Every culture – each family – has them, the holy traditions, the rules, the right way. Learned at mother’s knee, not subject to doubt, the mandate is clear; to question, heresy. The God of your understanding? Like parents’, years after they’re dead […]
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Wisdom Yields Patience
Wisdom yields patience. It is to one’s glory to overlook an offence. ~ Proverbs 19:10-12 (Note of reminder in workplace) Wisdom and patience. A connection exists, but which comes first? What is patience? Accepting or tolerating delay, trouble, suffering without […]
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My head was like a washing machine, this way, that way, this way, that way. ~ Esti Indecision, oscillation, should I this, what of that, he’ll get mad, that’s not right, I don’t want to but I should. Head rocks […]
Continue reading »Knowing What I Don’t Know
He has the ability to know what he doesn’t know, which is a good quality for a politician. ~ Paraphrase of comment on NPR about new president of Mexico All those years I had to save face, to act like […]
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I know her. Fine person, hard worker, honest, sincere, good folk – observed for years. I don’t know her. Learned things, these years later. Surprised, confused, befuddled. How could I not have seen the sum of what I knew was […]
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