Tag: faith

My current thoughts on certain subjects! Opinions !


I have come to certain conclusions, that in my opinion, need to be said by me. Now, I am not here to personally force anything I write or say on anyone else. For firsta nd foremost we all have our right of freedom of speech, this is America. secondly, not everyone thinks the same, or comes to the same conclusions on any subject out there. So when I say, something in a blog, I write, it is my opinion, not my demand or my order to anyone, period. I don’t want someone going, he’s tellingus what to do or not do, for that isn’t what I do. What, I do is discuss how I feel about a subject and write it out.

That said, Lets talk about some conclusions i have reached for myself in todays’ america and under our current living conditions in our country. #1) we are still the greatest country in the world period, due to democracy, our form of governement set forth by the Founding Fathers, we had. #2) We are still a country of laws, guided by our Constitution and it’s Admendments and our Bill of Rights. #3) We will continue to have elections every four years and no President can serve more then 8 total, it isa law in America folks. #4) America does not have KINGS, We never have and never will! We broke from England and foughta Revolutionary War to escape it, and we shall not go backwards.

That said, let me say this next. I swerved my Country in Three Branches of Service, I did the U.S. Army, U.S. Army National Guard and The United States Navy, totaling 16 years of service. I did so with pride, with Honor and Integerity, I did so to protect and defend our way of life, and my family. I am Proud of it, I do not run from it.

Next the societal differences currently happening in America are bad for it in so many ways. We ared ividing the nation in so many wyas now it is sad and it may rock the foundation of the country to it’s core and it must stop. we can ill afford, a battle of the sexes, or a racist war, or even a full out political war, like what is happening now in America. we can ill afford to ignore our Veterans who served, our medical care, our societal norms we have achieved an dlived on for hundreds of years. What happened to morals. ethics, manners and caring? What happened to one for all and all for one? tell me America, where did it go and when did we really lose it so bad, that we can not even agree to disagree and still make things work? What happened America, you Tell Me! Why can’t we get along, and stop the infighting and save our country together, before it explodes apart?

Many subjects are concerns now, societal infighting is just one of them, For instance, race tensions, politicla tensions, anger, all are major problems. Affording to live, lack of jobs, high prices on food, gas and homes. Education being shut down, medicare, medicaid and social security and Veterans Benefits suddenly under attac. Why folks, why? Why, do Americans now act so lackadasial, and so uncaring, that we do not stop this from happening anymore?

Why did Americans reelect a President who was Impeached Twice, convicted of 34 felonies,now being questioned about whether he is a pedophile or not, beause of his relationship with one? Why is this ok to have been done in America? While on this topic, answer me this question, If our current President is not a Pedophile and he has nothing to hide, why isn’t he releasing the Epstein Files in their entirety? I know, if i was accussed of being part of a Pedophile Ring that, abused and used children, and i was innocent, I would work overtime to prove my innocence, wouldn’t you?

Next, subject, America is suffering from infighting between the political parties, and in the end it is the American People who are suffering and it will not get better until the Government is back in full Session and working as one unit again to keep us safe, secure and economically intact. Stock Markets decline, jobs disappear, Tariffs rise and we pay for it all. Doesn’t anyone understand, every tariff being put up against another ocuntry, costs Americans and we pay for them? It’sa sad state of affairs right now in the world and our country.

The homeless population is growing, people are being taken off the streets and shipped overseas and deported without due process in a court of law! It’s wrong, it’s immoral, it’s unethical and corrupt. Look I believe like many, illegal alliens in our country is bad, but, to do it by the book is better. Safer, smarter and in the end, more complete. Every human being, deserves the right to due process, in America, let these people defend their rights to be here, in court. If they lose fine, deport them, If they win in court give them citizenship and lets get it done. we seperate familes, divide them up, but, no one did this over the generations of when America was growing by bounds from immigration did they. The Italians got to stay, the Japanesse, The Irish, the Mexicans, the Jewish and more. This country is built on generations of immigrants folks, lets not kill what we are built upon. Each flock of immigrants brought something to America, things they knew, did or comtributed, we do not need to kill that. I remind all, Trump’s family came from Germany, his Wife is an immigrant herself. yet, they are President and First Lady. Stop and think about it all.

Ok next subject, the so called dating war, or dating problem in American Society an dthe country as a whole. It is far past time, for men and women in America to wake up. Not, every man, wants a woman just for sex, not every woman wants a man just for money. Not every man wants a woman’s belongings, or money, nor is it the same in return. In Todays world the fears of interaction and dating is scary and mean. people have worries and concerns about being used, abused, or taken for money or belongings. Many times , I have heard women complain, men don’t ask us out anymore, why is that? Well, for the same reasons, you say no and reject men is why? The same concerns go both way ladies. We don’t like being used for our physical abilities, or our knowledge of how to repair your home or car. we don’t like being taken for our money we earned either. It’s a two way street ladies and gents, and neither sex, wnats to be taken, used or abused by the other gender. Both sides have our reasons, and until we stop and think it over and decrease our own fears, our own worries some and takea chance we get no where do we? men fear rejection just as much as women do in today’s world. So, in the end it is atwo way street folks, an dthe only way to overcome the loneliness syndrome in America, wil be to take a chance and ask, and just take rejection as a normal part of the process of dating and creating relationships. If you take it personal you stop approaching, you stop asking, and you isolate yourself and any chance you have of finding a relationship period. Thuis we end up bitter, angry, alone and wondering where we went wrong. Our own fears stop us, and as one Author puts us we can’t change what others think of us, so Let Them. But in the end it is the second part of the Let Them Theory that works maybe the best, for once you Let Them think what they want, do what they want, you can then apply the Let me Theory. whicj is Let me make my own choices, Let me be me, and let me decide who and what I want to be. Once your fully you and happy about who you are as a person, and able to interact with others ina friendly positive way, you won’t get anywhere at all will you. negativity kills, any chance of being around or involve dwith anyone else. It’s dpressing to be fearful, it’s depressing to be angry, sad. Positivity is the only way to go really, isn’t it. You attratc mor epeople to you if you laugh daily, if you interact kindly, if your polite, courtious, you get better reactions in return. stick to what you do best, be you. Yet, also remembe rthe old saying, not everyone is everyone’s cup of tea so to say. So that is why they make so many different flavors in the world, so you can find a cup of tea that matches your taste. Just my current thoughts on the subjects above for now!

Happy Sunday All From me to you!


I can honestly say, I am no spring chicken anymore at 69 years old. My body aches, my parts swell up and my mind is sharp, but at times it can be a little tart. Even if the mind stays sharp folks because you keep up on current events, or write like I do, the lack of interactions, with others can get to you. As, we age, as we all know our bodies, start to ache and hurt, arthritis sets in, joints swell and make life a little slower at each point. we move less, we talk less and we at times judge others fast too. It’s a part of human nature, just as mother nature takes over also, wearing us down.

Now you can exercise and walk and try to interact as much as you can, but, it won’t solve the aches and pains of aging, nor, will it solve the true loneliness we feel either. I say this because, we all find someone at some point in life we love and care for and want to be with. But, as we all know, it doesn’t always work out that way, or if it does, due to the fates and destiny, it ends because one passes away. That leaves the remaining person, floundering, floating and hoping, to connect once more. In today’s world though, the lack of societial norms, and interactions is killing the country and the world. Too many fears about, age, politics, beliefs, How we look, what color our skins, what religion we are into, all affect it. At some point in life, folks, you start to learn we are people of habits and what we were taught in our younger days, sticks with us in our older days.

Because of the human nature of all of this, people today, do not have the same interactions we did when we were younger. We lock ourselves into safe and old reliable patterns, and steer clear of things we know will disturb or upset us. We also, tend to avoid talking, as much as we can. As seniors will tell you and there are many of us today, some dislike people who talk too much, or are too cherry and bright. Why, because it disturbs their inner peace and their ability to concentrate as needed. So, you get comments like, tone it down, don’t laugh so much, calm down, or the classic one I hear a lot, behave yourself. Listen folks, not to disappoint or upset you, yet, I think you should take these little saying and innuendos and stick em where the sun doesn’t shine! People need to be themselves in the world, and they need to be able to openly communicate and interact, or you end up with one hell of a morbid, sad, depressing world, where people slowly die off, alone and in pain from it all.

Humanity is in trouble today and so is the world as a whole. The planets resources are being used up and wasted faster then they will ever replenish themselves. The atmosphere has been polluted beyond repair and the oceans are clogged with garbage and trash and animals are dying off. Yet, mankind stays it’s own course destroying and using up all we can. Animals don’t destroy anywhere as much as mankind does. we call it making advances, when we create something new, or we find new ways to do something, but, do we ever stop to look at what it means to the rest of the world, our climate or atmosphere or oceans and lands? Nope, we barrell ahead, and do so, not out of the need for such an advance, but, for the love of money. And in the end it will be the demise of humanity, for greed kills all folks. Never forget to share but always conserve too.

Every human being out there has their own personal needs, their own personal fears too. Many, also can lack manners and morals and ethics, for we are not all raised the same. Then we run dead into the race and color barriers mankind has created. Predijuce, discrimination, politics, hate and anger. Why folks, why? Ever hear of the old saying Live and Let Live? The biggest part of it, that is disturbing is the societal norms we once had in the world are now gone. People don’t interact the way they used to anymore. Like I said, manners disappear, anger comes out, people seperate and hide from one another, and divisons happens between races, colors, nationalities and more. The anger goes so deep it causes wars, and elminations of whole nations and peoples. Why? The world must learn to stop the hate, to listen more, communicate more, to understand more. If we don’t folks, we shall ultimately isolate more and end up hating each other, till we kill each other off. It must stop!

Men and women alone in America do not date anymore, or at least no where near the way they used to. We don’t have the social places to meet anymore. A Coffee Shop is not a good place to meet someone, not really. A Bar or Tavern is great for drinking, or trying to get lucky, yes, but it doesn’t build lasting relationships. So the question is what does, in today’s world?

The fears are more than anything, a seperator between the sexes. Women fear men will use them for sexual favors and dump them. They fear being taken for money or belongings. They want men to take care of them, provide for them. men, today are not the same men your parents knew ladies. The men today, don’t want to provide for you.

Just as you women don’t want to be locked into certain things either. Many women these days hate the idea of no jobs for them, or being locked into being housewifes or mothers and nothing else. They want to be known for more than their bodies, they want to be taken as a whole person and accepted for who they are. And they are right men, the women deserve that just as much as we men do too. In the end, the inability to openly communicate that, to listen is killing relationships and possibilities left and right. Fears, lack of manners, lack of ethics, lack of morals all contribute to what I am saying here. Expectations also are a problem folks. many expect certain things, and if they don’t get them from someone they will walk away. There is a very old saying, there are many fish in the sea, when it comes to dating, but, the truth is the sea is now under populated in areas and over populated in others, and fishing is rougher than ever. Why too many things in the way, too many self inflicted restrictions and requirements and needs, that are not being met. Wants, needs, cares, all come into play, and too many people rush and don’t stop to realize it. So , the world is now a much lonelier place for many of us. when a simple smile or causual conversation used to be easy to do, it is no longer true. We hesitate, we stop, we reverse or we shut up. Out of fear of what the response will be, no one likes rejection folks, believe me. But, people avoid, detract and walk away, from things they don’t like or can’t handle. Yet, to fight the current so to say, is not as easy as it was yesterday. Societial Norms are missing, interactions are missing, and fears, and dislikes and discrimination and predijuce are all rearing their ugky heads. I don’t like your religion, I don’t like your color, I don’t like your politics, and more comes into play each day. Instead of listening we shout over one another or at one another. You can’t get along that way folks, for you can shout till you die, but, unless you learn to listen to the other side, you will get no where! As one man said long ago and many forget today, communication is a two way street folks, if one talks, one listens and it must be mutual listening and talking in order for a real conversation and meeting of the minds to work. It definitely, takes listening, by both sides to work. No relationship ever works out, if it is all one-sided.

Wel thats just my thoughts for this Sunday morning folks! Please remember, opinions are things we all have and form. We may state them, we may write them, we may speak them, not everyone will accept them. As I once told someone long ago, I won’t force my opinions or beliefs on you, you don’t force yours on me and we shall be fine. The biggest objection in the world most people have, is being forced into something, so don’t do it to others, if you don’t want it done to you. Happy Sunday All From me to you!

The Importance of Free Speech in Today’s Politics


Good morning all, seems everytime I turn around my WordPress account is locked down for some reason, I tire of having tpo fight to get it back actually. Not sure what I will do about it as of yet. I have thought of going elsewhere to blog, but, I like the ease of WordPress.

Anyway I am back and have access again it seems so, as the politics in America goes, goes America’s biggest problem and mistake, Donald J. Trump. Sadly, the people elected him and they didn’t realize he was going to make the mess he currently has. So many things under attack, even free speech these days, all because he doesn’t like what people say about him. He is attacking TV Stations, Talk Show Hosts and anyone who says they don’t like what he is doing. Why, is Congress allowing him to do this and why hasn’t the Supreme Court stepped in and stopped him? It isa question we all need to take care of and answer soon, or where this country is going, we shall never know. I personally do not wnat my country to be autocratic or communistic in anyway. We do not need a KIng, or Dictator either, we escaped that 250 years ago. Please, Congress stop President Trump, hold him in check, make him listen and block the bullshit he is doing! Politics may be the reason I have having difficulty with my blog here too, for Trump attacks anyone or thing that says anything bad about him. But, I stick by the fact, I have Free Speech under the First Admendment. It’s vital to the foundations of our Constitution and way of life in America! If we lose free speech we lose our nation and what it wa sbuilt on Democracy and a Republic, please don’t let it happen, my Fellow Americans!

Reflecting on Life as 2025 Approaches


I think everyone, gets to a point in life, where we stop and reflect on our life, and try to decide where or what to do next, if of course we are healthy enough to.

As 2024 is getting closer to it’s end and the new year shall begin, I do the same I do each year. I examine where I have been, what I have done and try to decide if I did right or wrong in certain cases. The idea is to not make any mistakes or problems in my future. I have taken to not reacting harshly to much these days, and the only thing that ever got me angry, was when a guy tried to take advantage of my wife who passed in 2021. So, unless, someone attacks the ones I call family I do not get mad. I will walk away before I will fight over stupidity.

As I look back at 2024, I find I did things as usual for me. I just go to my Doctors when needed, walk when I can, build puzzles and read. I also walk when I can depending on weather of course. I do participate in playing pool on Monday evening, and Mexican Train Dominos on Wednesday evening. I was doing Friday Afternoon Mexican train Dominos, but I won’t anymore for personal reasons.

Del Webb Chauncy Lake as a community, will be expanding soon enough over time, to a compound, of 14 buildings, 50 condos per. When you figure it out it’s 700 condos. That leaves us as one person said, a large part of Westbourgh’s, Mass. tax base. Hopefully we can maintain some kind of involvement with the town, so we have our say. We have the ability and the people to do it, if we keep abreast of all happening.

As 2025, is now not far off, I see myself, as doing what I think is right for me. I shall maintain what I have of course. As to what to do, well, I try to avoid large crowds, and I know I am not Mr. Popular anyway. Never was Mr. Handsome, or Mr. Personality, and I avoid confrontations and arguing. I find that people do not like me, most of the time. My sense of humor some say is strange, sometimes I speak too fast or soon. I do try to get along with everyone I can, but there will always be some, it doesn’t work with. Thus the avoidance factor I brought up earlier. Get angry around me or upset, I feel it is my fault I leave and won’t bother again. I am old now, so I am set in my ways, in situations, of course.

Someone accuses me of something suddenly, bye. Some judge me wrong, some think I am rude or crude. But, my humor is hard to take at times, and misunderstood. Some I poke fun at, or joke with, it is all a game is all. I have come along way from my childhood of attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity. I lived with those in my childhood years and at times they get me today at 68 going on 69.

The more I stay alone, and away from people the better it is for me, I think so I isolate and stay home. It’s a crazy idea but it works, can’t see me, can’t say I did something, lol. when you get to my age, you know damn well when someone doesn’t like you, and you do avoid.

All of the above just means not many changes will happen to or for me. I don’t attend every event planned here, nor do I plan any. I try to stay away, for these are open events paid for by those who attend them. And I am far from socially as adept as many others here. Never was a social animal, have always been one to stay away and alone and watch from a distance. I think, I never had the right social skills as a kid and as an adult. Yet I survived two marriages, and the service. Not bad. As 2025 comes in, I plan on trying to open up some, but I know, it won’t be easy. It is like I told some people I just talked to about a club, I haven’t talked in front of people in a long time. I tend to avoid women. Most men here, have no problem with women, me well, what can I say. I don’t trust many people that’s for sure, never did. I still have the Navy in me in many ways also, once a sailor always a sailor they say. I don’t drink really, I am not a party person for sure. So, as I go forward, I am going to do what I have for a while since moving here. One day at a time, avoid confrontations and arguments, avoid those who don’t like me. As I told one person, I only come out of my condo for certain things these days. 1) Doctors, 2) grocery shopping 3) Billard’s on Monday evenings, Mexican Train Dominos on Wednesday evening. I walk, I mind my own business, and I try to treat all with the same respect I want for myself. That is how my New Year shall be, it’s like a resolution by me. Time will tell. Some say, volunteer for something to do, so I have. Some say go to church, I am non-religious so that’s out. if I walked into a church it would probably fall on my head. So, the town of Westborough, is like the small town I live in my my teens. All we had were bars, taverns, banks and churches. I am old and I get bored at times, I feel the loneliness of course, but, struggle through like others I had met. It’s a process is all and we live through it all, don’t we?

Final Blog, MacAttack56


Ok, my subscription to Word Press.com is coming down to it’s end soon. So I want to say, blogging has been a pleasure for me, and I have covered many subjects over the years I have done so. It has helped me through some sad times, some depressing times, some time of writing of stories and books and poems. Through the times of ups and downs, attempts to recover some things of my past, healing some hurts and pains and even creating others. Blogging to me has been a blessing in many ways and I am happy and proud of what I have said or done with it.

Times are changing and I am getting older now and each day brings me closer to the elderly ages of many in America and the world and makes me think twice about continuing in it. The energy level is not the same for me, since my wife passed in 2021. I miss her and he input as well as her caring and loving feelings, she gave me and her encouragement for it all. The Period from March 2021 to her passing on August 1oth 2021, wa sthe roughest period I have faced in my life and yes I miss her dearly and always will till the day I join her.

Blogging has helped me to find my daughters, to know them some and to feel like I told them the full truth and I hope they understand it now. That said, I still get depressed about all the years I missed of their growing up, and the time I wanted to spend with them and the things and moments I missed with them. I wish I could have spent more time with them both, their spouses and of course, my grandchildren. Yet, I am not rich, nor am I able to overcome the fact to travel the over 500 miles to see all of them when I wish or they wish me to. Life, my friends and family is a journey, through which we must pass alone, and make the best of we can, and I have tried. I have laughed, I have cried, I have been up and been down, I have seen highs and lows of which few have experienced. I have seen the world in my days in the services of America from Connecticut, to New York, to New Mexico, to all over the world with the Navy. I accomplished things I never thought I would, my life was filled with 2 marriages, 2 daughters, numerous homes and more.

I have commented on numerous things, of political nature, of news, of life, love and beliefs I have had. I have commented on friends, events, views of where I lived, and even my wife and her fight with cancer and my own. The hardest part of my life has been the years from 2006 to 2021. I stood by, assisted, helped and took care of my second wife, Melinda for those years in all ways I could. While in the middle 2013, I suffered my own bout of cancer and lost a lobe and a third of my right lung and survived it. And continued on taking care of my Melinda, until her passing in August of 2021.

I thank my sister, who helped me through all of it, for without her I would have been lost and frozen in time God Bless her for being there for me, and supporting me in all the ways she has. There is nothing better in life than, to have a sibling who is close to you all the time. A sister rs a blessing, I hope all, can have in life.

As. this is my final blog, more than likely, because, I basically can’t see how I can stay at it, at 68 years old, I want to say one thing to all who ever read my blogs, Thank You for doing so! We may not have agreed on many subjects or ideas I blogged about, but, I thank all who read them. We may not agree on politics or what we believe about some politicians or laws, or things that happened in the world, but at least, I was able to voice them by blogging so thank you WordPress.com also.

In closing let me say this, it has been an adventure and a honor to be able to blog to the world, and to have a small part of it hear my voice and what I believed in and more. Thank you to ALL !!! I did write many poems, that are out there now in the ether of the internet, on Amazon.com, small stories and books, I never claimed to be a real writer, I did them with encouragement of my now deceased wife, at her asking me to. They will remain out there for who ever reads them or likes them or even those who don’t. I tried only because of my deceased wife wo said, I had stories to tell, and I should tell them.

Be well all, and as time marches on, I hope, you all, stay healthy, happy, get wealthy and live a life you love ! God Bless !

Time Rolling/Why Must The Days End


     The Time slowly rolls by, and each day bring different adventures, emotions, rushes and pains, and in the end I know tomorrow I shall wake up and do it again. Life must roll on no matter what, as my step-father told me years before he died.  It’s nature, it’s humanity and it’s life.  Enjoy what you have in life and what little pleasures ya get folks, before ya know it, it can be gone in a poof.  Always remember, it is not what you get in life or receive, it’s not material things that count, it’s the emotional ones the, commitment ones and the caring ones that count. Those are what makes you important to the ones you may leave behind !

Well, I haven’t written anything new lately folks, been busy with running to and fro for medical for me and my wife. So when I leave you with something today, I leave you with a poem to read and think on.

I wrote this one years ago in 1990, October to be precise, when my Step-father died of cancer in the hospital.  I called it;

                                             Why Must The Days End?          

Why do the days have to end?

           Why do the nights have to come?

            The Darkness rolls in,

           Night reminding me,

           Of, my past, my sin.

 

 

           I didn’t  know what you wanted or needed,

           You refused to say,

           So now I wonder and think,

           All night and through the day.

 

          I go thru life, a statement reverberating in my mind,

          It’s one I carry with me,

          And shall for all time.

 

          My father, laid dying on his bed you see,

          And these are the words he said to me:

          My son he said my days have come and gone,

          I shall leave you before for long.

 

          But live you life to the fullest and enjoy,

          Do today what you love the most,

          Enjoy life to the fullest, and love those around you the deepest,

          For though I be gone and you may cry,

          Please remember these words, I give you to keep and hold.

          Live your life with honesty and truth,

          Be happy, be true, be honest and be bold.

 

          As I leave you now he said:

          I shall be gone and you will cry,

          But remember this is not really goodbye.

 

          We are all put here for a purpose, yes a plan.

          When we fulfill that purpose our time has come,

           And our life is done, and I am just a man.

 

           The days will pass, the weeks will come and go,

           The weeks, will turn to months, the months to years,

           And over time,  you will, have cried all of your tears.

           But live your life for each day you are here,

           For the calendar will continue to roll,

           Time will pass before you know,

          

            In the end my son,

            We all eventually do what we have been put here for,

             And our time is done.

 

            Then he rolled his head, in his bed,

            The vomit came, his eyes rolled back in his head,

            And peacefully, and in silence he was dead.

 

            I remember that day oh so well,

            I remember the fishing trips, the pizzas, the laughter and the tears,

            And have carried his words, with me and lived them for all my years.