More "Mini-Blogs"...

Once again, several MINI-blogs....and to start, this is my new art for the paper (above.)

Cardinal:  I have an excellent, long-standing relationship with my local newspaper and the Editor likes my art and poems.  However, I do not presume that my new work will be PRINTED and even if it is, there's no guarantee I'll get COLOR printing.  Therefore, I'm posting the drawing, in color, HERE so I'll know someone will see it "as I intended." (I'll learn next week, Lord Willing, if the PAPER will print it, by the way.)

I wish many "professional" people would not presume that THEIR new efforts will be rewarded just because they've had success in the PAST at something.  Speaking from 35 years' experience as a small business owner, when we begin to BOAST and then COAST....we're soon TOAST (Lol)!!

Cells:  Above is ONE of seven memes someone sent me regarding CELL-PHONES.  I will post the others in the Comments section of this blog.  If the Memes have a THEME, it is that, pardon the pun, our Cells have imprisoned us.  The memes I'll post in Comments make this point forcefully, and, "pictures are worth 1,000 words," so consider those memes my mini-blog on THAT subject.

Mariano Rivera:  "Mo" is someone who I've written about in two previous blogs this year, and he's up for the Baseball Hall of Fame voting early next month.. Will he be the first UNANIMOUS inductee??  I don't know...he certainly DESERVES it.  Even the great Willie Mays (my favorite all-time player) was not voted in unanimously, but Willie never led his team to FIVE WORLD TITLES, and did not perform well in the post-season, like MARIANO did. 

As a Yankee fan AND a fellow Christian like Mariano Rivera, I will certainly be rooting for him.

He's a lock to ENTER the Hall and will publicly give God the glory in his speech whether he's unanimous or not...but he'll have even MORE of a platform to share his faith if he IS the first unanimous inductee!!

Flip-Flopping Pope:  Two years ago, this Pope urged priests to accept people who are openly gay, breaking centuries of Catholic church tradition.  I haven't been a Catholic since I got saved in 1975, but this angered even ME.  Now, it's almost FUNNY because the same Pope who wanted priests to ACCEPT gays two years ago now says priests can't BE gay because it leads to the abuse of young boys, for which the Catholic church is infamous.

No kidding.

A lot of Catholics are having their eyes opened to the fact that the Pope is now, AND WAS NOT EVER, "infallible in matters of faith and morals."  May they see that ONLY GOD'S WORD IS INFALLIBLE, and it condemns Homosexuality and calling ANYONE "Father" in a religious sense ("Pope" literally means "Papa.")

Clint:  The new Clint Eastwood movie (see last blog) was GREAT...saw it last night... but I have nothing to add to what I said about him previously.  Check that blog out (and the movie) if you haven't, already!!