All my life I’ve been serially obsessive. Video games, a recurring theme since the original Mario Brothers in the early eighties. Knitting… but so tightly none of the sweaters fit, counted cross stitch, oil painting, genealogy, medieval history, the history […]
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As the Gift, So the Giver
It was only when I became aware of all the gifts I had received that I asked who the giver was. What a shocking realization: because the gifts were surely divine, then equally as surely, the giver must also have […]
Continue reading »1400 Is a Number
May 4, 2011. That day and the rest that year and every day since then except one in June, 2011 and another last April and evidently a few more I haven’t found… We’ve posted fourteen hundred times but that many […]
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I would except that… There’s always a reason, an explanation, an excuse. There’s the right thing… but what do you do with the others? I’m going to make the right choices… but you made this cake for me, how can […]
Continue reading »Difficult then Easy
All things are difficult before they are easy. ~ Thomas Fuller They call it a simple program, simple but not easy, destruction of self-centeredness required. Tough, near-impossible — to give up a lifelong obsession with getting it right, finding willpower, […]
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