A Variety of Thoughts About Everything

If you know me, and a lot of you do, then you know that my childhood was not overly happy. Things happened and at about 5.5 years old I looked around, emotionally that is, not cognitively, and said to myself without words, "F*** this. I'm out". I then started using my first drug which was Imagination. And no matter how far into addiction I went, and I went pretty far, Escapism, escaping from a world that I did not like or trust, and that terrified me, was always my goal. But that is groundwork for something else. The story of my addiction and continuing Recovery is for another time and place. For a time my imagination was more of a yearning for a better place. I had no tools to work with as yet. And then, a Magical thing happened. I learned how to READ. And the first thing that I remember reading, that had a profound impact on my life, was a simple children's book about Greek Mythology. I read that book about a zillion times it seemed like. And all of a sudden my imag...

People who know me know that I have been studying History for a very long time. I started with Mythology at 7 years old and that lead me into wanting to understand the people that believed these things and that meant History. And I have never stopped studying. I just wrapped up reading "John Adams Under Fire: The Founding Father's Fight for Justice in the Boston Massacre Murder Trial" by Dan Abrams and David Fisher. A very well put together piece that really dives into the situation and the out come. And let me just say that calling what happened the "Boston Massacre" instead of the "Boston Riots and the Outcome" is a masterful piece of enduring Propaganda by Samuel Adams. It really was a riot planned by the "Patriots" with the planned outcome of Death either of the Soldiers, of Civilians, or both. (Totally my Opinion) John Adams sympathies lie totally with the Patriots. He believes in the Cause. Yet he took on defending the Captain who comma...

 Hello Everyone. This is a brand new endeavor for me. I do not guarantee that I will write regularly, although that is my intent as of now. I do not guarantee that I will make sense to you, although I can guarantee that it will make sense to me. I am just going to write what I am thinking about and invite you to come along on the journey. I do have a few rules however.  1) Disagree. Please do. I want to promote discussion. Be respectful of the people, whether me or another commenter, with whom you are disagreeing. 2) If all of your talk is emotion with no facts or data to back you up it will be deleted. This is for people who have at least some basis in reality for what they discourse on. 3) Have fun. We are going to be talking about some big ideas here. I invite you all to play and have fun while we do this. 4) If you think that I am not following my own rules then say so. And that is pretty much it for this post. I have been thinking about this for a while and find that this...