A Pioneer's hopes

  AMERICA-THE GOOD LIFE-Notes and thoughts on Lyndon B.Johnson. "Men come together in cities in order to live,but they remain together in order to live the good life." Aristotle. "Our society will never be great until our cities are great.Today the frontier of imagination and innovation is inside those cities and not beyond their borders."-President Lyndon B.Johnson 1964. He goes on: "It will be the task of your generation to make the American city a place where future generations will come,not only to live,but live the good life." LBJ. America should be living the good life.Our cities should be together to do so.Yet we have changed from seeing this vision to seeing a disruptive one. Where anger not understanding emerged.Where being a great country is offensive to being a society that rather riots and destroys things. President Johnson honestly sought a Great Society even thru the midst of a dark war. A great effective  leader in the senate of getting thin...

  PRIDE MONTH,VETERANS MONTH.WHATEVER FREEDOM SPRINGS. Every group of people will have their month of celebration  and they can spring from pride flags to American flags. To me,whatever freedom springs for them. For they celebrate because it matters to them. Regardless of the politics that surrounds some of it. Whether it's their sexual orientation or the courage of our Veterans. They celebrate 🥳. I celebrate freedom because America is the land of the free and the home of the brave. I pursue my happiness because of that. So does everyone else. But while I'm not a crowd person and I don't go much to parades or political events I know many do. But the temperature between Americans today is just nuts so I'll never go to them. If I say my two cents it'll be on social media  and even there it's nuts. Pride month for the LGBTQ+ community has their Pride month every June. They have it because they fight with those who oppose it. Whether it's based upon religion or...

  MAY 26 was Memorial Day and thinking of those who gave and still gives their last full measure of devotion to our nation in the noble cause of freedom. They Sacrifice with their very lives,fortunes and sacred honor 🎖.  It is because of them we raise our flag in thanks,never forgetting all they've done for our freedoms.🇺🇸 Plus we also honor 🎖 them by doing our patriotic duty. Keeping our homes 🏡 strong,our community's together and contribute to the human spirit within that mystic chords of memory that reminds U. S. So we reflect on our brave ,their families our nation. But lest we forget. Freedom is still fragile. And while they're courage is not and will defend freedom when called. We citizens must too be vigilant. In our prayers 🙏 in our voices and votes. Our equal commitments to freedom.  For one swift of neglect and freedom ends. But I think with all what this country's been through I don't think we intend to surrender freedom from abroad and especially f...

  A POEM-IF MY PEOPLE By Bob DeLacy Jr IF MY PEOPLE...would pray daily without ceasing in times of peace and in times of war.In times of confusion as well as times of certainty. God is always ready to answer His people,but His people don't pray and those who don't,let's our nation go down further and that is part of our problem today. If we don't repent,then our land will fall and what a great fall it'll be. IF MY PEOPLE would live by the every Word of God.The inspired Word of truth and light-darkness can never touch them. God is ready to heal,He is ready to forgive,but His people would rather sin and hate,divide and attack one another.And meanwhile some churches ignore the truth for the sake of the world.A dangerous place to be. IF MY PEOPLE...would only humble themselves,but they are too proud and arrogant and that befalls a man.God loves His people,but He will be forced when the time comes  to bring judgement to which they do not know the day or hour. So I pray f...

  "My optimism comes not just from my strong faith in God,but from my strong and enduring faith in man." President Ronald Reagan.  A PRESIDENTS DAY 2025 NOTE-There is no doubt Ronald Reagan our 40th President had faith and optimism in man as much as he did in God. Reagan believed optimism was essential in making America great again.While Americans may have been down about the direction the country is going in,the president assured them it can turn back again to the promise America had sey out to become.Reagan also knew when the people were inspired they could reach any mountaintop.All they needed was a little faith as big as a mustard seed. HEROES HASN'T DISAPPEARED into history,they are still with us and within us-still surrounding us and thru the mystic chords of memory we become heroes ourselves and add to the fabric of American life. Having faith in God is not neglecting the gift within us,but faith starts with that gift within us and we use it for the purpose God put...

  IN THE MORNING there's a calm of peace.Where the day awakens to a new morning.The sun rises brightening it with hopes and opportunities. This is all before the noise of work,traffic and the loud voices on social media emerges.Where all the news and world events start to enter the fray. A PEACE BEFORE THE NOISE where a cup of coffee prepares an individuals day.Then it springs into action.Hoping we make something of the day.Without the adding to the already cracked division that's within the house of America.What one must do to calm the noise and bring peace to an uncertain world-where tomorrow may come with less results of the previous day and bringing less hope and more dismay? LIFE IS TOO SHORT for all the negativity.Especially if a majority of us knows how to be good to our families,our neighbors,our community's.Why would we shout across the country,thru technology or the news media to bash each other senseless,if we know how to be good? LIKE THE MORNING RISES each day ...