The value of a life

If you want to measure the value of a person’s life, look at the affect of their life on their world, on the people in their life. Look into their close relationships. Look at how they make other’s feel about themselves.

There is no need to wait until we die to stand before the so-called Seat of Judgment. It is all happening right now, in plain view.

this blog is crap

“I think your blog is a bunch of crap,” my wife Irma said, after scanning through the five posts that immediately preceded this one. She had enjoyed my blog in the past.

“You have all these words, going on and on, and I get to the end and say ‘What’s the point?’ You need to cut to the chase.”

I understood what was prompting her outburst. My last few posts had been more wordy than normal, a bit more intellectual in approach and content, along with some styling changes and maybe a bit of writer’s showboating. I knew it; heck, in the middle of that group of five posts I wrote a short story “The Thinking Man’s Guru” just to make some fun of the very things she was complaining about.

“I do cut to the chase,” I replied. “If you go through my blog you’ll find there’s a variety: some posts are short, others are long, I have short stories and poetry. Mixed throughout are posts touching lightly on the point while others zero right in on it, and when I want to put something out there that’s even more to the point,