One of my other "super-powers" that I've had since childhood is a powerful attractiveness to any and all biting insects and arachnids. We lived in Minnesota for the first several years of my life and my mother said she used to have to drag me inside in the summers because the enormous horse flies were …
Tag: personal
Wanted: Reader Input
When I started this blog in March of this year, I had many ideas about topics I could speak on and connections I could make between different abstract concepts. My primary goal was to give me something to tend to during the lockdown period, to keep my mind off how bad I knew things would …
Contraction
I feel my soul contracting in parallel with the society and the economy. It is a constant uneasy feeling, as though it is getting harder to move, harder to live fully, harder to feel deeply. So many people, fellow human beings, are finding it hard to breathe. COVID and police violence are forcing the breath …
Stop half-assing life
This title is directed at myself as much as anyone else. But really, everyone, let's collectively STOP. There are way too many situations where we are just all phoning it in and that has to end at some point. Show up, for real. Be real. Take a stand. Believe in something. Make noise. Raise a …
Searching for Inspiration
I have been a bit behind in my posting, dear readers. Since I started this blog in April, I've come close to posting at least once, sometimes twice, a week on Tuesdays and/or Fridays. This is more consistency than I've had with most things over the past several years. Now I know more than a …
Random thoughts
Work has been so busy this week that I have almost forgotten about the pandemic and the racial unrest in our country. Except that I still had to get to the grocery store this week and was shopping for my parents and my sister-in-law, and that is not "normal." Given the complexity of just getting …
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