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Apr.01.2013
The minute I leave my last class before the weekend, I experience pure joy. This is a state of sweet freedom when my heart is filled with carefree energy. I call this sensation, which lasts for several hours, my weekly mini vacation. I have to say that I do...
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Feb.10.2013
My Last Summer With You: No Fanfare for a Withered Rose: Fidelis O. MKPARU
Life can change in the flick of a moment or in this case when answering the phone. As one man now comparing himself to a withered rose, or flower reflects on his aging body a voice from the past will bring back...
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Nov.09.2012
image via blogs.discovermagazine.com
I write every day. Yep. Every. Day. It's not a compulsion as much as it's a passion - something I want to do, something that fills me up even as it empties something within onto the outer world. If you write, you know it takes stamina, something akin to running...
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Oct.28.2012
Three weeks ago, right after my last entry, I let my activity level explode, causing the cross-town Garden litterally to invade our own little garden.
I devoted so much of my attention and psychic energy to the planning and other needs of the Garden, to the political campaign I was working on, and...
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Sep.11.2012
I've heard of Christians, conservatives and Republicans all called "closet homosexuals" or "closet racists" or "closet bigots" -- fill in the word -- misogynists, extremists, radicals.
Why do they never accuse someone of being a "closet Christian"?
Clearly the accusations above are to lead the...
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Sep.04.2012
To quote Foghorn Leghorn, "Woof, I say, I say, woof."
I've come down with a bad infection of writingitis. Have things to write but, wah, I don't wanna. Yesterday's writing day ended up, que sera, sera. I slept in till 8:30, shedding the vacation and driving. Then I cleaned up and lazed...
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May.17.2012
I’m not allowed to raise my children the way I was raised. Even though the way I was raised was loving and directly instilled in me a sense of morality, respect for other people, their ideas, property and feelings, tolerance of different values and views, I’m not allowed to even glance menacing at...
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Jan.24.2012
I fielded a call from a disgruntled client a couple of weeks ago. He had subscribed his sales force of seven people to a program that included four one-hour training sessions, delivered on-line, and a 45 minute session for him to show him how to...
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Jan.15.2012
I recently read an article about a woman in Indiana who decided to teach her fourteen year old son a lesson about the consequences of lying, drug dealing, and stealing. She made him wear a sandwich board at a busy intersection that said, " I lie, I steal, I sell drug (sic), I don't follow the...
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Dec.13.2011
Some things just can't be put off or ignored. I've learned that I must unpack as soon as I get home or that luggage will remain packed for days. I can't put off the sort of chores I dislike or I'll put them off forever, things in work like adding new parts to the system, signing up for health care...
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