Brotherhood Can Teach a Man to Rise Again
I accompanied my buddy to an Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meeting because he didn’t want to go alone. We sat among a mixed group of ragged-headed teens and…
Crisis, Clarity and Character
I think we’ve all been here before. Anger seems to be the typical response when someone attacks our character. Another normal response is to want to immediately fight back. We…
Inspiration: Rupert Brooke and a Quest
Rupert Brooke, English poet and WW1 soldier, had lofty dreams. He made efforts to make them real. He once wrote, “ I want to walk 1,000 miles, and write 1,000…
Spotter Up sponsors Kabul Half Marathon and 5K
Kabul Half Marathon and 5K Guest article by SFC VanVoorhis Being deployed in Afghanistan for a year can have positive or negative effects on physical fitness depending on how down…
Books from the Ancient Greeks you Should be Reading
The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides The writer Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote about the three decades long war that left Athens in shambles and Sparta the stronger for it. The Greek…
The Joy of Combat
Important Note: Combat does not just mean fighting overseas. Combat is the military fighting a foreign enemy, law enforcement officers fighting for their very lives, firefighters rushing into a burning…
Playing Pranks on Your Teammates Can Build Your Team Up or Tear Them Down
One of the best pranks I’ve ever read about was the prank played on American anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon by a tribe of Yanomamo indians of the Amazon rainforest. I don’t…
Love should take away all of your excuses to die.
“If you do not use your own torture in an effort to end your pain then you are a fool who wastes his tears.”~Michael Kurcina You have to tell the…
Strength of Strings
I was out running and listening to Gene Clark’s “Strength of Strings”. Incredible. His song is powerful yet simultaneously fragile. Clark stared out onto the Pacific Ocean from his Mendocino…
A talker is all smoke, a doer is all fire
“A talker is all smoke while the doer is all fire and each must learn to control more and less of what they intend to be.”~Michael Kurcina Fire 🔥 is…