PSA to anyone that thinks of filming fireworks:
The fireworks you'll see are awesome IN THE MOMENT.
So stay IN THE MOMENT.
-You'll never watch the video again.
-No one cares when you share some grainy fireworks video to social media- it looks awful.
Phone away.
Be with loved ones.
Enjoy the festivities.
Happy 4th of July! 🇺🇸 🎆
Happy Father's Day.
I slept in a tent in my backyard last night with my kids. I've been wanting to take them real camping for a while, and I finally just decided, why wait, let's do it right here.
Here's what I didn't expect about being a dad. I always assumed I'd be a natural. That I'd just know how to do it. What I've learned is that being a good dad takes intention, every single day. You can wing a lot of things in life but this isn't one of them. Just being there isn't enough.
I don't get to have them as kids for much longer so I'm trying to be more intentional with the time I do get. Last night was me working on that.
To every dad out there figuring it out as they go, I'm right there with you. Happy Father's Day.
Would prefer Derrick Lewis win his fight but don’t see it happening if it goes past R1. If Gane wrestles could be a W over Pereira as well. #UFCFreedom250
Discussing abortion as if it’s the right of a mother is the wrong conversation. I’d like to tell you a story about how I became “pro life”
If you’re not an active pro abortionist & are passively pro choice, hopefully, this post is for you.
Growing up I was passively pro choice. I knew it was never going to be for me, but I believed the hype that it doesn’t affect me, so it’s not my fight.
My mind was drastically changed in 2020. I married my lovely wife Ashley in 2019. We decided to have our first child together right away. It took a couple months but eventually we got it right. At the beginning of the “pandemic” we were delighted to find out my wife was carrying our daughter, Rylianne.
7 months in, my wife wasn’t feeling good. She felt pain all around her body when she was moving around. She was struggling to use the restroom & she rapidly gained a bunch of weight.
She drove herself to the hospital & I met her there. They quickly brought her in, checked her blood pressure 250/150. That’s… really high. The nurse pulled out the Ultra sound gear, and put it to her belly.
Silence…..is all we heard. For minutes that felt like an eternity, she searched for the heartbeat of our daughter to no avail. I’ll never forget the look Ash gave me. It was a hopeless plea, as if I could reassure her… tell her everything will be ok, that our daughter is fine.
We sat there, holding hands, coming to grips with the fact that we had lost our daughter. There was nothing I could do to help.
Turns out Ash developed HELLP syndrome, the advanced stage of pre eclampsia. Days later after the Dr’s stabilized Ash, she gave birth to our stillborn daughter.
We held her, told her we loved her, and that we’ll see her in the next life. The wound in my heart created that day may never heal. To this day it still hurts, but I have learned to deal with the pain.
My point in telling you this is that I know my daughter was alive. She kicked, she listened, and for the short time she was here on this earth, she felt the love and warmth from my wife while residing in her womb.
I can now, never deny the humanity of those residing in the womb. The zinc spark at fertilization, is the first sign of life we can detect. I believe that’s when we are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights that we, as a good and moral people, should absolutely recognize. They’re humans, and we should treat them as such, because not all of us can make it long enough to withstand the world outside the womb.
Since the 1960’s when abortions have become legal, over 3,000 babies are terminated daily. A genocide that we can’t see, that we can’t hear because the crying souls of the babies have no ability to speak for themselves. Somebody should. We should.
For a happy ending to this dreadful story, my wife and I were able to try again. We were blessed to be granted the ability & opportunity to have another child, & I thank God everyday for that.
Raylan was born in 2022. Ash once again developed HELLP syndrome but this time, we caught it. Raylan was born a bit early but at 5lbs 5oz & healthy, we couldn’t be happier.
The only way to change this debate about pro choice or pro life, is to recognize when human rights begin, and it begins at fertilization. That’s when we should recognize the right to life we all enjoy today. That’s the only way to save 3,000 American lives that get aborted daily.
God Bless You All & God Bless America
*below is the photo of Rylianne’s nursery she never got to use. A hopeful dream that never came to fruition.
When you have a kid on the way, the blackpill is not an option. It's a luxury you cannot afford. Pessimism is fine if your timeline ends with you. When there is a person coming who will live in America you don't get to check out. You have to show up, because somebody is counting on the country still being worth something when they get here.
The concept of "teenager" is a modern invention.
For most of human history, a boy of 13 was already a man, apprenticed in a trade or fighting in a war.
George Washington was a professional surveyor at 16.
Alexander Hamilton managed a trading company at 14.
In medieval Europe, noble boys could be pages at 7 and squires by 14.
In Rome, a boy put on the "toga of manhood" at 14.
The idea that an 18 year-old is "still figuring things out" would have been incomprehensible to our ancestors.
I believe this is why we think teenagers are so troubled. They are men and women stuck in a society that treats them as children. Of course they are going to "rebel".
We should give them more responsibility and expect much more of them.