Tag: personal
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Robot rage, or Why???
Why do I hate the new robot at the other end of the Walmart pharmacy line SO MUCH??
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Welcome, Year of the Rabbit
They must often change who would remain constant in happiness and wisdom. Confucius Best wishes for a year of constant happiness and wisdom. Images: “Oguni Ryo-jinja Chinese Zodiac 001” (cropped) Naokijp, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; “Double Happiness Lantern,” Mk2010, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons The featured image – a fortunate find –…
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Happy Birthday, Baby Brother
You’re a hero. Image: United States Treasury Building, by Rchuon24, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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What I Always Think Of Today …
“It’s the days getting shorter, and the frosty nights,and the pumpkins big and small;it’s the season after summer, it’s before the winter,it’s the fall, it’s the fall, it’s the fall!”[from “The Fall Song,” the TV show Barney] and our daughter, who was once, and is no longer, 3 years old. Image: “Autumn in France,” 1910,…
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A few thoughts on the close of “Pride Month”
thinking out loud about Christianity and a few LGBTQ concerns
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Summer Solstice Day
For the height of summer: a song, and a poem. The lyrics, and another version of the song here. An analysis of the poem here. Image: “Midnight sun” (cropped), Yan Zhang, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Theme Change Trials and Tribulations
I changed my blog theme. And then I changed my blog theme again. I think I’m finally “OK” with the results. Have I learned anything as a result? Maybe. But I must admit, I felt fairly ridiculous by the end of this whole process. At least, I hope it’s the end. For a long time.…
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Last Good Days
I noticed on Saturday that it was the anniversary, liturgical yearly speaking, of our last Cajun Dinner. It was traditional for us to hold it on the Saturday before Ash Wednesday. That’s if “traditional” can be something we’ve been doing for under twenty years. Not everyone would say that, but I would. It was a…
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Affirmation
Can we be “on a level” with everyone else, and also be “special”? Important in a way that matters, to other people, and to us? People get really exercised over that question, and confused, in my experience. We’ve all heard those grumpy complaints about how “now EVERYONE has to be ‘special’” in schools on awards…
Matters of Interpretation 