We live in a world that even our most foresighted futuristic forefathers could never imagine. Cold water flows into our homes with the turn of a faucet. Hot showers are available on demand. We press buttons on a machine to cool us in the summer and warm us in winter. Our food is flown in […]
Category Archives: Weekly Reflections
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Jun
Jun
Fifty years ago, as our nation celebrated its bicentennial, a shy skinny suburban fourth grader summoned the courage to step out from among his classmates. Performing his impersonation of James Cagney as he spun, shook and slid across a soulless gymnasium floor. His classmates in support of his stage entrance as they sung about a […]
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Jun
Jun
We all want to believe that by and large we’re a good person. Maybe; but probably not as good as we believe. It’s not that humans are bad per se, but it’s more nuanced. Humans, like all of creation, are pronounced good by God. Every person conceived in love and custom-made to love. Love that’s […]
13
Jun
Jun
Like every object and each subject within the cosmos our existence is relational. No human was ever created alone. No human ever came into the world alone, and no human was ever meant to live this life alone (even introverted introverts). You are not a rock, nor are you an island. You will feel pain […]
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Jun
Jun
Someone once said that time heals all wounds; maybe. I can only speak from my own experience and my owned grief. What time has allowed me is plot and perspective to ponder what my life has been about. What my life could have been about, and what my life should have been about. Like rings […]
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May
May
Nostalgia has a powerful pull on the human heart; its deception delightful. Mystically moving our minds eye to a time and terrain that no longer exists and maybe never really existed. A reel of re-imagination that revolves inside our head. A cerebral sleight of hand that heals the heart as it recalls a reminisced reality. […]
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May
May
The modern world has deconstructed every social institution, disassembled the cosmos and disarmed the world of any meaning. Reducing the human experience to a succession of stimuli to serve a soulless system. Science is sacred, the sacred is scorned and humans are suffering. As a culture and a country, we our spiritually sick, mentally maladjusted […]
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Apr
Apr
There have been millions of words written and thousands of pictures painted that try to capture the essential essence of the human experience. Often these themes highlight our passions, such as adoration and abhorrence, greed and generosity, and death and deliverance. And yet, every book and painting remains outside of ourselves regardless of its impact […]
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Apr
Apr
I am Gen Xer (born 1965–1980). One of many life labels that’s been assigned to me. A moniker that describes something about me, without being unique to me like being born in the United States. What is distinctive when talking about my generation, is that we are the last analog generation. While some sociologists and […]
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Mar
Mar
One of my many favorite creators on Substack and X is James Lucas who posts about beauty and truth. Both of which I believe are attributes of the Divine. On a recent X post He shared Roman epitaphs created for their dog’s tombs. One of them hit my heart hard even as a cat person. […]