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How Are You Blessed?
We all are blessed in some way, in something. We each get something beautiful in life, sometimes more than one. What’s your amazing blessing?
Stormy Beach Toilet
The storm was getting worse. The darkest clouds I’ve seen propelled at, thrust over and tumbled past the mountain peaks, shoving the wind out front. I felt this mountain storm way before I saw it.
Crumpled up in a ball in the dark
My nervous system was fully aware, awake and in action. Every nerve ending was buzzing, pinging, every single one. My body was at the mercy of all the jolts; compulsively shifting and shaking and twitching. I was barely able to hold my form.
The Car Chase
We were allready away from home, training for deployment to Afghanistan. There was a moment when I was a tad bit more frustrated than I was able to deal with in a composed way, without some outlet.
Untitled poem
Going to church at war is a unique experience. The weapons must always be with the soldier so the weapons come with the soldier to church service.
Being Powerful Part II
In some historical as well as in current practices, certain companies or powers and societies in general; abuse, assault, even rape as a form of gaining power over others. This is also called forms of bullying and this is ‘might makes right’ Machinavellian power.
Being Powerful Part 1
Machiavellianism is a belief system from a same named character in historical accounts characterized by a tendency to see other people as a means to an end or the ‘might makes right’ attitude.
Being Alone
I’ve spent stretches of my life feeling very alone. And I have actually been alone at certain times and places. When I have chosen that, I relish in the time and the recuperation I receive from being alone. When the negative alone happens to me, it’s because I want something else to be true, not what is.
5 lessons from a dental chair
As I sat there, or rather, as I laid back in the dental chair; I didn’t really have anything else to occupy my mind other than with my own thoughts. Maybe it would have been a nice distraction if they had offered me a movie like they do for children.
New years to do…
1. If it won't matter in 10 years, it doesn't matter now.
2. If it would matter in 10 years, what would matter?-be clear.
A Train, a horse, a rocket launcher…
This explains A LOT! Who knew?!
It starts with railroad tracks amazingly. The U.S. Standard railroad gauge or distance between rails, is 4 feet, 8.5 inches . That's an exceedingly odd number…
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