The Passing Away of President Herbert Walker "HW" Bush

Today Is the Funeral For H.W. Bush, Unlike the current resider in the White House, "H.W." was Man Who Knew What Public Service Is and What Public Service Means




How Do You Get a Medal of Freedom?? HINT: Think about and talk about the OTHER members of the team.


Everyone has fears about death and questions about death.  We can have faith that H.W. ended up where he wanted to go.

My Favorite Blogger (James Kwak) Makes a Journal Entry

James Kwak makes a type of personal journal post.  He was requested to try this.  Not at the "mothership" Baseline Scenario blog, but at a different one.  I like the post very much.  The post deals with children's first experiences with death and I guess a term sometimes used in Buddhism circles "impermanence".  Strange thing for me in my life, I have found the loss of deep relationships (due to disagreements, changes in where I call my geographical home, impracticality, and even differences in culture) to be much more bothersome than deaths in my family.  Death I always take as a given, and if they are by natural cause and aren't sudden it just doesn't bother me a whole lot.  But if I lost a friendship or someone I had deeper feelings to, it still seems to bother me, and yank at my mind like some kind of large fish hook that won't let go.  I keep going over scenarios in my mind that if circumstances had played out different, if this had happened, or if that hadn't of happened, or if I had made better decisions and shown more profound judgement, that those people would still be in my life now and things would have gone how I wanted.  It just never seems to go that way though.

I think Kwaks' daughter is very adorable.  I'm sure she will grow the necessary skin calluses as she matures.  And I say, at least for the Kwak home (as other types of "fishes" sometimes can't be replaced) it's time to go fish shopping with a certain youngster.