Opinion
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Three Lifetimes: A Perspective
When I was younger, I was confused about many ways the world worked. Yet certain values, like working hard and maintaining self-discipline, were made very self-evident to me. My father worked long hours at his job, and providing for our family placed many demands upon his shoulders, which he handled the best way he could. Continue reading
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Our Own Membranes
Make this bed of roses full of thorns they scorn from the things they try to say that beautifully adorn. I’m just like everyone I like kicks for tricks because the sky falls down in a ton of bricks. Tails spins for me at the flick of a thumb. That’s why I used to drown Continue reading
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US vs Serbia, 95-91, My Take, It’s Never Over Until It’s Over
I don’t do much sports writing. Growing up I played basketball, baseball and tennis. What I watched yesterday, Thursday, August 8th at the Olympics in Paris, 2024…will go down in history as one of the greatest comebacks in Olympic basketball I’ve witnessed in over 40 years of life. I remember the Dream Teams of old. Continue reading
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Friday, July 19, 2024/A Devotional
A Christian reflection on envy, strife and controvery. What the Bible speaks to concerning conflicts amongst people. (1st Timothy 6:3-5) NASB 3-If anyone advocates a different doctrine, and does not agree with sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the doctrine conforming to godliness,4-he is conceited and understands nothing but has a Continue reading
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Fighting One Day At A Time
I know I am weak. We all are when it comes to the desires of the heart. The Spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. Just words for some. But I have phobias. One is disease and the others stem from trust issues. So I try to battle the forces within me that by Continue reading
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D-Day and The Cost Of Peace…(Edited Edition)
It was quite the day. As it is I am sure for many of you. I personally have had a walk down memory lane today. Memories stored in the recesses of my mind are now at the fore-front. I have rummaged through some files and found pictures that remind me of days long past. Some Continue reading
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The Greatest Book
No one knows me.Not even me.For the hands of time,bask in a night sea. Next to rocky shoreswhere soaring sea birds ignorethe taste of the saltiness in the seatrying to see Poseidon’s door. Past the rocky stonesin me I patrol my soul I’m toldto subside it’s pride for the fact I act as if I Continue reading
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NYTimes: Locks of Beethoven’s Hair Offer New Clues to the Mystery of His Deafness
Locks of Beethoven’s Hair Offer New Clues to the Mystery of His Deafness https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/06/health/beethoven-deaf-lead-hair.html?smid=nytcore-android-share I read many articles. But I have slacked as of late. Until today. I read an article in The New York Times about the composer Beethoven. How that a tormented man who started loosing his hearing in his 20s and tried Continue reading
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Take Care You Are Not Consumed By One Another…
Curious words. Literal translation according to the New American Standard Bible actually say, “… take care you are not consumed by one another,” in Galatians 5:15 I think we all are way beyond that. Our focus has been one of conflicts between one another. If I can remember correctly my own self-righteousness gets in the Continue reading
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Made In His Image
In The New Testament, Matthew, a tax collector that became an Apostle, and is the First book of what is considered as the authorative message of the Messiah promised in the Mosaic Covenant, it is written: Chapter 7:12 “Therefore, however you want people to treat you, so treat them, for this is the LAW of Continue reading
About Me
Shadows of my old self.
RMC 