A Pioneer's hopes

  "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 ...

  It's December and it's cold outside.Winter's sprung upon us.For some a down pour of snow,others just simply THE COLD! While I wish winters weren't so rough especially on the days it spreads a mixture of all three.Cold,freezing rain and with snow with adding the arctic winds.It has come to this eventually as of late. Yes,It's Cold Outside!! While the great chill can awaken a tired soul.It can also freeze it's ass off.It's been said around our parts that we've been lucky with the weather so far.Perhaps,but also on the days of the great chill,it's not very welcome. But we deal with it and I admire those who love great winters and can deal with it but wherever we live we must except it. Yes,baby it's cold outside. How many times every holiday season do we hear that tune "Baby,It's Cold Outside?"To answer every time it's been COLD OUTSIDE!!! More than I can care to hear it.It should be a winter song not a Christmas song. Now this m...

  IT'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER WEEK and I can hear the words of President Kennedy."I read more and enjoy it less." I wrote this last year: Newspapers are vital information to the citizen,to the local and state governments.It's vital to the President of the United States and the fed govt. And although we read more and enjoy less of the news by the newspapers as JFK sometimes did and that was because of the articles that were about him they don't always intentionally give us bad news.The world does that on its own.They just report it. They report on every administration,the policies and where the country is succeeding and failing.Personal opinions are involved but they also have a section for the citizen.TO THE EDITOR where our opinions are printed. Newspapers,regardless of how bias we may see the media can be at times,I do not think they are the enemy of the people.We all including them get caught in the political dismay where reason sees none and arguments and hate eme...

  "We can draw lessons from the past,but we cannot live in it." President Lyndon B. Johnson.  Learning and looking ahead makes a journey lessonable and rewarding. For the past is filled with mistakes as well as successes. And both are equally vital in learning in order to see the hopes of tomorrow.  If we fail to learn and understand the past we end up living in it. For it keeps repeating.  And if it keeps repeating, the worse it gets. So let us draw where the lessons are learned, teach where it's never repeated  so that we live for today and not yesterday.  And when we live for today. Tomorrow won't be so uncertain.  We shall overcome when we learn.And in each of us from family, education, community, faith and work ethics,we will be strong in each and our society will be great.  For a dream that is built by us all is a frontier we will accomplish together and America will be the promise we know it can be. So let us learn in order to see. 

  "We are as happy as we make up our minds to be." Abraham Lincoln. I'm the happiest when I write-happiest taking a scrap piece of paper and start scribbling on it. Example like reading a quote from President Lincoln and writing it down because it tells me something. I find my treasure in scrap paper.So much I have it all over my office. When I see a quote or something comes to mind that strikes me.I grab that piece of paper and write it down. Something peaceful about a pen and a piece of paper.You can simply scribble and be just as happy with words.If the notes touch you,then you read it again and again.Sometimes I hurry writing and then can't read what I wrote. That disturbs,but I need to slow down when I write. But some of my writings I think to myself,"Did I just write that?" Being happy and how we make up our minds to be happy is ours alone.We can be inspired by others but our happiness and how we make it should inspire more,because each of us has a gif...