Month: June 2025

You are offered a senior discount for the first time in a store.
You bend over and hear yourself grunt like never before.
Doctors become younger than you.
Even if you have stayed slim, you have more body fat.
For the first time in your life you start having health problems
and for the first time in your life have to take medications.
A fall becomes more likely and could kill you.
The sun becomes like an enemy that could cause skin cancer to
your aged and more vulnerable skin.
You might be all alone even if you have family.
The worst, you find yourself in a nursing home that you never
imagined you’d be in, and you are no longer able to take care of yourself.
I’d rather be dead than to get old like that.

Bob Boyd

I have a desire to learn more about astronomy.
I even subscribed to a newsletter about the
planets and stars in the skies.

But I just can’t get my head into it. So far, I just
can’t force myself to learn about it.

I’d rather watch videos about news, crime,
cryptids, and various other subjects.

I’m not sure why I have this resistance to it.
It would be cool to have knowledge about the
celestials skies, but I just cannot force my
mind to do it.

Maybe someday.

Bob Boyd

Man, what a horrible way to go out.
Mauled to death by 13 pit bulls,
and a father of three.

The guy’s female friend found him
bloodied and dead, cannot imagine
how horrible that was for her

and how she will have the trauma
of that for the rest of her life.

Some people say pit bulls aren’t
bad unless treated badly, but
the deceased guy’s female friend
said he never treated to dogs badly.

Though I like the look of
power dogs, especially Dobermans,
were I young and were to have
a dog, it would never be a pit bull.
I’ve read too many bad outcomes
with them in the news.

Bob Boyd

Over 8 billion people populate this entire planet.
Where is God going to put them all when they die?
Will he just recycle them life after life to save space
In the towns, cities and mansions of the Great Beyond?

Or being environmentally concerned, will he dispose of them
Like hazardous waste in some afterlife Human Disposal Machine
To save this globally warmed overpopulated, over polluted world?

Last I heard, heaven and hell were overcrowded, no vacancies.
What did you expect with humans existing for over 6 million years?
Did you think these afterlife locales would never run out of space?

Sorry, you were born too late to make it to the pearly gates
Or find a home in the low rent burning flames of hell.
You’re SOL. See you next life – maybe.

Bob Boyd

Because I’m not a fundamentalist Christ believer –
Because like the sufis I believe there are as many paths to
God as humans have souls –
I do not negate the harmless spiritual beliefs of others that some Christians feel are erroneous or demonic.
I appreciate white witches and pagans intricate knowledge of nature and natural things.
I like how elaborate some of their beliefs and rituals are.
And I could easier be with a white witch or pagan woman
as a girlfriend or a wife than with a fundamentalist Christian woman
who would see my acceptance as that of a lost soul –
whose erring ways needed to be corrected and directed
to her uncompromising right and only way.

Bob Boyd

I have come to believe a single act of compassion is more important in this life and the next than most spiritual experiences people have on this planet.

Bob Boyd

Also called the Arizona Bigfoot,
Habitat central and eastern Arizona
along the Mogollon Rim.
Over seven feet tall,
big red eyes with black or
reddish fur.

Emits an indescribable sweet
odor like nothing you can
relate it too.

Howls, whoops and deep
growls that can scare the
life out of you.

Incredible strength that
could tear you in pieces.

If it is near you in a forest,
birds are hushed;
creatures are silenced,
an eerie quiet that you
know portends danger
alarms you.

Scientists consider them
hoaxes or misidentifications.

Witnesses claim otherwise,
so far no proof, but the
alleged sightings keep increasing.

Bob Boyd

Born beautiful, her beauty had consequences.
She became self infatuated and obsessed
with her beauty.

Her looks dominated her life, became the
center of her superficial universe at the
expensive of her mental development.

She tolerated education. It had little importance
to her with the exception of beauty produces
and appearance enhancements.

She wasn’t conversant on many subjects,
but it didn’t matter; man fawned over her
just the same.

When the years robbed her of her beauty
and even surgeries and cosmetics
could no longer sustain it, she nearly
killed herself.

Now when she looks in what used to be
a complimentary mirror, she sees what
she calls an old hag, and she bemoans
her lost beauty and the men who used
to fawn over her.

Her beauty gone forever, she often
cries and looks at photos of her glory days
as her life fades away.

Bob Boyd

Born alone often with cries
maybe portents of potential
troubles ahead

Sure you have your mother
and medical staff as you
enter this world, but you
and you alone enter
and exit the womb.

Regardless of influences
the decisions throughout
your life are made by
the solitary you

And despite those that
may surround you
it’s the solitary you
that exits this world and
leaves all the vestiges of
your life behind

Bob Boyd

Absolutely amazing how
AI can restore the real life looks
of historical figures
For example
Suddenly a medieval king
is brought back to life lifelike
from an old painting of him
as if he were real and
resurrected into this life
via the moving photo and
video of exactly how he
looked when living
This makes me wonder
what other surprises AI
will have for us in the
future

Bob Boyd