Wilderness Blues- Ramblings from the Great Land

   We're living in unprecedented times in this country. We applaud people who are breaking the law and demonize those who try to uphold it. Most of the kids graduating have trouble doing the most elementary math, like making change at a register. Many of them are so socially awkward that they can't even hold a conversation face to face, it all has to be via a phone or computer. Church attendance is at it's lowest point in this country, but violence is at an all time high. See any correlation? When there is a mass shooting, as happened recently in both Buffalo New York and in Texas, there is an outcry for gun control. I understand, what happened is tragic. However, over the Memorial Day weekend in Chicago there were something like thirty shootings and I can't recall how many dead. This goes on every week. Where is the outrage at that? What happened to the BLM movement when black men are killing other black men on the streets of the windy city, or L A or New York City?  A...

I recently read this delightful poem on Fan Story, a writing website. This poem is by my friend Adonna, Marie Gipe. She's an exceptionally talented writer, and had penned a vast array of wonderful poems. If you should enjoy this poem, she has a book available on Amazon titled - Songs Before Dawn . It's filled with all manner of great poems. I've never cared for poetry before, but after reading various offerings from some of the poets on FS, I've found a new appreciation for poetry, something  even I am surprised by. I hope you enjoy this.                     Hidden Treasure  -  by Adonna Marie Gipe                            A young girl named Angela, quiet and slight,                       lay down in her bedroom to ponder her plight.              ...

           I love taking showers. I take one every day, unless I'm on the boat. I've even considered buying a different boat just because I could take a shower at the end of a long day. Not only do they get me clean, but the hot water seems to offer some relief from my aching joints. I take rather long showers, and while in there I spend a fair amount of time thinking; often of what I've just heard on what passes for news nowadays. I was going back over the news in my mind and thinking of Lord knows what all else, when  a thought struck me from out of the blue. I don't know if it was a question from God, or just a random thought that found it's way into my brain as the result of something that I'd recently heard or read or possibly what I was feeling. Anyway, a question formed in my mind- HOW LONG DO YOU WANT TO LIVE? It made me wonder, do I really have a choice? I mean outside of suicide, which isn't an option for me, and I hope that it wouldn't reall...