Our Journey Home

There is a place called Home.
It is where my Mother is from, my Father and all of my Brothers and Sisters, my Aunts and Uncles, Cousins, Grandparents…and friends. It is where my Children are from and where I will spend eternity with the love of my life. It is where we all live in spirit, though most of us never seem to be there.
It is a wonderful place and everyone I ever knew and ever will, lives there…at Home.

We walk along an old dirt road, for how long no one knows,
Referred to as the Journey Home from whence the spirit goes.

We sometimes walk together and quite often far apart,
Though we have our different paths ahead we share a single heart.

The ones that walk the closest seem to never hear us call,
And those we loved the most, we watch as one by one they fall.

At times the heart seems weaker and we carry it alone,
Crawling on our knees, we beg the Journey, take us Home.

Then all at once the light comes shining brightly in our eyes,
The storm has passed, the clouds recede revealing clear blue skies.

Though never short of troubled times at hand along the way,
Behind each darkened hour lies a hundred brighter days.

And sometimes, though, our heavy heart and mind collide again,
Forgetting that we’re going home, too fixed on where we’ve been.

Quite often it’s the only thing we care about at all,
It takes the Sacred Harps of Home to sound the wake up call.

The pain, almost too much to bear, the blisters on our feet,
We focus on our loved ones, fallen past, again, we’ll meet.

Still sometimes we will question faith with doubt that Home exists.
And even if it does we wonder why our pain’s dismissed.

Yet, despite compelling questions and the fear of our own wraith,
An acceptable conclusion is obtained by keeping faith.

That old dirt road we walk along, revealing as it goes,
A metaphor for life we call our blessed Journey Home.

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With the election less than three days away, media sources are hinting that the turnout of early voters in several key battleground States may yield clues to its outcome. It is unclear whether this is based on voter affiliation or the relentless propaganda polling that occurs as you leave the building. Election experts concede that early voting is typically dominated by those who made up their mind back in February and though the trend has historically favored Republicans, current estimates show Democrats with a higher turnout….Interesting.

Many good, hard working people among us have grown wise to the end game of politics, becoming more and more frustrated with the lack of resolve and continuity in our Government. While the frustration is almost always justified, there is at least one reaction that seldom is…it comes on Election Day when these same good, hard working, frustrated people wake up with no intention of even go to the polls, justifying it with a shrug of their shoulders and a rhetorical question… Why bother?

Voting is considered a right, but not one fully protected by our Constitution. There are Constitutional Amendments that prohibit discrimination in voting but by and large, the States play a bigger hand in deciding who can and who can not. There is an abundance of recent litigation regarding issues such as early voting limits and calls for photo identification, challenges that many feel may violate the protections that do exist. All of it is important and makes for interesting debate but I see voting as a Citizens responsibility entrusted with us by more than a million men and women who have died in the defense of our Nation, millions more who have served and all of those who continue to serve in our Armed Forces. I see it as our obligation to those who protect our own city streets and answer the call of need at any hour of the day or night. I see it is acknowledgement of those who stand for what is right because it is right…even when they stand alone. I  see it as confirmation for those who were once denied their right as Citizens for no other reason than their sex or the color of their skin. I see it as a duty shared among all of us as Citizens to ensure that our basic freedoms are enduring…Every right we have as Americans hinges on it. We may not feel as though one vote could possibly make a difference and technically, that may be so, but individuality begets collective failure and it is our precious liberties that are incessantly vulnerable. It is our responsibility as Citizens, individually and collectively to safeguard them.

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Several years ago during a brief hiatus from my agonizingly busy international work schedule, I started a blog called Citizen Sportsman. It was an attempt to combined my love of the great outdoors with my passion for writing. I used it to champion the causes of our National heritage and never missed an opportunity to explore a political perspective or two. The blog was more of an online magazine with one very low paid staff writer and two unpaid writers, including myself. These were the days before Facebook and the social media revolution was just on the cusp of exploding. Surprisingly though, Citizen Sportsman still garnered a considerable following very quickly. The readership proved to be faithful too and before we knew it, it demanded more of our time than I could spare and more money to grow than I had to put into it. Sadly, Citizen Sportsman came to an end but I never lost sight of the potential of it and ironically it has spawned a network that continues to grows wider each and every day. Even now as new projects have emerged all these years later, I still come across former CS readers who ask me if we will ever bring it back. The answer to that question lies in the success of the Citizen Network...Citizen Plain, the flagship blog of perspective, Plain Truth, where politics reign supreme,  and the newly minted Plain Friends, which I hope becomes sort of social network where bloggers of all interests can submit their work to be profiled and shared with the blogging community. 

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