Living
Life is hard. And full. And awesome. Live it.
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Playing with Presentation
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3 min read
Sometimes I like to play with the look of this website. Often it is because I’ve gotten bored or I’ve seen something I like somewhere else. And sometimes it isn’t about my site, my vision, or my expectations. I sometimes get the desire to change things up because something in the world changes and I…
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Create – the forgotten language of the season
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1 min read
One year my Mom tried to get us to make our Christmas gifts for one another. There is some serious backstory to all of this, but suffice it to say, she thought she was offering us an antidote to what ailed us. My Mom is an artist. So everyone groaned and thought she had a…
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The divine beauty of planning a Thanksgiving dinner
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3 min read
Thanksgiving is all about the food. That is how must Americans experience Thanksgiving: by eating through it. There are three kinds of Thanksgiving dinners: Always the same. Changing or negotiating between families Eating out. The Same The menu is pretty static for most of us. Turkey and carbs. And for many, the experience is also…
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Thanks
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1 min read
a season of gratitude and anticipation As we prepare, gather, and eat dinners over a long holiday weekend or campout for the “best deals of the season” at the annual shopping bacchanalia, we are drawn by the season to an attitude of gratitude. The funny thing is just how alien thankfulness sounds in 2021. I…
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The Right Decision
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2 min read
We agonize about getting our decisions “right.” When we do this, we show anxiety about the future. If we’re in the middle of deciding, then it isn’t in the future. It’s something happening right now. But once it’s decided, it is no longer present. It immediately becomes the past. The problem is that usually the…
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Kings and the price of granting supremacy
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We are all familiar with the saying “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” – John Dalberg-Acton. We also know that it doesn’t come from the Bible but from a historian, John Dalberg-Acton. OK, we know the first part, I had to look up who actually wrote it. This is also the stuff…