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Reflections of Kind
A friend was commenting on a post I had put up. Someone in the program and it was an antagonist position that he was taking. I didn’t think anything of it until I was looking at another friend’s wall and found posts about punishing those who believe differently than he does politically. Another friend in…
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Sex, Rights, and Standards
Well crud, I always get grief and a lot of shame when I bring this topic up. Yet, as I am going to have either a stent or bypass tomorrow morning, this is as good as any to try to jump the divide of observations. This is a very crunchy time in America, as are…
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From One to Zero – Binary Bipeds
While pondering the word prompt “patience” from another page, the umpire-ical outlook on the natures of us that I tend to fall down took hold. As I examined my patience that existential door opened up a bit. I must be patient, because I, like many others in this society, in this world view, am still…
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Shouting Into the Din
These last four and a half years has been incredible and wondrous, and at the same time fraught with frustration and reflection. When someone loses their good health it is not always apparent. The thing is though, when someone tells you repeatedly over that time that they are not well, but ill, there is a…
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Meandering… Well
I reached for a thought and it slipped quickly through my grasp. I began to look for the next and did not find any more within reach that had a form. I knew the process, half hunting, half fishing, I could only see some of them if I was lucky and the others could only…
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Adulting – Pit Stops
This week I took what is called an Accuplacer test. It was for college, and I didn’t do very well on the writing part of it. Let me rephrase that, I tanked it. As people well know there are many different styles of writing, apparently what I do here is the creative type. What they…
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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…