Children are blessings but teenagers are monsters. A child is an amoebas collection of human potential, randomly regurgitating it's humanity; crying, laughing, scowling, reacting in general and all with minimal contemplation. It is the scarcity of contemplation, the viceral connection to the human element, that we call childlike in children( ( Read more... )

Walking the straight line, being quiet ( Read more... )

It's tragically bittersweet. I thought that an Obama win would reinstate my faith in people's rationale. At worst, I thought that my cynicism concerning the American people would be affirmed: McCain would win and I wouldn't be surprised. I didn't think that my opinion of the majority's ability to have rational thought could be any lower until I ( Read more... )

It was at least a week after the first tuesday in November of 2000 that I was cc'd on a mass email from a middle-school friend that I had not talked to in six years. I've lost the email but I've thought about it over the past eight years. In more or less words, the friend, a classmate from the baptist middle school that I attended for two years, ( Read more... )

You did well today, but you missed a lot of things. You should have been assessing her harmed leg, should have taken resperations, should have talked to her a lot more. As you feel more comfortable and sense more of your responsibility, you will do more.

I'm not doing much of anything. My life seems as though it is on pause at the moment. There are plans. Oh my, are there plans, but these plans are not so urgent that I need to up heave my comfortability in my warmly lit Santa Monica apartment, toss out the video games and marijuana paraphernalia, and hit the books--hard. I just don't need that ( Read more... )

2007 has been the year of "Ahhhh, I see." of "Ohhhh, that's what you call that." of "Right! Of course!" of "It's so simple it's beautiful!"

I am that I am.

I'm not going to say that atheist propaganda is worse than theist propaganda such as christianity. I am going to say that they are both worthy of spite or at least shame. I have atheism as a category of interest on my stumbleupon add-on in firefox and so I come across a lot of atheist blogs, articles, and websites. Christians can be dicks when ( Read more... )

For someone who tries to be as optimistic as possible, I can be a really grumpy guy.

Little Sarah stared at two pairs of socks, one pair baby blue and the other white. From her drawer, she had selected many as a possibility and had narrowed down her choice to two. She evaluated them side by side, squinted, and placed them inside her tennis shoes to get a better idea of what they would look like for her afternoon at the park. ( Read more... )