My book finally made it up on the Barnes & Noble site. So you can order it online or at your local Barnes & Noble. Just refer to the ISBN number.
If you frequent your local B&N, please ask them what they can do to get their stock full of Soldier Life books when it becomes available. See if they’d pre-order a bunch.
ISBN: 0977308200
Barnes & Noble
You ever find yourself proverbially dangling at the edge of a cliff? Where everything around you seems so overwhelming, and you can’t quite reach for safety. Life can be a tough son-of-a-bitch sometimes. I take it in strides. However, I think about what could have been or what might happen all the time. I am a glutton towards myself but that’s just me.
As far as I’m concerned, my life is nothing but a big test. I strive to be the best but can’t be everyday. We are creatures of many flaws. We just have to find a way to manipulate the flaws into a method that works for us. Compromise!
So what is the point of this post? The seamless and constant search for perfection is a fruitless effort. Settling is an excuse and to strive is endless. Philosophical as it may seem, life is truly what you make of it.
I just got done reading John Crawford’s: The last true story I will ever tell. It hit close to home on alot of things. The book is gripping and captivating all at once. I loved the ending and I wish John the best in all his future endeavors.
Another book that I actually recommend is on my right panel. Dan Castro’s Critical Choices. He hit’s the nail on the head with his views on Leadership and how it intertwines itself in every day life.
A representative from WGBH asked if I would post their upcoming program. I do enjoy the angle that WGBH has with the war. So mark your calendars and tune in that night.
WHAT HAPPENED AND WHY?
FRONTLINE INVESTIGATES THE TORTURE QUESTIONFRONTLINE Presents
“THE TORTURE QUESTION”
Tuesday, October 18, 2005, at 9 P.M. ET on PBSIn mid-August, a FRONTLINE documentary crew made the perilous journey
to the Abu Ghurayb prison in Iraq. Entering the 280-acre compound in
the middle of the night, escorted by helicopters and a convoy of armed
Humvees, the crew was following 50 detainees fresh from the
battlefield. As they were ordered to kneel in formation on the
concrete floor, one detainee nervously asked the FRONTLINE cameraman,
“Is this Abu Ghurayb?” The answer brought a shudder.Abu Ghurayb has always been a terrifying place to Iraqis — Saddam
Hussein used it as his primary torture chamber — but in 2004, when
graphic photographs of American soldiers abusing prisoners surfaced,
Abu Ghurayb took on deeper meaning.“The details of what happened in those cellblocks between the American
soldiers and Iraqi detainees are well known,” says producer/director
Michael Kirk, “but how and why it happened is what took us into the
heart of Abu Ghurayb that night.”In The Torture Question, airing Tuesday, October 18, 2005, at 9 P.M.
ET on PBS (check local listings), FRONTLINE traces the history of how
decisions made in Washington in the immediate aftermath of September
11 led to a robust interrogation policy that laid the groundwork for
prisoner abuse in Afghanistan; Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; and Iraq.Read more here… http://www.pbs.org/frontline/torture/
We all experience moments in our lives that bring us great happiness or absolute misery. It’s what makes us who we are. Each experience making its groove in a person. We often strive to better ourselves, to fix what might be broken or to just carry on with a new experience. Life throws many curves and sometimes you don’t even see it coming.
The days can fly by for some or linger like sludge for others. We all race or sit at the same pace as everyone else. The great mystery is solved when people realize that there really is only twenty-four hours in a day. So why the feeling of life passing you by or going too slow.
I think people get to consumed with the big things and overlook the small stuff gradually. Then before they know it, the things that were small may seem like the most important thing to of lost. What is important to you? I know what is important for me no matter how mundane or lavish. However, this is a mindset not a message or thought.
So the spoils of life are not the great job, the fancy house, etc. It’s the sort of thing that allows you to smile when the big things are so far removed from the forefront of your mind. Take for example a person stuck in the middle of a war zone. He isn’t at his nice house, his great paying job. He is in the middle of hell. It’s the small things at home that make that person get past the hellish days. That’s the crux of life in my opinion. Find your happiness and everything else will fall into place. Get caught up in things that drive you crazy and you will certainly become crazy.
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