"Wind"

An Acrostic by Tom King

Will I with courage face the closing of the day?

 In wrapping up my life will I be done?

 No, I expect to leave unfinished business here

 Don't grieve for I have fought my war and won.

My wife and I do not have the same set of values where yard work is concerned. I have been called "afraid of manual labor" because of that lawnological difference between us. I know better than to retort. Let her take her shot. She will go inside soon and leave me out here with the fresh cut grass and forever falling leaves.

The problem is, I think, one of basic gender values. Men tend to take the longer view; pursue more distant goals than do our women. We are, after all, the hunters in the hunter-gatherer partnership. In the poem, I express a very male idea.

This election threatens to reduce the level of civility in this country to near barbarism.  I, personally, think it's because there aren't really two distinct sides in the race, just two versions of the same thing - liberal and liberal light.  It's about power, not ideas and that makes for a lot of ugliness.  Some of the self-proclaimed "tolerant" have been guilty of some of the worst excesses.

We are a nation of many beliefs and values, but there is room for all so long as there is tolerance as well. By tolerance, I do not mean that we must embrace and encourage all beliefs without question. One may believe that homosexuality is a sin and still fight for another's right to be gay if they want to be. You may believe that as a Christian I am an infidel and that is okay so long as you don't

Good morning!

 Apparently a blog entry cannot be any longer than the visible window.  I tried doing my first post last night and found that if I typed off the bottom of the window and the save buttons disappeared off the top of the window, I can't get them back to save the post.

Keeps us from being too long winded.  I am, unfortunately, rather loquacious and have a whole long entry sitting in memory waiting to be pasted into this space.  What I have decided to do for now is to post this little bit of explanation and then paste the original entry into it as a comment and see how that works. 

 Likely a bug that needs working out of the website is all.  Hope they get it fixed soon.  It's a little aggravating.  I nearly lost all my earlier post and would have if I hadn't copied it to paste into