Tag: Life
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“Do not go gentle into that good night…”
“I think they’re trying to cancel the Enlightenment!”
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It’s All Side Hustles Now
Photo by Lost Co on Unsplash How I finally learned what I am If you live long enough, and change jobs and careers enough, and rewrite your resume often enough, it can get harder and harder to write that tricky “Profile” section with any kind of clarity or grace. Eventually, you have to re-write it for every…
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Expect Nothing
Photo by Gisela Merkuur on Pixabay And look for miracles I was 16, a brand-new driver, casually over-confident behind the wheel. And that night, I was driving my Volkswagen Beetle a dozen miles or so down the two-lane blacktop, between the city and the suburb where I lived. As I approached a railroad crossing, my mind was…
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Surviving Message Lockdown
Photo by Niels Smeets on Unsplash You’re not alone. You’re just not listening. I recently spent some time trying to cheer up a friend. If you already know I failed, you are smarter than I was in that moment. But please don’t judge too harshly, because even though I really do know better, sometimes I still…
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Through the Portal
Photo by Joshua Rondeau on Unsplash reluctant poetry It’s just another magic place to go, like pocket parks or winter forest clearings,where you can stop deciding who to be, or why;and ease your iron shoulders of their weight: So I am not afraid to get away from hereinto the vasty deep that beckons there, alight with wisdom,…
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Fear Is the Mindkiller
Photo by Tofoli Douglas on Flickr Walk toward it. We had a fine time at our house the other night watching the iconic 1953 film Invaders from Mars. With our CGI-jaded senses, we giggled at how the “Martian” was basically an actor shown from the neck up wearing a Carmen-Miranda-style headdress, only with tentacles rather than fruit,…
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A Tiny Religion
Photo by Samuel Austin on Unsplash It’s not easy. But it’s simple. I have to laugh at the way people complicate religion. It’s just as funny as the way I get all confused when I reorganize stuff: “Well, if I put that in there, then where will this go? And if I move these things, they’ll just…
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