Between Life and Death -- Thoughts

    I was told that some people died. I believed it. My heart was troubled, and it was moved to think of others. Including the survivors. We lose people all the time. But hopefully not too close. We pray and take care not to be hurt or cut down in the same ways.

    But it comes, and closely. It will, it does.

    Am I negative, am I pessimistic? No, this is our reality.

    Surely, we celebrate life. Youth, and middle age, and old age, all of it.

    We love and cherish the living. But we recognize those that have passed on.

    Perhaps no one died?

    Perhaps we all surived a trying month of tests and trials?

God bless us.

    The living and the dead.

    Like the writer of Ulyssess, James Joyce, in 1922. His long short story.

    The Dead.

    I heard that 

 Gratitude for Science and History

    We must be grateful. Most of us. Some have it harder than others.

    Because the same life and science that allows us to live and breathe

 Germany is Out! Way to Go, Paraguay!

    Raus, ausschlander! Get out! They have had enough success for a few lifetimes, in my opinion.

    Good. Gut. Enough of the dominant powers. 

    We want some underdogs.

    Netherlands eliminated by Morocco. Poor Dutchmen. The best team never to win it ever.

    Who has won? Uruguay. Brazil. Italy. Argentina. Germany. France. Spain. Is that all? Ever?

    Only those 7? Wow. We need more. I have mentioned Mexico. England. Who else? Of course, the U.S.A. Or... a developing nation, even better. Who is left?

    Belgium saves itself...

    Algeria still alive, with Austria... Paraguay.

The Forgotten Soldier, Slave, and their Loves

 The Forgotten Soldier, Slave, and their Loves

Millions have come and gone. Throughout our seemingly endless annals of human history, we can scarcely be able to mention on four or eight  pages of lists the times and places of their existence. China, India, Africa, Europe, the Americas. Oceania. Siberia, East Asia, Southeast Asia.

There have been millions of slaves in our known history. Most had loves, or lovers, or unrequited passions. They were people, classified as chattel, but human nonetheless. They count.

There are slaves in 2026. In at least 15-20 nations. Plus, all the addicts enslaved by their vices. Some are worth millions of dollars. Slaves to their physical or mental manias.

We all have loves and lovers, passions or obsessions. 

We all follow similar patterns.

Are we any better than anyone else?

Certainly some come from worse intentions.

But most of us are the same.

We work, we love, we suffer, we die.

We hope for things to come.

Did we love who we needed to?

Did they love and suffer more? Those that we pined and cared for? Those at home, living alone and behind the troop or servant?

Who is your lost soldier?

He is praying for you as you read this.

Fort Polk, June 26, 2026. 

 Cleaning Out the Cave

    It happened. It requires determination and grit. And time. A plan. My wife put them all together. And it happened. She saw the need, and did all that she needed to do to get in their and clean it out.

    She knew she wanted--needed-- to throw some of the old belongings out. Move on. And, perhaps most importantly, I needed it too, as did the children and all the members of the house. All of us needed to purge the potential toxic and dirty leftovers of the vermin that invaded the cave. Mice, or rats, had invaded our additional space in the basement.

    The Cave. A Place and a Metaphor.

    What is the cave? For us in our home, our single residence house,

Started April 26, 2026.

Sending it.

Maybe finish later.

    

 Guardians in Our History

    The last ten years has seen an upsurge in guardians in the United States. Who started it? I would say the Marvel movies, with the Guardians of the Galaxy, like Rocket Rackoon, Starlord (Chris Pratt), and Groot et al. They were cool, funny, fun to root for. To groot for.

    They came along as Guardians, then…

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AI Gemini has me actively blogging from 2014 to 2022. At least that!

But I have posted hundreds of things since 2022.

Dumb intelligence?

So called.

World Cup Hopes and Dreams

 World Cup Hopes and Dreams

The big one is upon us!

The traditional powers are at play: Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Brazil, Argentina.

I want none of them. Of course the U.S.A at home would be amazing. Possible, but wow. I would love to see a lesser tiered team and nation like Mexico win. ¡Sí! ¡Viva Méjico! Any other Latin American side would be fine with me. But not likely.

How about Netherlands? Or England? Or Portugal?

O, Canada?

Let us take down those bullies!

Go underdogs!

Take down the powers, for once.

Viva.