Shot of Optimism

I’ve mentioned before that stepping onto the board at my church has taken over my thoughts in many ways.  I’ve felt a bit disconnected from my writing in many ways and while I have not shut down it has been hard to fully engage as I had been doing in the months prior. It feels […]

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Good News…

I began this post a week ago and have been having trouble finishing it, but I have stuck with it because I feel like it’s important – important for me certainly.  It’s got a lot of the things that have been bubbling up in my mind these days – things that I need to get […]

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Trust

The basic needs of survival.  What is the bare minimum to survive relatively comfortably?  You need some form of shelter – a place to be safe, or at least to be not completely exposed to all dangers.  You want that place to be dry and warm – a place to rest. You also need food […]

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Ambitious Targets

Well, I don’t have a concrete plan, but I’m going to go for it.  I’m going to aim to finish a readable draft of my book by the end of June at the same time that my wife writes her nurse practitioner exam. I told my wife about it and she was very supportive.  She […]

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After Lent – Day 1

I don’t think I’ll continue to number my posts as I did during Lent, but I’m out of ideas for today.  Whether the weekend is two days long or four days long it always feels like it should have been longer by at least one day. No complaints about a great weekend, but I will […]

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Lent Day 34 – 30 for me

It’s 10:30 on Sunday night and I sat down to quickly finish the post that I began on Saturday.  It was one paragraph long.  Somehow I had convinced myself that I had begun a lengthy post and all I needed was a little time to complete it.  Sigh. But I was set on posting something, […]

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Lent Day 33 – 29 for me

So, I didn’t want to write about Syria two days ago and I still don’t want to write about it, but it seems odd to pass over the US bombing that started last night when I’ve just spent the last two posts talking about movement and action. There’s a part of me that hears about […]

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Lent Day 32 – 28 for me

First off, if the tone of my post yesterday was more bleak than hopeful, that wasn’t my intention.  It is always better to do research first and lament later.  I think I may have unintentionally written the “why isn’t anyone doing anything?” post without actually looking into the question of whether people are doing anything. […]

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