It is very easy for caring and compassionate individuals to lose themselves in the affairs of people and things they love. Their concern is often not limited to close loved ones, businesses and hobbies. Volunteering for and giving of self for the betterment of nation, state, community, church, service organization or involvement in any group…
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Faith in the growing number of “nones”
Here along the most conservative stretch of Old Route 66, the characteristic of religiosity commensurate with the values of the political majority comes with the territory. I can personally attest that a strong religious atmosphere in Tulsa was the norm of my childhood and adolescence. Even as a young boy, the open competition among the…
Continue ReadingLooking back on Journal Volume 49 and 2023
As most regular readers know, this blog was established nine years ago as largely an extension of the Personal Daily Journal of Yours Truly. It has become a tradition during this, the last few hours of the calendar year to reflect on the twelve months gone by and recall fondly or not-so-much as the case…
Continue ReadingMessaging misery of miserable messengers
Marketing and sales are two endeavors which are eternally intertwined. Each requires the ability to effectively communicate and both rely on amicable relations with clientele to achieve a desired purpose, that being the sale of a product whether it be a tangible item, a service or an idea contained in either a tacit or actual…
Continue ReadingConservatism’s peak of power and influence
We live in a time that is definitely unlike any other. It was not all that long ago that ideas that have or are becoming policy in so many places were dismissed by most as being fringe at best and outright whackjob crazy at worst. In the late 1970’s, certain advisors serving as the brain…
Continue ReadingOperation Homecoming + 50
One of the most enduring memories of the early adolescent years of my youth is the end of direct U.S. military involvement in Southeast Asia. This was heralded by the return of the first group of 591 American Prisoners of War held by North Vietnam which happened fifty years ago today. The longest held among…
Continue Reading2022 in the rearview
It has become a tradition of Yours Truly in the waning hours of the year to look back on the past twelve months. I don’t know how many individual personal record keepers incorporate this as a practice, but this is when I like to recollect and analyze where we and the World has been in…
Continue ReadingRecalling the emergence of the inner humanitarian
Most would agree that some personal anniversary dates carry a great deal more weight than others. Such is the case with this one. Forty-two years hence, the evening of 12 December 1980 stands out as the night I became aware that I was no longer a youth. That was when the U.S. Navy warship I…
Continue ReadingThe end of the trail?
America has been a grand experiment. The very essence of its ideas were light years ahead of its time when the founders first thought them, publicly stated them and wrote them down on parchment nearly two and a half centuries ago. Democratic self-governance of a nation and nearly all that went along with it was…
Continue ReadingDemanding our right to not get shot
Few things set the United States apart from other nations like the Second Amendment. We may search high and low among other industrialized nations and not find anything in any other constitution that has had as many judicial interpretations guaranteeing any citizen the inalienable right to arm themselves with weapons intended for use only in…
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