Hello and regards. I am a thinking caring person, continuing to learn and seeking to engage others. The crux of it: I work to educate and influence others.
I have spent the favorite and most satisfying times of my adult life helping others. It hasn’t made me rich, nor do I expect it to. I have held positions of teacher, counselor, consultant, change agent, and mentor. I have performed these roles in major corporations, maximum security prisons, with individuals and in classrooms, in rural settings and cities, for family members and street people. To do this I have had to make positive decisions and know my stuff. And not being faultless, make corrections. I listen and care.
Now getting later in life, I see writing as my best option for helping. I still maintain helping relationships with individuals; I find it hard to say no, and the people I assist are evermore struggling under the weight of today’s social breakdown. These are difficult times, but I personally am blessed, and there is this pragmatic philosophy of doing the best you can under the circumstances. I draw on my experiences and actively research. I seek and promote truth, so naturally render opinions. No AI here. I am something of a journalist, as I see it.
A win for me is imparting something of useful substance to a younger person, to give them understanding and hope.
Youth of this generation have it so much more difficult than did mine. Broken social contracts are the bane of our government. My own hard-fought success story couldn’t have been anywhere but America, and I know I wouldn’t have made it under today’s circumstances.
Writing is for me a harmonious passion, characterized by positivity and flexible persistence. In other words, while I am usually correct, you can shape me (please do!). I work to keep it harmonious, given the stress lately imposed on us all. I have gotten over anger, which I see as just a cover-up for fear. It is not about blame and shame; it’s seeing things for what they are helping ourselves.
On God and Politics
At most every turn, in seeking clarity and trying to find answers, it’s like it has all been done and tried before. Actually, it has, and this time there is a new intensity, new diabolic threats. We, common people, are threatened, but positive life force says we don’t relent. God will not turn away. God is with us.
Politicians make cheap threatens about waging death and destruction, when too many of us, especially the more marginalized, are already unnecessarily there. The afflicted among us, which is the majority of the American people, are want to even raise their heads. This is not God’s plan. He will save you no matter what color or creed you are. There is no savior or redeemer among the accosters, today’s money changers, though they claim and plan and promote themselves. The accosters are the lot of America’s established government and politicians. Democracy is still a bright dream and has not failed the people, but America’s sordid leadership has.
Since the enlightenment, when feudalism gave way to capitalism, man has tried to raise up quality of life for the masses. But man’s efforts keep getting thwarted by evil selfishness. We are again at a point where the “haves” will have to be forced to give way to the “have nots”, for the sake of mankind, for human interests. Luckily, not all the politicos are lost. And we still have something of a planet. The arc of time and the pendulum that swings through it will save mankind, with God’s help.