Day 6

This is a message for the deep pocket Republicans.  Fess up to your duplicitous nature for that is who you are, double minded.  You pretend to be for the people but you have always been an old school Republican who controls public policy so as to advantage big business and corporations, to the disadvantage of working folk.

    

The election of 2016 has changed Republicanism, the new Republican party, lead by President Donald Trump, advocates for the little guy, small business and entrepreneurs.  The group of Americans who are not afraid to get their hands dirty earning a living and supporting their families.  We do not fear competition nor do we run from difficult times resulting from your political games.  We are the backbone of America, proud of that status and after 25 years of stagnation, our wages are finally rising and better and better jobs are out there.

  

President Eisenhower 60 years ago warned the nation to fear the military industrial complex for whom you run errands.  A beggar is a beggar, whether the beggar brings in a few dollars or millions.  Washington is a beggar town for whom we have no respect.  Old school Republicans, along with the Democrats, have entangled America in no win wars, sold off our wealth as a nation and given sneaky permission for invasions by illegals.  

The simple and obvious reason for this duplicity is to suppress our wages, we ask, how can anyone be so shallow?  The Democrats at least have a more honorable motive, they are angling for new voters they can easily manipulate.  The Democratic Party was for the little guy but now they also have surrendered to the power of money from the military industrial complex.

G.Goslaw

Landers, CA

Day 5

Every last one of us settles.  We search and then put life energy into maximizing our selected “sig factor”, which somehow cements our place in this world.  One of our most prominent "sig factors" is the riches of this world, having more than those among whom we live.  Jesus told a story about the rich man and Lazarus in Luke Chapter 16.  Both Lazarus, the rich man and the poor beggar die.  Lazarus goes to hell to suffer in the flames while the beggar goes to “Abraham’s side”.  It would seem that their eternal destination and the wisdom of God is merely an economic decision.

If we read the story literally, this is the only possible conclusion, but to most of us, something appearing missing.  Their will be divine judgement after death but upon what will it be bases, will divine judgement be fair?  If you or I have settled upon money, riches, career, etc., are we automatically condemned?  I and some credible biblical theologians have suggested that the whole story, the intent of the story teller, may not be a message to avoid settling but rather the message would be don’t “just settle”.

Because we may have more than our neighbors, does not absolve us from the greatest commandment to love our neighbors.  Lazarus was judged deficient for being totally captivated by his riches.   Riches do that to we humans.  Our family had relatives 150 year ago who went to Alaska captivated by “gold fever”, never to be heard from again.  Jesus told us in Mathew 19, “Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God”.

Why would God put us in such an impossible lose, lose situation in this world? Could it be that God did not ordain our situation but that somehow it has resulted from our own twisted human condition?  Could it be that God may be about fixing all of us, sooner or later?

G. Goslaw

Landers, CA

Day 4

The debate rages constantly in politics and has reached fever pitch.  American exceptionalism verses the world order of big government, where national decisions are made in the dark by unseen forces.  The tyranny of big government is the new American remake that President Obama promised.  According to him and the radical left, if the people yield control of their lives to big government, to the dark forces, our lives will be protected and improved.  Shall we believe him or them??  Is it not Obama who promised you can keep your doctor?

Some politicians preach American exceptionalism but few of them define what makes America great or exceptional.  Money and power to influence the world order are not American exceptional credits, so what is?  What is our national pride, the quality that has rung the bell for 250 years?

We older folk were taught our national greatness from a very early age when school was about school.  President Lincoln prayed on November 19, 1863 at the Gettysburg cemetery honoring the 7,000 dead and 38,000 wounded at this one battle of the Civil War.  How could anyone, any president, justify such carnage?  Lincoln did so by giving the Civil War the same status as that of our American Revolution, 100 years earlier.  The sacrifice on that field and his prayer were necessary to preserve our national greatness, an American “government of the people, for the people and by the people”.   Without their sacrifice, America would no longer be America.

Our country has always been about this one revolutionary idea, true democracy.  The life situation of the black man in America was not the central issue of the Civil War but it was the most visible issue.  The central issue was one of economics or money.  Can a few wealthy people so manipulate American democracy to the point that our government no longer represents all the people?   Is our government to be "of, for and by the rich few"?

When politicians of both parties are owned by the rich interests who dictate policy for the people, the voter no longer have a real choice at the ballot box and America fails to be a democracy.  Money in politics is going to force another phase of the American Revolution for we the people have become impotent to influence our own future.  We can hope that the coming revolution will be violence free but don’t count on it.  Our only hope for that outcome is Donald J. Trump, the 45^th President of the United States.

It is indeed ironic that our only hope to preserve our democracy in the 21^st century, is himself a wealthy man who cannot be bought as are all the rest of the gold diggers.  History will have a good laugh, if we stand up for him!

G. Goslaw

Landers, CA   

Day 3

Life for all we humans has a universal bottom line that explains things. When all the muss and the fuss is scraped away from daily living, we all live to find significance in our existence.  Life is a search for this significance.  All that we do, every decision we make, is in some way influenced by our universal and individual search for some quality that makes us worthy of attention.  Life will end when we lose all hope of finding this “sig factor”.   We may be breathing for a short while but without this hope in our gut, we are already dead.

This may sound like cruel news, dark and foreboding but it is our human condition.  It is true for each of us and every day is an exercise in either searching for the sig factor or settling for some temporary fix to avoid the darkness.  Sure, the fix may be a chemical high but just as damaging to the search is settling for the supposed good life, whether that life is a person, place or thing.  By definition, the good life is only temporary.  The Ray Conniff Singers sang about our human temporary dilemma, “Here Today and Gone Tomorrow”.

G. Goslaw

Landers, CA

Day 2

Hello to the future, whoever or whatever you are.  Greetings from G. Goslaw on January 2, 2019.  This is a new beginning for I have been silent all of 2018, a year that is now over with no regrets.  As this new effort is begun I shall attempt to avoid being the muller modality that I am, one who will consider constantly.  I call it “mulling”.  Most of the time it is a liability, considering to no end, weighing alternatives and waiting for clarity with minimal results.  Wish me luck in 2019 as a more extemporaneous modality may happen.  I shall try.

G.Goslaw

Landers, CA

Day 1

What the hell!  This is New Year’s Day 2019.  For every day such as this a resolution is warranted. For the first time in my life I would like to state for the record a resolution that I fully intend to keep.  Will this resolution go the way of most every other this worldly decision for change into the coming years? 

Probably, but I shall try again.  Simply stated my resolution is to write something every day and put it out there on the web declaring that I was here, at this time and at this hour, whether it matters or not!   Today is January 1, 2019.

G. Goslaw

Lander, CA

Simplification

The free exercise of our innate, individual, human spiritual potential is a reward unto itself, now and forever more.  Any dogma that usurps exclusive control over our innate, individual, human spiritual potential is a fraud and it's advocates are spiritual terrorists.  Jesus said, whomever and wherever you are, exercise.

G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.