hope

A terrible thing happened last night. Two young gang members were peing pursued by police. The "chase" only lasted two minutes but by the end of it the 17 and 21 year old men had run a red light and T-boned a car carrying an 18 and a 19 year old boy. One of them, was my friend from high school. Both were upstanding young men. Their death is tragic and confusing. How could this happen?  Read More »

I rewrite lyrics to mean something to me, I also find connections between me and things in my world.

I have found a connection with me to this song by the Fray.

He, they, sings meaningful lyrics that touch people, people question their reasons but I rather just listen to the music but sometimes I find myself sucked into the cycle of knowing why someone wrote certain words...  Read More »

Note: This essay will be included in an upcomming book about the presidential election. For more info, contact me at johnwconnellyjr@yahoo.com or message me on here  Read More »

The inflammatory immune response system that is the basis of our body’s initial response to foreign substances that enter our body is not exclusive to our species and neither has it evolved extensively over time, because it has “worked so well that many aspects of it have been preserved during the protracted aeons of evolution.” The article, “A Malignant Flame” in Sci  Read More »

Alzheimer’s is a disease that strips the afflicted individual of his or her ability to recall people, places, things, activities and memories. The progression of the disease leads to painful realizations that the one with memory loss has become just a shadow of their former self. A person suffering from this disease has increasingly lost the neurons that are integral part of human brain.  Read More »

Affirmative action remains a hot topic today, one of much interest and controversy. Affirmative action has been perceived to give special treatment to qualified minorities and historically discriminated groups, while being unfair to those who are not a minority.  Read More »

I know that I just posted something new, but something ELSE has just come up that ties in very nicely to what I was saying!  Read More »

In our weekly service Sunday night, Rev. Elise, our former campus pastor, spoke about hope.
Hope, she said, is not just optimism in the face of adveristy.
The root of hope means 'valley' or 'a place between two hills'.
America is in a valley. Stock markets, housing markets, divorce rates, crime rates...not good.
Sometimes this feels like a never-ending rut.  Read More »