Through the Portal of Death

Through the Portal of Death   A LIFE OF PURPOSE Myron Poe (1931-2023) Iroquois Club (Oct. 24, 2023)       Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the celebration of the life and times of Myron Poe, Esquire. Jeffrey Poe… thank you for allowing me to tell your Father’s story.   And the seasons, they go round and […]

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Truth in the Holy Books

Truth in the Holy Books ???   I truly appreciate the Holy Books, aka the Bibles. They are Pulitzer Prize writings… works of high literary art. They tell compelling stories that give great comfort and insight into life, and into the spiritual struggle that human kind has been engaged in for thousands of years. But, […]

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Education to Enlightenment and Wisdom

Education to Enlightenment and Wisdom My friend, Stuart McCann, recently lamented… “Oh, the multitudes of the ‘educated… yet not the least bit ‘enlightened.’”  I think my friend correct. Many are called, but few are chosen. Likewise, many are educated, but few are enlightened. In my own present state of limited enlightenment, I see the Journey […]

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Rumblin’ Around ‘N Tumblin’ Down

Rumblin’ Around ‘N Tumblin’ Down I heard a great song on the radio the other day, Rumble, by Link Wray and the Wraymen. As I emotionally drifted off into the undulating, guitar rhythms of “Rumble,” my mind started drifting back to good old, bad-ass days of Detroit (late 1950s and early 1960s) when a select cadre of over-the-top, […]

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Originality

Originality Standing on Giants’ Shoulders… Seeing What Others Can’t 26 LETTERS & 13 SOUNDS Whether there is a God or not, the human mind engaged in original and creative thinking is wonder to behold… is it not ??? “Originality” in any discipline creates its own hierarchy of human endeavor… whether it be Science (Einstein… whose […]

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God…To Be Or Not To Be

God…To Be Or Not To Be As John Lennon once sang… “Imagine…” Imagine there were no Holy Books. Imagine, no Bibles. Imagine, no Old Testament. Imagine, no New Testament, no Talmud, no Torah, no Koran and no other books that man claims God wrote through the inspired penmanship of man. What then??? Is there a […]

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Walking The Honduran Caravan

Walking The Honduran Caravan Tin soldiers and Nixon coming… four dead in Ohio I awoke at 5: A.M. in the middle of a fitful, full blown nightmare. I sat up on my five star, tempur-pedic mattress, threw off my cushy down comforter, turned the heat up a notch on my furnace and put my little […]

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2nd Amendment Cage Fight

2nd Amendment Cage Fight HARD-ASS NRA HARD-WIRED DNA SECOND AMENDMENT… STATE OF THE LAW Today’s Second Amendment jurisprudence says the government is forbidden from banning handguns. See Heller One, 554 U.S. 570 (2008– a 5 to 4 decision written by Justice Scalia who, with an eye toward the future, indicated that, even the “inherent” right […]

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Disregarding Teachers

Disregarding Teachers I truly don’t know how our teachers of today (2022) survive the parents and politicians of today. Both the parents and the politicians of today think they should control the classroom because they know more than teachers. Why is the ignorance of parents and the arrogance of politicians… 1. Allowed to dictate what […]

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