PAIN-O-METER ANYONE?

PAIN-O-METER ANYONE? Until and unless a "pain-o-meter" is invented, enabling others to measure the location and intensity of your pain, you must remain, at least, the co-guarantor, co-surety of your health, along with selected doctors, dentists , herbalists, and spiritualists. Nobody knows you like you; better than you; beside of you. You feel what others cannot about you ! That's why they must ask you "Where does it hurt? How're you doing?" "Let me review your chart." If you don't say, they don't know !

GIFTED

We are all gifted with genius otherwise known to us as life; development of that "life," of that genius is our duty in life. Sharing our blessings therefrom is our supreme charge from God the giver of life, and our most sacred, symbiotic obligation !

TOY HORSE

TOY HORSE One cannot ride one's toy horse forever. Either it breaks down or you outgrow its dimensions. As with youth's toy horse, so are life's childhood ambitions and superstitions, moments in time.

ARMY LIFE IN A BLACK REGIMENT

"Arriving there at sunrise (February 2, 1863), I made my way with Dr. Rogers to General Saxton's bedroom, and laid before him the keys and shackles of the slave prison, with my report of the good conduct of the men... "Slight as this expedition now seems among the vast events of war , the future student of the newspapers of that day will find that it occupied no little space in their columns, so intense was the interest which then attached to the novel experiment of employing black troops. So obvious, too, was the value, during the raid, of their local knowledge and enthusiasm, that it was not impossible to find in its successes new suggestions for the war. Certainly, I would not have consented to repeat the enterprise with the bravest white troops, leaving Corporal Sutton and his mates behind, for I should have expected to fail.... " The memory of our raid was preserved in the camp by many legends of adventure , growing vaster and more incredible as time wore on,--and by the morning appeals to the surgeon of some veteran invalids , who could now cut off all reproofs and suspicions with 'Doctor, I's been a sickly pusson eber since deexpeditious.' Bur to me the most vivid memory was the flock of sheep that we 'lifted.' The Post Quartermaster discreetly gave us charge of them, and they rilled a gap in the landscape and the larder,--which last had before presented one unvaried round of impenetrable beef. .. I had been familiar, in Kansas, with the metaphor by which the sentiments of an owner were credited to his property, and had heard of a proslavery colt and an antislavery cow. The fact that these sheep were but recently converted from 'Se-cesh ' sentiments was their crowning charm." P.47-8, ARMY LIFE IN A BLACK REGIMENT by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1866)

APPREHENDING IMMANENCE

APPREHENDING IMMANENCE The flash at the scratch of a match; The evanescent luminosity of falling stars; The crenellated cracking of glacial ice; The creeping of crustaceans washed ashore; The window-rattling roar of sonic booms; The epochal blasts of atomic bombs ; The nerve-jarring annunciation of babies ' cries; Crystallize more, connote more, represent more--than flickering moments' microseconds in time. Each event epitomizes productive love, whether produced by man, displayed by God, or a compound. All demonstrate God's marvelously mysterious interactivity. Even as that divine interactivity animates and enables us humans to "see through the glass darkly;" ephemerally, ever apprehending the Almighty's engendering glory immanent in infinity & ourselves!

OLD WELLS

We drank well- water in the country from our very own well. That fact and metaphor will preach! But, "country" is not "cool," is it? We would rather pay more and be deceived with being "hip," "conscious," "organic" or "natural." Well, ain't nothing more hip organic or natural than drinking healing water from old folks' well! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCxK2Pn8-FU

BLACK MAN ARMY

Apply yourself to excellence, to integrity, and to undying love