Keep reminding yourself you can do this.
You can discard, recycle, or donate the clutter surrounding you.
You’ll never use this again.
You know this.
Moving on is freedom.
Holding on is prison.
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Keep reminding yourself you can do this
Tag: Freedom
Three most important things in real estate apply differently at home
Three most important things in real estate apply differently at home.
In real estate, it’s location, location, location.
At home, it’s organize, organize, organize.
Not sorting your soup and vegetable cans in alphabetical order.
Having effective, efficient systems for getting the paperwork of (your) life done.
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Lt Gen’s Son Died Yesterday
Trusting you know Skip Gaskill by now. But not trusting you follow all the blog comments here, I’m reposting Skip’s comment from yesterday as today’s message:
“Jeff, believe it or not we prefer not to have to go to war.
Yesterday was the Marine Corps’ 235th birthday. Jamie and I will attend the Commandant’s Birthday Ball in DC Saturday night. This will be my 31st Ball. This was also mine and Jamie’s first date in 1979. Can you believe how fast it has gone?
This week Marines around the world (including the farthest reaches of Afghanistan) will share a birthday cake. The oldest Marine present gets the first bite and then he passes it to the youngest Marine present. This symbolizes passing on the knowledge and traditions of the Corps. It is also a day where we reflect on and honor those who are no longer with us.
Yesterday a friend of mine (LtGen in the Corps) found out his son (2nd Lt) was killed in Afghanistan while leading his Marines against the Taliban.
Freedom isn’t Free”
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One Of The Many Benefits
One of the many benefits to blogging, when you are giving your best away for free, is that you can say whatever you want.
There is no need to worry about offending anyone, because no one is paying cash.
People either get it or they don’t. These five daily blogs are not for everyone.
And that’s okay.
So, thank you Cheryl, for all your hard work. Just had to say that.
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Skip Gaskill and a blinding flash of the obvious
Today’s post brought to you by Skip Gaskill:
Freedom Isn’t Free!…..Really?
Most people in this country really don’t/can’t grasp the reality of our country being at war today. We hear about it in the media every day but we as a country are not “really” at war. Why do I say this?
Because with the exception of the families of the fallen and the families of the deployed, we aren’t being asked to do without commodities like soap, sugar, butter, etc., as families were during WWII. We aren’t in blackout conditions at night for public safety. We aren’t working around the clock to produce tanks, ships, or airplanes to meet the needs of the Services. We come and go as we please, we go to work, we go to school, we go to parties, dances, sporting events, etc. We have our freedom.
Why?
Because our leaders knew there was going to be a fight one way or another. Our enemy hates us and our way of life. Our very lifestyle is a threat to their beliefs and they are on a campaign to destroy it. So, our leaders decided that it would be better to fight in the enemy’s front yard rather than our own. This decision means that we don’t have to deal with air strikes, suicide bombers, IED’s, or close quarter battle in our streets, our alleys, our yards, and in our homes.
This is a good thing right?
Absolutely yes…with one minor drawback.
It’s a double edge sword…because we took the war to the enemy’s front yard we don’t/can’t feel the threat (which I’m here to tell you is real) here at home and it makes it difficult for us to comprehend the seriousness of the threat. We feel safe. We are Free.
If you take nothing else away from this blog please consider this…don’t ever take your freedom for granted…someone paid the bill on our behalf.
Quote:
“Freedom has a taste the protected will never know.” – Anonymous (found written on a C-Ration Crate, Khe-Sanh, Republic of Viet Nam)
Ok, back to my words…Skip reminds us in a way we’ve rarely been reminded. Out of sight, out of mind. Right? To the hundreds of thousands of US Service women and men who’ve died to protect our Freedom, we owe a debt of gratitude we can never repay.
What then are we to do?
Forget about it? Will we simply forget about it?
Probably.
Heaven forbid.