Month: November 2025
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Spoons
One of my favorite cartoon characters is The Tick. His battlecry is “Spoon!” It confuses his enemies. On the other hand “spoons” is used in disability community to talk about energy and capabilities. If I have a lot of spoons then I can do more and do it better. If I have less spoons I’m…
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Who’s Christian?
I can’t go a day on the internet without running into a few people who try to declare definitively that Mormons aren’t Christians. To me that seems pretty hypocritical for someone who claims to follow Christ. It is ultimately up to Jesus whether he says “Well done good and faithful servant” or “Depart from me.…
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Cake and Iced Tea
I woke up late because I stayed up late. I’m still tired. But I joked to Stephanie that this was like shooting myself in the foot and then complaining that my foot hurts. I’m awake and have eaten a little so far. Cake and iced tea for breakfast. I need to make better choices if…
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Personal Witness
I am occasionally asked online to give evidence of God. On a regular basis I am told that a personal witness does not count as evidence. With strangers on the internet this is absolutely true. Me sharing my visions doesn’t supersede another person’s witness. But the closer two people become the more their life and…
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Sacrament Dream
This morning after changing a diaper and falling back to sleep in real life, I dreamed that I was in Sacrament Meeting and falling asleep there. I was leaning against another brother who didn’t seem to mind. When I woke up I was playing a racing game on my cellphone, but I had to stop…
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Trying to Relax
I’ve been ornery since being up for 36 hours. I’ve been sleeping more than usual. Stephanie is worried that I’m sick or depressed or both. The possibility exists of course but one of my psych meds is a mood stabilizer and has been effective against falling too low for several years. I’ve also got an…
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Weak
I like to remind myself that everything “down there” works because in some ways I’m not much of a man in other ways. I’m weak. Maybe I always have been and am only becoming reconciled with it now. When I was living on my own I had a friend who said I seemed weak. I…
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36 Hours
36 Hours is the longest I’ve been awake in a long time. It’s been a good day, night, and another day. I need to take my psych meds and eat. Hopefully I can sleep after that. It obviously didn’t work last night though.
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Counter Culture
Danny and I were arguing whether hippies were counter culture as the textbooks say or if they were the main culture in ascent. But it’s late, I’m high, and I needed to start my fast. So we had to end our phonecall. Stay Awesome, Stay Weird, or Stay Away.