You Can’t Make This St*ry Up!
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The End Game!
The Real Deal None of us are likely to get out of this alive! The value of our lives certainly includes more than what we…
How To Honor Your Ashes!
Scorching your life offers nutrients not found in any other experience! I often hear great achievers talk about how they got to where they are.…
Misordered Priority of Function!
Finding Meaning When it comes to defining meaning, there are more paths to explore than can ever be recorded on a map. It’s easy to…
That’s Not My Job!
Our morning routine was interrupted. I was engaged in conversation and failed to notice the time. My grandson said,”Papa! pointing to the clock, I need…
Easter Fools!
Historically, Easter Sunday and April Fools’ Day has happened, on the same day, a number of times. Perpetual It’s a bit challenging to establish the origin…
The Power of Sufficiency!
Compassion I came running from the backyard when I heard the magical tune of the ice cream truck. I darted into the house to ask…
Finding The Perfect In Chaos!
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve looked into the face of confusion. While I have my share of things that have worked out…
Staying Inspired Is A Tricky Business!
LEANING IN You know you have a dream on your hands if you experience more than an occasional flirtation. And, your passion keeps tempting you…
Where Greatness Resides!
ELOCUTION I’m intrigued by the way words are put together to convey ideas, sentiments, and deep emotions. I appreciate words, phrases, and quotes. I love to hear…
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The only thing that gets my creative energy flowing more than hearing powerful speeches, verbal duels, and passion inducing vernacular is action. Yeah, imagine that? My attention span becomes shorter and shorter as I become less and less convinced of the speaker's commitment to what they are saying. I've lived too long now to play patty-cake with the idealistic rhetoric of people who think misinformation, deception, and manipulation as art forms.
Our public landscape is changing faster than politically correct terminology. Who can possibly keep up... whatever do you mean? Words are rarely innocent anymore. They are often cosmetically engineered to mean something different than their origin. It's like dating a plastic surgeon who takes her work home with her. I still dig it. I'm just at a loss sometimes, to know which word is least likely to incarcerate me in the land of sacred spaces. Is my aggression micro or macro? Where is my shrink when I need him/her?
It's generally accepted that words play a marginalized role. Tone and body language trump mere syllables. Hate speech, nouns and pronouns dipped in insanity, and incendiary disquisitions are most likely to get primetime play. If you have strung together a few lines or a paragraph of hope-filled solutions you should expect to be indicted for inciting a calm.
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I look both ways but, I find myself running a lot of red lights on intolerance these days. I'm hoping for a resurgence of simplicity and wisdom. We're now at a time when getting over an education is more challenging than not obtaining one. Who would have ever thought dropouts could actually be the more scholarly career choice? No, I'm not advocating ignorance. But, to not see most colleges have replaced education with indoctrination would be ignorant indeed!
Human beings by nature are problems solvers. It's just that we have this habit of reinventing negative systemic attacks on our general well-being. Somewhere, deep inside each of us resides the capacity to knock it off. Is remedy to scary of a concept? How about reminding ourselves that healing is a virtuous form of revenge.
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I don't like a lot of things. But, wishing thinking produces nothing. Our country has an expanded mind...the genie is out of the bottle. We need to learn to play together before we are bewitched beyond repair. We need a "first, do no harm, approach.
Words founded us. Words define us. Words sustain us. The power of life and death are on our tongues. What we say, how we say it, and who we say it to matters. Our greatness resides in our willingness to improve!
What do you say?