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Question.Question.Question some more.InterrogateInterrogateInterrogate some more.Rumors had been swirling for awhile.Around campus.Around the large university town.Word had spread that there was a person on the loose. Students avoided their night classes. Subsequently, a curfew put in place. Night classes would be suspended for a time. Until they could discover what was going on with the situation. What to do about the situation.Law Enforcement was...
Wow.Does it ever end.?Will is ever end?When caution is thrown out the window, with the baby and the bath water, what IS left?The Audacity of Hope?Well. Audacity is a sufficient enough word.Hope. Can be a four letter word.Please do not confuse the “stand up” podium as an opportunity to show toughness in the fight, the rat race. The Professor pondered as the lecture progressed. The times were tough. Very tough. With nary a leader to be found. The circus carried on, and i...
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”William ShakespeareLove all.Trust a few.Do wrong to none.Do. Wrong. To. None.Holiness.It is a Journey.Bonafide holiness.It is a Journey.We really all are gifts to one another.(pf)Can be. If we search our hearts. Then re-establish our souls.Our reasons for being.Our reasons for living.How we take care of these gifts says everything about,Who we are.Who we follow....
You’re fired!You’re tired!You’re hired!Now.We get to work.I just hired a new kid.A new kid on the block.To walk around with me through my days and nights.A new apprentice.We do not speak a verbal, vocal same language.There are many, many non verbal unspoken similarities.We are both, however, students of life.Lifelong learners.Of all things good.And.The scary things too.My apprentice is a newcomer...
Ouch.Let the wrestle fest begin.The push.The pull.The yes.The no.When was the last time you felt as if you shot yourself in the foot.Right in the foot.Actions speak louder than words.Words can mask a multitude of hidden meanings.Hi jinks.Low jinksAntics. Antically speaking. One man’s antics may be another man’s success.Or failure.See how insidiously webbed things can be?Can become.Hurtful, too.Boorish.Blunt. Coarse. Crude...
Practitioners practice practically practical practices.It is good practice to ask yourself, “What IS my goal?”Depends on who you work for.And in favor of.Hbu?Do you work to be in God’s favor?Do you work to be in the Principal’s favor?Your Mother?Your Father?Your Brother?Your Sister?The New Deal?Have you asked yourself lately.Whose favor do you seek, do you hide from?I thought so.Oftentimes, t...
Stop.Stop it! (lk)Stopped.Stuck, too.In front of:A facade.The facade.Of all facades.Rest assured.There was, or is something, someone holding “it” all together.Walk.Walk the narrow path. (gb)And.You will neverNEVER,Walk alone.Privately privacy.Can be a hedge.Can cause a hedge.Despair.And all the trappings, or how shall we say,The remnants.Actually sown together make ...
Exercise this.(I think we could all use a 😹 laugh.)May I introduce you to my good friend, Argot.And.Sometimes the absurd is the only way to go.😜And.When the going gets tough, the tough get going.Whatever it takes.History has a way of repeating itself.The good.The bad.The ugly.The politics of identity and identities have gone off the rails…….And, No.It is not “funny.”Neither are the lies spun in the incessant webs ...
How are you?How have you been feeling?High on yourself.Low on yourself.Or somewhere in between.Waiting for a “buzz.”Of some kind anyway.In the land of the holding pattern, are you?Too afraid to changeToo tired to, too.Euphoric maybe.Feel as if you have been spending a little too much time in a purgatorial state of mind?Spending time in purgatory, till either the story changes. Or we do.Change.Decide to change.Our ways.
Beyond a shadow of doubt.Not everything all the time, always, every time, constantly, assuredly, enduringly, determinately, eternally, everlastingly, assuredly, lastly, permanently, definitely is,open to interpretation.Life can, put very simply, be rather innumerable, incalculable.Now.I am not suggesting throwing away the “swear” jar. ☺️ Not at all.Nor. Am I recommending the penny jar is an invaluable piece of glass.🍷We spend countless ...
Lines.Spoken.Written.On our hearts.On our faces☺️.Logic tells us one thing.Feelings may speak another.Hearts and minds are not always in sync.Wants and needs are not always in balance.How to bring life back to the middle becomes a daily battle sometimes. A push and pull, a back and forth, a this or that. The stories of truths and lies we tell ourselves to “make it” through the day..Spoken, verbalized to sway the other to our point of view.We...
Heebie, Jeebies!Eleven days from today.The ghosts, goblins and ghouls come out to play.Seeking “treats.”At the expense of others.(Unfortunately seems like daily life right now.🫤)Not one to be considered a fun-hater. Will join in the spirit of the spirits, and of the spirit of the Hallowed holiday of stuffing candy into bags and into our 😁faces. And contacting the dead to say “hey”,Wassup?How’s it going down there…Side fact...
Once upon a time trust seemed so naive, so innocent.We knew one another before we could talk, before we could walk.The unspoken word became the glue, the bond that held our lives together in a bonded state of growth and friendship. Through our younger, through our formative years. Trust founded on trying to figure out a big world within the moldable and kind mind of a maturing body.Exactly.Then.One day.Trust is broken.Forever.There were sig...
I don’t know ‘bout you.But.I don’t know what to believe anymore.I look ahead.I look behind.It all looks the same.Vast.Endless.Dry.Cracked.A bit hard on the feet.I proceeded forward, anyway.With hope in my heart.More importantly.Reality in my head.Throughout my existence, I sought to handle reality with ease.Give me a stack of Bibles.And I will swear over them.About it.
Theories.Stories.Fact based.Wish based.Hoped based.Doomed based.The spirit of the up and coming European originated holiday called: Halloween.The holiday was “deferred.”To another.In the interest of “affordability.”Possibly due to lack of funding.Spun.Not good.Spinning out of control.Not good, too.Usually, consistently, Oftenly. In times of hardship, in times of life or death decisions.
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