I’m not facedown in a cheesecake. Miranda Dunkin’ Donuts coming to town… making the newspaper, TV, radio, talk around the coffee pot. Valentines…get candy for everybody you know or you won’t be respected and they won’t feel loved. You have […]
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Burning Bush Need Not Apply
We need no burning bush and ethereal voice to tell us what God wants for us in most of our choices each day. ~ The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous I’m special. Surely God will talk to me […]
Continue reading »Give Up Sainthood
Give up sainthood, renounce wisdom, and it will be a hundred times better for everyone. ~ The Tao Perfectionism. Seemingly something to be sought, to be cherished, to gradually attain, but no! Perfection can be recognized not by advancement but by […]
Continue reading »Seeking Favor
Why are favor and disgrace alarming? Seeking favor is degrading: alarming when it is gotten, alarming when it is lost. ~ The Tao Verse 13 Seeking favor. Trying to make someone like me. Doing favors for favors, for attention, for […]
Continue reading »The Guilt Dump Dream
When amends have been made, lessons learned, responsibility nurtured, maturation triggered…still, guilt lingers. For years. Decades, lifetimes, and beyond… guilt converges, amasses, amalgamates, melds like plastic peanuts in a land dump, perpetual, imperishable, perdurable. Useless. Toxic. Malignant. Pernicious. Toxic waste […]
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