I started delivering newspapers when I was a tender nine years of age. Had I been an adult looking at the nine year old that I was at the time, I probably wouldn’t have let myself take on the job at that age. In fact, I might have thought such as idea as skirting the periphery of the insane. But with my parent’s blessing, I started delivering … [Read more...]
Thanksgiving Quotes to Enrich Your Holiday
Thanksgiving is an incredibly rich time. It affords us the opportunity to reflect on the transformational power that an attitude of thanksgiving delivers into our lives. It likewise prompts us to move away from all lesser tendencies that tend to woo us and instead embrace this vitally important attitude. As a ‘thank you’ to my readers, I’ve … [Read more...]
Being Thankful – A Forgotten Art
Being thankful is a nice idea and something that we’re supposed to do. There’s something right and proper and good about it. But sometimes in the rush of life we don’t feel we have time to be thankful, or that our situation isn’t really something to be thankful about. Life sometimes is more about survival and less about anything else. So there … [Read more...]
Bobbing and Weaving – The Dance of Justification
We’re not all too bad at bobbing and weaving. We’re pretty good at side-stepping and side-lining issues. We’re quite adept at cutting and spinning, doing a bit of fanciful dodging, as well as deftly running the obstacle course without getting so much as a scratch on us. We’ve learned to see things coming from a long ways away, and we’ve figured … [Read more...]
The Worst Slavery – Slavery to Ignorance
Slavery as an institution is pretty far removed from the minds of most of us residing here in 21st century America. Slavery sits back plenty far enough in the faded, yellowed and brittle pages of history to create a more than comfortable chasm between us and itself. We view that chasm of time and social development and modernism as broad enough … [Read more...]
The Perfect Storm – When Life Hits All At Once
Wikipedia states that a perfect storm “refers to the simultaneous occurrence of weather events which, taken individually, would be far less powerful than the storm resulting of their chance combination. Such occurrences are rare by their very nature, so that even a slight change in any one event contributing to the perfect storm would lessen its … [Read more...]
Am I Paying Attention? – Being Aware
Am I paying attention? As this thing called life moves ‘round about me, and I move ‘round about within it, am I paying attention to it all? Am I paying attention, or have I unwittingly confused a host of other behaviors and habits as paying attention? Am I paying attention, or have I adopted certain views or biases as ready templates that I slap … [Read more...]
We Reap What We Sow – Changing the Seeds
We reap what we sow. In other words, what we do is never free of an outcome that will be shaped by what we do. The ‘cause-and-effect’ of life is such that what we do will always cause an outcome that is fashioned directly by what we do. Despite the fact that we often think (or would prefer to think) that what we do is somehow isolated to the … [Read more...]
We Are Human – All of Us
We are humans. All of us. And while we come from different cultures, and hold different beliefs, and embrace a variety of traditions…we are human. Our dress may vary, our economics might be quite different, the language that we speak may be entirely unknown to others, and we may well be spread far across the socio-economic spectrum…but we are … [Read more...]
Do We Search for Truth – Or For Ways Around It?
Do we search for the truth, or do we search for ways around the truth? Do we even take the time to consider a question like that out of the long-held assumption that we are, in fact, looking for the truth because (we assume) that that’s the obvious thing to do? What insanity would behoove us to do anything less? But do we search for the truth, … [Read more...]
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