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General Conference O26
I watched almost all of the Sunday sessions of the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints today. President Oaks wants me to be a peacemaker. Peacemakers don’t bring a spirit of contention with them wherever they go. Peacemakers aren’t crude and gross. It is impossible for me to change…
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The Suit
Stephanie wrote a poem a few months ago about me. I think it is called A Suit of Clothes. It is in her new self published book called Feral and Freaking. Perhaps she will send me the links and I will attach them to this post. The poem is about her long term mistake that…
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Turning The Lights Off
Every night before I go to bed I turn off most of the lights in the house. It’s usually a few at a time until the last ones are off and I can try to sleep. In the morning Ben turns all the lights in the house back on except for the two in my…
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The Cast Iron and Brick
We had a plumber come in today to find a leak. He opened up the ceiling and several walls. The leak is in a cast iron drain pipe encased in brick and there are water capillaries through the brick now. That is almost exactly as bad as it sounds. Tearing up pipes in the wall…
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Desperate and Apocalyptic
I was arguing about Late Stage Capitalism with Stephanie while listening to Amy Grant. Christian music has become very desperate and apocalyptic. The imminent return of Jesus feels about as unlikely to me as a complete economic collapse. I grew up hearing about both. It’s been 50 years and neither has happened yet. I was…
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Easy Job?
My buddy Jim and his dad came by yesterday to work on the lawn one last time this year. Jim and I talk about life once in a while. He thinks I’m partially but only partially to blame for the divorce and it’s difficult to disagree with that. He’s happy that my finances are better…
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Iglacia
I went to Sacrament Meeting today. One of the talks was by a sister from Nicaragua who presented in Spanish. She had one of the girls in the ward repeat what she was saying in English periodically. It was a good talk and I understand a lot of religious words in Spanish so I almost…
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Breakup Songs
Over the years and especially in the 80s and 90s I learned a lot of breakup songs. I just finished listening to Niel Diamond and Barbara Streisand sing “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers.” It brought tears to my eyes. This divorce is only the third real breakup in my life. The first was Delia. We…
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The Phone is Gone
We went to the park today and there was a payphone station that appears to have been preserved for posterity. The phone is gone and much of the world that needed payphones is gone too. As my life shifts to a “new normal” I look back at the normals of years gone bye with bittersweet…
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