I’m reminded of the ancient king who held court each day. He beckoned the local sage for words of wisdom. Each day for a year, the sage brought the king an overly ripe piece of fruit along with a witty statement. When the sage left, the king tossed the fruit into a hole in a pillar where it fell to the basement, untouched.
He had his legs blown off in Vietnam. At that moment, he had hand-walked 936 miles in 19 months. Two years later, I heard on an NPR newscast that it took him 3 years, 8 months, 6 days to complete his coast-to-coast journey. I cried my eyes out upon hearing about his triumph. I was humbled beyond measure to be a tiny moment in his journey.
Finally, you write the next chapter of your life by your hand and by your choices. Engage your brain, heart and soul toward your highest and best outcomes. Engage the power of brave thoughts. And, enjoy the ride!
Since we’re heading into the summer of 2024, let’s turn toward some uplifting essays that instruct, inspire, and maybe, just maybe…assist you in your unique journey through this life. Whether you travel by bicycle, backpack, canoe, sailboard, kayak, skis, or other methods…this story may inspire you toward your highest and best adventure-seeking during your time on this planet.
No big deal since hundreds of cyclists have ridden trans-Americas. Yes, I’ve done it too, but in my 30’s. In your youth, the energy, strength and true grit come naturally. As you read this story, hundreds of cyclists around the world pedal into their own adventures. They’re riding on six continents…trail blazers.
For the millions of you who lost your father or mother at an early age, or any age, we share a circular grief that others don’t know, cannot understand and won’t be able to relate. I remember that the Spirit of St. Louis flyer Charles Lindbergh said, “Death is the last great adventure.”
Two of the guys on this journey proved themselves “day riders” for all their lives. But, at over 70, they enjoyed retirement with time to spare. All of us sported gray hair, or no hair, gray beards, high blood pressure, bad knees, sore hips, touch of diabetes, and spare tires around our mid-sections.
Sandi and I cranked our way toward Alaska, laboring up mountain grades in the Sawtooth Range of Idaho on Route 75. Late in the day, we came to a river intersecting the highway.
Did you hear of the older lady driving a Cadillac who aimed her automobile toward a slot in the parking lot near the store? Seconds before she pulled into the space, a young man zipped into her spot in his shiny sports car.
As an ordinary citizen of America, my life path carried me into amazing places. My choices allowed me to encounter some remarkable people who espoused “how” to live a happy life. I share their ideals with you for you to incorporate them into your own life—and prosper with happiness.
Who wants another four-year term of the current D.E.I. “INCOMPETENT & DEMENTIA—RIDDEN” Joe Biden in the White House where he can complete the job of displacing millions of Americans with another 12 million illegal refugee replacements, trash our laws, degrade our Constitution and wreck our economy?
The mainstream media twists reality to unreality. “The View” features a bunch of wacko females who hate the majority of Americans. One of them said that the basketball phenomenon Catlin Clark enjoyed “Pretty Privilege…and White Privilege.” What a crock of horse-feathers! Clark became the highest scoring basketball player in college history.
No question: we are repeating Rome’s history. America is bifurcating. We’re manifesting “tribalism” rather than Americanism. We’re battling 55 million foreign born who don’t share our cultural values. We’re segmenting. We’re CRT’ing. We’re D.E.I. separating. We’ve got “affirmative action” employees in the cockpits of 747 airliners. We’ve got Muslim American Hamas supporters chanting, “Death to America.”
One look at France today, 55 million French persons, and 5 million Muslims, you can cut the racial/religious air with a knife. You might remember where Muslim terrorists shot up Paris restaurants, slaughtered theater patrons and killed cartoonists in that once “free society.” More than 90 “no-go zones” now dominate the French countryside.
Since the mainstream media won’t educate you, and politicians continue to explode our population via legal and illegal immigration into America, you cannot count on knowing or understanding what Americans face in 26 short years. But I can tell you this: it’s gonna’ get really ugly for anyone living in that 2040 to 2050 decade when America hits that 100 million added human “resource competitors.”
Biden, who won’t be alive to see his legacy of how he destroyed America, continues on this treacherous path with no idea of the consequences. Without a doubt, he is the “Father of the Destruction of America.” They might place a statue of Biden next to George Washington, the “Father of our country” at George Washington University.
How did it feel when you heard the news report, “Death to America” from all those pro-Hamas Muslim supporters? Did you ask yourself, “How could they say that inside the greatest and freest country on this planet?” All Americans better start asking themselves these questions because the citizens of Great Britain didn’t.
If this treason keeps up, if this anarchy keeps up, and we allow anyone to attack or call for the death of certain religions, we’ve lost America. You need to get on the phone and call your U.S. Senators and House Member. Demand they take action at the federal level to stop all immigration of anyone from Islamic countries.
Growing up on a farm in LeRoy, Michigan, population 500 farmers, I got close to the Earth. I helped my parents plant a quarter-acre garden every spring. Nothing like getting your hands dirty in the dark riches of organic soil!
Dozens of emails poured into my computer after the publication of “Irony, Pain, and Hope for Earth Day 2024.” (March 22, 2024) Some quite negative! Some gave up years ago. Some felt distressed over the 1.0 million vertebrate creatures killed on America’s highways every single day of the year.
In the final equation, what does Earth Day mean? It means YOU must be the “change agent” in your community, your state and your country. You must elect those who will act. If they won’t act, you may run for office. When it comes to a free society, it’s up to “we the people” to make change toward a viable future.
Dear fellow American, we need a responsible Congress, head of DHS and president to serve our interests. NOT 10 MILLION ILLEGAL ALIENS. We need to vote for the next president to deport every last illegal alien and every Muslim who chants, ""Death to America." We don't need them bringing their barbaric religion, their barbaric savagery like 9/11, or any of their 6th century barbaric rituals.
What can you do for yourself and your kids? Answer: Educate yourself. There are plenty of YouTube seminars on healthy eating. Shop only "Organic" foods. Avoid just about everything in a package, glass, or can. Everything in packages, glass and cans have additives, unless it really tells you that it's a healthy food. Check the labels.
When he imports another 10 million illegal aliens including hundreds of thousands of Muslims, Chinese and Africans with chain-migration along with “asylum seekers”, we won’t know who we are or what the hell to do to save ourselves. Biden’s handlers are effectively destroying our culture, our language, our identity and our way of life.
Today, you’re seeing California’s ugly situation of being unable to function as a first world state. It features 200,000 homeless, shoplifting killing major stores and chains, regular murders on a grand scale, welfare off the charts for illegal aliens, hospitals and prisons overrun, and the Mexican flag flown more than Old Glory.
It’s known as the McCarran-Walter Act, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 allows for the - "suspension of entry or imposition of restrictions by the president, whenever the president finds that the entry of aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States."
Now, we’re seeing our changing climate burn-up our summers. We’re seeing it in 100,000-to-200,000-acre wildfires. We’re seeing it scorch our landscape. We’re seeing it in 100 species a day suffering extinction, worldwide. We’ll see more of it as our electrical grids overload their capacity.
The container ship crashing into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore offers a cautionary tale concerning America’s future. What kind of future might we speak about? Answer: a complete lack of common sense, logical thinking and proactive plans in order to remain a viable, functioning and successful civilization.
So, you sit here wondering how did our country spiral SO FAR INTO THE TOILET? Answer: we’ve elected power elites who have completely abandoned the American people for power and money. We’ve elected governors and mayors who created “Sanctuary Cities” which are totally in violation of our laws. We elected Joe Biden...
You cannot help but ask yourself, “How did America get so screwed up?” “How did we let our politicians’ endemic corruption continue to be re-elected?” “Why do we allow incompetent/corrupt politicians to be re-elected for decades when they’ve proven they are useless and corrupt?”
In 2024, we need to get back to the basics that made this country function at the highest level for everyone: personal responsibility, personal accountability, personal educational excellence, personal work excellence, loyalty to our flag, honesty, ethics, critical thinking, our communities, our states, our nation and our way of life.
As Biden 2.0 continues on his current path, all of us are at risk whether our tax dollars or our lives----as these illegal aliens overwhelm and destroy the foundation of our country. Can’t you see it coming? Do you understand if you are a democrat, independent or republican---you and your kids are in the cross hairs of Balkanization of America?
Biden will go down in history as the most inept, corrupt or totally incompetent president in United States history. Just like that University of Georgia coed Laken Riley, our country faces a deadly future. This invasion will not end well for any of us whether we’re Independents, Democrats or Republicans.
Do you understand that over 11 million illegal aliens under Biden in the past 38 months constitute a “Weaponization” against the American people? Do you see them organizing in our big cities? Do you realize that you’re paying for them to create terror in your city and/or our country?
Will our culture survive? Will our way of life survive? Will our country survive? What’s your take? My take? I don’t think we stand a snowball’s chance in hell of surviving this invasion, both legal and illegal refugees. Whether you’re a liberal, independent or conservative, how can you disagree with what we face?
Congress needs to wake up. They need to institute the 25th Amendment. We cannot keep fooling ourselves with a senile, decrepit, old man who no longer knows what’s going on in the world. Joe Biden is the “Nero” of the 21st century, and we’re the ones who are watching our own country being burned to the ground.
Ironically, 38 percent of brainless Democrats want him to add another four years onto his presidency----when he can’t put four coherent sentences together without a teleprompter. That same 38 percent want Biden’s handlers to continue directing America over a cliff.
Whether you’re one of the 38 percent of Americans who approve of Joe Biden, which means you must be suffering from Alzheimer’s, too…because no one in his or her right mind would support such incompetence. Or, you’re part of the rest of the majority of the country that wants him to drop out…he’s already done the damage that won’t be solved unless every one of those people faces deportation.
What does that mean? As to welfare for millions, what happens when their numbers that do not contribute exceed the rest of us who do contribute? As to illiteracy, do you understand that people with very low IQ’s lack any “educational thrust or interest” toward personal intellectual betterment? They become our endemic poor.
Notice that Nancy Pelosi has LIVED in Congress for three decades, uses military private jets to go home on weekends, and is worth over $100 million from insider trading on defense contracts. Ever wonder why she voted to keep Afghanistan and Iraq Wars going for 20 years?
After the disastrous Friday DOJ report on Joe Biden’s mishandling of classified documents, he stood in front of the nation in a press conference to tell us that he talked to one world leader in Egypt thinking that leader was from Mexico. Biden made nonsensical gaffes, memory lapses, dropped sentences, misstatements and outright lies.
Who thinks we need 750 bases in 80 countries? Can you give one single, rational reason for such impositions and incursions on those 80 countries? While we’re $35 trillion in national debt, why are we wasting more money and 450,000 military personnel on those bases? What’s the point? What’s the end game? Who benefits?
How do you think those 10 million illegal alien border jumpers are going to benefit our nation? How will you and your family benefit from the terrorists that are already planning attacks to kill us? How will you feel when one of your family members dies in those attacks? Because it’s a fact that some of us are going to die from internal terrorist attacks! Who wants more Ilhan Omar’s in our U.S. Congress when she clearly states that she represents Somalia and not America?
Do you have any idea of how much more of a “wage slave” you’re going to become as you pay, and pay and pay for what Joe Biden is doing to our country? Do you feel sickened as to what’s happening to our country under Joe Biden and/or his handlers? Who in his or her right mind thinks Joe Biden is capable of another four years in the White House?
Gosh darn! After three years of Biden’s open borders and 9.6 million illegal aliens now living off our tax dollars, as well as destroying our laws, the House GOP wants to bring impeachment proceedings against the director of the Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. Note that Mayorkas has broken every law on the books.
Last night, Colorado Public Radio reported that my City of Denver now houses 37,500 illegal aliens. They interviewed women of “do-gooder” groups who were trying to find food, shelter and care for people who knowingly broke into our country against our laws.
If you possess a rational mind, you cannot justify what’s going on in America in 2024. Up is down; down is up. Crime is celebrated; law- abiding citizens are fools. Shoplifting is cool; paying for your groceries is for suckers. When a male pretends to be a woman, you are required to pretend with him.
Our own companies across America would rather cut our throats than hire American workers for a fair and living wage. For certain, minorities with low educational skills face planned poverty by the big wigs in those Washington DC offices. In many ways, capitalism must be the cruelest of systems when it comes to cut-throat competition.
If we fail to stop Joe Biden’s invited refugee invasion of America, most Americans are not prepared for what’s coming. In 2024, most Americans take for granted MOST of their freedoms. They enjoy education from kindergarten through 12th grades. At least 20 percent enjoy college educations. Millions more enjoy vocational training schools.
What did our Founding Fathers George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abigail Adams, John Hancock, Paul Revere, and Ben Franklin possess in common? Answer: they took action. They changed the course of history by their efforts on the battlefield. As they sat at Constitution Hall, they hammered out the U.S. Constitution. Each man and woman took action to form the greatest country ever created on the face of the Earth.
You are about to learn what’s happening to America as to its being dismantled. You are about to see how, ultimately, this current invasion will end in the destruction of America. This report comes from the vantage point of an American journalist who has traveled the entire world on his own dime. You’re not learning this information from a paid journalist of the New York Times or the Washington Post or The Atlantic Magazine.
We need to stop incentivizing them with cell phones, $5,000.00 gift cards, free schooling, health care, hotels, and tickets to any city they wish to invade. We need our Congress and president to deport every last illegal alien from our shores. Yes, all 20 to 30 plus million of them.
May 2024 bring the world closer to peace across all of humanity. May we respect and treat our planet as we would like to be treated: with care. May we show our families and communities our very best in citizenship. May we uplift America to a higher level of integrity, health, and happiness. Vaya con Dios! Happy New Year 2024 from Sandi and Frosty Wooldridge
The year 2024 will prove pivotal, dangerous and devastating. If we allow a decrepit, senile, corrupt old man to continue what he has done for the past 36 months, America will not survive as an intact, single culture, single language, and/or single people ever again.
Have you ever faced a situation that caused you to question yourself? Did you confront a teacher that you disliked or a fellow student who badgered you? Have you dwelt with co-workers that made you tear your hair out?
How would you like to throw a Christmas party in your 3,000 square foot home, but instead of your 10 friends coming over, another 100 strangers show up at your door…and without knocking, barge into your home not only for the party, but for the rest of your life? Not only that, they demand that you feed them, while providing them beds and bathrooms for their own use.
It’s all pretty much how Mother Nature created the human race. There is no equity no matter how much inclusion or social engineering. You’re seeing that play out in Ukraine, Israel-Gaza, Sweden, France, Great Britain and every country forced into endless immigration of disparate/incompatible racial groups.
Final questions: how stupid and senile is this president and how stupid is the U.S. Congress and how stupid are the American people to sit by and watch their country devolve into a third world country? Answer: really, really, totally, completely and utterly STUPID!
As millions of illegal aliens pour over the border from God only knows where, and averaging 10,000 daily, can you imagine what our national identity will become? With this invasion nightmare accelerating, do you see any elected representatives in Congress doing a single stinking thing to stop it. Yes, a few speak up like Josh Hawley (R-MO), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), but no one else lifts a finger.
What are the majority of American citizens facing? Answer: we’re headed into the same violent quagmire as Israel, UK, Germany, France, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. Read: War on the West by Douglas Murray. When we allow barbaric/uneducated people from barbaric cultures infiltrate our country, we will see our country torn apart at the seams.
As a math-Science teacher back in the 1970’s, three months off each summer allowed me to travel a great deal. Because I was so poorly paid, $5,400.00 annually, I traveled on a bicycle, of course! Every night, a tent under the stars! Those thousands of miles across America, and then, Europe, then South America, then Australia----really taught me more than all my years in college.
Do you know what’s happening in Spain or Ireland? Over the weekend in Spain, 1,000,000 citizens in 42 cities marched against massive and unending illegal immigration. In Dublin, Ireland, more riots and burning of the city! Just look it up on YouTube. My brother reports to me from Europe…so I know what’s going on over there.
“Some memories will be filled with regret and some will be joyous. You will have both in your life. You get to choose the number of each by the way you live. And, one final thought from my days of meditation on hay bales and sitting beside a quiet pond with dragon flies, turtles, snakes and muskrats: everything you become, you chose. And, everything you chose, you wanted.”
Dear fellow American, I could copy another 20 comments, but have run out of space. Our country stands eyeball-deep in trouble. I don’t think our feckless politicians have the guts to stop it. At some point, it will boil down to what’s happening to Sweden. They did it to themselves and our politicians are doing it to us.
Have you noticed all the pro-Hamas marches in America since October 7, 2023? Have you noticed who leads them? Have you noticed their chants of death to all Jews? Have you noticed that they carry Palestinian flags along with Islamic black flags? Who leads those marches?
Not to mention, we endure our president of the United States who shakes hands with the air, must be led off stage by his wife, who doesn’t know where he is or what day of the week it is, let alone the location of Israel on a map. He doesn’t write his speeches. He can’t remember what he’s talking about as he mumbles along with the aid of a teleprompter. Whomever writes his speeches is the one running our country.
Thankfully, The U.S. House of Representatives censured Jihadist and Palestinian Rashida Tlaib, (D-MI) for her obscene support of Hamas’ brutal slaughter of children, mothers and the elderly in Israel on October 7, 2023.
The Koran and Sunna states that Sharia supersedes all nations laws, including our constitution. When she swore in on the Koran, she is saying that the Koran is above our constitution. No true Muslim can swear to defend our constitution from all enemies foreign or domestic because they don’t believe it’s worth saving, but Sharia Law is.
Our president and U.S. Congress have allowed over 8,000,000 illegal aliens, along with terrorists to enter our country in the past 34 months. The president of our country “really” doesn’t know what day of the week it is…and because of his dementia, he cannot pass a mental competency test to save his life. Instead, he’s killing America. Or, at least his wife and/or his handlers are killing our country.
Let all Americans bow their heads in prayer at the loss of actor/comedian Mathew Perry this past weekend. He created laughter, joy and smiles throughout his ten years on the sitcom, “Friends.” He battled alcohol and drug addiction throughout his life. We suffer millions of Americans in our country battling alcohol addiction as well as hundreds of thousands of drug addiction deaths.
The one thing I wish is that every American learn to avoid poisoned foods such as the GMO’s or Monsanto’s poison Roundup sprayed on crops. I loathe all the chemical additives in foods. I forever am angry that supermarket “foods” are filled with sugars, high fructose corn syrup, and another dozen forms of sugars. I hate the MSG’s in fast foods that cause people to be “forever hungry”, so they buy that second Big Mac, Fries and that poison liquid of Coke, Dr. Pepper, Mt. Dew, or Pepsi.
If you think it’s “crazy” in Israel or Ukraine right now, just wait a few years as we keep importing “crazy” into America. The Islamic imams in Sweden have already bragged that Sweden will become the first Islamic State in Europe. They will outnumber the Swedes within a few decades because of their screaming birth rates.
Now, we have President Joe “Alzheimer’s” Biden telling us to stop global warming by cutting off gas stoves and buying electric cars. At the same time, he just imported 8,000,000 illegal aliens who will be burning millions of gallons of gas by warming their homes, cooking their food, transporting themselves, and consuming our limited resources.
Muslims have built a new $50 million complex, 150,000 square feet in America. The largest mosque currently is in Dearborn, Michigan (92,000 square feet) wherein Islam has infiltrated all levels of government and society, taking over businesses and out numbering citizens through higher birth rates. Muslims have taken over Dearborn, Michigan. This is Silent Jihad.
"Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any faith, but to become dominant. The Qur’an should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.” Omar Ahmed, director of Council on American Islamic Relations. Let that quote sink into your mind, emotions and feelings for a minute.
Make no mistake...the Muslims have a long range plan to be the dominate religion in the world. There is not one case in Europe or the US where their society has assimilated. This is their religious mission. Europe has all but lost to the invasion of Muslims....they now represent 5-10% of the population in every country in Europe.....with no assimilation.
We’ve lost our youth to “hating” America more than loving our country. We find they respond to their cell phones rather than sit down to dinner with their families. If they have a family! Fact: 7 out of 10 black kids lack a father in the home, live with a single mother and leach off your welfare tax dollars. Total irresponsible behavior by the millions!
At some point, we Americans will not be able to dodge, deny or escape reality. This “climate thing” will be the final curtain for our civilization. If not the “climate thing”, it will be the “water thing” or “resource thing” or “energy thing.” What’s ridiculous about it? We could have changed course.
And there you have it fellow American. The majority of Americans keep sitting on their Barker Loungers sipping beer and devouring pizzas as this nation-destroying nightmare continues. Brought to you by Biden and Congress! We are in deep doodoo.
You can bet on this prediction: your children will not be living in the America where you grew up. There will be NO American Dream. It’s going to be a dog-eat-dog, fight for food, fight for water, fight for energy, fight for clean air, fight for jobs, and fight for existence like no one in America has ever experienced.
If you look across the American landscape, everywhere liberals dominate, America deteriorates and declines into “jungle” behavior. You have to wonder whether or not we’ve gone so far down that rabbit hole that there is no chance to climb out. What do you think?
With that $100 billion in shoplifting, that means millions of our citizens are criminals. A Constitutional Republic demands a moral, ethical and personally responsible citizenry. What happens when the thefts reach $100, $200 or $500 billion annually? At some point, our big cities will fall into anarchy beyond solving.
After 33 months in office, Joe Biden invited 8,000,000 illegal migrants to invade our southern border. He hired Cuban immigrant Alejandro Mayorkas to make sure our borders are open, free to cross 24/7, and he rewards criminals, drug dealers, sex traffickers and terrorists with plane rides or bus tickets to any city in America.
Our successful civilization, as we know it or used to know it, stands at the crossroads of insanity, senility, gender craziness and political chaos. We also stand at a critical intersection where our own citizens are being supplanted by illegal and legal invader-migrant(s) replacements. That’s right! You and I are being replaced.
Picture of a massive wall to protect homeowners along an expressway. “Since 1972 the government has built over 3,000 miles of “sound walls” along our highways to “protect nearby homeowners from traffic sounds. If the government can spend $6 billion on walls to protect the homeowners from traffic noise, why can’t it spend $5 billion on a southern border wall to protect our lives?”
In the end, American citizens of every color, religion, race and political persuasion have enjoyed the utmost finest opportunities in the last 58 years. Thank you, Jimmy Buffet and Tony Bennett and all the rest who entertained us. God bless America!
You cannot help but travel in California to see 170,000 homeless people wandering the streets of the big cities. Los Angeles must be the new capital of human misery, followed by San Francisco. Ironically, both cities are governed by equity, inclusiveness and diversity. The minority leaders and police forces have turned those cities into human ghettoes no better than Mumbai, India.
Wouldn’t it be great if Joe Biden would import at least 5,000,000 additional illegal aliens annually, on top of the 1,000,000 legal immigrants annually? I’m certain all those “sanctuary cities” would love to host millions more in their hotels like in New York, Chicago, Denver, Atlanta and beyond. We could see those 70,000 homeless in Los Angeles jump to 170,000 homeless. Wouldn’t that be ducky!
This column could give you another 100 really sobering if not frightening examples of what we face with “exponential population growth” brought to us by “exponential immigration growth.” What do another 100 million people added to this country mean in real terms? It means we double the populations of our 35 most populated cities.
Just for a week, I want to leave my series on Travels With Charley II, to give you or members of your family, especially high school kids, a better understanding as to what they want in life and how to discover their life’s path. Please send this column to any and all family members who have teenagers. Or, any family members who are floundering or are wondering what to do with their lives.
India has already sealed its horrible present and worsening future. I’ve seen their mess firsthand. China, oh my God, what a 1.4 billion people mess they created. They can’t breathe their air. Their rivers are sewers flowing into the ocean. They cannot feed their masses…that’s why they are buying up the rest of the world for food.
Ironically, the Barbie Movie proves conclusively that Americans must tolerate more gender insanities, more “wokeness”, more “transgender” senselessness, more racial conflict, more political absurdities and more of the people who are driving this country into the toilet.
Can you dribble a basketball? Yes, very easy for just about every kid and adult in America! Can you dribble a football? Some things may be more challenging than others, so pick your opportunities. Start easy and work your way up.
Did you accept the call while you spent your seven decades on planet Earth? Did you break out of a confining life or relationships? Like Noah’s struggle with the flood, ultimately, waters cleanse your body, mind and spirit during the journey.
In my own hiking times through the woods in acceptance of solitude, I feel the “sweet spot” of temperature playing upon my skin. I feel the essence of light shining through my eyes. I accept my quiet essence pulsing into the energies of life. Once I reconnect with every blood cell charging through my body, I churn with delight.
Exercise daily to blow off excess energy in the body to release your mind to express itself. Eat healthy foods to maintain a lean frame. That, in turn, allows you emotional balance that originates with your relationship with friends, families and co-workers. For your mental well-being, read books, take classes and express yourself through journaling, painting, sculpting or other art forms.
You face multiple challenges in your life. Thank goodness for that opportunity. Utopian worlds only exist in novels by the likes of Aldous Huxley in Brave New World. If you recall that brilliant story, a couple enjoyed unlimited physical and emotional perfection. They worked faultless jobs for their intellectual inclinations. Did they love it?
One of the things I discovered as I traveled through my 20’s, 30’s, 40’s and 50’s---once you engage fully with life, you live an eternity with each event whether work or play, good times or otherwise. Your eternity equals your lifespan. It’s endless as long as you continue breathing and ambulating.
The night before, we slept in the pines along the road on the Lewis & Clark Trail in Montana. We left the main highway on a dirt road that looked very little traveled. Gorgeous scenery everywhere we looked! The night sky featured millions of stars, a full moon, and meteors slashing across the ink-black of space.
As a veteran touring rider, and also a day rider—when I travel on my bike, I may stop at an overlook, sit by a river…or simply rest on a patch of grass. I may lay on my back in the grass and look up to the clouds skidding across the sky. They make me dream!
For every bicycle touring rider that pedals the magnificent wonders of the West Coast, perhaps the most stunning, if not peaceful moment occurs when you enter into the Prairie Creek Redwoods…and later, into the magnificent “Avenue of the Giants” of Northern California on Route 101.
On a bicycle tour, you run into every kind of surprise under the sun. You might meet an old high school classmate. You could discover a lost dog and take her under your wing. A tourist stops you to take a picture of you standing alongside of him.
How about everyone reading this column all across America create a “Bikes in Bloom” in your own cities, towns and hamlets? I already introduced the idea to my Golden, Colorado city council. I presented photographic examples on an overhead projector like you see attached to this column. They loved it.
One evening on the Lewis & Clark Trail in eastern Washington State, we ran into twilight without finding a reasonable spit of land to camp. Fences, pastures and cows pretty much wouldn’t let up. At one point, it was either find camp or ride in the dark. I hate riding in the dark.
On a long bicycle ride, you feel that joy once you reach the top of a mountain pass. From the grind up Independence Pass at 12,100 feet…to the road leveling off, and then gravity propels you downhill, oh, what a feeling of sheer pleasure! Or, ride along a rushing whitewater river…where the water imbues your cells with energy, joy and happiness.
For the next six weeks, I’ll be on the road from the Midwest to the West Coast. I will be researching the homeless nightmares in Chicago, Detroit, Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Possibly in St. Louis and Atlanta! I’m going to take pictures of the homeless camps by the thousands. I am going to report on our overwhelmed national parks. . .
In the end, you can practice whatever you like in your own life. Just don’t shove it down normal peoples’ throats or their kids. The reality remains, there are only two sexes, XY males and XX females. The rest are all pretending or living an illusion. That reality will prevail when all the political stupidities are brought to reality.
What’s it going to be like when immigrants’ numbers overwhelm all of us, all of our communities and all of our lives? What do you think will happen when our $31 trillion in national debt crashes around our ears? Who will save us? What country can we flee toward?
This week, U.S. Marine Corps veteran Daniel Penny, faced an indictment for his chokehold on a mentally ill subway rider, Jordan Neely, in NYC who was terrorizing other passengers. Mr. Penny stepped into the fray because other riders were afraid for their lives. Unfortunately for Penny, the mentally ill kid was black, and he died, which immediately gave Penny national notoriety.
Former teacher, and elected to the Maryland city council, African-American Kristen Mink last week said, “White people should be few, and with good reason, on the speaker lineup. Healing and unity have for so long meant disregarding the harms done to black, indigenous, and people of color for the comfort of white people.”
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Why is the mainstream press covering for this president who is clearly in the grips of Alzheimer’s Disease and/or some form of dementia? Why haven’t our elected officials enacted the 25th Amendment to send him to an assisted living home? Why hasn’t the mainstream media reported to the American people what is actually happening in the White House?
Even the poor of America enjoy more food, more housing, more transportation, cleaner air, cleaner water and cleaner living standards than over half of the rest of the world. One trip to Africa, India, China or South America would provide ample proof of America’s good fortune.
Every man and women who served in the Armed Forces…did not serve to see a walking cadaver like Joe Biden destroy our country by allowing this invasion. He needs to be impeached and sent to an assisted living home.
This destruction of America accelerates at our southern border where 100 U.S. Senators do nothing to stop it and another 435 House Members follow through by doing nothing.
With all the hoopla about transgenderism, LGTQB+ and drag queens making the headlines in recent years, I felt called to try to bring a bit of common sense and rational thinking as to what it’s like to be a man in 21st century America.
If you think what’s going on in America today is off the charts “crazy”, just hang around for another 10 years to see our country coming off the rails like in East Palestine, Ohio. China or Russia won’t have to conquer us. We’re being conquered by our own president and Congressional critters.
We’re facing a mega-problem in America if we continue to import third world people who cannot grasp or participate in First World Western Culture. If they lack the intellectual ability to learn how to be a carpenter, bricklayer, electrician, plumber, home builder, doctor, teacher or any other job that requires minimal intellectual levels----at some point our society will implode.
Looking out across the American landscape in 2023, you cannot help but appreciate that it’s getting to be nuttier than a fruitcake party. You’ve got men pretending to be women. Drag queens! You’ve got women trying to grow a beard.
If another 6.6 million illegals or more enter, along with 2.0 million more immigrants legally entering our country within the next 20 months of Biden’s term, we are looking at a financial disaster, housing disaster, educational disaster, sociological disaster, cultural disaster, linguistic disaster, and economic disaster----beyond our ability to comprehend, let alone survive it.
