brings pleasure and other positive emotions (how can it be wrong, or bad)*.

*I envision a future, where people are engaging in same-sex intercourse not because of feelings stirred within them from a very early age, but because of the examples being set by the adults around them. Gangs, drug-abuse, alcohol consumption (we live in a world that demands rigorous coping and life skills -humans are often predispositioned, if not conditioned to seek an easy way out. Or worse yet, where a lack of adequate skills and defenses are evident -people will latch on to whatever happens to be available around them (whether they just happen to be their, or are purposefully put there @ a price… or based upon some other hidden agenda). ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE PASSED ON FROM GENERATION-TO-GENERATION. In fact, the drug dealers are counting on it, the cigarette industry is counting on it, and the alcohol industry is counting on it. Most people consume alcohol while only 10% are alcoholics -they do so for the aforementioned reasons which I will reiterate here**:

•Conditioning

•Peer pressure

•Social Lubricant

•Americana (a part of the cultural landscape)

•Escape

•Coping tool…

**And you can replace alcohol with any number of things, food, credit cards, cocaine, sex with your dog… and no offense Daisy, work…***

*** You know, if I was the head of a multi-million dollar industry that I knew was causing great great harm to millions of people… And don’t give me that shit about people being responsible for their own choices (for some people the worst thing that can happen to them is too much freedom; and a close second is… too much money!)… while spending millions of dollars in campaigns to push your product. And in the back your mind, or the forefront of it, “today’s child observing their parents, and all-the-while being continually bombarded by ads (glamourizing)… are tomorrow’s (next) best customers!” Whatever you put in front of a child, a certain percentage will gravitate to it -or be affected by it in other areas of their decision-making.

I’m fairly certain there’s rock solid empirical evidence regarding influences on children -historical as well as contemporary! And I’m quite sure I’m not alone in my concerns! A lot of people are not gonna like what has to be said here – But as it was once stated in the movie “Class Action” “You’re probably gonna beat him Maggie -and we both know that. But at least he’ll go down knowing he was on the right side.” DITTO

This morning Ana and Ray brought Daisy (our little Chiuhahua) over on their way out to San Antonio to visit the kids and the grand kids. While we were adoring her, Ray made the comment “She acts better than some humans”. Well maybe we should consider treating our pets better than we treat some human beings. 🤷‍♂️

You know these creatures have really been a Godsend -particularly for the lonely, the broken-hearted, the ill/ailing…