View From Here: Current Events 2018

View From Here: Current Events 2018: Over the past seven years I’ve written about many topics. Some remain the same year after year. Recently I began thinking on topi...

View From Here: Are They Listening?

View From Here: Are They Listening?: I’m not a marketer. I don’t sell things. I have had to sell ideas, though. Not quite the same thing as goods. But some of the same princ...

View From Here: Things Not As They Seem

View From Here: Things Not As They Seem: Family of four on vacation; laughing, giggling, tugging at one another as they enter the restaurant. Led to a table, they sit and read t...

View From Here: Walking the Dog

View From Here: Walking the Dog: Walking the dog. Waving mosquitoes away from my face, arm, and leg! They are everywhere. Dog sniffs the base of a bush. Noses deep into ...

View From Here: Making Music

View From Here: Making Music: The kid picked the guitar up from the floor. He had eyed it many times, touched its strings. Heard sound from a brushed string, then a p...

View From Here: A Boat Sets Off

View From Here: A Boat Sets Off: Sea swells undulated ominously. The boat was small with 102 souls aboard. A few animals were on the manifest, two cows, two goats and a ...

View From Here: Responsibility

View From Here: Responsibility: Taking care of yourself is the first rule for having capacity to care for another. Caring for the other is the second responsibility we ...

View From Here: Clear and Present Danger

View From Here: Clear and Present Danger: A clear and present danger is lurking over the United States of America. The language is pure Supreme Court reasoning and language. It ...

View From Here: Soliloquy of the Soul

View From Here: Soliloquy of the Soul: Or maybe this is about ‘souliloquy’? You know, the inner voice we use to talk with ourselves about all sorts of ideas and topics. These ...

View From Here: Learning, Knowing, Discipline, Doing

View From Here: Learning, Knowing, Discipline, Doing: The title says a lot. Maybe all? We learn things in life. Often we do not know we are doing so. Little by little we gather bits and p...

View From Here: Expectations

View From Here: Expectations: We could tell stories forever about expectations. What we wanted yet what we ended up with. Stories of people who insisted they were liv...

View From Here: Law and Order

View From Here: Law and Order: The party of the white house says it is the party of law and order. The GOP has always claimed that. But now? How does this square with ...

View From Here: Thinking of Good

View From Here: Thinking of Good: Awoke to pleasant thoughts of good people doing good things all over the world. Instinctively know this is the baseline of most people’s...

View From Here: Employment Opportunities

View From Here: Employment Opportunities: Are you out of a job? Are you underemployed, working a slug job because you can but it doesn’t use your talents and potential? Are you w...

View From Here: Topsy Turvy

View From Here: Topsy Turvy: And away she goes! Nobody knows where! What’s up is down and down is up; in is out and out is in. the new and the old have swapped places. A...

View From Here: Trust

View From Here: Trust: In God We Trust. That statement is plastered over our nation’s currency and many other symbols touting our identity. And although Americ...

View From Here: Creativity Abounds

View From Here: Creativity Abounds: Walk into a waiting room. What do you see? Heads bowed over cell phones. Eyes glued to images on tiny screens. Fingers roving and flicki...

View From Here: Getting Along

View From Here: Getting Along: Holiday week. 4 th of July. One of my favorites. Thanksgiving is first, then the 4 th . The day we set aside each year to celebrate ...

View From Here: We Are The World

View From Here: We Are The World: Remember the song – “We Are The World?” – performed by an army of famous musicians and performers? And their creativity! The year was 1...

View From Here: Remembering America

View From Here: Remembering America: There are those who are contemplating leaving. For another country. For a simpler life. A happier sense of being and future. One based on li...

View From Here: America Centric

View From Here: America Centric: Dichotomy. Stark difference between two things. usually meant when two things thought to be similar are not enough alike to be similar. ...

View From Here: Grinding Chaos

View From Here: Grinding Chaos: Upset the tray of goodies; sweet things spilled all over the floor. Spot a cupcake undamaged and out of the way; grab it. Enjoy it. Mean...