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GIMME SHELTER!

Yesterday saw $2.4 trillion in wealth lost in America with another beating forecast for today according to the future’s trading.  Apple Corp lost billions as did other companies. But so did individual investors and their public or private pension funds likely were hit hard as well.  In war, there are casualties and trade wars are no different.  One person in his pride, arrogance and increasing thirst for power launched this war and there are consequences.  But there is a worse button that POTUS can push, isn’t there? The...

DIRECT ACTION FOR SENIORS

I am a retiree and have little personal experience in collective political action. When I was eighteen, I put together a wildcat strike that fizzled. It cost me my job. When I was 28, I wrote a letter to Leonid Breshnev asking him to let the Pentecostals seeking refuge in the basement of the U.S. embassy in the Moscow to be allowed to emigrate. I had the opportunity to speak to the U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union personally and...

A Gathering of Eagles in Albany

A GATHERING OF EAGLES IN ALBANY

Deena and I heard about a second series of protests scheduled for all of the state capitals in the nation for noon on Friday, March 14th. This one seemed to be focused on program cuts to veteran’s health benefits and we wanted to be heard. Deena’s late husband Jim was a career servicemember as am I. We decided to attend. Much of this event seemed somewhat disorganized. It wasn’t clear to us who was promoting it. And we stumbled on...

EPISTLE TO THE REMNANT

It’s amazing how we learn even as we age.  Just as you retire and look for that life of leisure, something pops up and bites you in the butt.  Like a pandemic.  Or a revolution.  Something you never dreamed of being a part of.  Now, I’m starting to understand for the first time in my life what’s it life to be a part of a persecuted minority. Oh, I’m a white male in a country that’s 60.9% white (2022 census) and I’m a Christian in...

Eve of Destruction

EVE OF DESTRUCTION

“Take a look around you boy, It’s bound to scare you boy.“ July 1965 July 1965 was a cool 75.5 degrees Fahrenheit U.S. wide, much milder than we see today in July. A month earlier on Gemini IV, astronaut Ed White became the first American to “walk in space.”  The U.S. Civil Rights Movement continued to gain steam in America thanks to leaders such as Dr Martin Luther King and the Reverend Ralph Abernathy. A sympathetic President Lyndon Johnson had...

Our Lady of Paris Reopens

OUR LADY OF PARIS REOPENS

On December 7, 2024, Paris Archbishop Laurent Ulrich knocked loudly three times on the door to Notre Dame cathedral with his staff, referred to as a crozier1.  Once the doors were opened according to the “Rite of the Open Door,” the organ played, the bell rang and the reopening ceremony began as the cathedral once again roared to life following the catastrophic fire of April 25, 2019. Our Lady of Paris stirred from her slumber. The cornerstone for Notre Dame cathedral was...

I've come to take you home/

I’VE COME TO TAKE YOU HOME

Last Sunday Jimmy Carter, the thirty-ninth President of the United States closed his eyes for the final time and passed from this life to the next. It was a sad day for Deena and me. President Carter was a folk hero to us. A mentor. But now, Jesus has come to take him home. I was a young Christian during the seventies when Richard Nixon was in office. I’d go to prayer meetings and Bible studies and people would plead...

Under pressure

UNDER PRESSURE

Today, as never before in the last half century, people are under pressure, serious pressure. Those in Generation Z (born 1995-2012) or even older generations before this one, and the current Alpha generation, feel stressed and squeezed. A once-in-a-century pandemic interrupted the education and social development of Zoomers for several years and our society is still not back to normal. Zoomers may not have jobs, and if they do, their jobs may not provide a living wage for them and their...

Sailors take warning

SAILORS TAKE WARNING

Have you ever heard the old adage “Red skies in the morning, sailors take warning.  Red skies at night, sailors delight?” Perhaps you read it in the Bible (Matthew 16:2,3)? An adage, itself, is a short statement with an element of truth. For more than two millennia this bit of folksy wisdom has been passed down among mariners and their kin. And, there is actually science behind this. In the mid-latitudes, a red sunrise at sea can mean that a...

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