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Bone Bruises and Mulberries
The world that boys inhabit is utterly unlike the one adults live in, especially the adults of the species “Mother”. I used to be a ten year old boy so I know this. My mother’s lack of experience in “being a boy” likely explains why she so completely failed to comprehend the sheer brilliance her oldest son displayed almost daily.
Dog Alley
When I was a kid, I used to ride my bike through Bluestem Park on the way to school. A creek ran through the park, and in the springtime the crawdads would be thick in the creek. We'd stop our bikes on the way home from school, dink around in the creek and catch crawdads. I...
Supernova
From my journal: March 2, 2012 I think a lot about the difference between the way the world is and the way we humans think it should be. We all - mostly - agree about how it should be: people should treat others the way they want to be treated. But the reality is very...
Random Thoughts on Atheism
Last week I wrote about my complaints against Faith. Now I take the other side. I have a few complaints against Athiesmm which is kinda "the Thing" in the crowds I run with. My frustration with religion in general and Xianity in particular has its locus in the fact that I find...
Random Thoughts on Faith
I was taught in Bible class that faith was a gift from God. That means, "if you have faith, it is because God gave it to you, not because you did something to create it in yourself." Ergo, people of faith have faith because it was given to them; nor is it given to everyone. I...
5 Minute Fitness
One of the things James Altucher advocates as a means of becoming a better person is The Daily Practice: a discipline you impose on yourself to address 4 areas of life every single day: spiritual, physical, mental and emotional. I know from experience how hard it is to change...