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A Lesson From Fasting
Every January my church does a cleansing fast. Typically it is a fast of food or a particular food but it can also be a fast of time or activity, something of worth to the individual for the entire month. This month I decided to fast cop shows. Any television program in which someone must die to start or move the plot along. This may not be a big ( Read more... ) -
Thoughts
Constantly policing ones own mind is tiring.
Guarding against every sexual thought like a chain smoker going cold turkey.
There is a greater good, a greater peace to be enjoyed once discipline is re-established.
Eventually this thought process will be old hat, but in the meantime, I'm not weary, yet. -
Elder Parent Experience
Ms. Inez ( Read more... ) -
Swing
I sat watching the couples laughing and twirling on the floor with smooth steps. A slight bit of anxiety poked at me as the ongoing thought that this 'dance, is really a trust excercise'...not something Im good at. I recall the dance lessone that I had woth Nathan years ago and the internal work it took for me not to look behind us and to Trust ( Read more... ) -
8-31-2014
There is no part of my life that is Not in need of immediate and radical change. -
Elder Parent Experience n cups of coffee...
Yesterday ( Read more... ) -
Elder Parent Experience, CoWorker-B
My biological parents are well ( Read more... ) -
Coworker-B (CWB)
CWB - Catching me in the break room after a brief hello in the hall minus our customary brushing of hands or hugs or soft smile. "Are you mad at me or have you given up on me ( Read more... ) -
Elder Parent Experience
6am this morning in the hall ( Read more... ) -
Single, 'Was that an opprotunity?'
I went to the exhibit on RACE at the museum http://www.carnegiemnh.org/race/programs/. If the exhibit comes to your town GO, it was pretty thought provoking ( Read more... )