"Fear breads a deadening caution, a holding back, a stagnant waiting until people no longer can recall what they are waiting for or saving themselves for. When we fear failure more than we love life; when we are dominated by thoughts of what we might have been rather than by thoughts of what we might become; when we are haunted by the disparity between our ideal self and our real self; when we are tormented by guilt, shame, remorse, and self-condemnation, we deny our faith in the God of love." Brennan Manning

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

The Energizer Bunny...well..... bird


That's what its taking to keep us motivated at this point!  It's getting tough to keep up the desire to give a crap.  I've done well since February of last year but this deployment has worn out its welcome and I'm glad that its coming to an end.  The deployments have recently been shortened to 12 months total instead of the 3 month mobilization up, 12 months BOG (boots on ground) and then demobilization.  God willing my family and I'll dodge the future bullet and not have to worry about this again.  We are all about serving the country but this 15-16 month stuff is for the birds............and speaking of that......
This was our guest the other day.  Since we seem to be the suckers of the Afghanistan National Geographic Society, our terp brought us an owl that they found on the side of the road.  It's wings were tied and it had some sort of old trauma to its left eye.  We clipped the ties, fed it, gave it some water then let it go.  What a beautiful creature.  The wing span was phenomenal.  It was ironic that we had it tied to the grill.  Tastes like......

1 comment:

David M said...

The Thunder Run has linked to this post in the blog post From the Front 02/20/2008 News and Personal dispatches from the front lines.