Intentional —

Many years ago before the Global Positioning System (GPS) was perfected and became so prominent in aviation, not to mention life, we used the Inertial Navigation System, INS. Instead of geo-positioned satellites the internal equipment used fast moving, gimballed gyroscopes that sensed the movement of aircraft. Not always perfect, because …

Flying Things —

There was a fly buzzing back and forth in the house tonight and not being able to catch it was a real annoyance. I remembered purchasing some fly strips months ago and put one inside a lampshade. After a while I noticed the fly no longer flew back and forth …

Train Whistle —

We live about a mile and a half west of Marietta Square, north of Atlanta. At night we can hear the whistles …

Bicycle and the Airplane —

Bicycling, like flying, is an extension of our mind. In dreams we fly through forests passing swiftly between trees down gullies and …

Consider What You Say —

Height and strength are irrelevant, how handsome or beautiful does not matter, what is owned or in the bank is of no …

Destination —

Why would anybody want to reach the destination? The destination is only a stop along the way.

Why A Soldier Fights —

I was only a small child during WW2 and obviously too young to understand what it was like to fear for ones …

Different Yet Alike —

Water and rock are so different yet so alike. Both from the same star material, one rigid and hard and the other …

The Hug —

Like the mixing of two colors joined to make another; heartbeats close in the moment; arms outstretched to hold, intermingle the warmth …

Woody the PITA

  This is Woody, the PITA that used to wake me up with its jack hammer sound on the edge of the …