Honesty: Words Are Weapons

January 3, 2014 · by huntmode | in Commentary - Modern Times, Daily Post Challenge, Explorations, Musings, WPLongform | tagged angel cards, attitude, choice, daily prompt, faith, God, honesty, humor, life, living well, reflection, spirituality, wplongform | 32 Comments

DP Challenge: Is it possible to be too honest, or is honesty always the best policy? They just had to ask that today, of all days… I finally buckled down this a.m. and did some serious meditation and thinking, talking inside and out loud to God. This is a new thing to chat out loud […]

AWOL ~ To Begin With…

December 23, 2013 · by huntmode | in AWOL: When to Lay the Weapons Down, Commentary - Modern Times | tagged appreciation, attitude, Attorneys, AWOL, choice, health, inspiration, life, living well, MCLE, positive, reflections, spirituality, stress, wplongform | 19 Comments

I announced I was going to start posting some of my manual, When to Lay the Weapons Down, and why. In truth, we are all suffering from stress of one sort or another, which is why I wrote the manual in the first place. Going with my gut, I’m going to post the manual in […]

Silent Night ~ Standing Watch

December 22, 2013 · by huntmode | in Commentary - Modern Times, In Appreciation | tagged 9/11, appreciation, attitude, choice, Duty, Duty Officer, inspiration, life, love, Operations, Operations Centers, Red Cross, volunteers, watch, watch officers | 23 Comments

For two years, I was a duty officer, sometimes called a watch officer. We’re not flashing by you in screaming siren or lights streaming in the darkness alerting you to our presence. We stand watch in operations centers across the city, county, state and country, manning our areas 24/7/365 days a year. When disaster strikes, […]

Rules for Being Human

December 18, 2013 · by huntmode | in AWOL: When to Lay the Weapons Down, Explorations | tagged AWOL, Human Being, life, rules | 58 Comments

RULES FOR BEING HUMAN 1. YOU WILL RECEIVE A BODY. You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period of this time around. 2. YOU WILL LEARN LESSONS. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called Life. Each day in this school you will have the opportunity […]

Sometimes you just have to go AWOL

December 17, 2013 · by huntmode | in AWOL: When to Lay the Weapons Down, Commentary - Modern Times, Explorations, Musings, WPLongform | tagged A World of Light, Absent With Out Leave, attitude, Attorneys, AWOL, choice, faith, God, grace, humor, inspiration, joy, laughter, life, living well, metaphysics, spirituality, stress, wplongform, writing | 11 Comments

Years ago, I was certified by the State Bar of California to be a Minimum Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) provider. I chose to provide a four hour course. One of the rules was anything over an hour had to have written material to accompany the course. Mind, no specific amount of written material was specified… […]

Friends return

December 2, 2013 · by huntmode | in Commentary - Modern Times, In Appreciation, Musings | tagged friendship, joy, laughter, life, love, memory, old friends | 9 Comments

I was off the grid today. A friend I hadn’t truly seen face to face or spoken with in close to 30 years made a special drive up to see me from Oregon. We spent the day talking non-stop, as though no time had elapsed and we were just catching up on news that covered […]

Life! It’s a grand thing!

November 16, 2013 · by huntmode | in Commentary - Modern Times, Musings | tagged life | 4 Comments

Thanks to Grandmalin, I found this marvelous quote that sums up how I’ve always felt about life: “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” Agatha Christie

It’s Officially Fall ~ I am nesting

September 8, 2013 · by huntmode | in Commentary - Modern Times, Musings | tagged acorn squash, artichokes, Artisan crusty french bread, cooking, Fall, inspiration, joy, life, living well, nesting, Stoli mini martinis | 12 Comments

It was a gorgeous day here in a suburb of South Seattle. Blue skies, warm sun, just a faint hint of Fall – a kind of Indian summer quality to the air that cooled as darkness quietly fell. I know it is Fall because suddenly I am nesting. This means my interest in cooking has […]

…Under the Sun

August 24, 2013 · by huntmode | in Commentary - Modern Times, Musings | tagged appreciation, community, exciting times, History, inspiration, judgement, life, memory | 5 Comments

I was reading the newest post by Richard Fernandez regarding how upside down our world has become, which echoes my lament of a few days ago, “Irreconcilable Philosophical Differences.” I was so pissed off I forgot to follow through on what I meant by Irreconcilable Philosophical Differences. Won’t happen tonight either, but… in the Belmont […]