As summer signals its send-off and autumn announces its arrival, the earthly equipment we employ to measure time will mark the conclusion of my sixtieth year in this here and now. A birthday milestone I could never even imagine thirty years ago. A birthday marker that too many of my friends never realized; their lives […]
Tag Archives: suffering
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Jul
Jul
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 […]
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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 […]
06
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
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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Nov
Nov
In the fall of 2019, we noticed Mozzer’s health was declining. Prior to this, he had been a very healthy cat. Vet appointments consisted of routine vaccines, routine dental care, and no prescriptions. We knew he had been born with a heart murmur and that as a breed the Sphynx’s lifespan is considerably shorter than […]
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Sep
Sep
We live in a myopic binary world trapped in a malicious belief that other humans are either the oppressed or the oppressor but never both. There is no grey rainbow, only a black and white ideology of identity; victim and villain. An “us versus them” worldview predicated solely on my judgement or the soulless judgements […]
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Mar
Mar
As much as we try and avoid the rain, it sustains life. Without it plants would wither, animals would become parched, and we would not grow. Moreover, we would die.