Mitigating Chaos

Felix Mendelssohn, Six Organ Sonatas, Opus 65, performed by Luca Scandali,  

Our good friends at WordPress took the time today to congratulate me on this blog being 15 years old. Thanks for the sentiment, but the first post on Mitigating Chaos was on September 12, 2017, when I posted Chapter 2. That was roughly 9 years ago. Chapter 1,  A Simple Village Undertaker was born in February of 2010, approximately 16 years ago. I stopped posting on there when I started…

Yup, he nailed it perfectly! It was the best of times & the simplest of times. Oh, to be able to go back, even for just a day. Younger generations have no idea what they missed out on. . . . The elementary school version of an opium den. . .  You have to give him credit for a great sense of humor and style.        

If you are bringing a helmet, goggles and armor to a protest, it’s not a protest, it’s a riot. Our right to protest is protected by the First Amendment, which states that we have the right to peaceably assemble. Call me naive, but I believe the operative word is “peaceably”

“One person has enthusiasm for thirty minutes, another for thirty days, but it is the one who has it for thirty years who makes a success of their life.” –Edward Burgess Butler So simple, yet so difficult.

During these times of political drama, I was encouraged and refreshed when I came across this news report about a college baseball team in Central Texas. A decent chunk of my career in funeral service has revolved around helping veterans and their families. News reports like this will always get my attention. I smiled.   I cried.   There is hope. Note: disregard the flash flood warning that…

Johann Pachelbel: Ciaccona in D minor, performed by  Walter Gatti joue à St.Maclou back in 2011. This piece starts off slow and bounces around (non-musicial term) and then gets pretty powerful at the end.

“A splendid storehouse of integrity and freedom has been bequeathed to us by our forefathers. In this day of confusion, of world peril to free men, our high duty is to see that this storehouse is not robbed of its contents. We dare not see the birthright of posterity to individual independence, initiative and freedom of choice bartered for a mess of collectivism.” -Herbert Hoover The quote is…

“Throw yourself into each moment as if it were the only one that really existed”. -Jacques Lusseyran Maddox: “Challenge Accepted”