This song came on in the car yesterday and it got me to thinking...Isn't this kind of all of our relationships? And not just romantic relationships, but our jobs, friends, relatives, and so on. No wait, hear me out...

Nothing is ever 100% what we have dreamed up in our heads. Sometimes we think they are, but this is usually early on, before we've ( Read more... )

Originally posted by truejabber at Beyond Bernie Sanders and Black Lives Matter

Lately I've been pondering the interruptions of Bernie Sanders campaign events by Black Lives Matter folks and all of the ensuing noise.*
*(Full disclosure: I did personally comment to a post in which I said it was plausible that the latest two individuals were hired by another ( Read more... )

"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation." I try to remember this quote when I notice myself shutting off from ideas presented to me by others. It's nice to think that I have ( Read more... )

The thing I find most sad about this isn't the initial appearance of an indictment of religion itself, but that it actually shows the results of religion gone wrong.

Toward the end the kids say that if we had no religion, "Everything would be simple", "There would be no bomb blasts", "We would be a lot more friendlier', "There would be no fights ( Read more... )

For a few years now I have avoided viewing TV "news" fairly successfully, and it has truly been nothing but beneficial. Every once in a while though it surprises me, like the old pie-in-the-face bit, but in slow motion...and as the filling starts to inevitably engulf my face...I realize with horror that it is made not of cocount cream...it is made ( Read more... )

So yesterday was my birthday, and it was almost perfect.

The not-so-great stuff in my day was my own doing of course. I discovered shortly after I started my day that I had made a mistake at work that may turn out to be very costly. I frequently tell my kids that beating themselves up over mistakes is pointless and only serves to work against them ( Read more... )

There are parts of this piece that I agree with, and some that I question. But what I really want to say after reading this is: Please, please, please keep talking to white people about race! No matter what race you are we need to keep talking about this and make things right ( Read more... )

So there are a few things that I hear people say frequently when it comes to elections. I've translated what these phrases actually sound like to me when my brain interprets the words ( Read more... )

From the sermon “Charleston ( Read more... )

( Thoughts From a Recovering Kindergartner )