WE WILL CIRCLE BACK

 
 
 
 I doubt that those

 opposing conservative ideas

 have any notion of what 

 the consequences will be

 The border wall is discontinued

 We welcome illegal immigrants,

 now called non-citizens,

 and will pay with taxpayer

 dollars their housing, healthcare,

 and food.  In reality is this possible

 when we are already in enormous debt?

 Do we question who these guests are?

 Are they infected with the Wuhan virus?

 Do they have criminal records?

 Have they been involved with

 being coyotes importing deadly drugs

 or confined persons who are sex objects?

 We do not intercede, but accept

 There is no accountability and

 belief exists that the cages housing children

 belong to President Trump 

 instead of Obama and Biden

 ignorance is no excuse for reality

 Texas wind power was frozen as

 were their energy sources, almost

 destroying their energy grid

 Embracing green energy alone

 is nothing but a farce.  We need

 coal, natural gas, nuclear, solar, and oil,

 basically a combination of everything

 When will the climate change ideologues
 
 ever learn?  If man could cause change

 then they could stop it.

 Weather and climate are cyclical, but

 We will circle back on all of these things
  
 Stanski
 February 22, 2021 ^ 

LIFE HAS PARALLELS

 
 
 
 I look out at my gardens

 All covered with snow

 More than a garden; it is a landscape

 Something that I never let go

 The deer have been busy pruning

 Actively looking for food

 They can do extensive damage

 But nothing to alter my mood

 Winter will fade into spring

 It is time to prepare my tools

 Shovels, rakes, saws and trimmers

 And don’t forget my garden stool

 Well over a year with the virus

 People are nervous and scared

 No jobs but we open our borders

 Without concern for how citizens fared

 Decisions from Washington are dangerous

 Everything good is in a freeze

 We appear to be setting ourselves up

 To be taken over by the Chinese

 We definitely need the border wall

 Everyone has agreed at one time or another

 Leaving the border open and killing jobs

 Is not an example of loving your brother

 I look out at the landscape

 Know how things can be in balance

 But to overcome the fraudulent occupant

 Is going to remain a challenge

 He prunes away our future

 Without a logical explanation

 Would like us all to be controlled 

 Like slaves on a national plantation

 Does nothing to open the schools

 Which only hurts our children

 Bows down to the Labor Unions

 Says he loves children more than humans

 There is a cost to this nonsense

 There will be a price to pay

 We have to come to our senses

 Issuing fiats is not a game to play

  
 Stanski
 February 21, 2021 ^ 

GIVING BACK

 
 
 

 Nature gives us gifts everyday

 A winter sunset reflects many

 Colors over the southern waters

 Of the beautiful Inland Sea

 Leaving us in awe of the almighty

 Who gives us many opportunities

 We may help others in need

 Often we ignore the situation

 Because we are too busy

 Looking after our own interests

 There could easily be a time

 When we are in the position

 Of needing help --- always expecting

 That our needs will be met

 What if they are not --- then

 What do we do?  Cry out to

 The creator who could easily

 Say where were you when

 Help was needed by others

 We must learn to be generous

 Giving of ourselves and our gifts

 Empties us so that we may

 Be filled again.  It is

 Gratifying, just like the sunsets,

 The stars at night, moon rises

 And sunrises.  We are alive

 We have no regrets

 Our path is safe.  It is up to us

 To make it well worn
  
 Stanski
 February 20, 2021 ^ 

REMOVE THE STIGMA

 
 
 
 What are we doing?

 Standing by while depression  

 is causing a rise in suicides

 While the use of illegal drugs

 Is causing a huge rise in deaths

 And we tend to stigmatize the victim

 Where are our leaders?

 Why are we not talking or

 Bringing the problems into the open?

 In a sense we would be helping them

 We must come together

 Promote leaders who know the answers

 Problems exist which can be corrected

 Solutions take a lot of work

 But we must embrace the afflicted

 Let them know there are other ways

 Do we have the courage to do this?

 Are we letting our chance go away?

 Everyone is worth saving

 We must do all that we can do

 Remove the stigma of addiction

 Show love toward those afflicted

 We plead for those in power

 To speak out with humility

 We all have our disposition

 But reality demands us to address

 By the grace of God

 Let us move forward
  
 Stanski
 February 19, 2021 ^ 

GOODNESS DURING A TWO YEAR PERIOD

 
 
 
 People I knew for just

 A short period of time

 Were taken from me

 By the angels of the Father

 Each known for about a two year period

 And a delightful time it was

 We had discussions and

 Differences existed, but

 None that were not overcome

 Because there were no agendas

 I learned from them all

 I think they learned from me

 One took an afternoon to help me

 Select a small used farm tractor 

 Later when I was leaving town

 I thought of stopping by to say hello

 When I returned I realized that

 I missed my chance as he was called

 Another, an artist, was forced to

 Move to Washington State as things

 Were not working well for him here

 He said he had lost everything, but

 Supplies were sent to him so 

 He could begin all over once more

 Depression overcame any ambition

 I was happy to hear from him, but

 Knew his end was near

 Three of the others were ministers

 We shared and embraced the truth

 Deteriorating health caused their end

 I felt enriched by having known them

 We are all here for just a speck of time

 And encounter people who come and go

 It is a gift to have a few we behold

 If only for a few months or years 

 My bride gave me two years to card for her

 She was terminal, dying of cancer

 It was her greatest gift to me

 Her grace and joy, like the others

 Were gifts that I will always treasure

 I know that I am a lucky man
  
 Stanski
 February 18, 2021 ^ 

CHAOS

 
 
 
 We nick-name it Covid-19

 It is the Chinese Wuhan Virus

 It was developed in a lab

 Released on the World

 While the World Health Organization

 In allegiance with China

 Stood by and watched

 It spreads from human to human

 Wear a mask

 Do not wear a mask

 Wear two masks

 Practice social distancing

 Recommendations by the same Doctor

 Comrade Napoleon Fauci

 Democratic Governors

 Closed down businesses

 Ordered people to isolate

 An uncalled for murder

 Caused peaceful protests

 By Antifa and Black Lives Matter

 Both Marxist Socialist Organizations

 Funded by George Soros and others

 Including Hollywood and 

 Democratic Politician Kamala Harris

 Prisoners released on the public

 Burning, looting and destruction

 Police officers and innocents injured

 And murdered by demonstrators

 President Trump was blamed

 His warp-speed vaccination production

 Brought us hope for relief, but

 Is now blamed for distribution problems

 It is all political; a game of one ups-man-ship
  
 Stanski 
 February 17, 2021 ^ 
    
 
 

   

WHAT ARE WE DOING

 
 
 

 Green energy

 Not reliable

 More expensive

 Could not exist

 Without government subsidies

 Paid for by us

 Another tax

 We are already broke

 Fighting the Wuhan Virus

 Lying politicians

 Disillusioned followers

 Ruptured landscape

 Dead birds

 Black outs

 Outsourcing to China

 People without power

 Disposal of outdated equipment

 People without jobs

 No transition

 No green jobs

 Pathetic decisions

 Oil and natural gas are cheap

 Wind turbines create

 Distressing noise and

 Flickering strobe light effect

 What about batteries

 A storage vehicle 

 Requires lithium and cobalt

 And other minerals

 Where do we get them?

 Generators require sun or fuel

 What do we do when we have neither?

 What we have is working well

 Low carbon imprint

 Which is a left wing ideology

 Carbon Dioxide feeds trees and plants

 Gives us back Oxygen 

 Green energy

 A political hype

 A socialist’s delight

 That will cripple us
  
 Stanski

 February 16, 2021 ^
  
   

LATE AFTERNOON NAP

 
 
 
 I woke after a nap

 Saw a lone star in the evening sky

 Earlier I saw the reflection of the sun

 In the now calm water of Lake Michigan

 With the real sun above it appeared as a double sun

 Another beautiful gift from nature

 Before that my snow-blower started

 I was able to clear seven inches of snow

 From my drive and parking area

 The county driver left a pile two feet high

 Three feet wide and twelve feet long

 My machine took care of the special gift

 Day was bright as the sun was shining

 Sky was blue without clouds

 The job was daunting but I persevered

 I didn’t quit but thought of others who

 Quit on their commitment to us

 There is a cost to destructive policy

 The Wuhan Virus information is available but not released

 Why are we protecting the Chinese controlled WHO?

 Why are we giving them money which we have to borrow?

 We fall in line and do nothing to confront the threat

 Like the star we are the lone remaining hope

 Our real leader was stripped away from us

 Now we open our borders and pass out valentines

 We stop construction of the border wall

 Promised to President Reagan over 32 years ago

 We stop construction of the Keystone Pipe Line

 Costing us nearly 70,000 good paying jobs

 We stop fracking on federal property costing more jobs

 The cost of electricity and gasoline escalates 

 There is a promise of increased taxes and

 Other job killing policies

 The lone star is not shining too brightly
  
 Stanski

 February 15, 2021 ^ 

CUTTING FOR LIGHT

 
 
 

  
 
  
Life could be so easy if only you had a pair of scissors

that could cut off those scraggly parts

and seemingly get things in order.                                                                                                                                                   A good pair of scissors; that’s all it would take.

Then happiness would fall right into line.
 
Why do things have to be so complicated?                                                                                                                                                   Where is the order that I was looking for?

Complications weren’t meant for me.
   
Why should I have a bunch of obstacles to work with?                                                                                                                      
Don’t I have enough to do?

So what’s the answer?
                                                                                                                                                tHThere is no answer.  Life goes on.                                                                                                                                                   You deal with opportunities.                                                                                                                                                    You deal with the problems.                                                                                                                                                    They can both be the same thing.                                                                                                                                                   Attitude is a big part of the equation.
     
Easiness is something you find in fairy tales.
    
In real life the road takes twists and turns 

which open up new beginnings. The seasons change.
  
We too must be prepared for change. 
                        
When you know this then you know what life is.                                                                                                                                        
Acceptance will usually follow unless
 
you look at road blocks as problems.  
                                                                                                        
Somehow things in life balance out and 

moving forward can and will be blissful and peaceful.
                                                               
Seek the light.  Search for the truth.
  
Be aware of wonder.  
                                                                                           
Thankfulness and joy are walking along with you                                                                                                                                                  You have arrived.  Thanks-be to God.    
                                                                                                                                                  SStansberry McKricken aka Stanski
                                                                                                                                                                   
February 14, 2021 ^

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
If you’re not up to adventure, you’ll only know what you know                                                                                                       
Robert Morrison-17th Century Taylor
 By Steve Haarman 

WHO IS ANGRY NOW

 
 
 
 I have voted for Democrats

 I have voted for Republicans

 I have no party

 I am a conservative deplorable

 I wonder why Democrats are so angry

 I wonder why Education is being reinvented

 I wonder why gender is being reassembled

 I wonder why conservatives are being censored

 Are there any valid answers

 Why are some Republicans RINOs?

 Who has the answers we seek

 They say it isn’t censorship; it is harm reduction

 The left wants to control America

 Totalitarianism is not a pleasant thing

 We cannot allow speech and ideas

 To be under the control of the left

 The left following instruction by the billionaires

 It is a difficult time; difficult to grasp

 There was a term used:  “Bitter clingers”

 This I believe applies to decent Democrats

 They have clung to a part which has transformed

 And their loyalty is taken for granted

 I wonder about the questionable election

 I wonder about the fiats made during the pandemic

 They are destroying all of the progress made

 I wonder about the peaceful demonstrations

 Which destroyed businesses with burning and looting

 I wonder why they were encouraged by the left

 I wonder about the opening of the border

 While hundreds of thousands are without jobs

 This is why we all are angry
  
 Stanski

 February 13, 2021 ^