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The Sin
A sin in Archery terms, means to miss the mark. That is how this day and quarter of school looks like at the moment. My health has set me back again this quarter and it looks like I missed my opportunity to go to college. In what would seem to be a simple mistake, not […]
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Just as It Is
There is a bunch of soul searching going on in the country today. Whether it is to escape from the everyday trappings or because of them, things are always moving and changing, defining and redefining. It is happening just the way it’s supposed to, whether good or bad, meaningful or indifferent, just as it’s supposed […]
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The Next World Order – Classes
One of the many areas of the world that will always be going through change is the classes of the population. At this moment some of those aspects are front and center and others are hidden rather well. From the Panama papers to the Wikileaks and every bit of hacking in between there are fewer […]
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Basic Income – Digital Tribes
Yes, we are going to have to begin to think about this as a country and economic reality, but that isn’t where I am going here. Five appointments, one with the Dentist and four more Doctor’s visits. Paying bills and shopping, doing the laundry etc… There was my week. It is like that for most […]
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Democracy’s Onion
There have been more than a few things in life that have been described using an onion as a metaphor. So why not use it to look at a symptom of this living today that may not be recognized. As much as I love to break things down to their microscopic bits and pieces, I […]
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72 Months and a Million Days
My recovery is messing with my math… So… Here I am about to turn the clock into my seventh year of my recovery. The last six have been, as partially recorded here, a wild and albeit crazy ride. I am no different than anyone else in the respect of having a wild and crazy ride, […]
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This is Not Your Past
My wife and I migrated into the discussion on guns we are having right now as a society. I had broken down or felt the urge to comment on a friends post and it was an instant mud pit, with the insults, ad hominem attacks and insinuations. I knew I shouldn’t have indulged in opening […]
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The Next World Order – Sexes
In examining things that will shape and propel our civilization forward, it is seldom popular to examine them as they are happening in fear of shaping the messages or demonizing them. There are many factors and facets that are arranging themselves now, and in looking at how that may affect the future, some thinking remains […]
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The Smoothing Ripples
Turbulence is always going to be a part of life, mine is no different. I am finding myself at a point of great optimism and at the same time despair. Can I do it? Can I wholly become that new person physically and mentally? Last Summer was a good part of the answer, I was […]
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The Changing Blanket
Engulfed in change, at times it feels like a warming blanket falling into all the right places. Other times though it is a hole riddled tattered rag that lets the cold in. These days feel a lot like the latter with the first one within reach at least. Sure, there are health issues and getting […]
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Christmas 17
Twas the week before Christmas and all over the place, Let’s get this thing done, was on everyone’s face. The decorations are pondered, as to how much is needed, The paydays are counted, the collectors aren’t heeded. The fireplace going when the burn ban is lifted, Looking for that thing, you were going to re-gift […]
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This Thing We Do
Let me preface this piece off first. It is just an observation of one person at this moment. It will upset and irritate some, and it may make some think a little bit more. It is not meant as an end all, but an opening possibly. To what is opening, that is up to you […]
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Broken Beauty
Kintsukuroi, or Kintsugi As a philosophy, kintsugi can be seen to have similarities to the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi, an embracing of the flawed or imperfect.[10][11] Japanese aesthetics values marks of wear by the use of an object. This can be seen as a rationale for keeping an object around even after it has broken and as a justification […]
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The Name Above
Sometimes I wish people would ask me why I named this place “Tempests Follow?” It is something in my paper mess here that I wrote long ago. In short it means, with the winds of change, tempests follow. The roughest of seas become calm in time, the smoothest quick to turn rough as well. I […]
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Painting on Water
I stood within my reflection, I gathered all of the colors of life, and began again…to paint on water. That picture or essence has been writing me for the last week. A connection to something outside of myself that I am examining at the moment. Life is but brush strokes washed away as quickly as […]
Tempests Follow
Acts and thoughts of the common man and his best friend Hobbes the Cat.
To write to me is to explore, from the very top to the deepest core. That part human sometimes unseen. Compiled of the many things, that show themselves in acts and words. Such as kindness that is returned. So take to heart one soul am I, though heartfelt are these words of mine; To approve or accept not, is yours, like mine… Simply a thought.
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Acts and thoughts of the common man and his best friend Hobbes the cat.