IT IS WHAT IT IS      ...And my world a gym, considering at first-wake knowing just next to nothing. My world consisted of my mother and my grandmother. Originally, I being a degree simpler than simple, all that was seen and known is known as the University of Virginia hospital... My first home away from home.So… Not knowing it  but this was my first instance of "It Is What It Is".        On top being windows to a person's soul, is just next to impossible for them to hide their true intentions. After successfully acquiring my steps2stepping from my second home away from home, HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital. My mother took me out to my house in the woods… where I love .First. What is done is far from unique my family prays and I with them, always remembering everyones' Beginning and End. Now you can say what you want because this is still a fairly free country, freer than not. What I've...

No matter the many times tried to comprehend, the hours, minutes and seconds. Were they a waste? The answer differs depending on who is talked to, who is asked. If friends or family, the answers are varying degrees of positivity. While the opposite is true if people from my past are asked. Early, while my brain injury was like a wee lad, I prayed to  my Almighty Father , pleading, that I would only remember the necessary things about my past. That which would prove useful to me in my future endeavors. So, despite some weird looks, I have long since been saying  peace  instead of goodbye, see you later, or any the other. Not because I think it's cool or anything,  it too is what it is . No more no less. Really, would you like the opposite… War? Hate? How idiotic would I look? My reasoning when I say peace, not every time but everlasting peace derives from the Prince of Peace. He is the only place  True Peace  can be found.     ALL ...

       My injury, I would never ask for anything this drastic or extreme to happen to anyone, actions speak louder than words. My guess is that I was semi-aware that this could potentially take place. So my reasoning that everyone is some degree aware that before and while they're partaking in any action, the consequence may not be to their liking. For this analogy since a therapist said it, my head will be a filing cabinet and all my memories files inside. When my head came into direct contact with the cedar tree, even though my brain injury was closed in nature, "files" were metaphorically strewn all over the road. Then, when the emergency crew was summoned by Officer E N Stallard finally arrived, they were more worried about saving my life than collecting all the files. So they saved my life... From that point, even before, the respect I had for the helping professionals only grows by the day.  It all was what it was, as it is what it is.     ...

Why HELLO ... happy whatever day it may be.     ToSTART First, there must be an explanation of the placing "Happy" in front of whatever day it may be, a sort of greeting.  Being a gentleman who had lived through a car accident. That left him to face this world, half-a-man, I was in need of a way to brighten my days.  Although receiving numerous awkward stares, I kept it up till it didn't. Originally, my slower than quick ears picked it up off of Travis Coshco, a local weatherman for Louisa Co clued me into this trick.                When walking ‘round, primarily in public but at times among family, the feeling of eyes gauging my steps waiting and some hoping for my fall, simply gnawed at my brain. Towards the beginning this gnawing caused insecurity and fear to well up inside. Simply because, come on, there I was. Fresh from the hospital, roughly a year and a half but in my terminology, according to my mi...

Modern Strains link up, growing from, include all the strains from past years. 

DOLLAR STREET In the news people in other cultures seem stranger than they are. We visited 264 families in 50 countries and collected 30,000 photos. We sorted the homes by income, from left to right. C lick here to see    > how people really live < Families all over the World are more similar than we might think. The poorest still get many children, but most families have about two children. Sometimes families take care of their elderly relatives as well as their children. Dollar Street

My solution may not sound as if it addresses ALL the world’s problems, but it DOES, the answer I speak of is Peace. Not just any peace either, not as the world gives, but True Peace can only be found in the Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ. I just said a prayer for your husband, if he does not have the peace that only the Prince of can provide, MAKE SURE it is offered him. Trust me it was far longer than short, but I am standing after living through a collision between the car I was driving and a cedar tree. Since I was not wearing my seat belt, thinking myself to be far smarter than not. Cedar being far harder than soft wood when it came into the passenger side of my vehicle it collided with my head directly. At some speed well over 65 mph and BLESSED me with this Severe Traumatic Brain Injury. You may be wondering, "Why does he refer to an injury of that severity as a blessing, not a curse?" To which I would respond, I do not exactly know why bad things happen. Besides this i...

My person, personality and being all is what it is. After being born, re-born, then re-re... so many times it makes none whatsoever. After living through the most drastic ruckdabuck of my life, in where my "main computer" fell asleep. Waking up and when I had finally reached the degree of cognition needed to understand, I eventually noticed my right side felt "blank" as if IT  was not there.  Almost everyone knows how talking themselves into climbing behind the wheel after consuming multiple ... is easier after consuming. You see I had been driving this way under almost every condition under the sun, moon and until I saw stars. Well, the stars turned out to be imaginary. Turned out they were from a brain injury, one of the severe traumatic sort. Was told at a later time that my body was suffering from semi-paralysis, mainly on the right side but my world was changed. This occurred on May 9, 2007, ONE DAY out of the many I will never r...

       Meandering through life just as a leaf does through air, I tackled problems as they present themselves to me. Still do too being a man more gentle than not, a fellow who began a re-life fighting against the enemy. Later realizing the worst enemy was himself.        Actually, the ONLY way I or anyone can even expect to win in the end lies in peace. The things the world both long for and detest... Love and Peace both being found, presented by the same source. What they want is not what they need.        On face value, seasonal peace sounds good but so do many sounds. It's good to gather and converse with people who do not believe as you do. Seeing that there can only be one right and one wrong.        Along with my reasoning, my urge to care had been falling apart, slowly disintegrating piece by piece since when it did. The actual date is impossible to pinpoint but things happened, unusual occurre...