Category Archives: Life as a Brat

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Give Thanks for People of Honor, Integrity, Courage, and Compassion

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Today, I would like to give thanks to all the people of honor, integrity, courage, and compassion, who have stepped forward in these trying times. There are those like Fiona Hill, who speak truth to power, in spite of the potential consequences. There are those, like Scott Warren, reach out and help those in need, again, in spite of the potential consequences. Where are the Christian communities calling out for the end of the separation of children from the families? … Continue reading →

Poem: The Fit

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Life can be empty for the man that doesn’t fit within the rut in which he’s stuck without a chance to quit. Friends he cannot make among those with whom he’s stuck For his live upon a different plain of life with a different kind of luck. His personality clashes with those who try to guide him and he cannot to be with those who always chide him. The job he does from day to day is nothing but a … Continue reading →

Tune: Denver

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Original song, written to the tune of “Denver” around 1963. I went out on a bright Monday morning when the sun was still young in the sky. I went and talked to my recruiter, Boys and now I am wondering why. He said he was so glad to see me and asked me to please come in side Then he started to tell me sea stories, Boys While I went along for the ride. He told of of Frisco and … Continue reading →

Poem: On Watch

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Original poem, written around 1965 as a play on Edgar Allan’s poem “The Raven”. Once upon a mid-watch dreary as I pondered weak and weary over many monstrous volumes of the Nuky-Poo School lore As I nodded, nearly napping from the walls there came a rapping There came a most atrocious rapping from the steam pipe near the floor As I jerked out of my slumber and dialed the barracks check in number And said that all things were secure … Continue reading →