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Too Early in the Morning-So Bad

The cat met me on the way to the living room. School started and so did my wife. Each year when school starts she starts teaching in Spanish in her sleep. She actually teaches in Spanish and in English. However in her sleep its Spanish. Got me, I can’t understand her.

I looked at the security monitor only to see the June bugs…(What? June bugs in August?) bang themselves into the garage door near the lights. Ahhh, a neighbor attempts to leave for work. He attempts to get into his wife’s car instead of his. Read the rest of this entry »

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General Omar Bradley

Our knowledge of science has already outstripped our capacity to control it. We have too many men of science and too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.

Man is stumbling blindly through a spiritual darkness while toying with the precarious secrets of life and death. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours, is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.–Gen. Omar Bradley

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Smell of Death

I don’t care what anyone says, death stinks. In my life time I have been present at the deaths of many people. Some deaths were caused by warfare, others related to accidents, many to aging, disease and others due to suicide or homicide. Death really stinks. No, not because we loose a loved one, but there is a specific odor that accompanies death.

Not everyone can smell the odor of death. I guess I am a person who is very sensitive to the odor. When I lived in New York City for three months in 2002, I made my way through the streets towards Ground Zero. A sick feeling came over me as I smelt that odor once more and I ask the guy I went with, “Do you smell that”? His response was, “Well, I didn’t do it”! “No, Mark, do you smell death? Read the rest of this entry »