Time to put away childish things…

Some people seem to be perpetually at odds with themselves; forever struggling, even at war with themselves and those around them, fighting to remain a child. I say struggle because physically, mentally and spiritually we are hard-wired to grow up, yet some folks refuse to follow the natural order of things.

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Mayan Calendar and the Conquistadors

Over the last year or so the science chanels, especially the History International channel, has been running a lot of pieces on the impending 2012 end of the world apocolyps. Everyone seems to be all caught up in all this because the Mayan calendar mysteriously ends on Dec. 21, 2012, which just happens to be the same day as the Winter Solstice. I’ve been giving this a lot of though lately and it occurred to me that the answer to why the calendar mysteriously ends is because the Spanish Conquistadors who landed on the Mayan shores so many hundreds of years ago, killed, murdered, destroyed, pillaged and plundered the entire… Read More

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The Morning Ritual…

O’dark-30 (anywhere between 0430 and 0530): Whining and yelping and other strange sounds can be heard coming from the living room as I lie peacefully in my nice warm bed,  beside my beautiful and very warm, soft wife. The dogs are kenneled in the living room and very neatly kept, shiny kennels. (they’re kenneled because the oldest one is 10 months old; Lilo – German Shepherd, Toby a.k.a. Stitch – Boston Terrier 9 months old; Max (Maximus) a.k.a. Kujo, 11 weeks old.

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