Monthly Archives: March 2020

To Boldly Go

Posted on March 12, 2020 by mitchteemley

Is there a connection between aliens and the coronavirus? No, this isn’t some cheesy tabloid revelation about the coronavirus being planted by aliens. So lower that eyebrow, please, and allow me to unpack that opening question: Why do we see … Continue reading →

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Twelfth Night

Posted on March 11, 2020 by mitchteemley

My Featured Blogger this week is Rosie Books of La Tour Abolie. Rosie lives (by her own description) “in a windswept corner of the South of England with an awful lot of cats.” She writes intriguing human interest pieces on … Continue reading →

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On Earth as It Is in Heaven

Posted on March 9, 2020 by mitchteemley

We’re all a little bit racist. And sexist. And ageist. And dozens of other-things-ist. An ist is simply a bias or leaning, either away from or toward something. We lean toward what we know, and away from what we don’t. … Continue reading →

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They Have So Much to Teach Us

Posted on March 6, 2020 by mitchteemley

If only we’ll listen. (Click on any picture to enlarge it, or to start slide show) “Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem.” ~A. A. Milne “Clearly, animals know more than we think, and think … Continue reading →

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Tutoring the Tutor

Posted on March 5, 2020 by mitchteemley

This is a true story. I tutored at an inner city college. Many of my students were the first in their families to finish high school. Or not sell drugs. Some became my personal heroes. My current tutee, a suburban … Continue reading →

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THiRST

Posted on March 4, 2020 by mitchteemley

My Featured Blogger this week is Vikash Goyal of KASHiVOLOGY. “Scattered and grown” (his words), Vikash lives in Kurseong, India. He describes himself as “a businessman by profession and an eavesdropper by choice,” who is inspired by the Beatles, among … Continue reading →

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A Filmmaker’s Journal

Posted on March 3, 2020 by mitchteemley

Father and Son Being Us “Be yourself. Everyone else is taken” is one of the most popular quotes around. And it’s a good one, although much overused by those desperately trying to be exactly what contemporary culture says they should … Continue reading →

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Life With a Purpose

Posted on March 2, 2020 by mitchteemley

Connecting With God “The purpose of your life did not begin with you, and it will not end with you.” ~The Wishing Map Purpose. No amount of Freudian psychoanalysis can explain away the need for it. Unless we succeed in … Continue reading →

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