On Just About Everything
One of my New Year Resolutions seems to be a perpetual one with many of us. I vowed to get more exercise in 2020. But it seems to be especially important for us in our senior years. Why that is what this post is all about.
Continue reading “The Perpetual New Year Resolution”
I’m going to let you in on a little secret that we nerds learned but often forget. That secret is “Don’t let your cookies get too stale”. That is what this post is about, but it is not what you think it is.
Continue reading “A Bunch Of Stale Cookies…”
I knew the title above would get your attention. No, I am not a Shirley MacLaine type believer, it is just that I would really like to be around when humanity finally figures out what its purpose is. That is what this post is all about.
Continue reading “Hoping For Reincarnation…”I am refining my Favorites Sunday selection a little here. I have decided that I will go back 5 years to the week to see what I was talking about and if anything has changed. Update It was a tough road, but I think I am finally beginning to keep my life challenging, at least with respect to my current conditions. I have discovered that life can really be joyful regardless of what surrounds you if you work hard enough at it. Five years ago I would never have thought that the tone of the country would have turned so … Continue reading Favorites Sunday – Looking Back Five Years.
For this Saturday I thought I would go WAY back to my analog photo days of 1986. About eight winters ago I spent what seemed like an eternity scanning the dozens of photo albums to put them in digital format. This is one of them. I know it was taken in 1986 but don’t know where? Even if it is a low resolution picture, I think it is one of my favorites. Continue reading The Lily Pond
As usual for this time of year, I have been in a self-reflective mode here on RJsCorner. It seems that the primary focus this year is my Aspie traits. Why I think that is the case is the topic of this post.
Continue reading “Where Everybody Knows Your Name”
I am going to make some basic changes here at RJsCorner for this new year and decade. One of those changes will be to make my Dear Will Letters more frequent and more prominent on my corner. That is what this post is all about
Continue reading “Dear Will: What’s It All About”
Thanks to Frank Diana over at Reimagining The Future I am putting on my dreamer’s hat for this post. I really think, or at least pray, that once that despicable person leaves the Oval Office, we will go on to make our future bright indeed. That is what this post is all about.
Continue reading “Imagining The Next Decade”
I know it is dangerous to self-proclaim that I am undocumented but that is what I am doing with the post.
Continue reading “Proclamations Of An Undocumented …”For the next few Sundays I am going to be looking back at the 10+ years of RJsCorner to resurrect some of my favorite posts from the past. I mean those posts where I swell up when I read them again. The first of those favorites is what this post is all about.
Continue reading ““Favorites” Sunday”
I don’t know why I have been thinking about this lately. Maybe it is something to do with having recently read a Sojourners magazine. But I think I have figured out the mentality behind the church’s position on sexuality. That is what this post is all about.
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It seems that Joe Biden is the “fall-back” guy for those who want to take baby steps in recovering from the previous three years. I have serious doubts figuratively and literally on that approach. That is what this post is all about.
Continue reading “Having My Doubts, Figuratively & Literally”
I have been seeking way to withdraw from the world around me without becoming ignorant of what is happening. I think I may have found one way to do that. Really, it’s rediscovered the way. That is what this post is all about.
Continue reading “Stepping Out Of The World That Surrounds Us.”Hold on to your pants as you haven’t seen nothing yet. This second decade of the third millennium will all about change. Continue reading You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet.
For the most part I greatly admire the Amish tradition, that is except for their practice of shunning. But, in their mind it is necessary to keep the faith pure. For me, I need to keep my sanity in the coming year and I think a shunning will help me do that. That is what this post is all about.
Continue reading “The Shunning… And Other New Years Resolutions”In light of my recent posts on Joy vs Happiness, I hope you have Joy in your heart on this Christmas Day and every day throughout the coming year. Joy is a state of mind, not a statement of condition. See you next time in the New Year… Continue reading Joy To The World
I’m taking some time off here at RJsCorner to decompress from this somewhat repulsive year of politics and to get ready for an even uglier one coming up. I need time to finalize my plans for vastly limiting my exposure to the fourth year of idiocy inside the beltway. I think I have a path forward with my blogging but need to put some finishing touches on it. Come back on the last day of this year to see some resolutions I have made for the coming new decade. Continue reading I Need A Break!
I spend an hour or so each morning with my daily reads. Since I am for the most part shunning things in the political world at least for now, I am always on the lookout for new ideas of looking at the world. This post is about one of those sources I recently found.
Continue reading “Always Finding A New Favorite”
This post is a continuation of yesterday’s post about the Pursuit Of Happiness. As we discovered yesterday happiness is an ocassional event while Joy is a state of mind. Finding Joy is what this post is about.
Continue reading “Joy Is A State Of Mind”
According to a recent New York Times piece about one-third of all food produced and packaged for human consumption is wasted. That amounts to 1.3 billion tons per year or $680 billion. With about 10% of the world’s population chronically undernourished, that is shameful. Another way of looking at it is that the wasted food accounts for about 10% of green house gases.
Continue reading “Saving The World Is Hard – Don’t Waste Food”
It is amazing to me how many people who are socially tied to a particular religious organization and are either willfully ignorant of their church’s doctrine or just ignore it. I used to think that was a bad thing, but I have changed my mind. That is what this post is all about.
Continue reading “Cafeteria Christians”
I don’t know about you, but I just can’t seem to simply sit down in front of my computer monitor and come up with ideas for posts here at RJsCorner. In the cold weather months I post daily here, so where do all the ideas come from? That is the topic of this post.
Continue reading “Bright Ideas”For the life of me, I can’t understand how anyone can be hyper-sensitive to criticism but spewing it out by the bucket full every day? Most of us know the Golden Rule, but I guess to him it is “Get as much gold as you can, anyway necessary”. I will give him the doubt by saying he probably didn’t get much basic education in morals and such as his father was too busy being a slum-lord in NYC at the time. Maybe “Doesn’t Fall Far From the Tree” is a good description. Here is a more about that Continue reading Ultra-Sensitive To Criticism, But…
This post is about how religious institutions stubbornly cling to their doctrine. Religion ABSOLUTELY hate admitting they got it wrong. This post will look deeper into that and try to understand why they do that.
Continue reading “About Religious Beliefs…”I have come to appreciate the work of modern sculptures. I ran across these by James Campbell entitled “Birth Becomes You” recently at the John Waldron Arts Center in Bloomington Indiana. I plan to go back more for the monthly exhibits. (click on an image to see a larger view) Continue reading Artsy Saturday – Sculptures
Now before you start giving me “Financial Planner” speak I want you to listen to what I have to say.
Continue reading “Why Own When You Can Rent?”
I have been searching for a few days now for the perfect site to display some of my best photographs. After all those hours I have decided to get serious with Flickr… Again. That is what this post is all about.
Continue reading “Getting Serious About Flickr… Again”
This post will introduce yet another series for the coming weeks and months. I am determined to push today’s politics to the back burner at RJsCorner and this new series will help accomplish that. Setting that up is what this post is all about.
Continue reading “Then vs. Now… The Good Old Days”
If we don’t know where we have been then it is likely that we will continue to make the same mistakes over and over again. That is what this post is all about.
Continue reading “… Doomed To Repeat It”
This post is going to be about trying to dispel the feeling that some have that I am anti-religious. We don’t need less religion, just better versions.
Continue reading “Not Less, But Better…”I thought for this Saturday I would give you a painting I found at the Pennsylvania State Museum a few years ago. Anyone who has been in the eastern part of that State knows it is “Amish Country” and this folksy painting depicts it perfectly. Continue reading Pennsylvania State Museum
First, Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. My wife and I are, as usual lately, spending Thanksgiving alone but I know many of you are heading out to a large family dinner. I hope you get through it without any every dividing political discussions. 😏 Even though we don’t officially celebrate this holiday doesn’t mean that I am not thankful for what the Lord has given me. Here is my list. I am thankful for my wife of almost 34 years. She has supported me in ways I couldn’t have imagined. I am thankful that I am in good health, … Continue reading Things To Be Thankful For…
In the coming years global warming will eventually be the number one issue for all of us (except maybe for the MAGA/Evangelical folks). I just hope that it rises to that status before it is too late to really do anything about it. We didn’t get into this mess because of one particular thing, and we won’t get out of it with just one thing. This post is about some things each of us can do to make sure global warming is addressed before it is too late.
Continue reading “Saving The World Is Hard – Global Warming”
I am going to do something with this post that I don’t often do and that is to give you a major portions of an article from Psychology Today magazine about Greta Thunberg. She is one amazing young woman.
Continue reading “Greta”
No, I’m not talking about food stamps, the question is more fundamental than that.
Continue reading “We Don’t Buy Food…”
This post is about the journey of finding that person who makes you feel whole. The person who you want to spend your life with. What I say just might surprise you, especially coming from a seventy-three-year-old.
Continue reading “Looking For Your Soul Mate”
This post is based on 14 fears that dominate many in the MAGA version of the GOP. These fears were mostly gathered from a post by John Pavlovitz over at StuffThatNeedsToBeSaid. It is about how fear can totally paralyze a person’s worldview. There are many reasons to be fearful in this world today and these folks seem determined to find all of them even if they are myth. That is what this post is about.
Continue reading “When Fear Is Your Religion”
I was pleasantly surprised to come across a hidden gem during one of my uRV trips this summer. I have been through Dayton Ohio several times before but never really looked for a place to visit besides the Dayton Air Museum. What I found was the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historic Site.
Continue reading “A Hidden Gem…”This is a snapshot of a post by John Pavlovitz over at StuffThatNeedToBeSaid. (click to see the entire post) As usual, I couldn’t agree more… Continue reading Morally Impeachable
I am a social progressive living in a very RED State so my votes for president seldom count! I am tired of having them stripped away because of the Electoral College. The sooner we can get rid of this antiquate way of electing a president the better. Continue reading Kill The College!
I thought I was sure that Elizabeth Warren was going to be my pick for the Democratic Nomination but now I am having second thoughts. That is what this post is all about.
Continue reading “She Scares Me…”
As far as I am concerned, having a satisfying life is all about challenges. When I no longer have anything that tests or stretches me I am the most prone to periods of depression. That is what this post is all about.
Continue reading “It’s All About Challenges…”
One of my regular viewers pointed out this post at RJsCorner from 2012. In some ways 8 years later is not as different as I thought it was. Looking back I even provide insight to myself. :)
Here is the post revisited. I would love to hear any comments you might have.
Continue reading “The Good Old Days — Revisited”It’s as if I had looked at the sun for too long. I simply can’t gather the words to put out an intelligent post of the main topic of the day. This guy has destroyed my peace in some of the last years of my life! With that in mind I am for at least the next few weeks going to be celebrating those who can say in a picture what would take me a 1,000 words to describe. I simply can’t imagine the filth that will be spewing out of the Oval Office in the coming days. Too many … Continue reading Eminently Close To The Breaking Point!
