May 11, 2011
Ben Wright
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Musings: Big Mac attack
This guy dressed in a gorilla suit tried to hold up a McDonald’s in McDonough with a banana as a weapon.
Musings: Don't fail to plan
Many potential problems can be avoided with proper planning and preparation.
Musings: Cleverness
The following story involves cleverness at its best and its worst. You be the judge.
Musings: On An Island
A few years later, Crusoe nursed an injured, deserted native to good health and taught him many skills.
Musings: Chosen words
Vice President Bush received a lot of criticism about his statement of introduction.
Musings: What's in a name?
The Italians have a saying, “Since my house is burning, I may as well warm myself in it.”
Musings: Real Heroes
While assigned to the Georgia Public Safety Training Center in Forsyth, I observed many training exercises at the Fire Academy.
Musings: Trial and Error
In every occupation, there is a period of apprenticeship. Through trial and error, usually we discover what our strengths are
Musings: Future tense
Our existence would be more meaningful if we could learn to share more care and concern for each other.
Musings: Listen up
It is imperative that we condition ourselves to listen in the present because when the present becomes the past it will surely influence our future.
Musings: Miracle of Birth
There is an old saying that states; “You should not take what you can’t give.”
Musings: Good Health
To help our bodies remain healthy, we need a proper diet, regular exercise, reasonable rest and to avoid the no-no’s of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs.
Musings: Blame Game
The solution to education and other fields is that we have to remember to remember to think.
Musings: Christmas Spirit
The spirit of Santa, to me, is still very much alive and I hope it continues to live.
Musings: Don't Look Back
Early in my life, Grandpa taught me how to plow a mule. He taught me not to look back to see if the row was straight
Musings: Putting it in perspective
The message is that we need someone, like a child, to help us keep life in perspective.
Musings: The Sermon
Jerry Clower tells this story of a potential candidate to preach a trial sermon in this country Baptist church.
Musings: The limits of freedom
In reality, limits are a necessity. By setting realistic limits, we enjoy as much freedom as we can tolerate.
Musings: Defining terms
Terms that have understandable meanings are used as shortcuts in our communication with each other.
Musings: Personal responsibility
In reality, it boils down to individual responsibility. A choice has to be made.
Musings: Disruptions and Eruptions
Mount St. Helens, tornadoes, floods, etc., are just examples of tragedy and upheaval.
Musings: Change
This system is foreign today, in an age of cell phones and other devices that are remote.
Musings: Angels
We believe that this angel in the image of a frog was instrumental in finding her gold bracelet.
Musings: On Meditation
Lessons from the past help us adjust to the present and to prepare for the future.
Musings: The crime and the criminal
For those of us who believe in the afterlife, there is the concern of the soul. This concern was my purpose for being there.
Musings: Staying focused
It is difficult to wear shoes that do not fit properly. So its is when we try to be something we’re not.
Musings: Making it last
One thing I do know from experience is that it is imperative that we must really want our marriages to work.
Musings: Loose ends
It is amazing how leaving a couple steps out of a process can literally mess up things.
Musings: Stop, Relax, Think
Good business persons make it a practice to take a half an hour each day and relax in their chair and forget his or her business concerns.
Musings: A Reminder
The exception would be vehicles with loud exhausts. The speed indicators get our attention. When our speed appears on the monitor screen, hopefully we slow down if we are over the speed limit.
Musings: Hard Work
Today in this informed world, we know what is unhealthy for us, but we still indulge in what is harmful to us.
Musings: The 'Get Back' Game
It was my job to keep the stalls clean and it was my brother’s task to milk the cow.
Musings: What we leave
My hope is that you will keep in touch with those significant others who have taught you what you know today
Musings: The Well
The well we find ourselves in is different from all other wells that others are in.
Musings: The inevitable
Regardless of the reasons or lack of them, this sick entertainment gives the state inmates something to do at our expense. inevitable
Musings: Not being taken
Please be careful what paperwork is thrown away. It may come back to haunt and may destroy an excellent credit rating.
Musings: Clean comedy
These fake comedians do not hold a light to authentic humorists like Jerry Clower, Jeff Foxworthy and a host of others.
Musings: Cries for help
For many years, I worked with many inmates and others not in prison, who were self-destructive.
Musings: Boundaries
Today our society is close to the edge of self-destruction. There are many signs.
Musings: Rumor has it
The wise man gave Johnny a large bowl of pieces of bread with instructions to spread the pieces on the path to town.
Musings: The Value of Time
To realize the value of one hour, ask lovers who are waiting to meet. To realize the value of one minute, ask a person who has just missed a flight.
Musings: Smoking addiction
Some of my friends still smoke and it worries me that eventually they will die of lung cancer or other respiratory diseases like my father and brother, who were heavy smokers.
Musings: Assumptions
By not taking care of the small issues we cease to grow and develop morally and spiritually.
Musings: Precious Moments
Someone said, “Live today as if it were your last and plan for tomorrow as if you were going to live forever.”
Musings: Domestic violence
Changes have to begin within the family unit to put an end to the violence.
Musings: Making the call
By the time where we figure out where the numbers are on the dial, the computer voice is saying something else like, “please enter your 16 (or so) digit number.”
Musings: First impressions
My friend, a Lutheran minister, who made the statement concerning my being in prison for 30 years, was just jesting.
Musings: Resolve to listen
We miss out on many opportunities and suffer many hardships when we refuse to listen.
Musings: True love
It is difficult to explain why people get the Christmas spirit. There are so many examples of this spirit taking over our lives.
Musings: The elderly
So it is with our older persons, they are priceless. They have given us so much.
Musings: Denial
Why is it so difficult to accept the truth, whether as a nation or as an individual?
Musings: Heart of Jackson
Just imagine meeting a stranger far from home who knew about the Heart of Jackson Motel. It is a small world, is it not?
Musings: Climbing our mountains
The moral of this true account is to stay focused, believe in ourselves, our abilities, and a hop will get us to the top of our mountain.
Musings: About time
Babies have no concept of time, except when they are hungry or need a diaper change.
Musings: Remembering the past
Most of the films were captured by the Allies when the camps were liberated.
Musings: Good and bad addictions
If we overdo or become abusive with these activities, then they are not positive activities.
Musings: Healthy limits
In today’s world, setting boundaries or a fence line is difficult because we have become a society of enablers, not in a positive sense, but in the negative area.
Musings: The trouble with bosses
I remembered a wise person telling me not to fight against the tide.
Musings: Dreams come before realities
In real life, we need a little fantasy to cushion the day-to-day pressures we face.
Experience a bit of history
Musings
The Confederacy would never recover even though the war raged on for two more years.
Musings: You might be a redneck
In Hawaii, his Dad kept asking when they were going to convert their money to Hawaiian money.
Musings by Ben Wright: Aug. 10
Not long ago, a person expressed to me relief and gratitude. His wife had been having a struggle with cancer. At the time of this conversation, she was in remission, but the anxiety and agony of the past few months had been great.
Musings by Ben Wright: Aug. 3
What is a friend? To me, a friend is a person who believes in you. A friend does not believe the idle gossip going around town. A friend is honest with you and tells you like it is. A friend stands by you.
Musings by Ben Wright: July 27
Probably at one time or the other we have met people who just do not get it. Everything seems to go right over their heads. They are clueless.
Musings by Ben Wright: July 20
Special Olympics, and other similar events such as the wheelchair event prior to the Peachtree Road Race, have always been emotional experiences. It is amazing that despite their problems they keep on keeping on. What an example of the power of the human spirit.
Musings by Ben Wright: July 13
It is my hope that as a nation we never forget the truth. It is also my hope we will pass the test. History will eventually post our grade.
Musings by Ben Wright: July 6
Talking with a friend last week, our conversation consisted of the topic, "Time." He stated that he "could not believe" that his grandchildren were teenagers now and "it seemed just yesterday that they were babies."
Musings by Ben Wright: June 29
Fourteen years ago, the following true story was written by me in "News Around Town!" Maybe some of you may remember this humorous account:
Musings by Ben Wright: June 22
The month of June is celebrated as Dairy Month, and this year is the 74th anniversary, according to the "Market Bulletin."
Musings by Ben Wright: June 15
June 19, 2011 is Father's Day. According to American history, Father's Day is officially 101 years old this year. Yet, according to ancient tradition, tributes to old Dad were made by Elmesu of Babylon.
Musings by Ben Wright: June 8
Our parents or grandparents, during the 1929 Depression, were forced to be thrifty. My grandfather, who was a dairy farmer, said to me that when they killed hogs they used everything for some purpose.
Musings by Ben Wright: May 25
We live in a world today filled with a lot of tension. If we are able to intelligently counteract conflict and learn and grow from it, then we would be enriched.
Musings by Ben Wright: May 18
Every serious history student has discovered that freedom is very rare among past civilizations. Yes, our own condition of freedom falls short of perfection, but it is the best so far in history.
Musings by Ben Wright: May 11
On this day, May 2, 2011, I awoke to the news that Osama bin Laden had been killed. It has taken about 10 years to accomplish this mission. I also remember on Sept. 11, 2001, watching live commercial passenger planes becoming deadly missiles crashing into the Twin Towers in New York City.
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