AN ESSAY: Take PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY, FOR YOUR DECISIONS. 8/19/2026. By: George Patnoe.

AN ESSAY: TAKE PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY, FOR YOUR DECISIONS.

8/19/2026

By: George Patnoe. 

A Lesson about Personal Responsibility, FOR YOUR DECISIONS.

I was sitting on a downtown bench with my parrot on my shoulder. I was enjoying the moment when a 20-something year old male walked up to me, and he started talking openly to me about his life.

He starts explaining how he just got out of prison that day for defending himself in a violent fight. That is it how the conversation started.

Then he explains how he got 42 certificates in various topics in 2 years, which is why they let him out of prison. I am thinking good for him. If that was true, it is surely impressive. Even if they were only certificates.

He tells me how he needs to find a job and how he is staying with his brother. Lucky him, I am thinking as I feed my parrot a peanut butter cracker that he surely loves to eat after his tough job of staying on my shoulder during the 20-minute semi jog to the bench.

The guy tells me a few other facts about himself, but what I was reading about him was his body language and his facial expressions. They were a little off compared to the countless other people I had countless conversations with when I was downtown when people were interested in my parrot.

I couldn't tell if he was on drugs either for fun or medical reasons, but I was ready for any sudden movement towards me and my beloved parrot whom I would protect in ways you can't imagine.

But if he wasn't on drugs, I was thinking to myself, then something was probably wrong with him psychologically.

I told him his plan should be to stay out of prison, which seemed obvious enough, especially to him, I was guessing.

I asked him what his plans were for the immediate future besides looking for a job.

He blurted out of his mouth. I am going to depend on God. Well. That touched a nerve with me because even though there is nothing wrong with depending on God in the correct context, that could lead to a false sense of hopefulness but at least he was headed in the correct direction I thought to myself.

So, I replied. Probably too loudly. Remember to take personal responsibility for your actions.

His eyes widen, and his facial expression changed. Which meant I didn't know what was going to happen next because something was a little off about the guy.

He says. What?

I said. You have to take personal responsibility for your decisions from here on out. If someone tries to fight you.

Walk away no matter what. Because he had precisely stated to me, he had fought to defend himself, which is how he got into prison in the first place.

He is standing up, and I am still sitting down. So, I stand up just so I can defend myself if he goes crazy for some reason. After all. My main goal was to protect my feathered buddy on my shoulder.

So, he says I am going to depend on God.

Now that I am on my feet, and body is ready for anything he might surprise me with. I reply. That is fine and good, but you still have to take personal responsibility for actions, which means don't blame God for your bad decisions.

He is staring at me like just maybe this was the advice he needed on his very first day out of prison. Which it was even if he didn't like my advice which seemed as if he actually didn't like that advice.

Many people don't like taking personal responsibility for their decisions whether it is getting drunk or smoking pot or driving drunk or too fast or both. Or killing someone in a car accident which could have been avoided if there was no drinking involved and the speed was legal.

I looked at him, wondering if he knew he who he was actually talking to in the first place on his first day out of prison. Of course, he didn't nor could he guess either for various reasons. But that was ok.

But I am thinking to myself he should take that advice just as if it was straight out of the mouth of God itself just for the sake of his future.

He slowly started to walk away as I started to walk down towards the river. I felt good about our conversation.  I hope he remembers those words. Take Personal Responsibility for your decisions. For the rest of his long life, hopefully. He seemed like a nice guy who studied for his two years in prison which is why they let him out two years early.

I really wish the guy well with a good future.

But if I ever see him again. I am going to remind him of those words again. Take Personal responsibility, FOR YOUR DECISIONS!

An afterthought.  Do you know what is really amazing? This guy told me that he was going to take my advice with a grain of salt. I think my advice to him is worth more than a grain of salt.  Don't you?

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An Essay. 8/16/2026

 There are crackers and cookies for my parrots at the Dollar Tree stores that I can't buy at liras. So whenever I drive out of town, I take a quick trip and walk into a Dollar Tree store to spend 30 to 50 bucks on crackers and cookies for my parrots.

I am not trapped into thinking I have to shop at only one store in town named liras.

Some people in RV think that they are obligated to shop at only only store named liras like they go to only one church in town. Of course, most people usually only go to one church, and some people read more than one translation of the Bible to learn more than one translation and meanings of the words and events of the times within a historical context just because it is interesting to them.

What is really crazy in the news is the newly discovered details of the pyramids. And the newly released details of the possible UFO and aliens or creatures from other realms of existence. OR more precisely from other space-time dimensions.

Some educated people believe that the pyramids were built by the Egyptians, but other educated people that the Egyptians simply inherited the pyramids from previous civilizations.

And now there is more and more evidence that there really are space ships flying around in the sky above planet earth that can travel faster than any human-made fighter jet.

So, the questions that arise from the two different aspects are these. If there were non-human and human civilizations long before the Bible was written and if there are alien space ships and their alien civilizations that existed even longer than those civilizations that weren't human.

Then those two possibilities would turn religious thought and belief symbols upside down in a matter of hundreds of heartbeats.

Because the 7 days of creation in the first chapter of the Genesis would be proven to mean something completely different than a literal interpretation that there is a God that created everything in just 7 days which is so freaking ridiculous and stupid because there weren't 7 days in the so-called beginning in the first place.

Therefore. As people drive around in their cars and trucks on the open highways of California's beautiful county side to shop for food or whatever.

Don't forget to look in the sky because you might see an alien space ship or two if you are lucky. But here is the thing. I probably have seen more real life (supposedly) pictures of again supposedly alien creatures than the people ready this essay.

Where did they go to shop for food. Did they even need food. Or were their bodies just some sort of futuristic machines that didn't need food, so they didn't need to shop for food in stores around the galaxy.

So have fun going to your churches as you ponder those issues and questions. But a bigger question might be. What did the Egyptians and aliens think about God. Because if there is one God. It would have to be the God of the Egyptians and the aliens too.

Well. The responses should be fun to read. Just remember. I know more about the Bible and God than you do.

Angel

 

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THE RHYTHMS of MARRIAGE and LIFE. By George Patnoe. July 25, 2026.

THE RHYTHMS of MARRIAGE and LIFE.

By George Patnoe. July 25, 2026.

THE RHYTHMS of MARRIAGE and LIFE.

By George Patnoe.

Last night I was awake all night in a deep trance listening to classical music while reading a book titled 'The Inflationary Universe.' by a great scientist named Alan Guth.

Then I happened to read a short piece on Next-door written by a man who was writing about the rhythm in his marriage. So, I started to respond to his amazing observation and below is what popped out of my brain mind and consciousness. A young lady loved it, so I hope other people love it too. Enjoy.

I have been married for over 30 years, and I have been realizing lately that everything it my house has a rhythm to it. Including my parrots and cats that are part of life and living as biological creatures within rhythm of my house and home.

But more importantly. There is a rhythm between me and my wife probably because we are stuck with each other until the end of it.

Even the feral cats that walk into my house mewing for food or to just say hi are part of that rhythm.

Then there are the wild birds I feed who sing their specific bird songs as they fly around the house eating bird food and drinking water.

Even the hummingbirds that fly up to my face to say thank you for the sugar water I make for them.

But you know. I get to watch the sun and moon slowly cross over from one side to the other side of my house causing me to never forget that earth is moving through the space-time cosmic universe with a rhythm of its own.

I can sit on my front porch chair in the darkness of the night knowing someone else wondered about gravity and the math behind it.

Sometimes I think to myself that those uneducated people who built those long-ago pyramids had a rhythm too.

Every day they had a system of living and working for a goal that wouldn't be forgotten maybe forever. They woke up every morning with a rhythm within their minds and life to get the job done with one goal. To build that pyramid.

So, whether it is the rhythm of washing dishes or the rhythm of the sun and moon reminding us of the infinite rhythm of the cosmic universe. Or the rhythm of doing a job like building a pyramid.

It is always the rhythm of our lifelong partners that teach us the importance of forgetting the petty differences between two human beings that live under the same roof for 30 years. Or less or more.

After surviving dying from stage 4 CLL in 2022. I am realizing I was blessed and lucky enough to understand something about the rhythmic harmony of a marriage which touches the human soul more than money ever could.

I once had an amazing conversation with an old time Navy Seal for about 3 hours.

He actually owned the same white Ford pickup truck I own.

He told me the most difficult thing he ever went through in his life was not the Navy Seal training. Or studying for his law degree. It was getting a divorce from his long-life wife. The tears were just about to start but he held them in like a Navy Seal would do or any man.

It is very sad that the human species is still so very primitive it hasn't learned about the most important thing in human experience and existence.

It is not money or cars or sex or Netflix or having a great job or owning a teeny tiny grocery store that your daddy handed over to you.

Nope. As the Bible mentions more than once. The most important thing in life is love. I think experiencing a rhythm in a long-life relationship has a special type of love that I got to experience in my life before I exit my human body for good.

It is too bad the whole world doesn't wake up every morning with a brand-new heart and soul knowing that the rhythm of life isn't confined just to a marriage. But the rhythm of life should be realized with every person you meet.

Until people stop hating each other so much that won't happen.

But maybe one day it will happen. Then maybe the kingdom of heaven will be on earth!