Around the Corner and Up Your Street
Tomorrow: it will be here quickly. Have you noticed tomorrow seems to be upon us sooner than ever before? 2020 has been a year of disappearing time. For centuries, the greatest minds in our civilization have been unable to slow the passage of time. In St. Augustine, the oldest city in the...
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By now, most of you with better than average intelligence, have figured out da harv is a prominent guy; enjoys doing things because it makes him really feel good, often times traveling his road with an unbiased, unabashed, exhilaration for life caused by undeserved blessings, despite the kind words being sent to me....
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Turkey Time Just in case you’d like to know:Our military now: there are about 1.3 million active-duty personnel, or less than one-half of 1 percent of the U.S. population. The army is the largest U.S. military service, followed by the Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. Source: Office of the Undersecretary of Defense....
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With a Friend, Or Without You may speak as one to another Or not to another at all Or to a person like yourself About today, about tomorrow Or a long ago place on a forgotten shelf Perhaps all with an inner perspective One might be for sure The other merely a maybe Yours truly,...
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Scribed this Veterans Day, 2020 Wouldn’t you have to agree 2020 has been a rather strange year, at best?! — Some facts can’t be denied. I do believe you’d have to agree with what I just conveyed. When I was a little kid, I heard for the very first time, original source unknown:...
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Chuncheon, Korea: Located approximately six miles from the DMZ, 45 miles northeast of Seoul. Early July, 1953 Heat and humidity, unbearableTime of day, in the wee hours of the morningOn a troop train without indoor plumbing (holes in the floor)Note: There are no adequate words to properly describe the abominable stinkWe’re jammed in, this young...
Read More Let the games continue!
Meeting Stanislavski Dorsey High School, here in Los Angeles: At the time my prime interest was playing baseball and one day, signing a contract to play for a professional team. Studying and becoming a renowned scholar never entered my mind, at least not initially. My drive consisted of play, play, and more play....
Read More How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. -Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice- Often I agree, often I may not. Often the world does exceed the term ‘naughty’, expressed by the great bard. Often there are times in our lives when only a single...
Read More 2020: Yesterday’s Sports Fan
Where did it go Along with me Am I virtual No, that can’t be Used to love to dance I’d hold her She’d love me How to kiss goodnight We’re both wearing a mask Doesn’t matter at all Beneath my mask I don’t have teeth The nature of despair for positive thinkers Such as ourselves...
Read More Saying To Your Child…
I’m reminded of an experience most of us as parents similarly can recall. When you’re awakened in the middle of the night by one of your kids, who’s upset because they imagined a bad person being in the room with them. “Daddy, I’m scared there’s a bad man in the room, he’s hiding...
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