Zen:  Some days I walk home from work.  I found this place, it’s Zen to me.  It reminds me of the potential that is in me.  I have walked a tough road this year, but I am almost through the other end.  The cosmos is truly good to me.

The wonderful world of happy, with a dash of confusion, as seen from the eyes of a six year old …  She is my pride and joy, and I heart her almost more than her daddy.  She is growing up too fast!

“Beware the leader who bangs the drum of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor. For patriotism is indeed a double- edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and patriotism, will offer up all of their rights to the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Julius Caesar.”