TRUTH HURTS---A LOT v2.0

At times I feel like a stranger lost in an undiscovered country.

No amount of preparation can get you fully ready for the feelings, physically and mentally, a person experiences as they enter a chapter of their life called Old Age. (Someone has jokingly said Old Age is 15 years older than you are !!!!)

I accidentally discovered a portion of a poem written by Thomas Carew (1589-1639) that sure hits me where I live. Truthfully, I feel uneasy knowing someone (outside the Bible) centuries ago knew exactly how I would feel in 2014.

Disdained Returned.

He that loves a rosy cheek,
Or a choral lip admires,
Or from star-like eyes doth seek
Fuel to maintain his fires;
As old Time makes these decay,
So his flames must waste away.

Strangely, I am listening to 1950s music as I type this. I have been young and now am old---I think I like young better !!!!

Glenn <><
Just West of Yesterday 

"IT'S JUST A MATTER OF TIME" ----Brook Benton v2.1

 

SHAWNEE IS BLESSED WITH TWO BOOMERANG DINERS. THE 50'S MOTIF AND GREAT HAMBURGERS MAKE THE DINERS A FAVORITE PLACE FOR ME AND THE GRAND KIDS.

I CAN NAME MOST OF THE SONGS, SINGERS, DATES, ETC. THIS IS ABOUT THE ONLY TIME I CAN IMPRESS THOSE KIDS.

Glenn <><
Just West of Yesterday

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IT'S ALL GOOD !!!!!

What About The Economic Future For Your State??

You might find the following link interesting:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/04/15/which-states-have-the-best-economic-future/

 

"The heart is deceitful above all things,....."

Jeremiah 17:9 "The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked: who can know it."

Have you ever learned shocking info about a person you once knew several years ago? It happened to me this week.

A young couple with three little girls moved into our neighborhood about 12 years ago. When I met them the husband and the wife joyfully told me they were joint youth pastors in a church in a nearby town.

For what ever reason, they left that church and not very long thereafter, they went through a terrible divorce that included late night screaming and the local police department. After they moved the house they were renting had several fixtures broken or missing and holes in the walls that would make Hulk Hogan green with envy.

All divorces are sad and difficult on all concerned. This week I learned the woman had been arrested for child porn production, maybe involving her own children.

According to newspaper accounts she produced the child porn and forwarded it to a local pastor who sold it on the Internet!

I wanted to vomit. The fate of those girls concerns me more than anything.Sexual abuse is a crime that seems to keep on being replayed in the victim's mind and heart.

Some may ask--so what? Here's why I have included this account:

All of us have made snap judgments about people that time proved us wrong.

In addition, within the human heart, even born again believers, there is the capacity to do all manner of sin and wickedness.

It now appears each of the child abusers will get 15-30 years in prison. Knowing what I know about the code of prisoners I doubt if either make it out alive.

SO MUCH FOR MY BASKETBALL PREDICTIONS

CONGRATS TO UCONN MEN'S BASKETBALL TEAM FOR BIG WIN OVER UK!!!

I WAS WRONG !!!!!!!!

GLENN <><
Just West of Yesterday

NON-DEBATABLE REPLIES TO---"Are you gaining weight?"

1. Both my mother and father come from big boned families.

2. You should have seen me last year. I've dropped 65 lbs since Christmas.

3.  I might have been given the placebo in the clinic's weight loss study.

4.  My daughter and son-in-law bought a Daylite Donut Shoppe a couple of years ago. They pay us in donuts to watch their 18-month old twin boys.


5. I know now why my late mother would not let me play with you when we were kids.

Glenn <><
Just West of Yesterday

REVEALED----The Secret Life of # 1875 !!

North Vernon Old Library

OK ! The title is a bit of an overreach. Number 1875 was my library card number at the old North Public Library.

Each Friday, sometimes on Saturday, my folks would journey to the big city of North Vernon for groceries and a host of other stops. I would be let out in front of my home away from home--The Library.

The brick and concrete was almost a sacred temple for me. As I climbed the outdoor steps, I knew was entering the Holy of Holies.  

Upon entering, a library patron was immediately aware of the unmistakable odor of old books written by authors many times smarter than you.

The circulation desk was straight ahead as you entered the second floor of the library. Usually two ladies sat behind the desk. One was old, cranky, and not very nice. The second was much younger, much prettier, and possessed a figure of some delightful confirmation ----at least to a teenage farm boy. Her voice was as pleasant as her looks. I always tried to present my books for checkout to her. 

The periodicals that garnered my attention was Sky and Telescope, Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, Boys Life (Boys Scout Magazine) Scientific American, and occasionally, Car and Driver. In addition, I tried to read at least one fishing article from Outdoor Life, Field and Stream, or Sports Afield.

The newspapers were attached to long wooden rods with slits in them. The sports page was my first destination and the second was the radio program schedule. Our little black, tubed Admiral was my private portal to the world.

CONFESSION TIME : Later, as a high school student, I would check and see what movies were playing in Louisville and Indianapolis. Here comes the confession---I would look at the Burlesque Show ads---even though I never went. Some of the girls had some very exotic and intriguing names. (Thank God for forgiveness!)

During my years at the library I read a lot of biographies--- Abe Lincoln, Buffalo Bill, Babe Ruth, Kit Carson, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, David Livingston, and a score of others.

I read every book in the library on astronomy and cosmology. Ditto for radio and electronics. All of the non-fiction books were by and large written prior to 1950.

Rarely, I would venture into the fiction stacks. Here the books were published more recently than the non-fiction works.

As I previously mentioned in an earlier Post, I was the only boy that qualified for a summer reading program party. I believe I read 20 books that summer to earn the entrance to the cookie and punch celebration at the library.

Even though more than a half century has elapsed, I distinctly recall the locations of the books and periodicals I read the most.

For years, I kept my old # 1875 library card. The card has long since been lost. However, the memories of that wonderful and mysterious fount of knowledge and inspiration will remain until I cross the River to that Golden City not made by Human Hands.

Glenn <><
Just West of Yesterday