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The love letter I can never deliver
Dear —, I wish I could give you this love letter. I wish, even more, that I could give you my love. Instead, these words are all I have, here with you in my thoughts while on Pandora radio plays...
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My friend, my therapist
Dividing the self from the other (the other being the self as fictional character(s))… There is one person who knows my body as well as, if not not better than, my wife — Abi. Allowing Abi into my life...
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Hometown happenings
Thanks to the choir and choir director yesterday for the wonderful introduction to the new hymnal at my hometown church which I attend when I visit with family periodically throughout the year. I am...
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Tough choices for religious followers?
Which is more important to you: A. Admitting that our current global socioeconomic set of systems is not the key to the kingdom of heaven?, or B. Admitting that our current global socioeconomic set of...
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Clueless in the countdown
I wander this planet in a fog, my thoughts in wonder, my eyes catching rays bouncing from stray objects that barely stand out from the background. I contemplate the universe in imaginary silence,...
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No one can break the cycle but me
So, I have been able to hide from myself under the guise of my subculture for most of my life, the true self revealed in quiet, out-of-the-way moments, in foreign lands, under the influence of being...
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But I don’t want to take time to heal!
Of two types of love — love acted upon and love written/spoken about — which is most important? This afternoon, as the musical group named Committed sang the song, “Mary did you know?,” the large stage...
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The toughest yards
For those who write, whether for business or pleasure, is there a congenital condition that drives them (us!) to put chalk to slate, pen to paper or finger to touchscreen? Writing, in whatever form,...
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AK-47 or Turing machine — which would you rather have when you’re under attack?
Attack is a word that needs a good adjective — verbal, military, viral, bacterial. Let’s go in another direction, instead — the debate about Calvinism. No, let’s go one better — the extended order of...
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Historical correctiins and faith: Census of Quirinius
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census_of_Quirinius
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Noon on Christmas Day
In this house, where memory markers are stored, sits a lighted Christmas tree under which a modest number of gifts covered in decorative wrapping paper and topped with shiny bows marks a moment in the...
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Me, myself, and I…sigh…
‘Tis sad to see that my wish — to have some dreadful disease that would end my life — has never been fulfilled. Instead, my general practitioner tells me I am getting healthier as I get older because I...
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Going crazy again
In my life, I have lost my sanity a few times: at age five, when I realised I was alone in the universe and had to create my own version of something to make sense of the cluelessness around me at age...
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Mourning has broken
As sheep graze the green grass of Ireland in the month of March, not more than a week away from Saint Patrick’s Day, here on this third planet in orbit around the local star we call our Sun, a...
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Overheard at the 70th Anniversary of D-Day…
Obama: Well, Vlad, you haven’t said a word. Putin: I am still thinking of response. O: Ya gotta admit it was pretty clever. P: But still, it was your own military. O: What would you do if the cadets at...
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Farewell, my feline friend!
We said goodbye to our big buddy, our Cornish Rex cat named Merlin, who died in my arms a little while ago. Watching death is never easy (I have a deep appreciation for people working in hospitals and...
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Returning to centre
For several years, I had meditated upon the quietude of life on the edge of a forest. I had personally celebrated seasonal events, recording them here, such as tree leafing, flower blooming and...
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A dose of three quarks daily
We praise competition, but practice merger and monopoly…. We praise business organization but condemn and prevent labor organization…. We give heavier and more certain sentences to bank robbers than to...
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