There is yet another 480-page book about Martin Luther just released. As the article from the quote below states, he is the most written about a person in the Christian realm with the exception of Jesus. For the most part, Luther … Continue reading About Martin Luther..
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. — Albert Schweitzer I must admit that in some ways I am not a very creative person. I have often times in my life needed a spark from another person to get me headed down a path. So, I certainly appreciated the quote above from Albert Schweitzer. I have deep gratitude for those who have lighted the flame within me. I am a passionate … Continue reading Rekindled By A Spark
There is just something about neon lights that still attracts us after so many years. I found this one at the Studebaker Museum in South Bend Indiana recently. Click on the photo to see a larger version Continue reading Neon Lights…
We have a lot of wild turkeys running around our area but that is not what this post is going to be about. Instead, it is about a Kentucky Bourbon manufacturer that I visited a few years ago while staying … Continue reading Wild Turkey
I came across this device during my visit to the Museum of the Appalachia a few months ago. I have seen a lot of historical tools of the past but never anything quite like this. Can anyone speculate what I might have been used for? Continue reading What Is This??
Happy New Years to anyone who happens to come around RJsCorner. May we all do our part, no matter how small, in causing normalcy to return to our country. Enough small steps and it will happen. May truth once again … Continue reading Happy New Years
For this Sunday’s post, I want to talk about the strict conformity many churches today demand of those who want to be members. It is not as simple as deciding to join but you must jump through all the hoops they tell you to before they will accept you. I’ve seen the light go out in people’s eyes when they decide it’s safer to embrace a doctrine or a policy that their gut tells them is wrong than it is to challenge those who say it’s right. I’ve watched open minds close and tender hearts harden. I’ve seen people pretend to … Continue reading Conformity..
I am pulling off a photo from your 2009 month long trip to the Pacific Ocean. I’m not sure just where this was taken but I suspect it was in Colorado. It is very different from what I am used to. Continue reading Go West, Young Man
Yeah, I know there is quite a bit of anxiety out there about driverless cars but I am not one of those. I hope before I die I am able to buy one. Ford Motor has set a goal of producing a self-driving car with no steering wheel and no pedals by 2021, allowing time to make sure such technology can be managed safely. Source: Trying to Bypass Anxiety on the Road to Driverless Cars – The New York Times I love to travel but don’t particularly like to drive, but I hate flying even more. That is a dilemma that … Continue reading The Anxiety of Driverless Cars
One of my regular blog reads is Satisfying Retirement from Bob Lowry. Bob’s blog is much more popular than mine and as a result of him mentioning RJsCorner in his blog list, I get quite a few referrals from it. Some of his readers who visit RJsCorner might be interested in how very different people can become friends. Over the years we have become pretty good blog buddies. At this point in our lives we share many of the same beliefs and feelings, but from his post of yesterday entitled If Life Had a Do-Over Option, Would I ? and previous discussions we … Continue reading Satisfying Retirement and RJsCorner
I have decided to spend this last week of the year totally ignoring our dark political times. Here is the first installment. One of the things I remember most about my grandpa, besides him being a pig farmer, was that he would start each meal by cutting everything into small pieces and then mixing it all together! No matter what was on his plate it would end up in a pile with everything else.When questioned about it he always said: “It’s all going to the same place so why not start it that way”. I’m sure if grandpa were alive … Continue reading Grandpa Would Be Proud..
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to Everyone Who Happens to Visit RJsCorner. Continue reading Happy Holidays
I just took this picture from my kitchen window. It looks like it will be a “White Christmas” here in the Midwest. Continue reading White Christmas
I am a person who loves symmetry. I don’t know why but it draws my attention whenever I come across it. This picture for artsy Saturday is of a staircase at a Des Moines museum taken in 2010. Continue reading I Love Symmetry
I have run across some interesting articles lately about what makes a good writer. Some of the characteristics come naturally to me, some I need to learn. But one thing I know after nine years and 3,000+ posts here on … Continue reading The Difference Between Good Writers and Bad Writers
I had been in South Bend Indiana a couple of times in the past few years before I realized that it was the home of Studebaker car manufacturing. So, I thought it was worth another trip to that city. It was the last trip I took for the 2017 season. While Studebaker was never considered a mainstream car it was a well made and totally Hoosier. The Avanti model has gotten quite a calling now and is sought out by many collectors. Continue reading On-The-Road – Studebaker Museum
It’s become quite clear that really bad people get more attention than decent people. Liars get more attention than truth-tellers. Conspiracy theories get more likes than reasoned arguments. It’s clear that short tweets are more convincing with some people than … Continue reading Latching On To False Beliefs..
The Old Testament has always been a struggle for me. I find far too many places where God’s wrath is brutally shown. This is in such a total contrast with Jesus Christ I know in the New Testament. It is almost like the good cop/bad cop scenarios that play out so much on the TV cop shows. I tend to refer to it as the all-powerful God vs. the all loving God. Can the two really co-exist or did God basically change his management style between the Old Testament and the New Testament or you could say between the old … Continue reading Contemplating the All Powerful God and the All Loving God…
For this artsy Saturday, I want to give you a photo from this past Fall. It is basically looking from my front porch. Even after seventeen years here I still appreciate the Fall colors, but maybe not so much the leaves that have to be later raked. :) Continue reading Fall At The Homestead
This is going to be one of my Aspie themed posts or so I image but it also could be my almost total lack of exposure to women in my early years. Six of one, half dozen of the other … Continue reading I Don’t Like Eye Candy..
The title of this post comes from something I recently heard on GPS with Fareed Zakaria. The topic was how the Internet puts things out there with no clear distinction between truth and untruth. If you have the wisdom to discern the difference then the info you gain from instant communications is invaluable to you. If you don’t then it is difficult to decide just what to do with opposing information. The very heart of this topic lies in the question, how does a person gain wisdom? Besides putting truth and untruth on the same level, the Internet also makes … Continue reading The Truth And The Untruth Lay On The Same Level.
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