I woke up early this morning and peeked out the bedroom window and there were a million stars twinkling in the sky. It made me so happy to just be alive. Since it was still before 5:00 AM I decided to just lay there and reflect. You know, I have seen a lot of "firsts" in my lifetime. Now, I do not mean in my personal life, but more in the political arena.
1. First President to serve 4 terms (also the last!)
2. First President with only an initial for a middle name.
3. First President that was a 5 star General.
4. First President to publicly admit wrong doing and resign from the Presidency.
5. First Catholic President. And also my first public assassination. And my first public
assassination of the assassinator.
6. First divorced President.
7. First Black President.
As it now stands, the primaries are in full swing and we will have an election in November. I will once more witness a first no matter who wins.
1. Bernie Sanders, Jewish and of Polish descent.
2. Hillary Clinton, Former First Lady and a Woman.
3. Donald Trump, Racist, Bigot, married 3 times, divorced twice, bankrupt 4 times, not his fault.
Now, I ask you, is this any way to start my day? How can I let go and let God with this mess on the news all day long? Right there is reason enough to not even get out of bed in the morning! And it is not just the political arena that has me dancing around on my back legs. We are living in a world of the have's and the have not's. While millions of dollars are being spent on this race for the white house people are starving. Drive past the soup kitchen down town before 11:00 AM. The lot is full of people with their worldly possessions in a box or sack or a shopping cart they have commandeered from some place. Some do not have anything but the clothes on their back. They have absolutely nothing. We live in a world where you either have it or you don't.
If you have it; you have it. If you don't; you aren't going to get it. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It was designed that way. It is set up that way. And it works that way. Way back when I started school, I was taught if I worked hard and was honest, I would succeed in life. Later in the Baptist church I was taught that if I gave my 10% God would reward me. I did not even really need to go to church, just make sure I got the 10% there.
Now many years later, with a lot of lessons well learned and deserved or undeserved hard knocks under my belt, I look back down the road that was my life. I have a big house full of possessions. I have a car. I have bank accounts and bills and a social security check that helps me maintain a certain lifestyle. Will I ever go on that cruise? Probably not. Will I ever have more money than I will ever need? Probably not. Do I thank the good Lord every night for getting me through the day and every morning for waking me up? I sure do.
Would I want to me the President? No way in Hell. That is one of those damned if you do and damned if you don't jobs. I would rather set here on my little acre and listen to my geese honk, with a cat on my lap and dogs at my feet and watch the sun come up in the east and go down in the west and wonder what I can cook today that I haven't cooked before. Sure was not the soufflé!
Just some of my ramblings that nobody really understands or cares about, but this keeps me sane!
1. First President to serve 4 terms (also the last!)
2. First President with only an initial for a middle name.
3. First President that was a 5 star General.
4. First President to publicly admit wrong doing and resign from the Presidency.
5. First Catholic President. And also my first public assassination. And my first public
assassination of the assassinator.
6. First divorced President.
7. First Black President.
As it now stands, the primaries are in full swing and we will have an election in November. I will once more witness a first no matter who wins.
1. Bernie Sanders, Jewish and of Polish descent.
2. Hillary Clinton, Former First Lady and a Woman.
3. Donald Trump, Racist, Bigot, married 3 times, divorced twice, bankrupt 4 times, not his fault.
Now, I ask you, is this any way to start my day? How can I let go and let God with this mess on the news all day long? Right there is reason enough to not even get out of bed in the morning! And it is not just the political arena that has me dancing around on my back legs. We are living in a world of the have's and the have not's. While millions of dollars are being spent on this race for the white house people are starving. Drive past the soup kitchen down town before 11:00 AM. The lot is full of people with their worldly possessions in a box or sack or a shopping cart they have commandeered from some place. Some do not have anything but the clothes on their back. They have absolutely nothing. We live in a world where you either have it or you don't.
If you have it; you have it. If you don't; you aren't going to get it. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It was designed that way. It is set up that way. And it works that way. Way back when I started school, I was taught if I worked hard and was honest, I would succeed in life. Later in the Baptist church I was taught that if I gave my 10% God would reward me. I did not even really need to go to church, just make sure I got the 10% there.
Now many years later, with a lot of lessons well learned and deserved or undeserved hard knocks under my belt, I look back down the road that was my life. I have a big house full of possessions. I have a car. I have bank accounts and bills and a social security check that helps me maintain a certain lifestyle. Will I ever go on that cruise? Probably not. Will I ever have more money than I will ever need? Probably not. Do I thank the good Lord every night for getting me through the day and every morning for waking me up? I sure do.
Would I want to me the President? No way in Hell. That is one of those damned if you do and damned if you don't jobs. I would rather set here on my little acre and listen to my geese honk, with a cat on my lap and dogs at my feet and watch the sun come up in the east and go down in the west and wonder what I can cook today that I haven't cooked before. Sure was not the soufflé!
Just some of my ramblings that nobody really understands or cares about, but this keeps me sane!
