Once upon a time it mattered, the parentage, the birth order, the grandiosity of title, nobility. Children knew their place by looking at their parents when even kings couldn’t read and occupational secrets were handed from generation to the next […]
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Fifteen hundred eighty-nine days I write a poem the night before, post it usually before six the next day but I went to bed early, didn’t. How could I have missed? An evening at home, not on a ship, not […]
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Analytical minds demand real… logical progression from point A to points B, C, D, E, F…in order. Scientific explanation, hypotheses proven, rationale, arguments. Real triumphs, thrives, flourishes… until it doesn’t. Sometimes real can’t bridge the chasm, can’t yield results. Sometimes… […]
Continue reading »This I Know
I know I’m a compulsive overeater, that diets don’t work…for me. They work fine as a plan of eating but the diet idea, the willpower, the weigh-in-front-of-people-for-maximum-humiliation, the attagirls, the rewards you can add back in that for me start […]
Continue reading »At Some Point, Policy Rejects Mercy
Many Christian denominations comply with the teaching of tithe. However, some groups go to the extreme. They require a disclosure of all income “for accountability.” Noncompliance ends in expulsion from the congregation. Bureaucratic legalism rules. At some point, policy rejects […]
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