Frustration comes in many shapes, angst, anger, guilt, envy… so many things can cause disquiet. Butting up against others among the swarming masses a word, a gesture, an omission telegraphs disdain, contempt — as perceived in the recipient already bearing frustration. […]
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Genesis
Who can ponder the earth, the mountains, the firmament above believing chance brought them to be, to last, to proclaim the majesty of great nothingness. Should happenstance reign, should fluke events shape history, surely impermanence would prevail, chaos would reign, nothing […]
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Again I looked and saw all the oppression that was taking place under the sun: I saw the tears of the oppressed — and they have no comforter; power was on the side of their oppressors — and they have […]
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The Underground Railroad offered safe passage from oppression, servitude, deprivation to freedom — something to be longed for, sought after, the stuff of dreams. Yet brave were the folk housing, feeding, moving freed slaves and those escaping as well. Misery, no […]
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Overeaters Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the OA name ought never be drawn into public controversy. ~ Tradition 10, The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous (Kindle Locations 2044-2045). I probably have an opinion, and you […]
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