Tom Desrosier
Much of what we believe about ourselves, our world and our politics, we learned from someone else.
Sometimes, years later, we still cling to this stufff, long after its proven wrong.
Go figure...
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Unfortunately, I don’t have a story. But hey - look at this neat picture:
I found it here.
I was thinking about that childhood jingle - “weebles wobble but they don’t fall down”.
I was thinking how the web can make almost anything seem real.
even me.
Honest, I’ll be back soon.
T. G. Desrosier
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Happy New Year
I just got off the treadmill. My mind abuzz with this and that; but with one underlying theme. Normally an optimist, I was startled by the notion that I might merely relive 2008. You know - do and say the same things, eat the same foods, go to the same places, whine and b*tch about the same ole’ crap.
I was struck by how pointless life would be if we were to allow such to occur again and again. Think about it… One year, piled upon another, each no more noteworthy than the last, taken together, a colossal body of mediocrity and sameness. Indeed a rather meaningless existence, given to leisure, over-indulgence, and lost opportunity.
Yeah, many will do that; but I suspect many of us won’t.
I think this is what we mean when we wish each other Happy New Year.
I think we mean to wish each other, a different and yes, better year. I think we mean to wish each other, not just an escape from the previous year, but something gloriously new and life changing.
At least that’s what I mean, when I say to you:
Tom
PS: About the treadmill: I ran 5 miles in 44 minutes, age 53.
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Remember…
I was an active duty Commander, serving as the Executive Officer of a logistics center in Mechanicsburg, PA., on that despicable day, seven years ago.
We in the military, who swore an oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States, against all enemies, foreign and domestic…", felt violated; as if everything we stood for - our ideals, our very collective purpose; the awesome power our military embodied - yes all this and more we felt was for naught.
The greatest military in the world - and I, one of its proud members… We had failed our country.
We had failed.
But from such ashes must arise the indomitable phoenix; a beginning, a new hope and even as we speak, even as we argue, complain and count off our faults and missteps - an even better America has begun to emerge.
I ask you all to remember this day well. Remember how fragile, how vulnerable our democracy, our principals, our beloved nation.
And yes, I ask you to love America again - to see once more her greatness, to see her noble humanity and strength; to see the beacon of hope and promise she has always been.
Yes, failure brings inevitable wisdom; it forges and tempers our souls for the next great hurdle. It makes us better.
God Bless America.
T.G. Desrosier
Commander, U.S. Navy Retired.
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