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The older I get, the more awkward I feel recieving gifts for christmas, I much prefer giving them. I certainly have more than I deserve. The best gift I remember ever recieving was a bicycle. There is nothing like being 8-12 years old and getting a bike and being imbued with the sense of freedom it brings, At least that was the case for me ( Read more... )

Death, Life and Beautiful Synchronicity Edition

This is actually two stories, one of life and one of Death, which come together in a Beautiful way. If you stick it out to the end, the payoff is worth it.

A story of Death: Paris, near the end of the nineteenth century. A young woman’s corpse is fished out of the river Seine. The body was sent
to the ( Read more... )

Pirates, Praetors and Peccadilloes

In the year 75 B.C., Julius Caesar, who at the time was 25 and a new Roman senator, was sailing across the Adriatic on his way to Rhodes to study Rhetoric (the art of discourse). On the way, he was captured by Sicilian pirates, who infested the Mediterranean Sea. I know what you are thinking. “Pirates?, not in the ( Read more... )

When I was a young man, I had liberty, but I did not see it.

I had time, but I did not know it.

And I had love, but I did not feel it.

A decade passed before I understood the meaning of all three.

And now misunderstanding has passed into contentment.

Love, liberty, and time: once so disposable,

are the fuels that drive me forward.

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From time to time I find myself coming back to this picture.


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I made a "I'll see sex in the city with you if you see Indiana Jones with me" deal with Tamara Which I intend to honor ( Read more... )

Can a Jedi lightsaber cut through Superman?