This is the second installment about turning inward with my life’s ambitions as suggested by a comment from a recent post. The first post in this series was about wrapping my mind around the concept of inward ambition. This post … Continue reading Ambitions Turned Inward – Part 2
This is one of my favorite pictures looking out the front window at the homestead (stylized of course 🙃). The silo in the background was never used as a silo, but it did function as a place to store junk … Continue reading One Of My Favorites
My recent post about ambition got numerous views and several helpful comments. Thanks for that. Perhaps the most valuable was from my friend Bob Lowry about turning my ambition inward. Bob and I have been friends for more than a … Continue reading Ambitions Turned Inward – Part 1
Faith should not be a static thing in today’s world, especially since there are so many who are using their version of God to try to shut off your mind to other possibilities. Many very intelligent people have come to … Continue reading Faith Should Not Be A Static Thing
I can’t count the number of times I had walked the halls of this place. It was the hospital that my wife had innumerable surgeries while lived in our rural homestead. It has been replaced by a much larger super … Continue reading Walking The Halls…
All my life I have been stuck between two worlds. As a youth, I didn’t fit in with the in-crowd, but I didn’t fit in with the out-crowd either When I went deaf, I distinctly chose not to be part … Continue reading “American Aristocracy” Vs “Adversity Builds Character”
(click the pic to see a larger view) For this “A Picture Is A Poem Without Words” I give you the mighty warrior. I’m not exactly sure what museum it was located, but I’m pretty sure it was in St. … Continue reading Mighty Warrior
I have finally realized that I have been chasing rainbows all my life. I was always looking down the road when I could have an exciting adventure of one sort or another. I did actually manage to make some of … Continue reading Chasing Rainbows
(click to open a larger version) For the last 36 years, I have spent at least 2 – 3 days every year visiting northern Lake Michigan around the Green Bay Area. That’s paper country, for those of you who don’t … Continue reading Lake Michigan
Oxymoron is a strange word. I really don’t know how it is pronounced, since I didn’t learn it until after I was deaf. I have been collecting some of these type things, and thought I would put them together here … Continue reading Oxymorons And Other Such Things To Think About
I saw this package on the reception desk in my retirement community recently, and it reminded me that snail mail art probably won’t exist too much longer. Continue reading Snail Mail Art
The expected life span of men born in the U.S. is 76.4 years I knew this day would come, or at least I hoped it would. I am now 76.4 years old, so at least I have lived at as … Continue reading Living On Borrowed Time…
— Horace I have tried numerous attempts to bring up photo/art posts here on RJsCorner. Most of those attempts have not proved as successful as I would like. So, here we go again. I think this one has a fair … Continue reading A Picture Is A Poem Without Words
This post is primarily meant for all you neurotypicals out there. Most of us Aspies don’t have much of a problem with focus. In fact, we have it in spades, and simply can’t understand why you struggle with keeping focused. … Continue reading How To Increase Focus and Productivity
(Click to see a larger view) If you are fortunate enough to see one of these guys at your bird feeder, you are a lucky person. They are very reclusive critters. At the homestead we fed about 100 lbs of … Continue reading A Rare Sight…Pileated Woodpecker
This post will be a personal story about ambition, but I kinda think some of you might be dealing with the same issues. Most of my life has been driven by ambition. From an early age, I believed that my … Continue reading Lost Ambition…
There are now over 40,000 different versions of Christianity around today. To this “Avowed follower of the teachings of Jesus”, Stephen Mattson’s version is perhaps my favorite. He concentrates on Jesus as a divine teacher who tells us how to … Continue reading Couldn’t Have Said It Better…
Just thinking about the 2011 roadtrip through Eastern Canada. It was one of the most pleasant trips we took. Quebec is such an artsy place, I had to do a little tweaking of this photo 😎 Continue reading Quebec 2011
Before I go any further, I should probably tell some of you that Neurodivergence means is that we don’t think or perceive the world as “normal” people do. Our brains are just wired differently than most. But, then again, what … Continue reading Why I Talk About Neurodivergents
I grew up in the 1950s and 60s. Therefore, I have a different view of the world than Millennials & Gen Z. So, I am going to give you an old geezer’s view of these younger generations. That is what … Continue reading A Boomer View Of Millennials & Gen Zs
This is a short post about my wandering mind. I kinda think I frequently get distracted because whatever I am doing is just not challenging enough for my brain. In other words, it is boring. My brain would rather be … Continue reading Why We Get Distracted…
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