Life in Music
I drove downtown for an appointment today, and while driving in the pouring rain, the state of the city, state, nation and world reminded...
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- Mar 27, 2020
- 2 min
the good the bad and the beautiful
Always, without exception, our world is a mixture of the beautiful and the horrific. I commonly see both child molestation and the wide...
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- Mar 15, 2020
- 3 min
Social Distancing (SD101)
This “social distancing” (SD) thing is one of the greatest inventions of mankind, right up there in company with toilet paper and...
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- Mar 10, 2020
- 7 min
Never Give Up.
What is it like to be unfamiliar with the warm security of the love of a fellow human? I can’t say for sure, but I imagine it to be like...
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- Mar 8, 2020
- 3 min
عالمي mon monde העולם שלי
The center of my world is my wife and my two sons. The pearl in my world. Outside my family, my world is that I make my living, and most...
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- Mar 7, 2020
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Apology part 2
I had a dream last night. As I said in my last post, what I am calling the “Hendrix Incident” left my conscience singed from the moment I...
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- Mar 5, 2020
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My Sincere Apology
For some time, I have been teaching, coaching, and mediating to help people with conflict resolution. It is easily my favorite service...
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- Dec 30, 2019
- 4 min
. . . enemies. . .
I resolve. I’ve never been the enemy of New Year’s Resolutions that some people are. My Dad was vocal about his dislike of this...
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- Dec 24, 2019
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the unloved
What is it like to be unfamiliar with the warm security of the love of a fellow human? I can’t say for sure, but I imagine it to be like...
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- Dec 14, 2019
- 5 min
The Whore
Call me Gomer. So often, I just can’t figure God out. The books of Job and Hosea make it worse. Oh I get the point of the books, but I...
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- Nov 28, 2019
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make. it. work.
I’m thankful for my family. No really. I am. I know that sounds trite this time of year, but hear me out. I have seen one too many...
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- Nov 24, 2019
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commune, already
The Third Self Righteous Church of Dunkers & Sprinklers shared Holy Communion this lovely morning. It was a most solemn and reverent...
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- Nov 20, 2019
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50 yr eval
I turned 50 about a month ago. I have yet to reach an age for which I’m not ready, where I feel like I haven’t accomplished enough for my...
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- Nov 17, 2019
- 7 min
mallem alibi
As I think and write tonight I am sitting on the 10th floor of Bay Lake Tower of the Contemporary Resort at Walt Disney World. Out the...
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- Sep 4, 2019
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reflections from the belly of the whale
This could be titled Phlegm 3, but I got tired of the nasty connotations of that word. As I have sat at home today, thinking, praying,...
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- Sep 2, 2019
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Still Phlegm
In my last entry, I referred to my present health and career crisis as a storm. I considered and then wrote about how it built up and...
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- Aug 31, 2019
- 4 min
phlegm
I am a pretty phlegmy, or phlegmatic, guy. I have been for some time. Funny how the two definitions of this word have collided in my...
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- Aug 1, 2019
- 4 min
vanity
We tend to project our own insights and motivations into the behavior of others. For example, a politician I know often accuses others of...
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- Jul 31, 2019
- 4 min
liberty
I learned some significant lessons recently at an International Religious Freedom Conference in Washington D.C. I was granted the...
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- Jul 15, 2019
- 3 min
atrocity
genocide. torture. denial of basic human rights based on gender, religion, nationality, perspective, et cetera. Atrocities such as these...
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