Writing

I've been blogging now since 1999. My first website I gave up around 2007 or 2008 around then. I still have 3 websites now with two mostly active and one semi-active. And sometimes I wonder whether I should keep doing this blogging. However, for me, it has become like a meditation as I travel different places in retirement alone or with my wife. It's always sort of like a friend if I'm traveling alone visiting friends and relatives various places. So, I never really have decided to give up blogging because I'm not sure what I would replace it with.

For me, it's a way to better understand what I'm thinking about whatever. I'm a free thinker and trained to be that way by my father who was valedictorian of his High School Class in 1934. It's strange to think we are only 15 years now from his high school graduation being 100 years ago now.

And it's strange to think that even I have already outlived my father age wise as he passed away at 69 in 1985.

Writing since I was an only child was important to sort of have conversations with myself regarding different problems in my life like whooping cough, my cousin dying in a car accident at age 16 when I was 8, almost drowning at Zuma Beach, getting a concussion while rock climbing with my father at age 9 and then having seizures because of that from ages 10 to 15 and then, strangely enough, the seizures kept me out of the Army or being drafted during the Viet Nam war which I see as a blessing from God, especially because so many I knew either didn't come back or were never the same again once they went to war then..

So, I always felt like I have lived by the Grace of God only as all these near death experiences happened to me growing up and yet I was saved from war by one or more of these near death experiences too.

So, God moves in mysterious ways.

By God's Grace