View From Here: Coming Clean

View From Here: Coming Clean: Several young kids have recently taken their own lives. Because of bullying. This is nothing new. It has been going on for a very long tim...

View From Here: Getting Things Done

View From Here: Getting Things Done: Albert Einstein said:             “The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the ...

The Place (Modesto, CA)

Teen Meets His Idol, George Takei

View From Here: Thomas Jefferson Vs Modern Politics

View From Here: Thomas Jefferson Vs Modern Politics: I’m reading Jon Meacham’s new book, the Art of Power . It is an historical biography of Thomas Jefferson. It is a slow read but a careful ...

Coca-Cola Arctic Home 2013 -- help protect the real Polar Bears

Bill Maher And Howard Dean Clash With GOP Panelists Over Obama's Inaugur...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: This week we remembered Martin Luther King’s birthday. In memory of that let us think on this quote over the weekend. May it guide us al...

View From Here: We The People

View From Here: We The People: Cesar Chavez was the darling of Hispanic agricultural workers in the 1960’s. Some of you may recall his affect on lettuce prices? Don’t bu...

Acceptance Hockey Flashmob 2013

View From Here: Moving Beyond Self

View From Here: Moving Beyond Self: I don’t know where this thought came from. All I know is it popped to mind at 2:15 AM last Friday morning. Out of the blue!  Moving Beyond...

High school senior publicly tells 300+ students he is an LGBT teen

It Gets Better - Amazon

Check out this great MSN video - Divers save dolphin tangled in fishing line

Check out this great MSN video - Divers save dolphin tangled in fishing line

View From Here: Expectations

View From Here: Expectations: The Notre Dame footballer who claimed a girlfriend, one who was ailing, and then died. National sympathy grew for him, then crash! It came...

It Gets Better - Parents of Transgender Children

View From Here: Spokesmen?

View From Here: Spokesmen?: Rand Paul does not speak for America . Neither does Texas congressman Stockman. Or John McCain, Lindsay Graham and a host of other narrow...

Watch President Obama Deliver His Second Inaugural Address

View From Here: Guns

View From Here: Guns: They kill. They were designed to do so. Perhaps first in defense of person, then of property. But also to kill for food. All of mythol...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: An internet gem caught the other day:             “Buddha was asked, ‘What have you gained from meditation?’              He replied...

View From Here: Surroundings

View From Here: Surroundings: Reading provides information and ideas about that information. News let’s us know what is going on around us and in far flung neighborhoo...

View From Here: Collection of Thoughts

View From Here: Collection of Thoughts: Catch some of these thoughts and let your mind ponder them at least a few minutes. From physicist Stephen Hawking: “Quiet people h...

Man rescues pet rabbit from River Liffey

View From Here: Chuck Hagel - Defense Secretary

View From Here: Chuck Hagel - Defense Secretary: What is the reality behind Chuck Hagel’s nomination by President Obama to be the next Secretary of Defense? Hagel is a Republican. He ...

Coca-Cola - Happy Caps (Tapitas) Elevador

It's not in English but it works for me.

View From Here: Free Thinking or Free Wheeling?

View From Here: Free Thinking or Free Wheeling?: Leo Tolstoy is reported as having said: “Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without feari...

View From Here: Basics

View From Here: Basics: Much wisdom if found on the internet. Quotations, adages, parables, poems, bold statements…whatever shape they take the words are simple. ...

I love you - Beautiful gay moments [LET'S CELEBRATE LGBT RIGHTS]

Haan main crazy hoon, latest tv ad by Coca-Cola

I know Christmas is over but fund this on Youtube....

Love the CocaCola videos.

View From Here: Power of Positive Thinking

View From Here: Power of Positive Thinking: Maya Angelou is a gem! Found this quote of hers on the internet the other day:             “You can’t use up creativity             ...

Love Is In The Air

"SILENT BUT VIOLENT: A sneak attack at the theater." 

Behind the Magic: The Visual Effects of The Avengers

You Can Play Peoria Rivermen

View From Here: Fearing Fear

View From Here: Fearing Fear: FDR said “All we have to fear is fear itself.” Whether it was the challenges of the great depression or the threats of World War II involv...

View From Here: Adding Two and Two

View From Here: Adding Two and Two: Mark Twain said: “It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”  He must have been speaking of the Congres...

View From Here: Silence Within

View From Here: Silence Within: When all is silent, no music playing, no TV on in the background, no one talking nearby, what do you hear? Is there a voice talking to you...

NPR Snap Judgment Performance of the Year / Noah St. John, "The Last Mile"

This is a must view video...

Please watch it, you will love it and you will cry.... I Did.

Coca-Cola Polar Bears Film 2013 produced by Ridley Scott

OK this is one you got to see.

View From Here: Government Overreach?

View From Here: Government Overreach?: Government trying to do more than it can at the moment is one definition of government overreach. Another variation of the definition is a...

View From Here: Getting Started

View From Here: Getting Started: Normally when I write this blog I have an idea in mind. A specific idea that will take me on a short journey of logic in which the words s...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: Voltaire (1694 to 1778) wrote: “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” There’s a happy thought! O...

View From Here: New Congress?

View From Here: New Congress?: I surely doubt we are out of the woods. That will take another 2 years, and then another 2, and then 2 and so on until we the people have ...

View From Here: When Did This Happen?

View From Here: When Did This Happen?: Life is a process. It happens minute by minute, hour by hour, year after year. Bits and pieces occur. Logical or not one thing follows ano...

View From Here: Judging Not

View From Here: Judging Not: If we are honest with ourselves we judge others. We know we shouldn't but we do. Human nature? Probably. But still, how can we break ourse...

Connie Talbot - Imagine (With lyrics)

View From Here: New Beginnings

View From Here: New Beginnings: I work with a small group of youth who have drug and alcohol problems. And I do mean youth. These are young men and women of 14, 15, 16 an...