In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. ~ Albert Camus The winter of my life, depressed, inert, apathetic, slothful, in the pit of compulsion… In the depth of my doldrums hope […]
Continue reading »Among Worms
We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm. ~ Winston Churchill How easy it is for me to believe myself a worm. Self respect has never been strong despite my trying to make it […]
Continue reading »Less Effort
Oddly it took much less effort to recover than I thought it would. Much like smoking, it takes way less planning and execution to not smoke than to smoke. To not smoke, you simply don’t smoke. It’s the absence of […]
Continue reading »My Pimpled Mind
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. ~ Charles Dickens A pimpled face? Sure, most often fatty foods somehow come before. And pimpled bodies where extra flab memorializes mounds of sweets. […]
Continue reading »Contend for the Faith
Beloved, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. ~ Jude 3 (RSV) I […]
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