Time and Gravity

 I was looking in the mirror at my 95-pound weight loss, and it occurred to me that you can not escape time and gravity.  Yes, I pulled myself from the deadly clutches of obesity only to discover that I'm now used up like a wasted Capri Sun on the side of the highway...silver hair and all.

I used to be young and vital; now I am old and haggard. Time and gravity are the prime suspects.  

I grew a beard to try to hide my shame, and it made me look like a derelict Sean Connery on crystal meth.  The hunt for Red October continues, but the beard is gone...I feel much better without the disgusting beard.  I don't know how people live with it.     

My daughter said it made me look like Santa Claus, and I told her it's due to the effects of time and gravity screaming for vengeance.   She's married and has a daughter of her own now.  Last night, she complained to me that she had some gray hair because time and gravity are unstoppable.  

Those are two constant factors in all our lives, and scientists have been working for decades to learn how to manipulate time and gravity.  Live longer!  Age Slower! Take this pill to improve your memory! Try this supplement to ease your arthritis!  All of it is a direct attempt to slow time and reverse the effects of gravity on your body.  If you lived on the moon, you could slow a lot of naturally occurring diseases to a crawl, even the aging process. Hypothetically.   That is why so many people want to get back to the moon.  It could lead to scientific discoveries that might cure previously incurable diseases.  Hypothetically.  The possibilities are limitless, but I'm sure humankind will find a way to defile and destroy each other with that, too.  

Since I'm thinking about scientists today, it was disturbing to learn that several leading aerospace engineers with secret or top-secret clearances have gone missing without a trace in the last year.  

Take one guess what kind of projects they were working on?  Equipment to be used to bypass time and gravity.  Only when you take it into warp drive do you pass through time.  I know it’s crazy…take it with a grain of salt.   

If you ever escape the surly bonds of time and gravity, you'll probably experience some metabolic changes, as in some major space diarrhea up to and including death.     

You'll wind up like a wasted Capri Sun on the side of the galactic highway.   

I'm thinking that's what happened to those scientists, so to speak.  They were working on something major, and now they're gone.  How do you know they actually disappeared on a backpacking trip or whatever?  You only know what the man behind the curtain tells you.  That's all.    

Update:  Ironically, right after sunset this evening, I was able to observe the International Space Station pass right over my position.  It reminds me of 1981, when I saw the space shuttle Columbia on its maiden voyage, coming home to land at Edwards.  There was a loud sonic boom, and you could see a speck streak through the sky toward the Mojave Desert.  Some of the people on the space station tonight are actually cosmonauts from the Russian space program, which makes this a noteworthy experience for me.  I wish we could resolve our problems here on Earth the way they do in outer space and realize we are all the same when we stare into the void.              

Whatever

 Just think of all the stories I'll have to tell the grandkids...

They'll probably never know me because I'll be assassinated for the First Amendment, but the apple doesn't fall from the tree, eh?  

My own grandfather was murdered in Chicago in 1976; I never knew the man.  He was no free speech warrior, that's all I know.  He had an unsavory past.  One thing I was told was that he ran away to join the Navy when he was underage.  He was in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, on the day the Japanese bombed the place in 1942.  He jumped off the dock to avoid a bomb and broke his leg.  Somehow or another, the Navy learned he was underage and discharged him. But that wasn't the end of old John; he went on to join the Army Air Corps and served at the base where Chuck Yeager learned to fly.  Then he met my grandmother, got her pregnant, and ran off into the sunset, wherever that was.  I guess it was Chicago.     

We didn't know him or anything about him until after he died.  I was actually named after my father's brother, Johnny.  

Anyway, what am I supposed to do?  I'm a writer, and somebody tried to kill me in 2022, so I'm more interested in finding out who did it than anybody else.   Would you lie down and shut the hell up if someone poisoned you, then lied to the cops about you, which essentially caused a major disruption in your life and business? Then to endure the non-stop harassment from a bunch of crooked cops after the fact? I should just take that lying down? They had my stupid neighbors out there photographing everyone who came and went, writing down license plate numbers, and so forth.  It got so sleazy that I left.  Whatever.          

I'm pretty sure the bible is filled with examples of folks who didn't take their setbacks lying down.  Jesus took his beating standing up, like a man.  That's why I read the bible all the time.  Fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom.   

Be advised.  

Fear and Loathing from the heartland

 The hypocrisy of the left has never been more apparent than it is today.  First, they rewrote history to make sure Cesar Chavez was included in our shared history because of his struggle for California farm workers and civil rights.  I said, "That's fine, because I am not a farm worker."

As of today, they are rewriting history to exclude him for crimes, real or imagined.  

They are insane, and if this doesn't prove it, then nothing will.  

Growing up in Kern County, there were always rumors swirling around about Chavez and his UFW, that he was a creeper and a Marxist.  The tactics they employed were straight out of the Maoist playbook.  Over time, farm workers came to hate that crooked little political organization.  It became more about spreading Marxist ideology than it did about ever protecting farm workers.  

Using divide and conquer tactics, they bombarded the youth with their social justice horseshit for 40 years until they became the racist organization they claimed to be fighting.  They ought to be ashamed of themselves, but they aren't because they are possessed with a blind hatred of everything they disagree with.  This little episode only proves it.

  

I'm glad all the commie nazi assholes back home who spent so much time and energy promoting this fraud to the people have all been exposed.  It totally negates anything they have to say in the future.  Let the organization go down in flames because that's what they envisioned for our country.  

You were warned they'd be doing this.  

It's too bad so many people are that blind.   

  

Hearts and minds

 It just goes to show who God is, if a man can live through all of this and still come out of it with a song in his heart.  It’s from reading the Bible and having faith in something larger than myself.  

Yeah, I’m a real screwed up person, and I don’t need people reminding me of it; but God still took the time to reach out and spare me.  That’s all the proof I need.  

I took all of this negative garbage turned it around, crystallized it and threw it back in the world’s face.   Because that’s what God does with people in their mind and heart.  It’s unfortunate when people don’t understand that. 

What men intended for evil, god turned around and made it good   

Genesis 50:20

 Deuteronomy 3:21  

Romans 12:17

James 1:2

James 4:10 

1 Corinthians 12: 7-11

Proverbs 22:6 

Unlike other religions Christianity teaches us  to pray for our enemies and not go screaming for vengeance across the desert.   This is the religion of peace, I’m glad to deliver that news.  Have a nice day.  

Update: It should be noted that just because I forgive people doesn’t mean I intend to go running back for more. I’m good, bro.  

I don’t make this up out of thin air.  It's all right there.  I didn’t steal some preachers notes at church on Sunday.  Well, maybe I did but it’s from years and years ago.  It doesn’t matter because it only proves to me that the word is eternal.  All of these things were written on the tablet of my heart as a child.   Not yesterday, last week, or last year, this was decades ago, sitting on the church bus, listening to my parents and grandparents.  These are my notes on how to make it in this hostile world.  It took a lot of strength, hope and courage to survive and only through Gods grace am I able to write about it.  

I got some of my verses wrong from this clunky digital Bible, but it should be all corrected now.  I went back and read that and was like whoa, no, that’s the wrong verse….its all repaired.  God knew what I meant   

The lonely hours

 Even when enemies are surrounding me

I don’t fit in anywhere!

My life has been punctuated by moments of terror!

The word of god has been my only protection,

He’s my rock and salvation.

He covered me with his Spirit 

And guides me through times of trouble

He heard my prayers and replaced sorrow,

With peace inside my heart

God doesn’t cover us in fear 

But love and power 

With peace that brings joy

During the lonely hours…