Changes Will Come

Change will come whether you want it to or not. There is nothing we can do to stop it or make it change its course. There is a greater force than you or I at the wheel, and it won’t stop, turn, or even change lanes at your behest. Read more

Renovation

My transition to status as a ‘civilian’ in the broadest terms was more difficult than I’d expected.  The military had been the only life I’d known for the previous 14 years and, prior to that, the only life I’d ever wanted to know.  So, finding myself suddenly without the tethers of schedules and regulations and the tacit understanding of what my wardrobe would be tomorrow and the day after, etc., life had suddenly acquired a daunting aspect that not even going into harm’s way had ever provided.
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Fortunate Son.

From billyflynn:

“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.”

-D.H. Lawrence

Times were once that a man only got to the top if he had the money, his money had the friends and he had something the power thought they could use. It was a Devil’s trade mostly. This time, though, things were different; no rock stars, no lined-up suited senators, wives in tow paying false homage and grabbing face-time on stage, no bullet-proof shields between him and the crowd, no teleprompter. Read more

Postponement

It began with one more piece of FaceBook Flair. I don’t know why I continue to scan the hundreds of these buttons that seem to be created daily by so many who have not nearly enough to do. I guess there is a gem every so often that amuses me or, more rarely, touches me with its accidental wisdom. A far more typical reaction on my part would be to scream silently at the poor grammar and misspellings. Yet, every few days I’ll spend a few minutes clicking through pages of them.
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The Siren’s Call

She could read men before they knew what they wanted.

She could see it in…