In my case perhaps, I lived during one of the most fruitful and peaceful times in our world, and in our country. But I also suffered some of the worst experiences a child could -domestically speaking.

I have it on good authority that the life I live today is better than 80% of the people out there. I should remind myself of that on a regular basis.With all my defects… God has continued to give me a good life 🤷‍♂️

Something has been gnawing at me for some time: In order to get good credit you have to leave a certain amount of money in debt and pay it on a regular basis on a regular basis in order to optimize your credit. Meanwhile, you are getting charged interest. So am I to take away from this that in order to have good credit good credit, to buy a decent car at a decent interest rate, to buy a house at a decent interest rate… You have to remain in a certain amount of debt and pay interest on that debt? 🤷‍♂️

My grandmother always used to say “If you have enough money to pay your bills be thankful.”

Thank God you have food to dirty those dishes with that you have to wash at night.

How many times have we stopped -just short of…*

*Sometimes God will keep pushing the 🥕 just out of our reach -because the point of it is not to get the 🥕 but to learn for ourselves:

•What our limitations are

•To push our through our own limitations

•To learn humility through accepting defeat

•To accept life on life’s terms

•To learn to differentiate/embrace “the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, or the courage to change the things we can.”

The less we accept things, the more courage we will have to muster in order to change them. The less courage we show in changing things, the more acceptance we will have to muster in order to live serenely with them.

You know what I have found to be very very interesting 🤔 this starting happening to me some time during my years at the university – I would be listening to a program or news commentary on a particular subject or issue… A thought would come into my head, and then a so called expert would come on and repeat what I was thinking*

You know what most people love about most people? WHAT THEY DO FOR THEM, & -THEIR ATTRACTIVE FEATURES, TRAITS… You know what most people don’t love about most people? WHAT THEY DON’T DO FOR THEM, & -THEIR UNATTRACTIVE FEATURES, TRAITS…**

*Try this ‐ Quiz yourself on some topics that you know little about that mankind has already figured out. Give your best answers and compare them to to those already established answers. See how you score. Whether you score high or low Isn’t relative in and of itself (except on a personal level perhaps). Now then, you can do this regardless of how you scored scored in the first trial but – If you scored fairly high, Then try to tackle some subjects for which mankind has yet to find any answers.There’s a good chance you may have some of them right.

**You know what the thing is about alcohol and alcoholics? It requires little to no character! It taxes us little! In fact, many “an-alcoholic-in-their-cups”, it could be said, have some rather unappealing character traits/features.

The people just a tad-bit 🤏 older than me, are starting to show signs of fading. Some recently, have died a premature death (if, in God’s universe there is such a thing) 🤔 Does this mean I’m heading towards their same fate -perhaps sooner than later? My hip, a cracked tooth, general feeling of age…😒

*I probably have had a better run than most – especially when one considers how reckless I’ve been throughout my life!

They say in Alcoholics Anonymous – wait a year before making any major changes or getting into a relationship. In my case it would have been more like 15 to 20… True story!

I’ve probably forgotten more things than most people ever know. Unless of course, they’re keeping it all to themselves.

No human being can be aware of all things at all times.

Awareness is everything! Focuses the only thing!

If we can do that with something artificial -imagine what it can do with the real thing!

Mankind ventures out on his own, suffers the consequences, throws himself, once again, at the mercy of God! 🤷‍♂️

With regard to the big Bang theory we’re not just talking about an explosion of matter here we’re talking about an explosion of matter here we’re talking about an explosion of laws and principles and… and… and… and… and… and… and…

The average person has how many original thoughts in their lifetime?