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Spiritualism

Your ideals are mostly spiritual, but in an individualistic way. While spirituality is very important in your life, organized religion itself may not be for you. It is best for you to seek these things on your own terms.

80% spiritual.
80% reason-oriented.


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Sometimes, I feel like such an alien to life. Life is too broad. Culture? Yes, that’s more it. Culture. It gets to feeling like every choice a person could make for a Normal life, I’ve done the left hand turn. My experience is so outside the boundary of a normal life, yet here I am in the nation of Normal, raised to speak the language and act like ( Read more... )

I was thinking about the difference between real love, and fictional love last night. What makes a good story is conflict, suffering- brooding, angst, all that rot. Conversely, what makes a good real life love affair - connection, warmth, respect, understanding, are not the foundation for a good story. I’m a very, very lucky fellow- I have the real ( Read more... )

I'm a librarian at a small private business college. In the four years I've been here, I've gone through five changes of Deans, and four Campus Directors. The last Dean of Instruction, my direct boss, a man I charitably called The Undertaker, resigned in June. They've made no move to replace him as yet. The fill-in Dean of Student Services just ( Read more... )

I haven't been around much lately, between work (with my assistant librarian gone) other work, editing, and holidays in both countries. So I thought I'd hang out at the house last night, and watch a movie with the adults. Cyd's cousin was in town. Morgan went to bed like clockwork, the kid never varies. But Rowan would not settle down ( Read more... )

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Started the morning by going down to the basement, and finding the laundry I'd put in the drier the night before hadn't actually run, and was still wet, and ice cold. So I ran the drier, and chose other things to wear for work. Got to my car, parked in a small lot down the street where I'd been parking for, oh, ten years without a hitch, and had a ( Read more... )

Getting angry is like getting drunk. I find myself saying that much more these days. Like doing shots of bourbon, back in the day. I know that what I am doing will alter my perceptions, make me sick afterward and a bit weak, but during, it is hard not to feel the power of the heat. Hate/heat ( Read more... )

It has begun. Worldwide, the shift in cultural views on same sex marriage is happening. South Africa just became the fifth nation to offer its gay and lesbian citizens full civil rights ( Read more... )

I like having a home. I make myself at home easily, the way any dog does. My toys, my place, my blanket, my person. Mostly that last one. I get real lonesome without the people ( Read more... )