Adam Kugler’s Stories, Poems, & Other Stuff

The weekly story is Another Side this week. It is part one of 4 

I promised a link to the music video to the video of the song that I played as a part of the podcast and so here it is: 

Another Side Music Video

Have you ever been a failure? What did you think? What went through your mind? 

That’s what this podcast deals with, is dealing with the failure that we all face from time to time and how we have to forgive ourselves and how we have to forgive others when they fail. 

This is a big part of who we are.

This is kind of a little personal story, and a little storytelling of the history of the drummer boy position of the Civil War Unit. Something that has always been a fascination to me. I think that the drummer boy was always the most important role that was there. There are also paralells to the need for us to pour out God’s love on other people.

This is a little bit of the history of the Kamikaze Pilot and the history of war as we know it and one of the things that makes us so unique is that we always have a “reason” to go to war and a “reason” for the killing that we do today, but not always is it the best thing in the world. In the end we all have to have our reasons to march, are you marching for the right reason?

This is the story of a little league team that is trying to overcome a team that is more powerful than they are. Whether they can get it done is not known. They have a good cast of characters, and we come to find out that the main character is an old man looking back at life. He is reflecting on the things that he has done. He is trying to make sure that there are things that he has accomplished, and while he does not tell us who won between the two teams for sure, he tells us a little about teamwork and about being there for one another.

This is the Introduction that is taken from the book... it is slightly modified to fit the podcast a little better, but I think that it is well worth every minute that we put into it.

This is the introduction to the story of the week, Champions. It comes from the book The Hangman’s Rope. I was sure that this was the story for me, after talking to the people around me and finding that they just get bitter when their teams lose in playing a game. However, when I went to see my barber, and we were talking the two of us were sharing the story of how the team wouldn’t sign the contract of the manager if he failed to win this next year. I said it didn’t matter to me. I said it was just a game. That’s what he said, as well. I think that sportsmanship is a little lost and needs some help. Can we still find it in this lost world? I think so.

The exciting conclusion of the story, The Rain in the Hills, gives us a chance to look at the life’s that we’ve all lived, the mistakes we’ve made, the hearts we’ve broke, the hearts we break. While there is no one that this story specifically targets, I would like to say that there is nothing that there is a period of my personal life that it reminds me of as an author. I know that as an author, and it’s author to be specific, I more than likely wrote it from something specific in my life, I’m just not sure what. It could be a hodgepodge of different things, but at the same time I know that there are certain people that I can pick out from among the rubble in this story. And to them I know that they will recognize themselves if they just ask who they really are.

This is more of my personal story from this past week. It talks about how fear can paralyze us but how forgiveness can set us free. If this is something that you think you want, feel free to let me know, and I am more than willing to talk to you more about it. Just leave a comment and I will be more than happy to get in touch with you in the next few days.

The idea of going blind was not one that I wanted to face, but it was one that I had been living with. It was the idea that I was not any different than the rest of God’s creation. There is no denying that. I think that there are times when we have to give up on the things that we want and go for the things that God wants. Sometimes this is not the easiest thing in the world to handle. I was not blinded until the age of 37. I had sight without major problems until just a few short days ago. Now of all times I have gone blind in one eye. Was there a little fear? A little panic? Yes there was. Listen to this message and see how I overcame this.