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After reading the title, most of you elders out there will instinctively say these words to yourself: “Who wrote the Book of Love?” Why? Many of you juniors reading this may be wondering. Because those are the very next words to the popular song sung by the Monotones in 1958. Everyone knew it, sung it […]
We have learned, at least many of us have, not to speak everything we think…but many of us need to get better at not even believing everything we think, or even listening to it. So much of it is simply junk! That sounds harsh and I mean it to be. We need to wake up […]
Wendy and I are moving tomorrow for the 10th, maybe 11th time in the past five months. All is well. Our home is under reconstruction, and living there with the roof off and pounding hammers all day has not been one of our options. So, it has blessedly been an amazing assortment of hotels, stove-less […]
I don’t want to be a slave, but I am I don’t even know all the ways I’m enslaved Freedom is the answer but what does freedom from slavery actually mean? Let’s start with the history of slavery in our world. Slavery has been around for thousands of years. As long ago as 6800 BCE, as […]
Oh, yeah? One is the biggest number?? Read on! At the simplest level, one is the first number we learn when we’re toddlers. That is not remotely sufficient to make one the biggest number, but it’s a start. And isn’t there something special about being the first? The first person ever to walk on the […]
Hi again! Thanks for reading this month’s piece about love wisdom. I say “wisdom” humbly, but also with confidence that my nearly 77 years attending the open-door World University of Love has left me with a few gems to share. As I’m sure you would concur, tuition at this University is priceless and advanced degrees […]
Life is Precious are the words that led off last month’s message. This month, my starting words are, Life is Interesting. I’ll do my best to be more creative next month… but with that said, minimally, life really is interesting! It’s also amazing, challenging, beyond wonderful, miraculous, at times sadly painful and even horrifying. Much […]
Life is precious. It’s not just me saying that. Everyone that matters knows, at some level, life is precious. And every single one of us matters! Every single one of us matters? Every single thing matters. But we’ll deal with that one on another day. What does life is precious actually mean at a practical, […]
Is there a more important question? What the heck are we doing in our allotted time anyway…besides all the doing we’re usually doing? Does our doing have a greater purpose? Every one of us has or have had a few jobs. In each of these employment situations we were given a relatively specific purpose by […]
I couldn’t figure out which title was the right one. Get it? Is there even such a thing as a moment in time? Is there anything else except moments in time that add up to be minutes, hours, days, then generations and millennia? We have all heard the wisdom that this moment, the Now, is the […]
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