"As I’m driving, I’m listening to a singer, who is my favorite singer, who, I didn’t know him at all at the time, Peter Breinholt.

Right as I was approaching the first off-ramp that would lead me to a life of chasing down pedophiles and sex traffickers, and everything else, this song comes on, that, before this moment didn’t have much meaning to me, it wasn’t necessarily my favorite song that Peter Breinholt sang. It is called ‘Lullaby’. It tells the story of a parent figure who is talking to a child, who is having some kind of nightmare of something bad happening to them. The parent comes into the room, he soothes the child, and then what the parent keeps saying is “They won’t come around here no more, they won’t come around here no more…”, meaning these monsters, the nightmares. I thought “you know what, because of what we did, and, again, I didn’t do anything spectacular on this case, but because of our efforts, the monsters won’t come anymore to this little boy.” - Tim Ballard

https://ourrescue.org

https://www.amazon.com/Operation-Toussaint-Tim-Ballard/dp/B07MGZPRFR/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2NZZR2MIWXTGL&dchild=1&keywords=operation+toussaint&qid=1595112911&sprefix=operation+tou%2Caps%2C179&sr=8-1

Does the average man or woman come across as a strong individual who is armed with the character traits to face up to the challenges of life, or to paraphrase the author Richard Weaver, does “the typical modern have the look of the hunted”? (Ideas Have Consequences)

Just like a boxer with his fists, try to have your principles ready at all times.

Spotter up in-depth tactical solutions: http://spotterup.com

The Little Book of Stoicism, by Jonas Salzgeber: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MY2VFQD?ref_=k4w_oembed_ty69xO9VG5giEd&tag=kpembed-20&linkCode=kpd

*** I don't know why I blanked on it, but Marcus Aurelius ruled from 161-180. 

At that moment, I knew this is where I belonged - in an old, battered, run-down gym with a blood-splattered canvas covering an uneven boxing ring. This was now my home. - Billy Moore, A Prayer Before Dawn

Men will find themselves judged, cursed, and crushed for their intelligence and honesty in a world of declining values, declining manliness, and declining desires for achieving a worthy place in the world.

Hell, even a dull hell awaits men without courage and a vision, or the objectivity to stand back and understand what every man must pursue. Critics will attempt to publicly injure risk takers and will ask how dare they.

Men should never stop trying to become fully developed persons. Attempting to truly live means men will also experience tremendous shocks to the soul, shocks that wound us severely. The delicate instrument of love will close off some of our injuries from further insult but we must have enough courage to see the operation through, and have enough to pursue the path of being alive! Wandering, questioning, doubting, unbelieving and believing, coming, going, dying and growing. We must never stop.

Michael Kurcina, We Fight Monsters

We breed boys to be sheep and allow wolves to be shepherds, and if we don't right that wrong, we're going to have a nation of weak hearts when it's time to fight the heartless.

Michael Kurcina, We Fight Monsters

“If you serve too many masters, you'll soon suffer.” ― Homer, The Odyssey

When I open my mouth, am I complaining?

Does what someone does outside of my sphere of influence really matter to me, or am I being tricked into feeling a false sense of outrage?

If it really does matter to me, what steps have I actually taken to do something about it (besides posting articles on Facebook)?

Am I contributing to the conversation in a positive and helpful way?

The lesson taught at this point by human experience is simply this, that the man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down. This rule may appear somewhat harsh, but in its general application and operation, it is wise, just, and beneficent. I know of no other rule which can be substituted for it without bringing social chaos. Personal independence is a virtue and it is the soul out of which comes the sturdiest manhood. But there can be no independence without a large share of self-dependence, and this virtue cannot be bestowed. It must be developed from within.

http://monadnock.net/douglass/self-made-men.html

Revolution: A political upheaval in a government or nation-state characterized by great change.

Rebel - A person who resists an established authority, often violently.