First Blog

Pictured below is some random person maybe like you or me.   His mind is whirling about considering problems and decisions yet to make. He is reflecting on years past and years to come. He is wondering about whether to take action on reports just in. He may even be wondering on his children’s health and how they are doing in their classes. He may have a slight muscle pull in his right thigh, but you’ll never know. It’s humid today and his arthritis is troublesome – the price of rail-splitting years ago. He didn’t sleep well last night but must perform today, and he struggles on. He has meetings in the afternoon with a dozen of people he doesn’t like, and later must write letters of condolence to families. He yearns for the peace of mind that may never come and is ever worried about those depending on him. All the while he hopes for good news from Grant. He does have issues similar to you and me, with only their magnitude and consequence in the balance. He is gone and you are here. Al

  • Crime control is impossible without police presence. • Police presence is impossible without public support. • Public support is impossible without capable public leadership. The weakest link in this equation resides with the quality of leadership. Weak leadership implies rampant crime. Weak leadership implies poor police presence. Weak leadership implies an unsafe public. Weak leadership destroys families, tribes, towns, cities, and countries.

  China's Consequence. · Most everyone believes the COVID-19 virus came from a lab in Wuhan, China. · Most everyone believes China deliberately developed this virus. · Most do not know if China intentionally released this virus - for whatever reasons. · Most everyone believes China is not giving full information on the nature of this problem. Thus, yet another black flag is associated with China in world memory. An earlier one concerns Huawei's spy communications chips. Need we mention China’s decades long use of prison labor in their factories and now Uyghur labor in their concentration camps. Who can forget Chairman Mao’s Great Cultural revolution, with 20 million deaths. Massive death is no stranger in China. Their latest abrogation of human rights is their absorption of Hong Kong. Fishing in the South China Sea is almost impossible these days if your ship doesn’t fly a Chinese flag. Therefore, in the future, China faces a horrific problem of trust – not to me

Think of a book as a crutch. In your learning, you want to eventually throw the crutches away. Thus, in learning you want to be an alternate container of the book. To manage your learning, you must first learn about how you learn. This is very individual, and so how to do it depends on how you learn. This I don’t know, but I can offer some tips. 1.      Don’t forget you forget. So, material review is important. 2.      You only know something when it is fully contained in your mind and it all makes sense. Let no detail be missing. 3.      You must organize and manage your learning to times when YOU are receptive to learning. That means, you’re not tired, distracted, stressed, or depressed. 4.      You must not try to learn too fast. If you’re slow go slow, and don’t deprecate the feeling you are slow. Some learn slower but deeper, and this is very ok. 5.      Review what you’ve learned when you are doing other things - if only to prove to yourself of your progress. 6.     

 I do believe everyone believes hate is rampant in America. But hate has always been. Let's take a graphical look at the current situation and where we are and where we are going.  I was raised a country (this one) and  I remember the day when the cry was for there to be no color in America. All were to be simply citizens. Now witness the preaching of oppressor and oppressed, while others believe their country has deserted them. Hate travels by many names, and it has ascended with millions of followers.

  Russian Proverb: You live as long as you are remembered. This is life’s extension beyond the beyond.   You can continue, but only those if celebrated can you enjoy this post-beyond.   Nationally, this is the point of Memorial Day, President’s Day, Religious founders, and so many more. These are reminders of the best of us, the most honored.   Every great nation remembers how they came to be. Forget the past at your peril. Personally, though, these are milestones from our own lives. Not birthday parties, but solemn occasions, these commemorate personal memories, for personal reasons, and they are no less important. If we cannot remember those near to us now departed, how can we celebrate the more general days of Memoriam? Indeed, many have been convoluted from their original meanings.     By keeping our loved ones proverbially alive, we sustain their lessons and meanings to all.   I believe we should remember those we have personally loved on their special day in some way.   It