All my life I just can’t seem to feel joy the way I want to. I have called my down times depression but I don’t think that is the real truth. Trying to zero down to the core reason for not being able to accomplish happiness is the topic of this second post. To briefly summarize yesterday’s post I ended up thinking that I don’t … Continue reading The Root Of It All – Part 2
One of my primary mottos in life is to question everything. As you know that is one of the three things on my permanent header here at RJsCorner. Questioning everything is not limited to things I am told to accept without questions, they also include my current beliefs. That is what this two-part post is going to be about. The picture above does a pretty … Continue reading Getting To The Root Of It All … Part 1
This post originally appeared on my new blog at MyViewOfTheWorld, but since it has had some pretty dismal viewership there I decided to resurrect it here and put that blog in hiatus until I can figure out how to make it more successful. I hate to waste a good post and in my mind this is a good one. 🤪 I am always on the … Continue reading Auto School – 1920 Style
For the most part my life has been pretty boring. I blame that on having my right brain squashed in my learning years! The nuns who taught me in grade school concentrated on Read’n, Write’n, and rithmetic. The small rural town high school I went to had lots of stuff to do with farming but offered little else. Then there was all the engineering courses … Continue reading Right Brain Screaming
Why are we as a country, and maybe even a world, so split between empathy and apathy? Why is the chasm so deep between us in that regard? To me empathy is what Jesus came to teach us. He said in no uncertain terms that we are to be our brother’s keeper. To give anyone who needs it the shirt off our back. Then apathy … Continue reading Empathy vs Apathy
I am a list maker and planner, that is who I am, and due to my Aspie traits I put logical thinking above most emotions. In that regard, I realize that I will very likely outlive my wife by possibly several years. She is seven years older than me and in precarious health. When we moved to our current homestead twenty years ago she made … Continue reading Considering My Options For Future Living
This is a personal perspective of the years between 2017 and 2021. This post is not meant to provide you with a high-level view of the world during this period. Instead, it is from the viewpoint of the 71-year-old to a 74 year-old with some pretty significant Aspie traits, although I didn’t know it had that name. Of course, the main subject on this period … Continue reading Into The Looking Glass – 2017 – 2021
It seems that the best argument that some have about not wearing a mask while in public is that it is “government intrusion into our personal lives!!!” They say they would rather die of the virus than wear a mask! I don’t know about you but that sounds pretty lame and selfish to me. There just seems to be a flag waving, chest pounding war … Continue reading Government Intrusion??
Before I get down to the crux of this post I want to tell you about one of the most heart wrenching books I have ever read. Its title was The Cry and the Covenant. The book was written in 1949 and I read it in the early 1960s. It was a historical fiction but based on the life of Hungarian physician in the 1920s. … Continue reading If Everyone Wore A Mask…
I don’t really remember where the title came from for this post, but I kinda think that getting paid for pro bono work means much more than money. In my pre-retirement life I just didn’t have the time to do much volunteering. I did do a bunch of maintenance work for a downtown Catholic diocese that just didn’t have the money to hire a professional. … Continue reading Life Stories – I Do Pro-Bono Work, If The Price is Right
It’s been quite a while since I posted on weekends here on RJsCorner. I needed the time away to get my head into the proper perspective. With this post I am starting weekend posts once again, but it will be significantly different from the regular week-day posts. Weekend will have nothing to do with the current times. Instead, its just pictures and stories. I hope … Continue reading Weekends Are For Chilling Out.
It’s about time to forget the pandemic for a little while and do a post on self-reflections. I don’t know how it happened but when I look in the mirror each morning the old guy that I see looking back simply isn’t me. I didn’t get married until six months shy of my fortieth birthday, but it seems I have been married forever. My wife … Continue reading Reflections In The Mirror…
I have a friend on Facebook who has been using that media to make sure we all know that police officers are good people and protesters, especailly those who loot, are not so good. I have been tempted to get into a dialog with her but have decided that would not be a good thing for our friendship. After all, her husband used to be … Continue reading Good Cop… Bad Cop
This is a personal perspective of the years between 2000 and 2016. This post is not meant to provide you with a high-level view of the world during this period. Instead, it is from the viewpoint of the 54-year-old to a 70 year-old with some pretty significant Aspie traits, although I didn’t know it had that name. This time period started out with a possible … Continue reading Into The Looking Glass – 2000 – 2016
I found this critter on the streets of Rapid City South Dakota. I love the artsy nature of this full-sized bronze. There were several others around that I will eventually get around to including them here. Continue reading Balancing Act
All the civil unrest because of the George Floyd murder has brought serious attention once again to police departments around the country. Numerous articles are floating around about the possible root causes for these types of incidents. One that stuck out the most for me is the police unions complicity in causing harm to the reputation of police officers. Simply stated, they don’t allow the … Continue reading Corporations & Unions – The Same Tactic?
I love outside the box buildings. They spark my creative imagination. I love things that stretch your imagination, stretch your brain. For this post, I want to show you an “outside the box” art museum. I don’t think there is another building quite like this one. It is the Milwaukee Museum of Art. I usually only give you one photo at a time but since I … Continue reading Outside The Box…
The movie Soylent Green was made in 1973 about the coming apocalypse in 2022. According to some worldviews, that is what is happening now. All those big cities are paying the price for their decadence. They got what they deserved is certainly the mantra in many small towns across America. That mentality is at least a little relevant to today’s post. Unlike Soylent Green this … Continue reading Where Is The Middle Ground?
I want to end this week’s posts with some less crappy stuff. Even for these times, it has been a spectacularly crappy week. The current Oval Office occupant (#CO3) has outdone himself with his stupidity. That is evident since even some Republicans now are starting to criticize him publicly. But I kinda think the reason for that possible criticism is self-survival. They don’t want to … Continue reading The Less Crappy Stuff… SpaceX
Let’s face it, in most major cities and even small and middle size ones police departments are coming under fire. There are just too many George Floyds happening. But then again, maybe with the certainity that any police abuse will be recorded has just brought it to the fore front. I recently put out a post where I said 95% of any police force are … Continue reading Policing The Enemy or Protecting & Serving?
This is a personal perspective of the years between 1980 and 2000. This post is not meant to provide you with a high-level view of the world during this period. Instead, it is from the viewpoint of the 34-year-old to a 54 year-old with some pretty significant Aspie traits, although I didn’t know it had that name. The years between 1980 and 2000 were pretty … Continue reading Into The Looking Glass – 1980 – 2000
With all my meltdowns lately, I have been looking for some way to let go of all the problems that I have no control over. It just seems that there is so much wrong with our country today that I don’t know if we will even survive it. I need a new perspective, and I think I have found at least a partial way to … Continue reading Lighten Up!!
I remember June 8, 1970 very well. It was the day I joined the working world on a full time basis. I don’t know how that could have been so long ago. I remember it as if it were yesterday. I had graduated from Purdue on Saturday and went to work the following Monday. I hardly had a dollar in my pocket as almost all … Continue reading 50 Years Ago Today…
It’s been almost a month now, and I am getting disappointed in how my new blog is going. No one seems to want to look at the lighter side of life. 😩 If you have the time click on the graphic above to give it a visit. If you like what you see consider following it. If you don’t like what you see PLEASE let … Continue reading I’m Getting Desperate
I didn’t have to put this picture through any app to make it abstract as it is already in that mode. This full-size Lego statue was found in a Peoria Illinois museum last year. I have always been fascinated by how creative some folks are with these small building blocks. I have several more to show you in future posts. Continue reading Tearing Out My Heart For You…
No, I am not saying that in general police brutality is the norm across the country. I am sure that 95% of those on a police force are doing their job of serving and protecting. It is that 5% who are giving the rest of bad name and reputation. But, the other 95% are complicit in in that reputation by allowing those rouges to continue … Continue reading Police Brutality – It Just Makes Sense
I have let it be known at my daily journal blog over at RJsCorner that Will Rogers is one of my top heroes in life. If you want to see some of the many posts about him just go there and select his name from the tag cloud. For those of you who might not be familiar with him, some called him a satirist, some … Continue reading Looking For Humor In The Crappy Stuff
When a person is found guilty of reckless endangerment he can get up to a year in prison. That is the law. I’m sure sometime in the future this law will apply to those who willfully choose not to wear a mask in public places. Given the fact that, if the evidence proves true, pandemics will become much more prevalent in the future, it will likely happen soon.
Continue reading “Reckless Endangerment… And The Virus”
In 1965 I was a high school senior in a very small-town rural school. The building was built about 80 years before and the creaking stairs and just about everything else showed the wear. The basement used to be the gymnasium but that had sometimes since moved next to the International Harvester repair shop downtown. We were the biggest graduating class in the schools’ history, all sixty-nine of us.
Continue reading “In To The Looking Glass – 1965 – 1980”
Anyone care to guess what this is a picture of? I won’t make you wait because it would then be a very short post. 😅 It is the maneuvering vents of the Space Shuttle now in the Washington DC Museum of History. It seems like yesterday that I saw them but it has been almost 9 years since the last launch. That is ancient history … Continue reading Out Of This World
Because of my Aspie traits I have lived a good portion of my life feeling I am alone in this world. No one else seemed to see the world as I did. So, when in college in the 1960s I came across the words
I am a rock I am an island ... And a rock feels no pain An island doesn't cry.Continue reading “I Am A Rock, I Am An Island, I Am An Altruist”
I have let it be known many times here on RJsCorner that I have significant Aspie traits. I have not been officially diagnosed, nor do I care to be, so I don’t call myself an Aspie. If you want to know more about this condition, at least from my personal perspective click here.
I had an Aspie type meltdown about three weeks ago that scared me. I have had a few more since then so I kinda get the reason for them. If you care to read about my first meltdown click here to see that post.
Continue reading “All About Meltdowns…”
I am very aware that people collect just about everything in the world. Being as how the USA is driven by consumer spending it’s not surprising that we have some of the biggest collections in the world. In case you were wondering there is even a museum in Madison Wisconsin dedicated to a mustard collection. Who would have thought! But it is quite a fascinating … Continue reading History of Mustard?
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