Month: November 2025
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“This is the Life”
Ben is sitting next to me listening to Weird Al. “This is the Life” is a fun song. “Women lined up outside my door/They’ve been waiting there since a week before.” “You’re dead for a real long time/ You just can’t prevent it/ So if money can’t buy happiness/ I guess I’ll have to rent…
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Identifying as Christian
I had a long conversation today with a friend who is worried that I find it hard to identify as a Christian. We typed about how the things I actually believe probably indicate that I am not a Christian at all. It only makes sense that I don’t pretend to be something I am probably…
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Pain as Communication
Stephanie wrote a five page essay a few days ago about pain and how our beliefs about it shape how we perceive it. I haven’t been very good at maintaining focus on it. Essays are painful. 😇
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My Lap
For about a year Magic would curl up in my lap and sleep. Sometimes this was for several hours. Then Ether came and has tried to claim my lap since then. But Magic isn’t going to let him bully her and I won’t either. Magic was in my lap this morning and Ether walked up…
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Mostly Harmless
One of my favorite authors is Douglas Adams. He wrote a book about a book called The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. One of the characters spends years on Earth collecting data about our lives and our cultures for the Guide. After his research is approved the Guide’s entry for Earth is only two words…
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Veterans Day
Today is Veterans Day in the USA. I served in The US Army Reserve. I did basic training at Fort Leonardwood Missouri. I serve in a MASH unit in Portland Oregon in the year between basic and advanced individual training which was also at Leonardwood. I was training in the Reserve Officer Training Corp at…
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Tougher
I am surrounded by people who have suffered significant physical and emotional harm. On the other hand most of the trauma in my life has been self inflicted. I have had to learn a lot of lessons the hard way, but they have only been lessons. I have only been assaulted a few times in…
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Saying Lord Lord
There has been a heated debate for the thirty years I’ve been a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints as to whether Mormons are Christians. You’ve probably read my own thoughts about my hesitation to call myself a Christian, but that is not what this post is about. Jesus said…
Latter Day Sinner 