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I am a 68 year old male, recently re-married after more than 12 years as a widower. I have three grown sons and two granddaughters. My interests include among other things, spirituality, politics, reading, writing, and the Internet. Always a positive thinker,

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Other Thinking about the future: 3 of 131
My father, who incidentally lived to the ripe old age of ninety-five, had a saying that went something like this: "As long as I'm on this earth there will be something for me to do, and the day I die I expect there to be a job waiting for me." Nothing daunted that spirit, not even twenty-five years of blindness! Having that s... More..
Society & Lifestyle > Personal Morals & Values How to be happy in everyday life: 6 of 150
Norman Vincent Peale once wrote of a friend, that he always appeared to be happy. One day Peale inquired as to his secret, and was told, "when I awake in the morning, I have two choices, I can be happy or I can be unhappy, I choose to be happy". It may not be quite that simple, but he was certainly on the right track. Attitud... More..
Other What to say to the world in your 15 minutes of fame: 15 of 116
People of the world, I want to thank everyone responsible for giving me this opportunity, and to say sincerely that it is an honor to speak to each and everyone of you. As I think of all of you listening to my voice today, I do not see people of different races or creeds or political views, instead I see loving and caring ind... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Atheism & Agnosticism Questioning whether the concept of God can be disproved: 8 of 54
It is impossible to either prove or disprove the existence of God, because we are dealing with two distinctly different fields of thought, science and faith. The very concept that there could be a God may appear ludicrous to one person and perfectly logical to another. Education evidently has no bearing on it, although the le... More..
Society & Lifestyle > Lifestyles Living a simple life: 25 of 96
I was born in 1939 in a small coastal community in Atlantic Canada. We had a house that wasn't mortgaged, no credit cards, and very little money. We also had ten to fifteen sheep and about the same number of chickens. There was a garden used exclusively for growing potatoes and another for other vegetables, especially carrot,... More..
Relationships & Family > Communication Issues Communication: Your most burning questions in life: 10 of 38
For me the most burning questions are those that have been with me all my life. Do we enter this world for a reason? Is there a motive behind when and where we appear in the earth? What is our purpose in life, and do we really have a choice, or has everything been predetermined? Most people seem to believe that we do have a c... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Spiritual Life Predicting the end of the world: 11 of 35
Thoughts about the end of the world are certainly not new. Some twenty-three hundred years ago in their long calendar, the ancient Mayan seem to have chosen December 21, 2012 as planet earth's last day. It is Christianity however, though a mere babe among religions, that from it's infancy has brought the idea to a heated fren... More..
Other Life necessities: 17 of 46
The problem with talking or writing about life's necessities is that we first need to define what we mean by 'life'. If we are talking about survival, a person can exist on very little, as anyone who has spent time as a prisoner of war, can attest. In the Biblical creation story, when God first fashioned man of the dust of th... More..
Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: The passing of time: 88 of 161
"Time like an ever rolling stream, bears all its sons away; they fly, forgotten, as a dream dies at the opening day". So go the words of a well known hymn, written more than two hundred and fifty years ago, and sung with gusto by generations of churchgoers, most of whom have gone on to prove the truth of the words.When one is... More..
Relationships & Family > Communication Issues Knowing when it's best to leave words unsaid: 20 of 36
My mother had a canister placed strategically on our kitchen counter on which the following words were written: "and I've often heard defended, little said is soonest mended". I read these words many times when I was growing up, so much so, that they are still embedded in my memory, some fifty years later. I have no idea wher... More..