Justin's Blog

This year I had set a couple goals, here is the post:  https://verajm.blogspot.com/2022/03/this-years-goals.html This year I had intended to:  Get to 100 blog posts  This is post #99, the next post is going to be 2023's goals Get to 100 videos on YouTube I did!  Plus I ended the year at 68 subscribers. If you want to check out my channel here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/@verajustin9 Learn to drive I sort of did. I didn't get my license, but I could drive a motorcycle and I drove a couple vans and pickups around the school.  Bike to Cayo  I did! Bike to all the archeological sites in Belize  I fell short. So far I have been to the Benque site, Xunantunich and Cahal Pech)  Publish a book  Not yet. I'm still where I was last time, I haven't made any progress in this area. 

Retirement  Monica Sok  When he becomes a monk, he says I will no longer be his daughter.  To one another, we would be people. Strangers.  But what if I have children? They will not be your grandchildren?  He pauses, considering, then grips the wheel and keeps driving.  I don’t visit him enough and when I do, I never cook for him.  Imagine his monkhood. I would have to give him more respect  as a stranger. His head shaved every three weeks.  No one is allowed to touch a monk’s head. But I am the only one  who massages my father’s temples before he goes to bed.  If I am no longer his daughter, what will I offer him then? about this poem “We all have private languages to provoke our loved ones. Once, my father made the hollow threat of estrangement with the possibility of pursuing a monastic life during his retirement. For thirty years, he had worked as a welder making parts for agricultural machinery. While adjusting to this signific...

It's been a year and ten days since I have been dating my first girlfriend. It's been a great year! We began messaging on Facebook. I invited her to come to a mass on Sunday at JPII. We met and instantly clicked. Ever since we've been getting to know each other, and I've done so many things that I had never thought I would. It's been an amazing experience! I'm looking forward to spending many more years with her. One year together! To us and many more years to come! 

 I slipped. My hands flailed upward as I tried to regain my balance. I looked down at my feet to see that the floor had a shiny liquid on it's surface. I stooped down for a closer look. There I saw that the substance that had made me lose my balance was a dark crimson. My heart sank as I knew what I had slipped on was a pool of blood. It's source I was unaware of.  I felt my face very moist and thought that all the walking had brought up a sweat. I instinctively wiped my brow with my hand and felt more moisture added onto my face. I looked at my had which was cloaked in blood. My breathing got faster and louder. The rusty smell entered my nose as I looked around and saw no one. I wiped my hand on my pants and lifted my shirt to wipe my face. Not able to see much further ahead I kept walking in the dark.  I became more aware of the crunching my feet had on the ground as I paced forward so I began slowing down. A faint noise in the dark came. Indistinguishable and foreign, ...

 Congratulations to Therese & Russell Smith on their wedding day. Here are some pics I liked.