“Every one talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it.” – Mark Twain? Every one talks about history and a lot of folks like to do something about it. They spin fanciful theories saying, with a certainty anyone who deals with real life day in and out can never feel, that if […]
Monthly Archives: May 2013
Reflections on Beatrice Arthurs Bosom
In the news lately was the tempest-in-a-teapot over a twenty year old painting of actress Bea Arthur topless, when she was in her sixties.
Of all the ills our era suffers from, we have been spared the horrors of a shortage of images of womens breasts . Civic minded ‘artists’, relentless photographers, and desperate editors, strive tirelessly to insure that no one can travel from stoop to curb without being smacked in the face with the newest proof that Ms._______ does indeed have a BOSOM, as do three and a half Billion of her sisters on this sad, old Earth. Having seen countless thousands of these proofs over my lifetime, I can state authoritively that they look remarkably similar to each other.
In the early sixties, there was a movie, the title escapes me, about a man married to the worlds foremost Bikini model. He never saw her fully clothed; she was either in a bikini for a photo shoot or lounging around the house nude or nearly so.
He was the envy of every man.
He spent his time daydreaming of her dressed in long flowing gowns, or bright sun dresses, once I think dressed as a Nun.
It is the ancient curse of Man that he yearns for what he does not have, and tires of what he does.
There is an odd passage in the Bible, Proverbs I think;
“Be content with the breasts of the wife of your youth.”
To the great relief of artists, photographers and desperate editors, people don’t read the Bible much anymore.
Three men at the Tomb
Three men at the Tomb
by W A Adams
Three men at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
My Father, My brother and me
At the post, day or night
For all eternity
Building the Tomb was my father
Who taught us to face the storm
And turn it aside if we could
If not, To keep others from harm
In the Tomb is my brother
Who went to take my place
I hear his heart beating still
Though I cannot see his face
In front of the Tomb is a pathway
I walk every day and each night
Behind, thousands who came before
Ahead, those not yet in my sight.
I do not stop for the rain
It is only my father’s tears
I do not stop for the snow
It is only the long empty years
That my brother might have lived and sang
Of the joy that was in his soul
But he is in his tomb, and I’m on this path
That the world may see and know
That he never will be forgotten
Through the rain, the snow, or the years
So long as brother loves brother
So long as fathers have tears.
Report From The Front
May 2
For the last several months I have been commenting at several different websites on various topics; mostly religious themes; Creation vs. Evolution, Abortion, Same Sex Marriage; that sort of thing. I comment from the perspective of a life-long Christian raised in the Baptist church, mainstream Protestant. Some of the people I engage in a lively […]
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