View From Here: Russia’s Role

View From Here: Russia’s Role: Well Mr. Putin met with President Obama Monday. Before the meeting Putin made the rounds of several speaking venues and issued his opinio...

View From Here: Political Peace?

View From Here: Political Peace?: Now that House Speaker John Boehner has resigned both his position as Speaker and congressional seat as of October 30, the House of Repre...

View From Here: The Fed Done Me Wrong!

View From Here: The Fed Done Me Wrong!: CNN released a story Wednesday morning (9/23/15) entitled “The Sneaky Way that the Fed May Be Hurting Stocks.” Now there’s an unbiased pi...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: Choose beauty. It is all around us. In little ways and big. Enormous, too! Seeing beauty is up to each of us. Am I tuned to see beauty?...

View From Here: Playing Hooky

View From Here: Playing Hooky: Yesterday was a perfect weather day. Bright sunshine, no clouds, temperatures in the mid 60’s early, and mid 70’s for the high later in t...

View From Here: Being There

View From Here: Being There: Where were you when 9/11 happened? What were you doing? What did you do then? Similarly, where were you when JFK was shot? How did your t...

View From Here: Long Good Bye

View From Here: Long Good Bye: Yesterday we visited the cemetery where Rocky’s parents are buried. We cleaned their gravestones, weeded the plot and paid our respects. ...

View From Here: People

View From Here: People: Her eyes we slightly wrinkled around the edges. Fine lines. Her pupils were a faded blue of pastel strength. Mixed in was a hint of green...

View From Here: Make America Great Again!

View From Here: Make America Great Again!: Who says we aren’t great already? And still improving? Writing every day on current events and philosophical reflections I have disco...

View From Here: Commentary Catch-up

View From Here: Commentary Catch-up: Today I will mention several current event topics and provide my perspective on them. These are brief mentions, not research pieces, alth...

View From Here: Bullies

View From Here: Bullies: The world has always been a restless place. Someone is always trying to steal someone else’s place, girl, guy, car, or gold mine. Wars ha...

View From Here: Issues That Matter

View From Here: Issues That Matter: With the election cycle heating up and with so many candidates fighting for public attention it is natural to see issues pop up in the me...

View From Here: Immigration – Legal or Otherwise

View From Here: Immigration – Legal or Otherwise: It appears Europe has its own immigration problem. For awhile there it seemed as though all eyes were on the USA and its porous border ...

View From Here: Stop Making Stupid People Famous

View From Here: Stop Making Stupid People Famous: I saw today’s title phrase on the internet the other day. I don’t know who said it. Nor do I know who it was said about. I have my candid...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: We are responsible only for ourselves. Be serious about that so we don’t become a project for someone else to be responsible for. Wit...

View From Here: Pleasure vs Joy

View From Here: Pleasure vs Joy: The terms ‘joy’ and ‘pleasure’ are interesting. They sound very much alike, but I think they are not. Pleasure is defined as satisfaction...

View From Here: Kindness Passing

View From Here: Kindness Passing: No, kindness has not met an untimely end. It does that nearly every moment when unthinking, uncaring people simply don’t do the right thi...

View From Here: View From Here

View From Here: View From Here: It has been a while since I last considered the name of this blog. I’ve used View From Here as the title for the blog (4 years), but als...

View From Here: Humor

View From Here: Humor: So many things to laugh about. Some serious to the max and thus ridiculous and worthy of a guffaw. Other things are stupid things said by...

View From Here: Labor Day

View From Here: Labor Day: This is the day we set aside each year in America to honor those who have dedicated their lives to the working-day life. Each of us does...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: Labor Day Weekend The end of summer is culturally upon us. Memorial Day is summer’s start – Labor Day is its end. Yet plenty of warm ...

View From Here: Anti-Gay County Clerk

View From Here: Anti-Gay County Clerk: OK, Kim Davis is the duly elected Kentucky Rowen County Clerk. Her job includes issuing legal marriage licenses to couples about to be ma...

View From Here: A Few Personal Comments

View From Here: A Few Personal Comments: On October 3 rd this blog will be four years old. In that time 72,000 hits have been recorded. That does not count articles read, just t...

View From Here: Feeding Passions

View From Here: Feeding Passions: If you really like something it is easy to glue your attention to it. If you love, like, adore someone, same thing; you do nearly everyth...

View From Here: Lowest Common Denominator

View From Here: Lowest Common Denominator: The comment of the house in our household is  – “lowest common denominator” – refers to what’s of interest, what’s good, what’s bad, what...