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Looking in the tall grass
This past summer, I was showing a man and his son how to look for monarch butterfly caterpillars so the boy could bring one home to raise. I walked right up to the long grass to point out what...
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3 Immutable Laws of Life
Adam Saveage of Mythbusters famously likes to say, “I reject your reality and substitute my own!” Unfortunately, this doesn’t always work so well in real life. While it is true that there are many...
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Laziness
I know this feeling Of all the epitaphs we throw around “lazy” is probably the one we see as inexcusable. Which is funny because we all have a tendency to be lazy. We were made to need rest. And...
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Making Friends With Me
I have a tendency to be very hard on myself. I had to learn to stop being my cruelest critic and become a friend. To do this, I started thinking of how I would talk to, support and encourage a friend...
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Thinking Makes It So
“There’s nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” – Shakespeare I picked up this quote back in my senior year in high school while reading Hamlet for class. When I got to college, I wrote...
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Drinking Anger’s Poison
Hulk gets ANGRY!!!!!! - Yeah, me too. One of the worst things I ever did in my life was pull my sister Shannon’s hair. Well, it wasn’t just the hair pulling; hitting her repeatedly just before pulling...
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I’m a byword for neurosis
by·word/ˈbīˌwərd/ Noun: A person or thing cited as a notorious and outstanding example or embodiment of something. A word or expression summarizing a thing’s characteristics or a person’s principles....
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Mary the Grocery Store Lady and Me, Me, Me!
Last night I went to the local grocery store and saw that Mary had dyed her hair. I was a bit surprised. Mary never struck me as the hair dying sort. The cigarette smoking, beer drinking with her...
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Pareidolia
On a clear late summer night, the woman sat on the edge of a field outside of town to watch the moon rise. In another time, she would have been known as a seer among her people. But times have changed...
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Wrestling Hope
“Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante’s hell is the inscription: ‘Leave behind all...
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Your Daily Cud
A random thought to ponder: We don’t have to become perfect; just better. Tagged: thoughts
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Consistently Inconsistent Part Deux
You would not believe the problems I have had getting online the last two day. Seriously. If anyone would like to send me $400 to upgrade my internet, that would be so awesome. It took me about 4 hours...
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Random Thoughts
Some days I can handle more stupid, some days I can handle less stupid. We need to learn to respect each other’s limitations. My brain is very, very tired right now. Some days my random thoughts are...
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Your Daily Cud
A random thought to ponder: We too often think that our wildest notions about God represent the outer limits rather than the jumping off point. “Eye has not seen, ear has not heard, nor has it entered...
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This is So True
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” — James Baldwin Tagged: hate, life, thoughts
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Your Daily Cud
A random thought to ponder: In some tribes with high infant mortality rates, new mothers give their infants jewelry and beautiful trinkets in an attempt to entice them to stay. Tagged: thoughts
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Your Daily Cud
A random thought to ponder: If you want to understand life, look for the dynamics underlying what you see. Learn to spot these dynamics at work in different circumstances and contexts and the whole...
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Your Daily Cud
A random thought to ponder: After the angels who announced the birth of Jesus, only demons ever spontaneously recognized Jesus as “Son of the most high God.” The devil’s theology is probably more...
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Your Daily Cud
A random thought to ponder: Just because you think something, doesn’t mean you have to say it. Tagged: life, thoughts
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On Treading Water
Once upon a time, a dastardly villian took a girl out to sea and left her there in the water, in the dark. She knew she was in a struggle for her life. Although it was night and she could see...
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