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Unrealistic Expectations
Continue Reading →Unrealistic Expectations Here are some of our expectations for those who would hold Political office up to, actually in particular, President. Clairvoyance Infallibility (even the Pope has a hard time with this one) Omniscience Perfection in character Embracing “Middle” Class…
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Nostalgia and defeating the seat belt warning
Continue Reading →I, like most people that are online and “connected”, are inundated with nostalgic emails touting the “good old days”. Some are quite touching in spite of their superficial treatment of history. Harmless I suppose. So I thought I would indulge…
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Good Byes?
Continue Reading →Sometimes, goodbye is all that is left. No matter the depth, no matter the breadth, no matter the sincerity of the desire. Life presents some opportunities that are just mirages of illusions of unattainable desires. I have come to believe…
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Ascending and Descending
Continue Reading →From the moment of birth for most of us, our skills, abilities, knowledge, associations, and character is in ascendency. We are expanding, improving, developing, learning, refining, and gathering. We reach a point where we begin to shed certain characteristics, young…
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Misinformation: More evidence of the dumbing down of America
Continue Reading →(POLITICALLY SENSITIVE DISCLAIMER: This is not an attempt to sway anyone’s opinion or feelings about abortion, just a demand that if one is going to argue against, or in favor of, something we should at least expect real facts, not…
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A Dying Art
Continue Reading →I have reached that point in life where everything I learned, everything I was taught, everything I embrace seems old and obsolete. In most cases, I have learned new things to replace the old, adapted old teachings to new realities,…
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Where’s the Intelligence in Design by the Divine?
Continue Reading →If I understand the hypotheses of Intelligent Design, there are things that exist in nature that are “irreducibly complex“, the various components having no independent functionality, and therefore must have been designed by “God“. To the general public, hypothesis and…
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Leaving Homes
Continue Reading →Leaving Homes I have lived in a number of different places. Mine is not a pattern of yearly moves to exotic and far-flung places, but rather a progression from one home to another, with a few interim locations. I was…
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Watching Death Visit: Two perspectives
Continue Reading →The day started as all the other ones. We woke just before the sunrise, ate a small meal, straightened our living area, and prepared to go out to gather provisions. We headed in a different direction, as he thought we…