Year End Letter 2018
As this year ends I reflect on those fun times my wife and I had in-spite of the hardships that we endured. It was an interesting year, to say the least.
It started in April when a trash can outside my home, by my landscaping rail road ties, caught on fire. I was awake watching a late night movie, smelled the smoke, and went outside in the garage to investigate. The garage was filled with smoke. I got my wife out of the house and grabbed a bucket and my hose to fight the fire that at the time was burning the ties. But a police officer pulled me away as my wife and I and the gathering neighbors watched it burn as we awaited the Moline Fire Department to respond, they did respond quickly however. It burnt my SUV, part of my garage, and the outside corner tiles of my home. It was 30 thousand dollars worth of damage as my insurance company and Blaze Restoration repaired.
As that was getting repaired I took a 5 day trip to Cartagena Colombia in June to visit my sponsored daughter through Children International, Sofie. I stayed at a better hotel, with a nice pool on the roof. I swam a lot, of course. The first night I checked in, swam, and I just ate burgers at the El Corral. The second day I went to the walled city, the old fort, the art museum, and the beach. I ate lunch at the Crepe House with my Colombian friend David. And that night I had dinner of steak and gold potatoes at the old town district while listening to live music. The third day I spent the entire day with my sponsored daughter, Sofie. We went to a Mall where I bought her shoes, went to a park, and visited her home. The fourth day I swam in the morning, talked in English and Spanish to this female Colombian naval commander at the hotel breakfast; I told her about my naval career, went to the Naval Museum, and hung out and swam at the pool. The last day I packed up and flew home. I bought my wife some nice jewelry while I was there.
In July my wife and I went for a weekend camping trip at Coralville Lake. We went to the same camp site that Ken and I used to camp at. She hung out at the beach while I went kayaking down the lake. At night we ate beans and dogs cooked on the campfire, roasted marshmallows and I played my acoustic guitar and we sang camp songs.
The house repairs were completed in August, in which for our 27th Wedding Anniversary was our gift. We ate dinner at Johnny’s Italian Steak House downtown in celebration.
In September we went to New Orleans for the 32nd Annual Battleship New Jersey BB-62 Reunion. We went on a carriage ride around the French Quarter, ate gumbo and jambalaya at the Gumbo Shop, went shopping for beads, ate shrimp po boys, burgers, and had drinks at the Tayho Pub in support of Pit Bulls and Parolees, and had a fun reunion, great steak dinner, listened to an inspiring speech from Captain Cash, and told sea stories with my shipmates of old.
Now as this year ends and another begins I reflect on an eventful year and I hope that 2019 will be full of blessings and joy.
Timothy L. Kerofsky, MA
Friday, October 26, 2018
Sunday, December 10, 2017
Some of the most remembered and greatest accomplishments of presidents...
Presidential Accomplishments
By: Timothy L. Kerofsky, MA
2017
Here are some of the most remembered and greatest accomplishments of Presidents.
that I admired and respected the most:
1. Abraham Lincoln the 16th President (1861 - 1865) -
I was raised in the land of Lincoln; Moline Illinois.
I was born a century after the Civil War; April 3rd, 1965.
However, when learning about the Presidents in elementary school,
President Lincoln and his accomplishments have been an inspiration to me.
And on many other famous leaders and presidents;
like Martin Luther King, Jr. I will get to that.
Lincoln was in during a hard time in America; during our Civil War.
Yet with his infamous Gettysburg Address he brought America back together.
He knew how both sides felt. He was the most honest and forthright President.
After freeing the slaves of the civil war,
became a long civil rights movement for the blacks;
in which is still going on today.
Blacks started taking a stand and what was to follow in 1963
was another infamous speech, the I Have a Dream speech,
delivered by Martin Luther King Jr who was assassinated
on the steps of a courthouse building in Memphis Tennessee on April 4th 1968.
Ironically Lincoln was also assassinated,
but during a Play at Fords Theater in Washington DC,
on April 14th 1865 by John Wilkes Booth.
Interesting fact about Lincoln;
Many people believe that Lincoln was a Republican,
no he was not, nor was he a Democrat.
He was actually a member of the National Union Party.
2. Theodore Roosevelt the 26th President (1901 - 1909) -
As an Environmentalist I applaud Theodore Roosevelt for passing the
National Park Service program,
and protecting the lands so we can see the beauty that God intended;
now all that has been undone to allow for drilling on these lands.
Drilling and fracking destroys the land and that saddens me.
3. Dwight D. Eisenhower the 34th President (1953 - 1961) -
In under four years we had a major interstate road system from coast to coast.
Today this would never be accomplished, it would still be debated in four years.
A great man; a four star general during World War II known as the Ike.
With this he warned us about the Military Industrial Complex.
Here is an excerpt:
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched,
every rocket fired,
signifies in the final sense a theft
from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed."
4. John F. Kennedy the 35th President (1961 - 1963) -
There are many conspiracies about the assassination of JFK.
The biggest reason is because he did not invade Cuba
during the Cuban Missile Crises.
He instead set up a blockade and sanctions against Cuba.
We had that embargo between Cuba and the United States for 50 years.
Unfortunately the greatest accomplishment of Kennedy he never did get to see.
He set up the Space Program with NASA to beat Russia to the moon.
It was the space race between the United States and Russia.
We were the first on the moon, but now we have to get a ride from Russia
to the International Space Station.
That is because our shuttle program is no longer.
5. Lyndon B. Johnson the 36th President (1963 - 1969) -
This is the first President of my lifetime. He was the one here during my birth.
President Johnson finished what JFK started with the Space Program.
The first man, Neil Armstrong, piloted in the Lunar Module Eagle by Buzz Aldren,
landed on the moon on July 20th, 1969 on 2018 UTC.
The Eagle has Landed!
When he stepped out of the module he said;
"One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
Of course the Space Program grew into the Space Shuttle Program in which we had
the Shuttles; Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, and Atlantis.
Later the Enterprise and Endeavor were built.
There were two major tragedies; the space shuttle Challenger broke apart
73 seconds in flight
on its 10th mission in space killing all on board instantly,
including school teacher Christa McAuliffe, on January 28th 1986.
The space shuttle Columbia broke apart on its return to earth on February 1st 2003.
The last Space Shuttle mission was on July 8th 2011 with the Space Shuttle Atlantis.
6. Richard Nixon the 37th President (1969 - 1974) -
When people hear Nixon they talk about the Watergate scandal.
and his resignation.
But I applaud this man, a republican, for setting up the EPA;
The Environmental Protection Agency.
7. Jimmy Carter the 39th President (1977 - 1981) -
Known as the peanut farmer for Georgia.
He was one of three greatest Democrat presidents;
Jimmy Carter. Bill Clinton, and Barrack Obama.
His accomplishments include the establishment of the Habitat for Humanity,
creating the Department of Energy,
Revamping our immigration program opening our boarders,
and the most important was in keeping Peace with the Middle East;
by signing the Jerusalem Agreement,
to allow for the Palestinians, Muslims, and Jews
to keep peace in Jerusalem in which the famous gate lays in Palestine,
the wailing wall is there where the Jews pray,
and the Dome of the Rock is there which is the biggest Islamic Temple.
With this agreement we set up our Embassy in Tel Aviv.
This has kept peace in Jerusalem for 40 years.
Now with a stroke of the pen this has been undone by now President Trump,
who has stirred up more conflict in the Middle East.
8. Ronald Reagan the 40th President (1981 - 1989) -
This is the president I voted for after turning voting age and registering as a independent.
The president who took no crap! He built up that 600 ship fleet in the US Navy.
He bombed Lebanon for what they did in driving that explosive laden truck to the
marine barracks in 1983 -
killing 220 marines, 18 sailors , and 3 soldiers.
The operation was Operation Golden Rod 1983 - 1987!
I served on one of the 4 battleships he recommissioned at the time;
USS Iowa BB-61, USS New Jersey BB-62, USS Missouri BB-63, and USS Wisconsin BB-64.
I served on the USS New Jersey BB-62 from 1984 to 1990 as a Deck Seaman /
Boatswains-mate 3rd class / Boatswains-mate 2nd class in 3rd division . Deck Department.
I was the Left Lower Powder Door Operator of Turret 3 - 16 inch / 54 caliber gun.
We bombed 276 rounds in one night in Lebanon.
The other thing I liked that President Reagan did was to get Mikhail Gorbachev,
the President of the USSR at that time, to tear down the Berlin wall.
9. William Jefferson Clinton the 42nd President (1993 - 2001) -
Clinton's accomplishments are vast especially with the environment.
He was an advocate for the earth.
Truly one of the greatest environmental presidents.
He set sanctions on emission standards,
set the toughest standards on soot and fog,
enacted the Clean Air and Water Act,
the Safe Drinking Water Act,
restored the pristine view of our National Parks,
accelerated Clean Up of Toxic Waste,
created the Global Climate Change Initiative,
and proposed to have 25 percent of our energy alternate by 2010;
that got raised by Obama to 50 percent by 2020.
Now it is lowered to 33 percent by 2027.
10. Barrack Obama the 44th President (2008 - 2016) -
This is when I finally registered as a democrat!
Now I am a Socialist Democrat
and a Member of the Democratic Socialist Party of America.
Obama was the most accomplished, to me, and highest respected president ever.
He started with an approval rating of 59 percent
and left office with an approval rating of 56 percent.
His accomplishments are many. He nearly accomplished every promise he made.
He was upset that he did not accomplish the promise of closing Guantanamo Bay.
Which was really the only promise he did not get to keep.
He was honest and forthright; and he was the only president to serve without a scandal.
He did not get us into any wars. He got us out of the Iraqi war and refocused the war -
to Afghanistan. He got the terrorist Asama Bin Laden who bombed our twin towers -
the 9/11 terrorists attacks of New York, the Pentagon,
and the crash of United flight 93 in the Pennsylvanian field.
He got our relations back with Cuba which was long past due.
We had an embargo for 50 years with them and it was time to lift it.
The first bill he signed and passed, I believe, was the Equal Pay Act;
to break the glass ceiling for woman.
He enacted the Net Neutrality Rule,
He enacted Wall Street Reform, bailed out the auto industry,
came in office during our great recession and raised our economics.
As an Environmentalist and a member of 350.org I like the fact that
President Obama enacted environmental reform, signed the Paris Agreement,
and carried on the environmental programs of President Clinton in
building more wind turbines, solar power, and other alternate energy plants;
he stopped the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline,
he raised the regulations and standards for greenhouse gas emissions,
and he signed the Green Energy Act.
He enacted Education Reform, and Michelle Obama created the
Healthy School Lunch Program.
We needed four more years of Obama to keep America going forward,
now America is going backwards under the Trump's Authoritarian Regime...
By: Timothy L. Kerofsky, MA
2017
Here are some of the most remembered and greatest accomplishments of Presidents.
that I admired and respected the most:
1. Abraham Lincoln the 16th President (1861 - 1865) -
I was raised in the land of Lincoln; Moline Illinois.
I was born a century after the Civil War; April 3rd, 1965.
However, when learning about the Presidents in elementary school,
President Lincoln and his accomplishments have been an inspiration to me.
And on many other famous leaders and presidents;
like Martin Luther King, Jr. I will get to that.
Lincoln was in during a hard time in America; during our Civil War.
Yet with his infamous Gettysburg Address he brought America back together.
He knew how both sides felt. He was the most honest and forthright President.
After freeing the slaves of the civil war,
became a long civil rights movement for the blacks;
in which is still going on today.
Blacks started taking a stand and what was to follow in 1963
was another infamous speech, the I Have a Dream speech,
delivered by Martin Luther King Jr who was assassinated
on the steps of a courthouse building in Memphis Tennessee on April 4th 1968.
Ironically Lincoln was also assassinated,
but during a Play at Fords Theater in Washington DC,
on April 14th 1865 by John Wilkes Booth.
Interesting fact about Lincoln;
Many people believe that Lincoln was a Republican,
no he was not, nor was he a Democrat.
He was actually a member of the National Union Party.
2. Theodore Roosevelt the 26th President (1901 - 1909) -
As an Environmentalist I applaud Theodore Roosevelt for passing the
National Park Service program,
and protecting the lands so we can see the beauty that God intended;
now all that has been undone to allow for drilling on these lands.
Drilling and fracking destroys the land and that saddens me.
3. Dwight D. Eisenhower the 34th President (1953 - 1961) -
In under four years we had a major interstate road system from coast to coast.
Today this would never be accomplished, it would still be debated in four years.
A great man; a four star general during World War II known as the Ike.
With this he warned us about the Military Industrial Complex.
Here is an excerpt:
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched,
every rocket fired,
signifies in the final sense a theft
from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed."
4. John F. Kennedy the 35th President (1961 - 1963) -
There are many conspiracies about the assassination of JFK.
The biggest reason is because he did not invade Cuba
during the Cuban Missile Crises.
He instead set up a blockade and sanctions against Cuba.
We had that embargo between Cuba and the United States for 50 years.
Unfortunately the greatest accomplishment of Kennedy he never did get to see.
He set up the Space Program with NASA to beat Russia to the moon.
It was the space race between the United States and Russia.
We were the first on the moon, but now we have to get a ride from Russia
to the International Space Station.
That is because our shuttle program is no longer.
5. Lyndon B. Johnson the 36th President (1963 - 1969) -
This is the first President of my lifetime. He was the one here during my birth.
President Johnson finished what JFK started with the Space Program.
The first man, Neil Armstrong, piloted in the Lunar Module Eagle by Buzz Aldren,
landed on the moon on July 20th, 1969 on 2018 UTC.
The Eagle has Landed!
When he stepped out of the module he said;
"One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
Of course the Space Program grew into the Space Shuttle Program in which we had
the Shuttles; Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, and Atlantis.
Later the Enterprise and Endeavor were built.
There were two major tragedies; the space shuttle Challenger broke apart
73 seconds in flight
on its 10th mission in space killing all on board instantly,
including school teacher Christa McAuliffe, on January 28th 1986.
The space shuttle Columbia broke apart on its return to earth on February 1st 2003.
The last Space Shuttle mission was on July 8th 2011 with the Space Shuttle Atlantis.
6. Richard Nixon the 37th President (1969 - 1974) -
When people hear Nixon they talk about the Watergate scandal.
and his resignation.
But I applaud this man, a republican, for setting up the EPA;
The Environmental Protection Agency.
7. Jimmy Carter the 39th President (1977 - 1981) -
Known as the peanut farmer for Georgia.
He was one of three greatest Democrat presidents;
Jimmy Carter. Bill Clinton, and Barrack Obama.
His accomplishments include the establishment of the Habitat for Humanity,
creating the Department of Energy,
Revamping our immigration program opening our boarders,
and the most important was in keeping Peace with the Middle East;
by signing the Jerusalem Agreement,
to allow for the Palestinians, Muslims, and Jews
to keep peace in Jerusalem in which the famous gate lays in Palestine,
the wailing wall is there where the Jews pray,
and the Dome of the Rock is there which is the biggest Islamic Temple.
With this agreement we set up our Embassy in Tel Aviv.
This has kept peace in Jerusalem for 40 years.
Now with a stroke of the pen this has been undone by now President Trump,
who has stirred up more conflict in the Middle East.
8. Ronald Reagan the 40th President (1981 - 1989) -
This is the president I voted for after turning voting age and registering as a independent.
The president who took no crap! He built up that 600 ship fleet in the US Navy.
He bombed Lebanon for what they did in driving that explosive laden truck to the
marine barracks in 1983 -
killing 220 marines, 18 sailors , and 3 soldiers.
The operation was Operation Golden Rod 1983 - 1987!
I served on one of the 4 battleships he recommissioned at the time;
USS Iowa BB-61, USS New Jersey BB-62, USS Missouri BB-63, and USS Wisconsin BB-64.
I served on the USS New Jersey BB-62 from 1984 to 1990 as a Deck Seaman /
Boatswains-mate 3rd class / Boatswains-mate 2nd class in 3rd division . Deck Department.
I was the Left Lower Powder Door Operator of Turret 3 - 16 inch / 54 caliber gun.
We bombed 276 rounds in one night in Lebanon.
The other thing I liked that President Reagan did was to get Mikhail Gorbachev,
the President of the USSR at that time, to tear down the Berlin wall.
9. William Jefferson Clinton the 42nd President (1993 - 2001) -
Clinton's accomplishments are vast especially with the environment.
He was an advocate for the earth.
Truly one of the greatest environmental presidents.
He set sanctions on emission standards,
set the toughest standards on soot and fog,
enacted the Clean Air and Water Act,
the Safe Drinking Water Act,
restored the pristine view of our National Parks,
accelerated Clean Up of Toxic Waste,
created the Global Climate Change Initiative,
and proposed to have 25 percent of our energy alternate by 2010;
that got raised by Obama to 50 percent by 2020.
Now it is lowered to 33 percent by 2027.
10. Barrack Obama the 44th President (2008 - 2016) -
This is when I finally registered as a democrat!
Now I am a Socialist Democrat
and a Member of the Democratic Socialist Party of America.
Obama was the most accomplished, to me, and highest respected president ever.
He started with an approval rating of 59 percent
and left office with an approval rating of 56 percent.
His accomplishments are many. He nearly accomplished every promise he made.
He was upset that he did not accomplish the promise of closing Guantanamo Bay.
Which was really the only promise he did not get to keep.
He was honest and forthright; and he was the only president to serve without a scandal.
He did not get us into any wars. He got us out of the Iraqi war and refocused the war -
to Afghanistan. He got the terrorist Asama Bin Laden who bombed our twin towers -
the 9/11 terrorists attacks of New York, the Pentagon,
and the crash of United flight 93 in the Pennsylvanian field.
He got our relations back with Cuba which was long past due.
We had an embargo for 50 years with them and it was time to lift it.
The first bill he signed and passed, I believe, was the Equal Pay Act;
to break the glass ceiling for woman.
He enacted the Net Neutrality Rule,
He enacted Wall Street Reform, bailed out the auto industry,
came in office during our great recession and raised our economics.
As an Environmentalist and a member of 350.org I like the fact that
President Obama enacted environmental reform, signed the Paris Agreement,
and carried on the environmental programs of President Clinton in
building more wind turbines, solar power, and other alternate energy plants;
he stopped the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline,
he raised the regulations and standards for greenhouse gas emissions,
and he signed the Green Energy Act.
He enacted Education Reform, and Michelle Obama created the
Healthy School Lunch Program.
We needed four more years of Obama to keep America going forward,
now America is going backwards under the Trump's Authoritarian Regime...
I do not blog much anymore.
I am on YouTube a lot now.
Check out my channel; Timothy Kerofsky and Family.
Thanks! Blessings always!
Check out my channel; Timothy Kerofsky and Family.
Thanks! Blessings always!
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
The Year End Letter Of 2017! It was a Fun Year, but also Sad!
The Year End
Letter of the Kerofsky Family 2017
As
this year ends I reflect on my son Ken whom we lost just three days before
Christmas last year in a drowning accident as he was exploring the Rock River
and fell through the ice by Harold’s Landing in Moline Holiday ,
was not the same without him and Christmas will never be the same, as we
decorate the tree together, open gifts, and have our family feast.
Though
I have lost a son my wife and I had a productive year. I went camping alone at
Sugar Bottom Campground at Coralville
Lake
I
made a video for YouTube to honor Ken. I did not let the harassment stop me
from having fun. After camping I went to Perkins, which was my son Ken’s and I
favorite place to go after camping. I got the Tangler Burger, Fries, and
Pancakes.
In
July my wife and I rented a SUV and went on a two week road trip out west. The
first day we drove for over 12 hours. We went through Illinois ,
Iowa , Kansas City
Missouri , to Wichita Kansas Kansas Oklahoma Texas and on to Albuquerque New
Mexico Albuquerque
The
third day we drove on across to Arizona Chandler Arizona we went to visit my wife’s brother John and we
went to the Arizona
Memorial Cemetery Grand Canyon which
she got to see for her first time. And then we went to Utah Houston Utah we went to Sandy Jims Restaurant
We had a lot of fun on the road trip.
Afterwards
we hightailed it home through the Utah pass
back to Moline Illinois
In
August my wife and I went to the 31st Battleship New Jersey BB-62
reunion in Chicago
It
was a nice weekend in Chicago
So
we had a fun year even though we lost our son Ken. His memory is forever in our
hearts as the Thanksgiving and Christmas Holidays approach. He is forever
missed. My son Tim is still working at China Café as a delivery driver. He
plans on attending college again soon. He helped with the Halloween decorations
this year. We set up the yard in honor of Ken.
Though
2018 is approaching the memory of our son Ken will never fade as the years
pass.
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
2016 Year-End Letter
Year End Letter 2016
Dearest Friends and Family:
As this year ends I reflect on what was accomplished
and what I can do to better my self, my life, and family.
I cannot believe it is 2017. Where did the time go?
My son Tim is now a delivery driver at China Café.
He rented a new home. He is working on getting a car.
My son Ken is doing basics at Black Hawk College.
He wants to be a child counselor.
My wife Jill is still working at the China Café. On her spare time she does many activities with Bethel Wesley United Methodist Church. She works with the cookie walk, Pricilla circle, bible camp, and plans for the Liturgists.
Me; will, for the most part, this year has been pretty good.
My son Ken and I spent our father and son time camping at
Coralville Lake like we do pretty much every summer.
My wife and I went to Philadelphia Pennsylvania and Camden New Jersey for my 30th Battleship New Jersey BB-62 Navy Reunion.
I finally made it back to Long Beach California to visit my friend Steve. I had a blast in Cali. I made several videos for my YouTube channel. My favorite is me walking down the Pike District.
I work on my writings. I finished Relaxation Therapy Certification.
I am teaching private karate classes on occasion. I earned my 8th Dan and am one step closer of earning the title of Soke.
I will get it one day with determination. My physical therapist is helping me excel. She has me do some karate and tai chi movements at therapy. I hope to do my martial arts full time and teach a regular karate class again one day.
My dreaded downfall is that I still have to deal with constant pain and tingling through my spine, shoulder and fingers. I go to the VA in Iowa City frequently for pain shots and physical therapy.
Winters are always hard on me.
I pray that 2017 be as blessed as my 2016.
In the next year we are preparing our future to move and to start a new life in Las Crucis New Mexico.
We hope to be in New Mexico in the summer of 2018.
This will be a better climate for my body ailments and a warmer place to retire. I hope to have a ranch home and a couple of horses one day. I plan on opening my own art studio there as well.
I wish all of my friends and family a blessed year ahead.
Have a great 2017 my friends and family!
Mr. Timothy L. Kerofsky, MA and family
Dearest Friends and Family:
As this year ends I reflect on what was accomplished
and what I can do to better my self, my life, and family.
I cannot believe it is 2017. Where did the time go?
My son Tim is now a delivery driver at China Café.
He rented a new home. He is working on getting a car.
My son Ken is doing basics at Black Hawk College.
He wants to be a child counselor.
My wife Jill is still working at the China Café. On her spare time she does many activities with Bethel Wesley United Methodist Church. She works with the cookie walk, Pricilla circle, bible camp, and plans for the Liturgists.
Me; will, for the most part, this year has been pretty good.
My son Ken and I spent our father and son time camping at
Coralville Lake like we do pretty much every summer.
My wife and I went to Philadelphia Pennsylvania and Camden New Jersey for my 30th Battleship New Jersey BB-62 Navy Reunion.
I finally made it back to Long Beach California to visit my friend Steve. I had a blast in Cali. I made several videos for my YouTube channel. My favorite is me walking down the Pike District.
I work on my writings. I finished Relaxation Therapy Certification.
I am teaching private karate classes on occasion. I earned my 8th Dan and am one step closer of earning the title of Soke.
I will get it one day with determination. My physical therapist is helping me excel. She has me do some karate and tai chi movements at therapy. I hope to do my martial arts full time and teach a regular karate class again one day.
My dreaded downfall is that I still have to deal with constant pain and tingling through my spine, shoulder and fingers. I go to the VA in Iowa City frequently for pain shots and physical therapy.
Winters are always hard on me.
I pray that 2017 be as blessed as my 2016.
In the next year we are preparing our future to move and to start a new life in Las Crucis New Mexico.
We hope to be in New Mexico in the summer of 2018.
This will be a better climate for my body ailments and a warmer place to retire. I hope to have a ranch home and a couple of horses one day. I plan on opening my own art studio there as well.
I wish all of my friends and family a blessed year ahead.
Have a great 2017 my friends and family!
Mr. Timothy L. Kerofsky, MA and family
Wednesday, July 27, 2016
Top 10 things Obama has done
1. Got Osama Bin Laden
2. Got relations back with Cuba
3. Enacted the Affordable Care Act
4. Enacted more Environmental Reform including better emission standards
5. Fought for equal pay and equal rights and enacted many policies.
6. Fought for fixing our infrastructure.
7. Ended the Iraq War, which we should not have been in,
And refocused the War back to Afghanistan
8. Reformed education and testing standards
9. Passed Wall Street reform
10. Rebuilt the Auto Industry
2. Got relations back with Cuba
3. Enacted the Affordable Care Act
4. Enacted more Environmental Reform including better emission standards
5. Fought for equal pay and equal rights and enacted many policies.
6. Fought for fixing our infrastructure.
7. Ended the Iraq War, which we should not have been in,
And refocused the War back to Afghanistan
8. Reformed education and testing standards
9. Passed Wall Street reform
10. Rebuilt the Auto Industry
Thursday, January 21, 2016
Three Reasons why people take Martial Arts!
What I have found is there are three main reasons
why people train in the martial arts.
1. Aesthetics -
people like the exotic art form of the animals like the tiger,
the crane, the dragon, the monkey, the praying mantis, etc.
They like the art of the martial arts.
People, also, like the spiritual aspect of the martial arts, the meditation, finding inner peace,
and ones true self.
2. Athletics -
Of course Martial Arts is a great way to get in shape and tone the body.
Some of the old school ways of training using stone weights,
hitting the makawari board, the tensation and relaxation exercises,
the kata, the forms, the fighting and take down drills,
will all get one in shape, that is certain.
3. Combative -
Today I feel martial arts went full circle,
and is back to the real combat of Okinawan Te and Jujitsu for example.
With all the gun violence, muggings, rape, murder, bullying,
it is a wonder why people walk out their front door today.
We are truly in a dangerous, evil, violent world in today's society.
And many people come to dojos to learn self defense (Goshindo Uki).
However, with dojos popping up on many street corners,
one has to be weary of just going to any dojo.
Watch out for the so-called McDojos which is a term being used today.
I will talk about that in another discussion...
Anyway, these are the three main reasons why people take martial arts.
Why do you take martial arts?
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