Early Black America

 

One thing that the British invasion of music did do was to help the black musicians that they had listened to while growing up in the late 1950s.

Walk Elsewhere

 I noticed that the parts of our cities in Western Kentucky have sidewalks. They were put there when the city grew. Now the sidewalks are part of the old homes in town. The new home and roads in the city do not have sidewalks. The road out of town where the new stores are built do not have sidewalks. Our mother and her carriage have to walk in the street or ditch. Old men pulling or pushing carts have to walk in the street and as we drive by; we wish they would walk elsewhere.

Movement of Oil

 

The Bluegrass of Western Kentucky

 The world in Western Kentucky is groomed by society. The bluegrass is trimmed by the rural livestock that grazes on the rolling hills. The colorful birds fly in the gardens of homes in the area. There is magic in the wave of rural greetings. There is bluegrass around the brown mulch that is worked into the rectangular gardens of vegetables behind the homes of Western Kentucky. The five-inch depth of soil is created by the history of roaming historical animals and the falling leaves blown across the rolling landscape.

There is a comfortable slowness and pleasure of being on this landscape. Yes this is part of this planet; an oasis of blue rolling hills.

The World of Amazing True Love

 I awoke with a good feeling about love. It is true that my love for my step-sister was the catalyst that gave my understanding and feelings about love. Later at Tolstoy I was given the love that has remained as a remarkable understanding of love, a love that was reciprocal and very pure.

That love was always easy to understand and feel if I saw a movie about love. It is a love that never goes away. It is always felt and shared with life on the planet earth. It is truly amazing feeling.

 

Big Type and Wally

I write in big type because of friend of mine (who is gone) told me he could not read my website because he could not read the type. So, I made the type bigger for him.

Wally is with me and Ramon, Wally has a black shirt looking to the left, arms around his knees. I am behind Wally (not named) Ramon is above me (shirtless).

Below Wally in 1997 when he told me he could not read my website because he could not read the small type.

When I was picking apples and Ramon found me and asked me to go to Morningstar. Wally was traveling with Nancy and her kids. The name “Fruit n’ Nut Nancy” was given to her because what she did on our trip south to Morningstar.

I stopped picking apples and went South to Morningstar with Joanie, Ramon, Wally, Nancy and her kids.

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The sheriff dressed as Santa Claus gave us all a small pack (4 cigarette pack) to pose for the picture.

 

 

 

The Pledge of Allegiance

 

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Taking the Oath to Defend the United States Constitution

 When I joined the Navy I swore to …

I Thomas Diaz do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God."

The Oath I swore to when I joined the federal government at Lock and Dam # 50

I Thomas Diaz do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

The President of the United States swore to…

"I Donald Trump do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."

Logical Worms

 What kind of logic is that? Moses has his Ten Commandments and Jesus and Christianity followed them. Now the folks in Iran believe that if the United States is mostly Christian, they can kill Christianity and the Hebrew Nations and go to Heaven.

I have no clue what Donald Trump thinks? Is it an eye for an eye. What kind of logic is that? How do the worms that dig under other nations think?

The Miracle in 2026

 Child do you really understand the miracle before your eyes.

Sometimes you hear, “Why?” Technology gives you a choice. The world around us is full of the technology that the world of old has never known. Jesus and Ghandi would approve, Moses would thank the god he visited with. I sit in the year 2026 and I am an old man and listen. I write and say my goodness what a world I live in.

Child do you really understand the miracle before your eyes.

1980 Government Grants

 I just saw a movie about what the government did and the parents of the child did not know what the government did.

In Ukraine the children of that era are using that intelligence.

What am I talking about?

When we bought our Commodore computer, we did not know what the government was doing. We thought it was great that our children were learning about computers and using games they were teaching children how to use computers. As the evolution continued, I understood what was happening. At first, I thought it was great and then in the year 2001 (twenty some years later I understood). The government in the 1980’s were teaching our young adults how to manipulate joy sticks. Using the joy sticks to fly planes , move cars, drive tanks, handle machine guns and today to fly drones. We see the results in school killings and war in Ukraine where drones and joy sticks are killing Russian soldiers in kill zones.

Our parents just think that our kids are downstairs playing video games. In the 1980’s it was our nation’s government grants to universities and colleges and new computer companies to create games that children could use and learn.