Then and Now
I spoke about my childhood and the present.
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My Journey is emotionally draining my Lord
5/8/2009 6:03:16 AM Dear Journal: I guess I need to write another blog to you my Lord. Yesterday my day was going just fine until right before bedtime. I get a phone call from Kim, another hate filled call ordering me to do this and do that with my blog. Dear Jesus, I need your help my Lord. What’s a grown man to do? The hardest thing to do in life is sometimes repair relationships. Dear GOD, please help me patch up my relationship with my #1 son! I love my son dearly. I just want my son back in my life. I’m writing this with s sadness of heart my Lord. I just made a video about 4-5 hours ago. I promised myself NOT to write words like “evil” but that’s how I feel right now towards a certain family member. I am asking to take this anger away from me my Lord. I am VERY ANGRY. My prayer is to be able to scratch off my hand written bucket list. That’s my ongoing prayer my Lord. You promised us that you’ll answer our prayers my Lord. Speaking of prayers yesterday was a National ...
Hey Myron, great memory of the "Viking Club"!
ReplyDeleteIn the process of writing a book (Title: Dad and Saint Francis: Inconsequential Remembrances) with my daughter (who is taken a writing course this semester [and loving it]).
Here's how the book starts:
Dad and Saint Francis: Inconsequential Remembrances
By M. M. Chamberlain with insights from P. B. Lawrence
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
Lord Acton
“. . . Und Strum brich los!”
On a Thursday in February, 1943, the events of which may have been harbingers for his life -
In Munich, Germany, the Nazis will arrest members of the “White Rose” resistance group
While, at the intersection of Potsdam Strasse and Pallassstrasse in Schoenberg, Berlin, Germany - the Sportspalast - Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels will give his “Total War” speech (shortly after the Battle of Stalingrad ends with the surrender of Field Marshall Paulas and the German 6th Army to the Soviets)
In Washington, D. C, China's first lady, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, will deliver a speech before the joint House and Senate of the United States appealing them to provide aid for the Chinese Nationalists in their struggle against Japan and the Chinese Communists.
While, in Seattle, WA, twenty minutes after takeoff from Boeing Field, the second of Boeing's top secret XB-29 prototype Superfortress bombers will catch fire and crash into the Frye Packing Plant. (Lead Boeing pilot Eddie Allen and ten crew members along with nineteen workers in the meat-packing plant perish)
- my Dad is born. It is another time of war.