tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56788522024-03-13T15:33:55.628-07:00reimagining...This is an insignificant blog from a middle-aged man's perspective.TonyBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790598639653325139noreply@blogger.comBlogger694125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678852.post-59028121708047587612017-05-18T16:42:00.001-07:002017-05-18T16:42:04.264-07:00I have a mental illness. It is controlled by 10 different prescribed pills, two are considered controlled substance. The medication regime works, and I am grateful for a wonderful therapist and a full of life psychologist. My lovely wife, Christel, reminds me to take the meds and lets me know if I am acting according to the illness or not.
I had some people whom I love invite me to lunch, I Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678852.post-6432362484753150122012-04-23T04:54:00.001-07:002012-04-26T22:58:48.957-07:00A walk...Every once in a great while Jesus walks into your workplace, family room, or committee meeting and says, "Lay down your nets and follow..." Of course we would follow. Who wouldn't?
But then he says very calmly to lay down the very thing that your livelihood depends on and then invites you to begin a new experience with him. Leave this proven good thing and come with him to an uncertain Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678852.post-72884970419182463502011-05-22T07:51:00.000-07:002011-05-22T14:01:22.119-07:00The carnival just left town...For the second time, a few months back, some radio preacher decided to raise his spot on Warhol's 15 minutes of fame by declaring yesterday the day the second coming would take place, the beginning of the end times. It wasn't a miscalculation, he calculated that he would make a lot of money from his advertisers because of the increase of people tuning in to hear what he was going to say. The Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678852.post-58961597911161852862011-03-08T15:30:00.000-08:002011-03-08T20:00:02.066-08:00Getting to the root of it...After much thought and a lot of accusations, I am changing my mind... again. No, I am not going back to the Dodgers. In my previous post's comments on FaceBook one of my dear friends said, "You're abandoning the team (Dodgers) of Jackie Robinson, Sandy Koufax, and Kirk Gibson for the team of Juan Marichal and Barry Bonds?" (Did you know that Marichal played for the Dodgers his final year and thatAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678852.post-33178092756802447142011-03-06T17:02:00.000-08:002011-03-06T17:15:35.049-08:00I need to announce to all my friends and those who have supported me for many years...I believe there comes a time in everyone's life when they need to stop and assess what is it that they believe, what they stand for, and what do they feel matters. I realized that I have been angry for many years and not sure what was the root of my frustration and bitterness.I know that I have alienated many of my dear friends over the years with my view on the church and christian institutionalAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678852.post-21777399754839368382010-09-25T07:58:00.000-07:002010-09-25T08:09:31.918-07:00A granddaughter...Last night, my son, Simon and his wife, Natasha, gave birth to an 8 pound, 22 inch, healthy baby girl, Paloma Michael. We were very excited to greet her.TonyBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790598639653325139noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678852.post-47818365327975171862010-09-11T12:09:00.000-07:002010-09-11T15:18:03.397-07:00Evil...I am not sure which is more evil, people who plan to kill people in the name of God or those who plan to burn the Koran in the name of Jesus Christ.TonyBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790598639653325139noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678852.post-2628468026668464412010-09-05T20:08:00.000-07:002010-09-06T01:54:44.313-07:00Labor Day...Enjoy this Labor Day, remembering that many people pick our fruits and vegetables, pack our beef and chicken, drive our food to market, bake our bread, and care for our children who have no voice, make minimum wages, are without health care, and live below the poverty line.TonyBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790598639653325139noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678852.post-25248428983487259602010-05-04T18:45:00.000-07:002010-05-05T08:11:26.099-07:00"Four dead in Ohio...Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of The Kent State shootings – also known as the May 4 massacre or Kent State massacre – occurred at Kent State University in the city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding TonyBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790598639653325139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678852.post-15625804845891317062010-04-29T20:13:00.000-07:002010-05-02T06:59:11.844-07:00Growing old...I have male pattern baldness, my back goes out, my beard is gray, I need my tri-focals to see. I am growing old. But wait... I am not feeling bad, because I am growing. I know things today that I didn't know I knew. New things I know which are really old things. Things that have been around but I was too young to notice. Now I notice. Now I know.I had a conversation today, which a few years ago, TonyBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790598639653325139noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678852.post-56615962227869681852010-03-20T08:54:00.000-07:002010-03-21T03:59:28.325-07:00No child left behind...At first I thought they were telling children "pull up your pants." You know, No child's left behind. Maybe people were tired of seeing children and youth's left cheek. Oh the Department of Formulation, I mean, Education. I wonder a lot. I wonder more now that I am out of school than I did when I was in school. I was a terrible student. I spent a lot of time in the principal's office, vice TonyBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790598639653325139noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678852.post-25420414762498260442010-03-06T04:03:00.000-08:002010-03-06T05:20:52.084-08:00Places where we find ourselves...Early yesterday morning, I drove up to Stockton to visit a pastor and friend of mine. I was enthralled by the beauty of the rosy sun rays emanating through and over the slate gray mountains, black skies morphing into Dodger blue and the colors of the fields, so fresh and viridescent after the previous rains showing a new array of mustard colored flowers. Admiring the flowers planted along the TonyBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790598639653325139noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678852.post-58968042183116987232010-02-20T07:03:00.000-08:002010-02-21T09:30:13.416-08:00Occupado..."Yeah, we just take a few tokes and get mellow and watch a movie or just hang out... I don't see any difference between a few tokes of pot and a bottle of beer or a glass of wine... What do you think?"Went the conversation with a young christian friend. What did I think?I began telling him about a guy who wrote the book, 3 Cups of Tea... In 1992, Greg Mortenson attempted to climb K2, the TonyBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790598639653325139noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678852.post-39557196069906916522009-12-10T08:06:00.000-08:002009-12-10T08:59:09.877-08:00An open letter regarding the changes at Calvin Crest...AN OPEN REPLY TO A QUESTION...My dear friend, Thanks for the post and the concerns. I know you care about Calvin Crest and all the changes that are taking place. The craft/first aider position is only a craft position who will help out the nurses on Sundays and Saturdays with check-in and check-out. They will not be taking people down the hill during the daytime but may, just like the program TonyBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790598639653325139noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678852.post-19373503673967000602009-10-25T01:24:00.000-07:002009-10-25T01:28:45.415-07:00Glacier PointWhat a wonder. Such beauty. I am very small.TonyBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790598639653325139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678852.post-83782787464912329352009-10-24T10:55:00.000-07:002009-10-25T00:29:05.512-07:00"No problem."Alright I know that I haven't written much lately but I gotta say that I am very concerned about the state of youth today. Drugs, promiscuity, AIDs, low educational test scores, economic impact, demonic possession, alcoholism, sagging trousers, texting while driving, or even adolescent obesity... are all things I could write about but I don't think matter as much as what happened to me TonyBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790598639653325139noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678852.post-14022340811929643432009-09-30T07:03:00.000-07:002009-10-01T21:03:47.399-07:00My dear friend...Matthew,I wanted to blog the response to your email, not to expose you but to answer a question I get asked quite often. I don't think that it is your faith that is falling apart but that it is not made of the kind of substance that can hold much weight. Let me explain...In sunday school, the institution gave very easy answers to very complex issues. It is easier to teach that "Jesus loves me TonyBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790598639653325139noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678852.post-72403554206574233742009-09-06T08:34:00.001-07:002009-09-07T18:16:15.339-07:00Labor Day...I know I have said this before but I don't take Labor Day to be a day to rest but to remember (isn't that suppose to be done on Memorial Day...) those who labor so I can live. I am thankful for those who plant, harvest, ship, and market all that I eat and drink as well as wear, buy, etc.I work at 5000 ft. elevation, in the most beautiful site on earth where people are willing to come and reflect TonyBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790598639653325139noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678852.post-42755614626404439312009-07-16T16:08:00.000-07:002009-07-16T16:11:14.515-07:00Just a photo update of the boys...TonyBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790598639653325139noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678852.post-85029565653347146742009-02-21T19:29:00.000-08:002009-02-22T10:31:48.920-08:00How am I doing?I am usually pretty tired this part of the year. I have been interviewing many people. I really have enjoyed many of the people I talked to, as is the usual, which is why I love my job so much.I met one woman, who has been a christian for five years and in that time has been to communist Asia for an extended time to help equip the believers, share the truth of Jesus with her family and now they TonyBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790598639653325139noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678852.post-15280019361326234042009-01-18T18:02:00.000-08:002009-01-18T18:05:38.840-08:00Photo Conversation... 1This gets my head churning... What do you think?TonyBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790598639653325139noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678852.post-41305896827897643932009-01-08T07:46:00.000-08:002009-01-08T08:19:29.443-08:00Don't read this if words offend you...Masturbation. I was raised hearing that if I did that I would: 1. become blind; 2. grow hair on my palms; 3. go insane. No one ever talked about the truth.It separates and isolate. It causes the focus to be drawn on to an image instead of to another. It reduces people to things that are there to satisfy the flesh and cause momentary pleasure instead of relationship that can create a lifetime of TonyBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790598639653325139noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678852.post-30916355500918926562009-01-07T09:25:00.000-08:002009-01-07T09:29:06.093-08:00In|Site PhotoTonyBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790598639653325139noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678852.post-81164650287230777462009-01-06T19:13:00.000-08:002009-01-06T19:21:44.496-08:00In|Site PhotosTonyBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790598639653325139noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678852.post-30822415938250441312008-12-21T13:01:00.000-08:002008-12-25T12:21:22.896-08:00Just a thought...I was thinking about Cosby's question to me about what I thought about the difference between 3rd world and Western christianity. (Cos, I have been thinking about it a lot.) It got me started thinking about baseball.I use to love baseball. I was 8 years old and I started watching baseball with my father who was a SF Giants fan. They were playing the Dodgers, who just moved to Los Angeles. Sandy TonyBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790598639653325139noreply@blogger.com2