“Where are you going?” Believe it or not, this is a question I have been asked and have even asked myself a lot lately. Currently, I am training for my instrument rating, a rating that will allow me to fly confidently in clouds. Clouds are great, and I am told they are important, butContinue reading “Why are we here?”
Author Archives: Bryan Martin
August 2023
above; My beloved “Shark Tank” “Bryan, could you park in the back corner, I don’t wanna be seen in that thing.” This is what my true love said about the mechanized contraption that I have grown so fond of. This hurtful statement was uttered on our way to church in Ohio one summer morning. “Why?”Continue reading “August 2023”
Driving fancy flying lawnmowers in puffy floating ponds is Christianity in a nutshell.
Due to the overwhelming outcry by whiny pilots, Cessna aircraft company designed windshields for their new model “172” in 1954 so pilots could see what was in front of them. They designed an amazing piece of crystal-clear acrylic that protects the pilots from high-flying bird droppings and prevents damaging their all-important hairdo. I have enjoyedContinue reading “Driving fancy flying lawnmowers in puffy floating ponds is Christianity in a nutshell.”
The overwhelming blessing of G.P.S.
Look admit it… you would be hopelessly lost without GPS. You might be of a certain generation and think “How dare this youngin’ write ‘I’m hopelessly lost without GPS’?” You might have warm and nostalgic memories of being completely lost and opening that trusted and stained 8-year-out-of-date atlas, only to discover you still don’t haveContinue reading “The overwhelming blessing of G.P.S.”
MAY 2023
Looking down on people is now my favorite past time:)
January 2023
above: It’s not gold but she’s happy. Christmas travel woes Several thousand years ago a newlywed couple made a cross-country trip to their ancestral land. Today we like many others, make a similar trip. This is the story of our 2022 road trip up to PA.Our journey and the aforementioned trip by Mary and JoesphContinue reading “January 2023”
November 2022
above: my first day at Missionary Air Group. I love random facts that most definitely will never improve my life. When I share some fact with Maria she will often answer with a half-hearted “interesting” and then yawn. I will communicate to Maria interesting stories of spacecraft orbital mechanics and the crazy way Bernoulli’s principleContinue reading “November 2022”
September 2022
Above: Aria enjoying a carousel. Between eating Elmer’s glue on a dare (little boys are gross) and making leaky clay “bowls”, art was easily one of my favorite classes in school. I am not a natural artist, and I am constantly amazed at the beauty others can produce with a simple pencil to paper. MyContinue reading “September 2022”
Motorcycles are awesome and I nearly died on one.
above: I got to ride a Harley on highway 1 in California in 2018 and yeah it totally makes you cool.. Here is a love story to all motorcycles, a defense of why I think they are awesome, and a short story of how I almost died on one. So first the short story ofContinue reading “Motorcycles are awesome and I nearly died on one.”
July 2022
above: the “ham-mock” The Hammock Let me tell you of a controversial word that could divide your family loyalty in two. This word may drive brother against brother, and may even make fathers disown their very children. The word is hammock. No, you didn’t read that wrong. Stop and say the word “hammock” out loud.Continue reading “July 2022”
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