Tag: Real life
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Asks and Gives
There are times when all we do is ask, all we do is fall to our knees and cry out for whatever it is that we (think we) want. But the world is bigger than that. The spirit is bigger. Some may find that idea a bit floogy, mushy, or otherwise nebulous, especially if they…
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I Wrote a Letter: A Missive on Mental Health
I’ve come to understand more and more that getting health care is not for the faint-hearted. Instead of the system getting better, it’s become more complicated, scary, and less caring than ever. Remember the neighborhood or ‘country doctor’? If you’re on the younger side, you might not have had the pleasure and pain of such…
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2022 … And the Horse It Rode In On
Yep. Calvin (of Calvin and Hobbes fame) sums up how I feel about 2022 right here. I said to at least four people yesterday that I’m already tired of ’22. The holidays are typically not easy but between Christmas and now has been a seeming never-ending slew of bad news. Between losses of life and…
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Belated 2022 Greetings
I indicated that I would post on Facebook, perhaps once per year. I offered that tidbit right around New Year’s Day, 2021. I asked that people not post in reply or on my feed through the year, since I wouldn’t be checking it much, if at all. Imagine my chagrin when I popped in there…
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Infinite Possibilities
So. Writing is a challenge. For those who think oh, it’s nothing to write some of these stories, books, and screenplays … I mean, they’re just making it up, right? let me share something with you. That’s just the very first step to a good story, book, or screenplay. It’s easy to tell when that’s…
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Humanity
I find myself burdened by the weight of my own humanity. Photo courtesy https://pixabay.com/images/id-2964231/ Despite taking melatonin pretty consistently (by that I mean at nearly the same time each evening with few missed nights), I am again waking in the wee hours of the morning. Two nights (days?) ago, I was up at 1:30. I…
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Revenge
Now there’s an interesting word … People of faith tend to poo-poo the notion of revenge. You know what the Scriptures say: Revenge is mine, I will repay, says the Lord. That is very true, however … there’s more to it. 5 Now you know what Zeruiah’s son Joab did to me. You know what…
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Rona
In case you were wondering, I’m alive, even though my presence on so-called social media isn’t. Me, November 2020 I’m alive in the time of the ‘rona. Despite its horrors, I call it that because it reminds me of the song ‘My Sharona’ (1979), the debut single from The Knack. It makes the covid not…
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Love
It’s Election Day in the U.S. It feels funny to title this blog ‘Love’ on a day that is a first culmination of so much vitriol. But I have a reason. Let all that you do be done in love. – 1 Corinthians 16:14 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is…
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Lessons
I’d seen the title of the documentary in the list, several days prior but hadn’t clicked on it. It was about a long-lost Egyptian tomb, the find of a lifetime for people who dig in the hot sand, hoping to find an undisturbed resting place of someone long-gone from this mortal plateau. There were job…
A New Bloom 