The essential ingredients of life revolves around a sense of belonging. When we work together to achieve the common good, such as courtesy, kindness, food and shelter, we can accomplish most anything. All people have basic needs. All matter. When things seem to be spinning out of control, kno
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05/31/2020
"Strip Malls Are History" - Jeff Bezos Jeff (Born 1/24/1964) was a baby still taking baby steps by the time I was in High School in Chicago. Out in the suburbs of Lake County, IL, farmland near the busy Tri-State Tollway, Thomas E. Wilson/Edellyn Farms purchased a chunk of land for $2M located in
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05/29/2020
My father wore poppies. He told me my grandfather served in WW1 after which red poppies became a symbol of remembrance for those that served and died for our country. I learned about the poem, "In Flander's Field" written in 1915. It begins like this, "In Flanders fields the poppies blow, betwee
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05/26/2020
Day is done. The sky wept hard over the cemetery in Flower Mound. Headstones laced with tears of remembrance of soldiers buried beneath soggy ground. Although my better half did not die in a foreign country because of shrapnel, broken ribs, bullets or the many times the AH-G Cobra from C Troop 7
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05/25/2020
Monday, May 25, 2020 is Memorial Day, a federal holiday in the United States for honoring and mourning the military personnel who had died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. It has been observed and honored since 1868 for the past 152 years. I hope everyone can spend a few minutes
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05/22/2020
"If you want your life, you have to go out and get it." Those were the words of a mother I saw this morning on a motivational YouTube. Her adult son lost his mouth, his teeth, and all of his limbs due to a different type of virus. For more than two years he went through daily medical procedures.
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05/18/2020
CPRSomething weighing heavily on my mind since the Corona Virus outbreak is what happens when someone needs CPR? The main reason for my concern is because of personal experience. Today, my mind was put at ease when I saw this video from the Fort Worth Fire Department demonstrating the "new medic
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05/16/2020
Happy Mother's Day to all Mothers from my Flower Mound Garden. Daisies share the elemental power of fertility, nurturing light, and warmth. Isn't it wonderful that cross-pollination of flowers like daisies is provided by nature's beauties: butterflies, bees, birds, and the ever popular Texas gre
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05/10/2020
Aristotle once said: "You will never do anything inthis world without courage. It is the greatest qualityof the mind next to honor." May 6, 2020Who could imagine while working on the hot and dirty rooftop of the MetroTex Association of REALTORS® in Dallas, something as great as witnessing and
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05/06/2020