From the desk
Writing
Essays, op-eds, and mind wanderings on justice, policing, aging, the trail, and whatever else won’t leave me alone.
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Nostalgia and defeating the seat belt warning
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?
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
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
(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
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?
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
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
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…
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Conversations
Conversations come in almost unlimited variety. They define many of our moments on this planet. Some we have daily, some only once. They can be combinations of types (first, last, only, memorable first, memorable last, one of many memorable, heart…
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A Coping Mechanism
Here’s a little amusing trick to use when forced to endure those one-sided, annoying, mostly childish, unavoidable cell-phone conversations overheard EVERYWHERE. Fill in the other side of the conversation! Here’s how it works; (OVERHEARD) So, what did he say… Yeah….…
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Random thoughts
I never understood the expression “If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans?” Wouldn’t a St.Peter joke about 4 Nuns dying and going to heaven work better? Whoever thinks heaven is “heaven” has not met the file…