Simply my Thoughts By: Dean Butler
I must have spent a couple of hours on the phone this night with a very dear and special friend. I am going to exclude her name out of respect for her privacy. We talked about so many things all starting with our discussion and similar love for Heath, my son. The stories that she […]
I cannot help but wonder why it is that we have trouble understanding and experiencing most everything in its true form until we have first experienced its opposite? How can we say we have experienced the light if we have yet to walk in the dark? We see so many taking foolish chances with their […]
It does not matter if a person or several people are killed. It does not matter if it was calculated and deliberate or an unavoidable accident. Hurting or killing more people will not change anything. It will not bring them back nor will it resolve anything. Gathering in protest, rioting, and destroying other people’s property […]
I wonder if maybe I am trapped in a make-believe world, one that only myself and very few others have seen or live in today. I wonder what happened to men being a gentleman, chivalry, respect, pride, and integrity. I could not understand why there was no place for a key to unlock the passenger […]
The stars and bars flew high when the native men, women, and children of America were massacred, raped, beaten, starved, and run from their homes. It still flies today but represents something much more than a country of child-killing, rapist, and murdering thieves. The stars and bars flew high when the atomic bombs were dropped […]
Laying on your side, kicking, spinning, swaying your arms wildly all over the place, and screaming at the top of your lungs, “NOOOOooooo, I don‘t want to “!!!! This was an action taken well past toddler age simply because you didn’t get your way. Acting a bit extreme would be an understatement. Throwing things, breaking […]
Ready or not, someday it will all come to an end.There will be no more sunrise, no minutes, hours, or days.All things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten will pass to someone else.Your wealth, fame, and temporal power shrivel to irrelevancies.It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed.Your grudges, resentments, frustrations, […]