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Tag Archives: meaning of life
Bringing Grandpa Home
My Real Memoir Somewhere along the line Grandma and Grandpa McLaughlin had moved from Los Angeles to the foot of California’s San Gabriel Mountains. Dating back to the early 1900s, the town of Upland was full of half-timbered craftsman homes … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Memoir
Tagged 1960s, change, childhood, death, grandparents, life, meaning of life, My Real Memoir
53 Comments
Thoughts for Living
I’m up to my proverbial eyeballs in projects once again – the chiefest of which is my daughter’s wedding (which I’m officiating, btw)! Hence, I’ll be on hiatus for a week or so. Therefore, this is the perfect time for you … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Humor, Quips and Quotes
Tagged life, meaning of life, motivation, purpose, thought for the week, truth, wisdom
13 Comments
When You Search for Me…
Photo by Johannes Plenio “You will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all of your heart.” ~Jeremiah 29:13 ~AΩ~
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Quips and Quotes, Religion/Faith
Tagged eternity, God, identity, Jeremiah 29:13, meaning of life, purpose, stars
11 Comments
My Own Private Easter
‘A Boy in the Forest’ by Pikila This is an excerpt from Fool’s Odyssey, an autobiographical narrative I wrote some years back, based on a journal I’d kept as a young man searching for the meaning of life. It seems … Continue reading
Posted in Fool's Odyssey, For Pastors and Teachers, Humor, Memoir
Tagged Easter, God, Good Friday, Maundy Holy Thursday, meaning of life, purpose
19 Comments
“Coincidence? I Think Not!”
“Coincidence? I think not!” is a cliché used to tease people deemed naïve, those who think every slight similarity is fraught with cosmic meaning. And yet there are those times when something is so coincidental, we sense it really must … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Memoir, Quips and Quotes
Tagged Albert Einstein, coincidences, God, L'Abri, meaning of life, purpose, spiritual journey
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My Biggest Hits of 2021
Forget the Oscars or the Grammys! Here’s the “Best” list you’ve really been waiting for: My Most Read and Liked Posts of 2021! Please, hold your applause. No, seriously, I’m not that self-centered (why are you looking at me that way?). … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Popular Culture & Entertainment, Quips and Quotes
Tagged 2021, best of the year, funny, marriage, meaning of life, photoblog, photography
25 Comments
The Fool’s Odyssey Collection
Dear blogger friends, and normal people, I’m up to my creative eyeballs with a new in-development film project, as well as doing background research for my in-progress Memoirs. So I’m on a weeklong blogging hiatus, of sorts. Meanwhile, may I … Continue reading
Posted in Fool's Odyssey, For Pastors and Teachers, Memoir, Poetry, Religion/Faith
Tagged collection, journey, meaning of life, purpose, young man
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Light Strikes My Darkened Heart
Photo by Hernan Pauccara When I was a young man, I began searching for the meaning of life. Along the way, I wrote a travel journal, a mix of prose and poetry, and labelled it Fool’s Odyssey. I’d returned home empty-handed. … Continue reading
My Own Private Easter
‘A Boy in the Forest’ by Pikila When I was a young man, I began searching for the meaning of life. Along the way, I wrote a travel journal, a mix of prose and poetry, and labelled it Fool’s Odyssey. Having … Continue reading
Posted in Fool's Odyssey, For Pastors and Teachers, Poetry
Tagged gifts, God, journey, meaning of life, purpose, wisdom, young man
25 Comments
Mourning Becomes Elective
Photo by Yousef Alfuhigi When I was a young man, I began searching for the meaning of life. Along the way, I wrote a travel journal, a mix of prose and poetry, and labelled it Fool’s Odyssey. Having failed to find … Continue reading
Posted in Fool's Odyssey, For Pastors and Teachers, Memoir, Quips and Quotes
Tagged Ecclesiastes 11:7-8, meaning of life, philosophy, truth, wisdom, young man
27 Comments