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Regrets: Do You Have a Few?

Posted on October 9, 2019 by

Originally posted on A Better Man:
Think back on the past week. What’s your biggest regret? Did you tell a joke that fell completely flat, or walk into the wrong bathroom by mistake? Now think back longer. We’re guessing that…

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Brussels Sprouts

Posted on September 25, 2019 by

Originally posted on John Malone:
Tight-fisted , they are hard as knuckles and spoiling for a fight   as they tumble like marbles on to the floor , little green foot- balls begging me   to sink the boot in…

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Boomers vs. Millennials, or not

Posted on September 18, 2019 by

Originally posted on Nora Edinger — JOY Journal:
“I suppose every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it. ” Margaret Oliphant, Scottish romance novelist, 1828-1897 It’s hard to…

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The Cognitive Dissonance of Abortion Rights

Posted on September 11, 2019 by

Originally posted on Vernon Miles Kerr:
The Cognitive Dissonance of Abortion “Rights” © 2019 Vernon Miles Kerr, vernonmileskerr.com ? There are three intellectual fictions, which must be accepted in order avoid cognitive dissonance in supporting the concept of a “right”…

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My Conception

Posted on September 10, 2019 by

As I sat staring at my computer, contemplating what to write, noting several “Must-Read Celebrity Stories!” on my home page and tracking the labored progression of a particularly fat squirrel up the ornamental beech tree outside my window, while obsessing … Continue reading →

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Suffering and Self-Preservation

Posted on September 4, 2019 by

Originally posted on forty-one ten:
The other day I heard someone say, “The more we are consumed with self-preservation the less attention we give to self-evaluation.” The less attention we give to self-evaluation the more blind, and even calloused, we…

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If I were?

Posted on August 28, 2019 by

Originally posted on Rumenations:
If I were A stray? Would you Take me in Lost? would you Find me Someone else? Would you Respond this way Not me? Would you Take me back To return? Would I be allowed To…

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