Veterans Day

As I look at my life, thinking about reason and purpose, my responsibility also comes to mind. What am I supposed to do. Hmmm wake up, go to school, make good grades, respect adults... That's about as far as it goes. If I do that I'm considered by some to be a "great boy". In almost a year I could have the responsibility of putting my life in danger for hopes of protecting someone I've never met. This position we call the military is far more than any of us normal civilians will be able to understand. We consider it a good deed if we go out of our way to help someone. These men and women go so much farther. They make a life of it. With every movement they make, they're attempting to make our world freer and safer than it was before even at the expense of their lives. Thank them,thank their families and Thank God for them. Happy Veterans Day.

To my Dear and loving Wife

If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever Wife were lov'd by man, then thee.
If ever man was happy in a wife,
Compare with me, ye men, if you can.
I prize thy love more than whole Mines of gold
Or all the riches that the East doth hold.
My love is such that Rivers cannot quench,
Nor ought but love from thee give recompetence.
Thy love is such I can no way repay.
The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray.
Then while we live, in love let's so persever
That when we live no more, we may live ever.
-Anne Bradstreet (man and wife inverted)

One Night

"Christ! What are patters for?"-Amy Lowell "They are largely for the timid; for those who find them comfortable. It seems to me that an adventure must be defined as an undertaking whose end it is impossible to know"-John Keats
Ha this is is the most appropriate summary for what will be a night I remember. With no plan, what is there to lose. No one to disappoint and no reason to not do something.
Going away from normality and experiencing something outside of what we call this monotonous thing of life. This was our adventure. An experience. Something Great.