A Variety of Thoughts About Everything

 As you who read my blogs know I am travelling at this time. My purpose of this travel is two fold: 1) Visit family. That is the main reason. 2) To ride my motorcycle in places that I do not know and discover new places and scenes. That is the minor, and still important, purpose. And these purposes are being fulfilled most wonderfully. I have been visiting family in and around San Diego and riding my motorcycle all over the hills in and around Ramona which is in the hills outside San Diego. A long time ago I chose to have much more family than just my genetic family. Because My Family is who so ever I declare them to be. Family is, for me, what I make it, and who I make it. This started a long time ago with a youngster who is related to my brother and shares no DNA with me. Long story and not really pertinent at this time. At the time this young lady was 14 or 15 and I was visiting where she lived. And her Mother asked me to please talk with her as she was having a hard time and maybe

 When my Father retired in the late 1980's and came back to the States he was doing alright financially. No bills, living with my older Brother and then wife and kids. He was getting Social Security and a Military Pension as a Combat Vet. World War II. And the last few years of his life he would get in his car in the summer and travel the country seeing his family. And yes, we had spread all over the country. And we still are. I always wanted to do things like this. Just travel places and see people, experience different places and the people who live there. Over the years since I have entered into Recovery I have begun to cross off some of the things that are on my list of, formerly, pipe dreams. Literally. I have travelled, a lot. I have gone places, and lived in some of them, that I had dreamed of going to for years. I have gotten to know so many people that I would never have met otherwise. A few years ago I crossed another one off the list. I began riding motorcycles again. I

 Just after I learned how to read I was somehow able to acquire a book. This book had big pictures, big print, small words, and ran thru the Greek myths from creation to the height of Ancient Greek Society. They were told in their late, fully formed, context without what, I now know as fascinating, starts and growths to what they became. I devoured that book about 10 billion times. Ok, exaggeration. Over several months I read that book again and again. I was thinking about what I read after reading and went back while thinking to see again what I was thinking about. After several months of this I began to look at other mythologies. I wanted to see what other people believed. And when I say mythologies I also include Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Mythologies. I did not yet connect them with the world around me and the place my Mum took me to on Sundays that I daydreamed, or slept, thru and missed everything said. And I began too see the many similarities in these mythologies. From chaos

 I have been seeing this meme running around Social Media recently that I find interesting. It says "The problem isn't lack of money, food, water, or land. The problem is that you've given control of these things to a group of greedy psychopaths who care more about maintaining their own power than helping mankind." and it is attributed to "Bill Hicks, Stand Up Comedian, Social Critic (1961 - 1994)". Bill Hicks was a very funny individual. And he definitely was on the Left side of the Political Spectrum. He was also infamous as an Atheist who had many unkind things to say about Religion. And the most fascinating thing that I am finding is that people whom I know to e to the Extreme Right side of the Political Spectrum and also some very Religious People, mostly both, are also claiming this and posting it for sharing. And here is where we have the Intersectionality and Commonality. We can all agree with the thought that we have turned the most important parts