Month: June 2024
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My Best Teachers
What makes a teacher great? My favorite teachers in high school were for choir and theater. I like when someone lets me be creative in my learning. Experience is the best teacher though. I learn from doing. I’ve never liked sitting in a classroom and being expected to just absorb information. Maybe that’s why choir…
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Ruled by Women
In the USA women have fought hard for rights that they deserve. I have no problem with a woman’s right to vote or own property. I am certain that attempts to make opportunities equal between the sexes are valid and needed. I think though that those battles have been won for the most part. But…
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My Surgeries
Have you ever had surgery? What for? I have been fortunate to only have needed three surgeries in my life. I had a tonsillectomy and an appendectomy as a child and a hernia surgery as an adult. The results of the first two were less than stellar. I’m told tonsils help prevent sinus and esophageal…
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Sustaining My Lifestyle
Are there things you try to practice daily to live a more sustainable lifestyle? One of the things I definitely need to sustain the level of safety and comfort I am accustomed to is a better source of income. My wife and I are professional caregivers which is currently paying the bills. We however aspire…
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Sourar
What’s the most delicious thing you’ve ever eaten? I had a middle eastern delicacy called a sourar several times. It’s a filo dough stuffed with cream cheese with the bottom soaked in honey. It’s the next step up from baklava but without all the nuts. I hope to have it again someday, but we don’t…
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Uniform Choice
If I had to wear a uniform but it could be any one thing I chose it would be:Themed T-ShirtBanded collar shirt with chest pocket for phoneDickie that are a reasonable match to the T-ShirtColorful socks also matchingSturdy pair of work tennis shoesCoats appropriate for the weather: Wind, Trench, or Heavy
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Subscriptions to The Temple
I had a long conversation with a good friend about my Mormonism. I tried to explain temple worthiness to him. I typed about the way one is declared worthy and he associated that with gatekeeping. I replied that he was accurate. I mentioned that I would have to pay a tithe to enter the temple.…
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Sanctification of the Spirit
How important is spirituality in your life? I am deeply committed to sanctifying my life. The Holy Spirit can do that if I let it. And I need to make daily choices that refine my own spirit. I guess that makes me spiritual. I think mystical is a more accurate way to describe it though.…
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Tornado Season 24
It’s tornado season in South Central Wisconsin and for the first time that I remember since Janesville became my hometown we had a strike within the city limits. Our family lives several miles away but the storm still dumped a lot of water into our basement. My mother-in-law lives a few blocks from ground zero…
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Introversion vs. Extroversion
I was raised within a duality paradigm. The world divided into binary categories: male or female, good or evil, right or wrong, black or white, introvert or extrovert. But that paradigm always, always, always failed to capture the complex reality that surrounded me. Duality is an illusion we use to simplify our reality. I recently…
Latter Day Sinner 