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Living a Self-Centered Life

July 22, 2020

On the rare occasions I check the news or social media channels, I see nothing has changed. Those on the Right are convinced the nation is awash with anarchists forcing the nation into some kind of lawless, socialist welfare state; those on the Left are convinced the nation is teeming with racists hellbent on creating a totalitarian state. And all of this playing out amidst a pandemic that has, of course, further divided the masses. So many agitated minds. So…

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Shhhhhh…..

You and I don’t know what we are. Don’t know how we got here nor where we’re off to next. Yet we are forever tossing around our opinions about this, that, everything. Look at the world news. Fear dominates, all of humankind paralyzed by…

July 6, 2020
Scripture in three words

Scripture in Three Words: What Am I

Your eye has three receptors for perceiving red, blue, and green. The eye and brain then combine those colors to allow for approximately 300 different shades of color (e.g. orange, purple, yellow, and so on). This, for all intents and purposes, constitutes the world…

September 18, 2019

What Am I?

It wakes you in the wee hours when you want only to sleep, whispers in your ear while you celebrate yet another milestone birthday, gazes up at you from earth or urn when you say good-bye to yet another loved one. It is the…

July 17, 2019
content is kindling

Content is Kindling to the Ego’s Fire

Each of us knows that person who is thin-skinned, hypersensitive, forever waiting for his/her buttons to be pushed, right? Of course you do. He/she gazes back at you in the mirror each day. Ah yes, you think, no doubt in a magnanimous spirit, I…

May 13, 2019
The Imprisoning I

The Irony of Self-Esteem

Self-confidence. Self-loathing. Key measuring sticks by which we measure human happiness or misery, success or failure. We eschew self-loathing, but we aspire to self-confidence, self-esteem, self-love. And what we really want (but shhhh, don’t admit it, since that would make us look bad), is to…

January 10, 2019