View From Here: Happy New Year?

View From Here: Happy New Year?: After yesterday’s post one wonders how I could possibly countenance wishing anyone a Happy New Year! I wondered the same thing, and still I...

View From Here: Heart Sick

View From Here: Heart Sick: As the year comes to a close my mind continues on track to feeling desperately depressed. It is the election that did it for me. But then, ...

View From Here: Doing or Not?

View From Here: Doing or Not?: We are faced with many changes. Some are naturally pleasant; others definitively not. The Trump presidency looms and all portents suggest a...

View From Here: As the Year Closes

View From Here: As the Year Closes: Another year whimpers to its end with billions looking expectantly toward the new year – 2017. That’s what keeps many of us moving forward,...

View From Here: Futility

View From Here: Futility: Broken things. Broken people. Broken society. Broken. So much broken. The landscape of our lives is broken. Curbs, streets, public tran...

View From Here: Balm in Gilead

View From Here: Balm in Gilead: Is there a balm in Gilead ? What is a balm? Where is Gilead?  To what does the phrase refer? Well, this is a biblical reference. Balm i...

View From Here: Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?

View From Here: Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?: Regardless of your religious background this time of year it is filled with holidays celebrated by creeds, philosophies, cultures and relig...

View From Here: Facing an Uncertain Future

View From Here: Facing an Uncertain Future: Not knowing what the future holds is a clear and present reality. All the time. Never do we truly know what the future holds. Period.  We c...

View From Here: What’s Wrong With This Picture?

View From Here: What’s Wrong With This Picture?: So far Trump’s ‘team’ seems to beg credulity. His picks include people who hold antithetical views to what he claimed during his campaign. ...

View From Here: What’s Happening?

View From Here: What’s Happening?: Watching the news is depressing. We learn about war torn areas and the suffering of others located in the midst of the strife. We learn who...

View From Here: Withdrawal?

View From Here: Withdrawal?: If a person labors to make a difference in the lives of others and does see dents being made, does he keep laboring on this quest? If the d...

View From Here: The Hills are Alive With the Sound of…Voices!

View From Here: The Hills are Alive With the Sound of…Voices!: For some reason this blog has become more heavily accessed – read – by many people throughout the globe. Used to be some heavy traffic from...

View From Here: The Day the TV Went Black

View From Here: The Day the TV Went Black: Two TVs in the house. One 50-inch plasma high definition model. The second one in the bedroom, a 40-in flat screen LED model. Both have goo...

View From Here: Moving On

View From Here: Moving On: Here’s the challenge today. How does America move energetically into the future with a guy like Trump as President? Good question. For...

View From Here: Yearnings

View From Here: Yearnings: OK, I get it. Getting older means thinking backwards in time. Memories pop up unbidden. They are just ‘there’. And I either ignore them or ...

View From Here: Let it Snow!

View From Here: Let it Snow!: Heavy snow is forecast this weekend. I say, let it snow! With the holidays upon us hope is challenged to be a force in our lives once a...

View From Here: Going Home?

View From Here: Going Home?: Yesterday, I wrote about visiting a town I once lived in. I was happy there but was fresh out of college and living alone. In that town I f...

View From Here: Moving Back, Yet Forward

View From Here: Moving Back, Yet Forward: Confusing title today! I’ll share the background and you will see why. Fifty one years ago I took up residence in Oak Park , Illinois ,...

View From Here: Making Our Way

View From Here: Making Our Way: Yes, there is a way forward. One step at a time is the usual manner of making the way happen. An attitude  of ‘can’ helps. Can Do. You know...

View From Here: Building New Tomorrows

View From Here: Building New Tomorrows: I guess I’m the positive sort of person. If something isn’t good, how can we improve on it? Or fix it? Or remove it entirely and replace it...

View From Here: Welcoming Muslims

View From Here: Welcoming Muslims: I want to welcome Muslims to America . I wish to help them feel welcome, maybe meet with them and support programs that mingle Americans wi...

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View From Here: What I Want to Do with My Life

View From Here: What I Want to Do with My Life: At 73 many would exclaim my life is over or nearly so. They would be wrong, of course. Life is; it continues. With me or you, or not. Time ...

View From Here: Dread, Loathing

View From Here: Dread, Loathing: It’s the dread. I feel it. Do you? A deep down darkness within. Throbbing some days. Cold sweats on others. What is it and why? I’ve ha...