Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Do You Believe in Santa Clause?


Do you believe in Santa Clause?  Do you believe that the joy of seeing someone special revel in receiving that perfect gift is more important than the praise you might receive for having selected it?  Do you find in the selection of such a gift a rewarding feeling that washes over you filling you with joy, not at your selection, but rather at the knowledge that you have paid attention and truly know those with whom you spend your time?  Do you feel the overwhelming satisfaction of watching a child or loved one fill up with wonder and the whole light of happiness in accepting all the love that accompanies such a gift.  Is, in fact, your joy found in the giving of such love?

Do you believe in the anonymity that allows these tokens to be truly reveled in, without the expectation that conditioned responses of gratitude must accompany every gesture of good will?  Can you find the truest gratitude in the flickers of happiness behind a loved one's smile?  

If you were to close your eyes and conjure an image to personify these beliefs, what might you see?  

After a day toiling to reap the harvest, can you step aside and give unto the rain and the sky and God's good earth the credit for the bounty?    

Yes!  I believe in Santa Clause!

If you answered yes to these questions, at any age, from any station, then you too believe in Santa Clause!  So when you are asked, answer proudly:

I believe!

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

The ACX Chronicles: Episode 1 - Introductions and Obstacles

Audio Book narrator Roberto Scarlato is producing the ACX.com audio book of "Lucky" by G.W. Pomichter, and here are his chronicles.



See how a legend is born in the industry.  Learn more and follow this extraordinary journey.





Friday, October 3, 2014

Friendship, Faith and Fellowship: “Watering Harvest” Has it All



MELBOURNE, FL — Christian author Susie Michaels is pleased to announce the release of her rousing new book, “Watering Harvest.” 

This inspirational book is the lighthearted stirring tale of three fishermen discerning the treasure within, and sharing amazing truths about the nature of their relationships with God.
“Watering Harvest” is an upbeat journey of discovery into the human heart, where Harvest learns the valuable lessons of faith and the priceless nature of God’s love.


Born in the Foothills of Tennessee, Michael’s own life journey has brought her far, and she is quick to credit her success to God and the “Treasure He Is inside her.”

“This is an exciting release for me,” said “Watering Harvest” author, Susie Michaels.  “In these trying times, we all need to embrace the Treasure of God living in each of us, and I know that this book will share that message with every reader.”

Released by the strategic self-publishing alliance of world’s premiere Christian Publisher, Thomas Nelson, WestBow Press, and Author Solutions Inc., a leader in one of fastest growing segments in the writers market, “Watering Harvest” delivers a timely and uplifting message that transcends age, culture and nationality to inspire Christian readers, enlighten anyone’s search for God and entertain all.

After 5-years of intensive research and soul searching, Michaels is set to deliver a powerful affirmation of faith that flows like water from each page into the hearts and minds of readers.
“Water is mentioned more than 600 times in the Bible,” Michaels said.  “That doesn’t include the power messages contained in passages of rain, seas, springs and brooks.  The water that Jesus turned to wine has significant purpose.  This purpose and the significance of how our faith flows and how it can be drawn upon has inspired this story.”

Watering Harvest” calls readers to discover and to cherish “The Treasure He Is,” and feel the fulfillment and profound joy of sharing the Treasure.

This is a story ideal to share with Christian fellowships, friends searching more meaning or strangers learning to live God’s path for the first time.  It is ideal for readers of all ages.  Adults quickly realize the revitalizing strength of “Watering Harvest,” while young readers find inspiration in the characters and the hopeful way they share their faith.


For information, call Susie Michaels at (321)258-4227 

Lucky (Official Book Trailer)

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

“Lucky” Released: Touches a Nostalgic Nerve

     MELBOURNE, FL—Author G.W. Pomichter is pleased to announce the release of his first fiction novel, “Lucky.” “Lucky” pays homage to a by-gone era of classic "Detective Noir" stories is a fun and exciting journey through the streets of L.A. in 1945. Lucky is returning home from World War II to restart his life up as a L.A.P.D. cop, when a case nobody wants lead him on a journey of self discovery he will never forget. Love, lust, and lamentation, travel beside Lucky through intrigue, mystery and murder, all conspiring to turn a hero into another gritty L.A. shamus reminiscent of Sam Spade or Phillip Marlowe.

     Pomichter is a graduate of Eastern Florida State College and is a former writer and reporter for Hometown News in Melbourne, Florida. The graduate of Florida Air Academy is a former U.S. Army infantryman and long time lover of the classic detective “noir” genre.
     
     “This is a fun look at not only a unique time in modern history, but a fun and classic story telling style,” Pomichter said. “It presents a style of language and opportunity to describe familiar places in a more fantastical light.”

     “Lucky,” which is available online at notable book retail giant Amazon.com, revisits the 1940’s and the classic noir style made famous in films like “The Big Sleep” and the Humphrey Bogart classic “The Maltese Falcon.” “There is just something that captivates you when reading a gritty 1940's detective novel and this one didn't disappoint!” wrote Amazon reviewer “AJLove.” 

     Pomichter said he was delighted by the response.      “That is who you want to write for,” he said. “It’s for the readers. It’s to give them a short escape from the here and now. It’s great when you can help a reader do that.”

     For information call (321) 541-0469 or by e-mail at gwpomichter@gmail.com. For author details and other work see http://gwpomichter.wix.com/gw-pomichter or on Facebook like the “Lucky” fanpage at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lucky/464262560377664

Copies of “Lucky” available at:
http://www.amazon.com/Lucky-G-W-Pomichter/dp/1497486807/ref=tmm_pap_title_0

Friday, March 28, 2014

A Simple Soldier's Prayer

As a U.S. Army Infantryman, I have always held a special pride in my service, and in that of my children after me.  As any soldier, sailor, airman or Marine can tell you, rather stationed far "in-the-rear," deployed abroad or serving in combat, every day the warriors know who they are and what they may be called to do in service to their countrymen.  Below, a humble submission for you all, a consideration for you to peruse, and an ever present prayer from a simple soldier.

"May the almighty bless and keep me one breath to the next.  Forgive the lives I take, and heal the wounds inflicted upon me and those I inflict upon my brother.  Make my service pure.  Make me humble and in want for no praise, but honor me with pride in my service.  May my aim be true and my hands steady in common cause with my countrymen.  Give unto my family patience and gentle disposition to my calling.  Send blessings to my brothers and sisters in air and on the sea, and those before me and those behind me.  Give to them and to me the soundness of conscience and steadfast confidence that only our fellowship can foster, and bestow upon these, the warriors, the clarity to see beyond the battlefield to the peace and hope for which the noble blood of our company has paid."

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Restore The Paradigm: Learn How To Think, Not What To Think!

When I was in grade school, I remember having one of the most influential teachers of my life.  She was an avid reader, and would share her favorite books with us in class.  She was fond of saying that she viewed her job, not as filling our minds with memorized facts or detail, but with teaching us “how to learn.”  She believed that if she was successful, we would spend the rest of our lives learning.

In fairness, I should also mention that in those days, the “cold war” was very much alive, and young Americans were learning about it, and about the ideals and promises that assured America’s victory.  We learned the differences between “history” and “Americana,” but we also learned the importance of our American legends and the sources of our idealistic tales of great leaders and their great feats.

I recall those days often, and the great sense of optimism that came, not from any false belief that America had solved the inherent problems that an ever growing human race faced, but from the knowledge that we as Americans had not and seemed bent on never giving up on finding these elusive solutions.  Back then Americans, even we children, knew that people were hungry and many were homeless and war still loomed before us perhaps as often as once in every generation.  But we knew that our quality of life continued to advance toward a better future with every new innovation, every new technology and every child who committed to life-long learning to better themselves and the nation, and eventually the world.

Tales of what lay beyond the “iron curtain,” terrified us, though.  It seemed that just out of sight was an Orwellian world where dreams were shattered by a constant pragmatism.  It was a mysterious place where children were tested for aptitudes and, we were told, limited in their ability to chase individual dreams based on these aptitudes and the needs of society.  I grew up to believe that America’s greatest promise was that I might rise to greatness or sink to failure or grow in prominence or fade to obscurity because of my own drives, ambitions and desires.   I believed that this promise, and the ability to spend a lifetime learning and growing for the mere sake of choosing to do so and choosing what to do with my own hard won knowledge was what being an American was about.

As I grew to adolescence, and later adulthood, these lessons stayed with me.  I served my country as a United States Army Infantryman, after which I became a salesman.  Eventually I chose to pursue a career in management, and honed my abilities as a writer at every available opportunity.  Later I returned to college to earn a degree and focus on becoming a better communicator.  I became a journalist and worked as a reporter for 4 years.  Always hearing that teacher’s voice inside my head encouraging me to dream and learn and be the independent and sometimes rebellious American that might through desire, skill, innovation or just blind luck, change the world for the better.

While recently publishing my first book in my early 40’s, and shifting into another phase of my evolution as a human being, I started back at college to pursue my next degree and most importantly to learn.  What I learned was disturbing.

With no malice or corrupt intent, the message I was hearing in class after class had become so very different from the one I had placed my life’s hope in.  Educated and respected professors with no truly nefarious intent were professing the very message I had spent my young life holding in contempt.

I have heard so often, that the purpose of academia, now, was to assist students in preparing for the workforce.  I have begun to notice that institutions of once higher learning were tailoring programs to ensure that graduates could find jobs in the fields most likely to demand their services.  It made me re-evaluate those lessons from my youth, and pay closer attention to the lessons being taught to America’s young people today.  I wanted to know if perhaps this was just a natural progression from raising young adults to dream, and teaching advanced students a sense of pragmatic responsibility.

I have begun to notice that students are being taught as young as seventh grade where I live to appreciate “having a job” and becoming a part of the “workforce.”  I have learned that often times these youths are tested toward their “natural aptitudes,” and encouraged as they progress through high school to work toward how those aptitudes can serve them in a practical world and what jobs they may “land” with these aptitudes. It sounds so familiar. 

I now wonder, what is it all for?  Should students be taught to pursue a “living” and to hone a marketable skill set as early as middle school?  Should high school students forego experimenting with social and artistic endeavors in favor of memorizing the tasks and skills that will get them a job after graduation.  Should college students seek to learn less Latin and less Humanities and more accounting?  Should these young minds focus on today’s tasks and less on expanding their personal ability to learn?  Is a “Renaissance Man” really just a “jack-of-all-trades and master of none?”

I taught my children to dream.  I taught them to weigh and measure themselves by the lives that they touched and not the depth of their professional success or failure.  I taught my sons how to learn, and that they should spend their lives learning.  From me they learned, I hope, to chase their dreams until their dreams surrender. 

Mrs. Wagner, was I wrong?

I imagine a world where Bill Gates or Steve Jobs would be limited by their “certifications” and where Mark Zuckerberg would be told his innovation served no useful purpose.  I imagine a world where we need no patent office because all that could be created had been created or where IBM might be right and no one would use a personal computer because no needed to.  I imagine Leonardo Da Vince limiting his mind to painting walls or designing weapons without creating stories on canvas or perfections in stone.
These imaginings of times gone by turned asunder are not rewrites of our history, but fears for our future.
In this future, that which exists is served.  Today’s companies are protected, while tomorrows real innovations are stifled.  Today’s wealth is defended by society, while today’s young are taught to work for it, never work to create it. 

We are not there yet.  We are still the descendants of rebels.  Yes, we know that Washington could likely lie and that Lincoln may not have drunk his beer from a barrel hoisted over his head.  We know that our heroes were mortal men.  But, their dreams endure.  Their ideals, even those they might not have risen to, are alive in the spirit a proud nation that still leads and still awes the world.

Am I wrong, Mrs. Wagner?

Perhaps I am.  Bu if this is so, than wrong I will be.  Teach your children to learn.  Teach your adolescent to challenge any notion that the only measure of success is in conformity or that mediocrity is not the bar for which to reach, but rather their true duty to reach past.  Tell our teachers to focus on showing our children how to think, and not what to think. 

I have no evil intent or over-arching nemesis guiding this evolution of education.  I have observed it as the mere natural curse of an unbalanced desire to bring about those solutions to the problems of unemployment, underemployment, poverty, and hunger.  Such desires to themselves noble, but such solutions cannot be forced or rushed.  They must be earned through struggle just as every justice we have known.   Great men knew that slavery was an evil, but they too were made to wait and earn its abolition.  Civil inequity and injustice followed for another century, as we as a nation earned with pain and blood the insight to recognize each other as brothers in the human family.  So to, must each act of greater conscience and greater justice must be hard fought and earned.

Teaching a generation to learn how to perform the tasks of today to do the work needed by today’s industry without regard for the needed innovations and necessary creative ambitions to shape tomorrow’s world is short sited.  In doing so, we may put every willing person to work.  We may, through these measures put the proverbial chicken in every pot today, and create a stagnant tomorrow. 

We must work as diligently to preserve the individual ability to fail or succeed as we do to ensure a better more equitable society, because the true equity in our society is in its promise that each one in it might rise to meet its unseen challenges or fall and be toppled from its highest past achievements.

Recall that it was once impossible for humans to fly.  Space did not exist beyond an academic argument, speaking to someone across the world while picnicking in an open field was impossible as was posting this “rant” on a unfathomable invisible wall of ones and zeros housed nowhere and everywhere simultaneously.

YES!  We must honor those teachers who taught us to reach unwavering for impossible dreams, as only through this stubborn adherence to belief and impertinent adherence to diversity of spirit can the impossible become possible.  Only if we persist can we steer away from the dull grey monochromatic existence of our childhood fears and toward the vibrant ideocracy that remains just beyond the lighted future, and ever-past the reach of current generations, but no less attainable by posterity than liberty was once upon a time in America.

I don’t know where she is today.  I hope she sees this adhered with digital tape to a cyberspace wall where a simple writer not any smarter that his anonymous readers can dream a better way to teach the young.  It took me 30 years to have her most valuable lessons tested.


Did I pass, Mrs. Wagner?  

Monday, February 3, 2014

My New Book: "Mapping the Road Less Traveled"

By: G.W. Pomichter (Author)

“Mapping the Road Less Traveled” is a simple to read and easy to understand “How To,” guide to organizing a campaign for public office.

This 1st edition campaign book is designed to give any professional or first time candidate, campaign manager or campaign staffer a practical and strategic guide to fielding an effective and highly organized campaign.

You don’t have to be a professional campaign manager to follow this easy-to-understand map of the political landscape.

Anyone can run for public office.  Now, anyone can begin with a fundamental understanding of the most effective best practices in campaigning used by some of America’s most renowned professional campaign consultants and managers.

The first step along the road to your dreams of becoming a community, state or national leader is outlined here in “Mapping the Road LessTraveled,” a one-“O”-one “nuts and bolts” guide to reaching out to voters and earning the trust and votes of the community you hope to serve.

Any campaign staff member, either paid or volunteer can benefit from this easy-to-read and reference guide to campaigning that come complete with some basic “checklists” to use while performing the daily tasks required running and winning with an effective and efficient campaign.

This is your chance to know what the experts know about helping a candidate succeed in becoming an elected leader.

“Mapping the Road Less Traveled” is a tool designed to help any activist, community leader or political enthusiast to take the next step on the long road to public service. 


“Mapping the Road Less Traveled” is available on Amazon.com and its affiliates, and beginning today, you can step off on your journey by getting your copy today.