“We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are.” — Anaïs Nin The quote above struck me as some daily insight gained when I read it. I am not familiar with Anais Nin other than the brief bio shown here, but I think we have much in common. She was a diarist/essayist as I claim to be. It is almost … Continue reading We Don’t See Things As They Are…
As of yesterday, I broke my streak here at RJsCorner. Until then, I had posted 293 consecutive days! I don’t know whether that is some kind or record, but it is for me. Those 293 days started soon after my wife’s death last July. My brain had been running at top speed for 78 days between her heart attack and her death. The only way … Continue reading The Streak Is Broken…
I have always wondered what would have happened if I had gone deaf without any support. I am beginning to discover that now. I went deaf two years after I was married in 1986. My now departed somewhat new bride was there to help me with the transition into a world of silence. We learned sign language together so that we could be there for … Continue reading For The First Time…
With the latest info about Elon Musk trying to buy Twitter, I started thinking that maybe I got it wrong about him. So, I did some recent research to see if that was true. Buying Twitter immediately hearkened that Trump is trying to make his own version of Twitter! I got to thinking “Is Elon Musk another Trump in sheep’s clothing?” From what I found, … Continue reading About Elon…
I haven’t written a technical post here on RJsCorner for some time now. It seems my recent thoughts tend to be more emotional and personal. But, I am still an IT (Information Technology) guy who loved mechanical stuff. As I have mentioned several times before, I got great joy in spending eight years in my barn filling my micro-RV with among other things, technical stuff. … Continue reading Mechanical Trees…
Life is pretty tough. You’re lucky if you live through it. Woody Guthrie Woody Guthrie is a hero of mine. He directed his life toward the common man. He seldom parsed his words when he had something to say. In 2015, I had the pleasure of visiting the Wood Guthrie Center in Tulsa Oklahoma. It was not until then that I realized the depth of … Continue reading Life Is Tough…
It is a right of passing that all the older generation complain about the habits of younger ones. When I was a kid, after TV was invented, older people complained that TVs were going to rot their kids brains. Then came Rock-And Roll music. Elvis with all his gyrating hips were poisoning adolescence. It would be a few decades before they decried the same thing … Continue reading Slave To Electronics
Before I lived in my retirement community, I used to drive 22 miles to walk the mall every Friday. That ritual included lunch out in selected places. Now that I have the walking path around our community I have gotten out of that routine. Just for old-time sake, I decided to walk the mall one more time. It is now about 0.5 miles away, so … Continue reading A Personal Observation About Eating Out…
I came across an interesting article a few months ago that got caught in the cracks, but I am bringing it out now. I have been writing a journal for 40 years now, but I still have lessons to learn about this worthwhile activity. Before I read the article I didn’t realize, or at least think, that some people had different techniques of making journal … Continue reading Brain Dump Journalling
I have always avoided the ever-growing self-checkouts whenever possible. I did so for two reasons They took away jobs for those who have low skills. – Not everyone has the ambition and the ability to learn the skills necessary for higher paying jobs. Some simply have other priorities. But, I do recognize that many of these low paying jobs are going unfilled. Help wanted signs … Continue reading I Hate Self-Checkouts
Some cling to traditions as if it were life itself. I am not one of them. To me, traditions are too often used to cling to prejudice and a fanatical resistance to change, any change. I saw that on display in the Lutheran churches I once belonged to. They would often cite this bible verse or that, to justify their outdated and often prejudiced beliefs. … Continue reading Some Cling To Traditions…
I love streaming TV. The Ala cart way to watch TV is fantastic. I don’t miss the 200 cable channels full of ads. Because of streaming, it is nice to see that the rest of the world is not so fixated on violence as American TV is. I am watching less and less of that venue as each week passes. For this post, I want … Continue reading Another Acorn Must Watch…
A few posts ago I tried to convince you to do a roadtrip instead of getting on an airplane. I will soon be going on a roadtrip that is sixty years in the making, so I decided to refresh my knowledge on this subject. To me, preparation is the road to success. This post will give us some of the “how-to’s” of having a successful … Continue reading Roadtripping, The How-To’s
This post like many, came to me in my daily morning shower. Over the past many years I have come to realize that I am a “morning” person. Most of my creative juices come during the first five or six hours after awakening each day. Before I got out of my shower, I had already formulated the storyline for this post. I usually try to … Continue reading Until It’s Gone
As soon as my µRV gets out of the shop from fixing my cruise control I am going to take it for an overnight shakedown trip just to make sure everything is just right. The destination is The Kentucky Artisan Center which is near Berea KY and about 150 miles away. I have been there once before and picked up one of these creatures, I … Continue reading Kentucky Artisan Center
Here I am sitting at my keyboard again, when I should be having dinner. Let me explain a little more. Some of you know that I have Aspie traits that make social situations uncomfortable. For that reason, I usually go to dinner here in my retirement community during the last fifteen minutes of the meal hour. I go down then because it there is usually … Continue reading RetComLife#33 – I Am Tired Of …
My heroes in life have given me a myriad of “words of wisdom”. Many of those words will eventually be included on the left side of my blog header as seen above. I realize that many of you come to RJsCorner via modes that don’t show my header, so I have included it above. Let’s look at one of those chalkboard sayings here. If you … Continue reading Words Of Wisdom…
Most who come here regularly know that I am about to embark on a road trip that has been on my agenda for 60 years. I have taken many road trips in my life, but this will be the longest one I have taken. Why am I so fixated on roadtrips when going by plane takes much less time to reach a destination? I traveled … Continue reading Why A Roadtrip??
Fitting in is a cultural expectation. From birth, we are told that this is the way you get along with others. It starts with your parents telling you how to behave, and, if you let it, it continues throughout your life. We are told you must wear a mask and hide who you really are so that you fit in. I have been doing a … Continue reading Fitting In…
I read an article in the New York Times last week with the title above. I have let it be known here on RJsCorner that I don’t think they really thought out putting Asperger’s Syndrome into the Autism Spectrum. To me, that attached everything bad and nothing good. But, it was easier, at least for the deciders. I think the same thing goes here with … Continue reading How Long Should It Take To Grieve?
This post will be about the benefits of traveling. I am now knee-deep in the process of preparing for my first farewell tour, which will be into the South, and Southwest of our great country. When I am starting such a focused project I like to step back and ask “why am I doing this?” That question helps me to keep things in perspective and … Continue reading About Traveling…
Ignorance is bliss, but it’s also a hand grenade waiting for the pin to be pulled. I am excruciatingly tiring of all the bad news that seem to be all around us these days. I can’t wait for a day to go by where the news media don’t mention the word “Trump”. I can’t wait for the virus to fade into the background, and where … Continue reading Ignorance Is Bliss, But…
Some people go through life with little or no changes. They live in the house they inherited from their parents. They have never been away from the area they grew up. Change just doesn’t happen to them, UNTIL IT DOES… Adjusting to serious unexpected changes tests the metal of all of us. How we respond to those events is up to each of us. I … Continue reading Adjusting To Unexpected Changes…
I was barely a teenager when I discovered several of my fundamental lifelong heroes. They were people who spoke to me at a very deep level. Their words moved me. I’m sure my early infatuation with them drove me to be the person I am. I didn’t know it at the time, but they would stick to me throughout my life. They all seemed to … Continue reading My Heroes In Life Say Something About Who I Am
The phrase above was first published in 1602 as the first line of an anonymous poem in Francis Davison’s anthology Poetical Rhapsody. I don’t remember the first time I heard that phrase, but I have come to realize that, at least for me, it is very true. My wife died about eight months ago, but I still think a lot about her. I will admit that … Continue reading Absence Makes The Mind Grow Fonder…
I have to warn you up front that his post is kinda surreal, so hang on. If the title above doesn’t show you that this post is bizarre then let me tell you it is a fictional town full of fictional people. Why would I want to adopt a town? That is what this post is all about. Before I get into the main topic … Continue reading I Have Adopted A Town
If you are not the author of your story, who will be? No, one knows you better than you do. I make it a point here on RJsCorner to tell my story, flaws and all. It doesn’t embarrass me that I am not anywhere close to perfect. In fact, I am quite flawed and have squandered much of my life because of lost opportunities. I … Continue reading Be The Author Of Your Story??
When I moved into the small rural town that become my home twenty-one years ago, I was proud to proclaim that I was no longer a big-city guy. When I went back to church after a twenty-year absence I was proud to proclaim that I was part of a congregation once again. But then, everything sort of changed. The last nail in rural/church life coffin … Continue reading Small Towns…. And Churches, Have Changed
Vicariously is not a word I often use here on RJsCorner, but it has been entrenched in my being from a very early age. I began life as a very dysfunctional kid in an ultra-dysfunctional family. I didn’t know that at the time, wisdom showed me that fact much later. I know I am not unique in this situation, everybody has their own story, but … Continue reading Vicariously … (800 Words)
We all set out to control the moments that shape our destiny. Once in a while that happens, but mostly it doesn’t. No matter how much we plan it just doesn’t happen. I love the quote People Plan, God Laughs For the most part, I believe that our destinies happen on their own schedule, and often not even close to the way we thought they … Continue reading Destiny
I read a recent article over at The Medium about people, like me, who refuse to give up the Aspie label and be dumped into the ocean wide autism spectrum. Here is a quote from that article. (Click HERE to see the rest) The Asperger’s class is overwhelmingly white people who have been given enough advantage to turn a profit on what they couldn’t stop … Continue reading Hanging On To The Asperger Label
My father was one of those people who just didn’t want to think about death. He would almost leave the room whenever that topic came up. He was two years older than I am now when his end came. He just didn’t like the idea of walking through the valley of death. I, on the other hand am thoroughly attuned to these times being my … Continue reading Walking Through The Valley Of Death…
For some reason, history is on my mind, so let’s start off where we finished yesterday. Let’s face it, our founding fathers do not live up to current standards in many of today’s regards. Most were slaveholders who had little or no respect for those who had been kidnapped from their African countries to do their manual labor. In fact, one, and probably many, of … Continue reading Using Perspective When Reviewing History
I am approaching the end years of my life, and as a result, I am yet again contemplating “why I am here?”. I have always been concerned that maybe all I am doing is sucking air. I know I have done some notable things, but I still get the feeling that there is “something” out there that I am still supposed to do. I think … Continue reading Looking For The Greater Meaning… Perhaps There Is None
I have been a planner all of my life. For some reason, that has been a basic part of who I am. Maybe it is the fact that I like to think I have the answers to my life, but sometimes you just have to catch them out of the air. Some people call that praying to God. To others, it is something altogether different. … Continue reading Just Catch Them Out Of The Air…
There are too many in this world today who are fixated on being “right”. They grab onto one thought and cling to it as if they would die without it. Of course, that goes very much against my mantra Question Everything, Think For Yourself, Never Stop Learning If life were only that simple. If everything could be neatly put in the “right” or “wrong” box … Continue reading QUESTION EVERYTHING, Including Yourself
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