View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: Special Seasons With Thanksgiving Day just past and Christmas and New Years approaching, this is the Holiday Season. Whether it is a ...

View From Here: Getting to Know You

View From Here: Getting to Know You: The tune popped to mind. “Getting to Know You” from “The King and I” Broadway musical. The lyrics are pulled from a very old saying but m...

View From Here: Happy Thanksgiving!

View From Here: Happy Thanksgiving!: I know we take this Holiday for granted. I rarely did because it was very special to me. It screamed of family, connections, home and he...

View From Here: Commenting on Ferguson

View From Here: Commenting on Ferguson: I have these random thoughts about the situation in Ferguson , Missouri . First, I understand the frustration of discrimination and...

View From Here: Bill Cosby

View From Here: Bill Cosby: I don’t know if Bill Cosby is guilty of rape or not. I know and you know he has been accused of this crime for many years. The case has...

View From Here: Immigration Reform

View From Here: Immigration Reform: Well finally someone did something! President Obama followed through on yet another of his campaign promises. Immigration reform. Twelve ...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: “Experience teaches us much. Time exists to share our lessons with others.” May your weekend be filled with experience and lessons....

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: “Experience teaches us much. Time exists to share our lessons with others.” May your weekend be filled with experience and lessons....

View From Here: Yawning in the Holidays

View From Here: Yawning in the Holidays: I don’t know whether to make this a humor column today or remain serious. From where I sit the Holidays bring no great joy. It appears th...

View From Here: Being Subdued

View From Here: Being Subdued: Mr. Putin escaped early from the Big 20 conference recently held in Beijing and when he arrived home in Moscow he uttered these words: ...

View From Here: Positive Politics?

View From Here: Positive Politics?: Placing politics and positive in the same phrase or breath seems like an oxymoron. Why is that? Why do the words ‘political’ or ‘politici...

View From Here: I Wonder?

View From Here: I Wonder?: From time to time is pays to pause and wonder about things. These are the moments in which we merely ask a question and don’t yet bother ...

View From Here: Ukraine Again?

View From Here: Ukraine Again?: While national powers hold a leadership confab in Beijing Russia ’s Putin postures for the cameras once again while his troops occupy Ukr...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: From Maya Angelou I give you this quote to think upon over the weekend. “You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentime...

View From Here: Estate & Other Thoughts

View From Here: Estate & Other Thoughts: Twenty three months ago today a friend of mine died. From suicide at the age of 61. He had warned me he would probably ‘do it’ but he w...

View From Here: Keeping Faith

View From Here: Keeping Faith: Immediately after winning mid-term elections republican leaders claimed they would work hard on finding the points of agreement among dem...

View From Here: Testing Putin

View From Here: Testing Putin: Submarines, military jets and diplomatic mission statements at odds with past standards.  The submarines moving mysteriously about the wo...

View From Here: Ideologue?

View From Here: Ideologue?: I have been accused of being an ideologue. In some discussions I would agree and happily so. In some instances I disagree with the appell...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: Here’s a thought I've been saving for a day like today! “I will no longer allow the negative things in my life to spoil all of ...

View From Here: New News 2015

View From Here: New News 2015: With the mid term elections just completed what are the likely news stories for two key periods?  The first is the balance of 2014 whil...

View From Here: The Aftermath

View From Here: The Aftermath: Election Day was Tuesday. I worked it as an election judge, have for many years now. Great turnout but still less than 50% of eligible vo...

View From Here: Admonitions to Consider

View From Here: Admonitions to Consider: We are each met daily by statements from others asking us, beseeching us, to do or think something different than what we might.  For exa...

View From Here: Pastoring

View From Here: Pastoring: Over the years I have often wondered about the title ‘pastor’. I know it refers generally to a minister of a church, usually a local co...

View From Here: Free Markets

View From Here: Free Markets: As a retiree who fights against boredom, I am busy doing stuff.  Volunteer stuff, but stuff just the same. Those of you still working a...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: Rabbit, Rabbit! First day of a new month. So, good morning and rabbit, rabbit! The quote I wish us to focus on this weekend is ...