Fond Recollections And Costs Of Freedom!

May 18, 2015 Thomas Collins Jr.

Sacrifice, honor, courage, commitment, class, grace, endearing, and brave. The preceding terminolgy for decription are earned through blood, sweat, and tears. The frequently eternal costs accrued to the Armed Forces is the human capital of the past, present, and future veteran. This is incalculable when or where presented the human capacity to ascertain, conceptualize, and entirely comprehend.

The eyes close as if trying to thwart the scortching heat of a searing sun. With eyes wide opened in a gaze yielding the reflection of one or a combination of many thousands of thoughts, perceptions, and realities. Photographic imagery puchased seemingly through the exchange of one's soul and through the mirage of truths, lies, misinformation, unknowns, and uncertainties. Visions of horror reflecting the realistic, the here and now, and potential alternatives assault the mind irreverently. Minutes are exchanged for hours, hours subsequently become days turning into weeks, and the blur of it all calculates into years. Ageless reels which often play continuously. There are no deviations no intermissions and more discovery as time and environmental factors torment the mind and sacrifice the soul mercilessly stealing today, tomorrow, family, friends, and professions.

Ends Meat At The Table

March 4, 2014 Thomas Collins Jr.

Breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, and entree`s are meals we all partake in at one time or another. Seemingly limitless varieties of pallets and arrays of possibilities abound. The search for ways to simplify and provide adequate nourishment on the fly or for the family sit down meal can seem overwhelming and chore-like. It is difficult enough just to get to the market and then when there ascertain how many vegetables, fruits, spices, and provisions we should purchase as we schedule for meals and the children or family members who are eating you out of house and home like the hungry caterpillars on the binge before cocooning only to patiently burst into butterflies.

Expenses and conveniences of dining out and the ambiance of a new or frequented surrounding can be all too temping when time is scarce and fridge or cupboard resources don't seem to match the appetite at hand. Pulling together and gathering adequate provisions to fill the void and stave of the munchies of a couple hours later requires time and preparation many of us may not always possess. What are a few items we may be able to maintain on hand? The options may be limitless. What are the items to posses among our resources in comparison to other possible options? The just get by or dividend paying.

Lifestyle, home circumstances, and random demands lead us to a myriad of choices, decision, and viable options constantly bringing our taste buds from the Mediterranean, to China, the United Kingdom, and then back to the United States of America albeit perhaps not in that order or tour of nations. It is sometimes challenging for us to consistently pull back the refrigerator door and pear into our cupboard then pull out the perfect combination of meat, vegetables, spices, and other ingredients. Gazing eye-booger like as a child at the collection of leftovers and the combination of fresh ingredients available while wondering about the possibilities of a complete meal suitable to the whole family's mood, taste, schedule, or pallet is a matter of borderline psychosis and extrasensory perception to acquire, acknowledge, and implement. This sometimes being the situation and atmosphere, given various aspects of the human condition, may after much effort posses the somber subtle ambiance equivalent in environment to where peas or pasta is figuratively quality checked on the ceiling or walls.

In some environments and circumstances it may seem odd, foreign, or eccentric to frequent many establishments for ingredients and cooking supplies. Thinking of simple items to combine with other ingredients to provide sustaining nourishment from meal to meal can be difficult. Preparing ahead of time for simpler parts or portions of meals is not only time consuming but resource draining. Given the diversification of the population, environment, culture, and demographic for many of us our resources may be scarce and our options given locale are anywhere from limitless to minimal.

Forgiveness, Repentance, and Human Condition, by Thomas Collins Jr. →

July 21, 2013 Thomas Collins Jr.

Forgiveness, the ability to relinquish negative feelings from experiences or perceptions, acute or peripheral, real, perceived, or imagined from violations or infractions be it first or a serial occurrence. The mechanism through which one or another obtains freedom if not from another from oneself.

Interactions in the cosmos and our multifaceted spheres of influence have experiences real, perceived, imagined, inspired, acute, peripheral, situational, and circumstantial. These encounters intentional, random, and spontaneous allow for many diversified causes, effects, and rationales. The mechanism used for adjustment or change in vector of azimuth is as diverse as is an experience, or group of recollections and encounters. The options for engagement, neutralization, or escalation are as multifaceted and complex as is anything among the celestial.

Opportunities and the journey of life offer and bring many occasions by which one person or many people may violate, or upend, the statusquo or the realm of the acceptable norm. Upon reflection, how does one or another obtain forgiveness? Is there anything such as true forgiveness? True forgiveness? Is it is easy to forgive and forget or just let go? What are social realistic expectations of forgiveness and the unforgivable? Relativity in relation to rationale and circumstance in terms of understanding the unforgivable, or the perceived unconscionable, is it a new sanity? Can a never ending hurt repeatedly encountered through trauma ever be seen as forgiven?

Save You Some Dough Dinera Please, by Thomas Collins Jr. →

July 1, 2013 Thomas Collins Jr.

We all have money or resource problems in some way, shape, or form. The majority of us have always had an unmet expectation whether to obtain a desired end or procure a necessity. How to trim the fat and get to a most lean and efficient resource of quality and price is as common as the endless pursuit of perfection among our population in mass.

As seasons change so do our new obstacles. Be it the slight acquisition of the small but ignorable item or service to make things somewhat more pleasant, or, that anvil that pops in proving we are not the Masters of the Universe. Electricity, food, clothing, cleaning goods, hygiene items, entertainment, household or outdoor decor, tools, and other necessities. These in conjunction with our children, spouses, and best friends forever place demands upon ourselves and our resources.

Light bulb swapping to a lower wattage to find that perfect amount of ambient lighting for reading, entertainment, and television all from the same illumination point in a room seemly far to vast, bringing the realization of the impossibility of lighting a dance hall with just one candle and no mirrors. Those phantom lights reappear as the trauma of our childhood horror flicks as one eye goes back and forth to wonder, "Should I cover it. Nope too hot." One smoldens clammily as the air conditioner and fans whir sometimes in a mixture of humid and breezy overtones.

Weather combines to meet most needs for perfect entertainment. Reminding you it is the season again for togetherness, shared experiences, time spent exploring, and moments in solitude. Porches, yards, beaches, and playgrounds beckon our attention to the storm the stampeding feet of little ones returning from fresh soccer slide and tackle and homemade mud pies. The hose is just wound and the sawhorses and tools from the recent project are now put away because weather permitted it after six months.

Many of us live within a budget, many of us are overextended, and lots have no budget. Within this cosmos of family member lives and friends, somewhere with the parallel universe, we engage in activities that engage us with choice. We all have to do things we do not ingratiate ourselves over. Much of these things have to do with money, time, and worth. All of which can be oscillated in priority in any order given reflection and circumstance.

Few people are aware of how much time it may cost to save. Options many agree on for saving may be food, cosmetics, peripherealities, and niceties. Dining out and a nice beverage are definite real parts of the human experience for many.