LOVE THOSE KIDS
One of my favorite shows on TV is "So you think you are smarter than a fifth grader". It warms my heart to see these youngsters not showing off their intelligence, but obviously excited and enthralled in their command of knowledge and accuracy in things they have learned. Like a new sponge in the kitchen, clean and in perfect shape, versus the older sponge after a month, moldy and falling apart.
Amazing how much smarter some of those kids are. Like fresh rechargeable batteries, they keep on clicking. It's because they are immersed in learning, hopefully truth, not the re-painted, body worked, no-air Plymouth Reliant with four mediocre tires we get fed every day by the far left and the far right and lots of BS in between. (Sounds like a line from a song)
Unfortunately many kids today are partnered with those who are past the learning stage, set in their ways, their brains too often are in slag status follow-me mode and accept what they think is their position and it won't change. I cringe when I see a kid in camo with a toy M-16 and an Obama sign. Dad, because you are a nut, don't let your kid grow up that way.
YOUR PATH MAY BE WRITTEN
Today all is decided for you in advance. You don't have to think, just join. Most decisions are made for you. Everything you see or hear today comes from snips, spins, and loud entertaining show hosts with minimal education and creativeness, but an ability to stir the masses through their rhetoric. Truth? Doesn't matter. Ratings matter. Ratings mean money and power. Funny how ratings start with the word RAT. Might just explain things.
We all want to belong, to be part of. Too many of us are pre-programmed by belongsmanship and don't care to learn about who or what are we really endorsing. It's easier to respond, prejudge rather than investigate, and question, rather than define and plan a course of action. That course might be your future. Cue the patriotic music! Be a part of the party!
Being part of is something is important. Like many of the acquaintances on Facebook, affiliations are of convenience and for status and usually to serve someone else. In case the cave you live in doesn't have an outlet, and your laptop is dead, the folks who gain from Farcebook are The Facebook people who sell your info.
WHO ME?… NO BETTER THAN THEM
With only an average education, (the main subject I got "A"s in was Truancy and Home room), but I was the Captain of the Bad Spelling and Run-on sentence team.
I suffer from a speech defect called "brought up in Brooklyn". To overcome this, I have been blessed with a good two-fingered Apple keyboard, a super loaded new Mac Pro computer, a darn good spell checker and a sense of humor.
I speak fluent Brooklyn and they tell me thats how I write... Of the almost 600 languages and dialects on the earth, "Brooklyn" is doing well. Expressions like "Doz Bums" and " Arrgh Jeeze" all owe their heritage to Crown Heights. Home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Carl Furillo, Duke Snider, PeeWee Reese and Ebbet's field.
Using skills I learned from my English teacher whose favorite paraphrase was "Jacobs to detention, I amplified my reading skills. I always carried a good book in my schoolbag, I got more education reading in detention.
I hated English, looking back, it was a mistake. It is the carrier deck of communication and if my writing skills were equal to my thinking skills I would be flying F-18 Hornets. And had I paid attention in typing class, my two index fingers would not be a full half inch shorter than the others. Nevertheless, I made a few points in life,
• I have learned to write in html.
• I can photograph in .jpg and RAW.
• I can read the papers with both eyes, though the right one is banged up a bit.
• I managed to fly as a PIC for 27 years, and saved two planes and my buttocks.
• And after 29 years successfully "mastered the TV remote". Well almost.
• I write five assorted blogs and created numerous websites.
• I still look words up in a book called a dictionary.
• So I wrote my own dictionary for my new words. You will see it here.
• And I own a one man manufacturing and consulting company in the photo industry located at www.aljacobs.com. So I understand the little guy and business, all phases.
• I'm human, middle class, not wealthy, I suffer from the agony and frustration of a broken corrupt healthcare system, meeting bills, praying for a simplified and fair tax code, one that a mere mortal can understand and on one page.
• I research, chase, and track down information, and I am a news junkie.
• You see I never stopped learning. I am inquisitive about anything. Even at sixty seven. My body is like the old sponge, but the brain is still going strong. I still work and I'm not leaking water yet.