They start by praying for serenity then talk of unmanageable lives, of surrender to a power greater than me, of no grand plans, but day by day being honest with myself and facing my fear. They say it’s not religious […]
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Is he not really a self-seeker even when try ing to be kind? (Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 61) I bend over backwards for you — can’t you see I am the best thing that ever happened to you? I rewrite your manuscript […]
Continue reading »Like Life
If you can, try to like life. Be good humored about your mortality. (William J. Bennett) A theoretical pessimist, he says he is, recommending we exercise practical optimism. Is that doctor-of-philosophy talk for act as if? Try to like life. […]
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Inspirational quotes such as, “Leap and the net will appear,” were scribbled on Post-Its and stuck everywhere. (manuscript I’m reading for evaluation purposes.) Life, stuffed full of Post-it® notes that motivate, mystify, obfuscate, inspiration in a comment, a dictum, a […]
Continue reading »Where We Stood Up
Stand up or stand-up in a military sense, is United States military terminology or jargon which means to formally activate and commission a unit, formation or command structure. The inverse would be to “stand down” the unit, which means to deactivate or decommission it. (Wikipedia) Where we stood […]
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