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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…
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Sleep as Self-care
The way I handle stress and pain is to sleep it off. Sometimes that’s four hours. Sometimes that’s twenty hours. The world knocks me down, and I stay down until I’m feeling a little more awesome.
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Waste of Time
How do you waste the most time every day? I spend way too much time on Facebook. It is one of my principal outlets to keep in touch with family and friends. I promote my blogs and digital art on the platform. But I also spend at least an hour or two a day doomscrolling.…
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Grandma’s Sugar Cream Pies
Which food, when you eat it, instantly transports you to childhood? I love a good sugar cream pie mostly out of the sake of nostalgia. They remind me of my grandma’s love. The family has the recipe and a few people have even tried to make one for me. There was just something about my…
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An Unknown Knight
Who is your favorite historical figure? There are lots of people that have influenced my life with their historical examples. But I’m not going to pick a prophet or a king. That would be too easy. I’m going to pick a man that I don’t even know the name of. When I visited Germany I…
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