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Purpose: A personal blog can meet various needs. It is an opportunity to share opinions with the world or to attempt to connect with others having similar interests to provide information and insight. Purpose is always critical because it becomes the motive behind an effort. It generates energy and sets the course.
The purpose for amendoon.net known as resilient actions has changed since its inception several years ago. It began as an effort to share personal thoughts and to define a philosophy. Over time it has increasingly focused on Second Amendment issues and similar matters because I see them as prisms aiding an effort to understand competing cultures. The search has been for actions and activities that underlie resilient rural culture and its manifestation in rural communities. From experience, I have found it takes time to research, write and present an article, normally a month or so.
Therefore, the first rule of new content to develop interest is seldom met. To date our odometer shows just over 70,000 and we have something in excess of 3,000 registrants. These statistics do not, however, provide the rationale for the blog. Our purpose is not to monetize but to engage in dialogue and unfortunately we receive very little written response.
Increasingly the blog it will provide a discussion about specific books and their relationship to a rural setting and culture. We are very interested in values and how they are applied, and will consider books in terms of whether their recommendations provide insights about resilient actions.
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America’s Gun Regulatory Systems Are Failing
Our gun regulatory systems are failing, and the associated cultural stress is evident for all Americ...
A Quintessentially American Story
Years ago, in the 1970s, my brother Karl sent me a page providing pension information about a certai...
Front Doors: An Essay about Self Defense
I don’t remember the knock at the front door. It was a long time ago, maybe 58 years. I can re...
Vietnam Amnesia
(Dateline: Keno, Oregon, Memorial Day, 2017) These days the Vietnam War seldom comes up ...
Sidney the Jumping Dog
I want to introduce my dog Sidney. He came to our Oregon home from Nevada about five yea...
Rubes, Barbarians and the TVA
Watching Bill Maher after dinner is entertaining. He has guests who talk about interest...
In Praise of Death and Taxes
“Minute Man Statue Lexington Massachusetts cropped” Guest Commentary by E.O. Airlie oooo...
45 LIFE LESSONS, WRITTEN BY A 90 YEAR OLD
I have inserted Mom’s photo, because I believe she would associate with the advice given...
71 Years from D-Day Europe
Seventy-one years ago yesterday (June 6, 1944), Allied forces stormed the beaches of France to liber...
My Mother by John
As it is with mothers, my Mother is the most important person in my life. She had specif...
Paula Louise Haenggi Mauser Longley
Mom was always working — here she is cleaning the porch at Alpine Paula L...
To Grandma from Ruthie
We are back in our African home after travel that started Saturday and minus one bag which tried to ...
The Grandmother by Theresa Eileen Council Longley
The Grandmother: You could see your Grandmother at a distance and you would know it to be her; She w...