Tag: dailyprompt
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I am a Wanderer
Are you a leader or a follower? JRR Tolkien wrote, “All who wander are not lost.” I am not lost in life but my journey is unique. I don’t follow or lead very well. To paraphrase Nietzsche I seek companions and fellow creators. Obviously I’m a reader and so I often follow examples from books.…
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Citrus is Good
List your top 5 favorite fruits. 1) Pineapples 2) Oranges 3) Key lime pie 4) Grape jelly 5) Glacier Cherry Gatorade
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Feed the Washing Machine
What’s one small improvement you can make in your life? Right now at this very moment I am wearing my last clean pair of pajamas. I need to do laundry. It is a small improvement that will get done. If I were to pick something else more random and say I’m going to do that,…
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An Old Priest
Share a story about someone who had a positive impact on your life. When I was in the phase of my life that I did the most soul searching I was friends with an Episcopal priest. I shared with him my spiritual yearnings and the things I was writing at the time. He was always…
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Freedom to Think
What does freedom mean to you? I’ve been discussing Victor Frankl with my wife Stephanie and we’ve been arguing over what it means to be free. I hate to admit it but she’s more libertarian these days than I am. She sees only a very broad definition of freedom as freedom at all. This is…
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Say No To Fundamentalists
What public figure do you disagree with the most? As anyone who has been following along knows, I have a wide range of spiritual interests and influences. So just in general fundamentalism bugs me. There is, and I am sure of it, wisdom outside of Christianity and Mormonism. I find fundamentalism within Mormonism most egregious…
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Executive Functioning
What is your career plan? My brain is good at absorbing information. It is also good at retaining information. What it is not good at is putting all that information to good use. In the course of discovering what autism meant in my children and understanding how much of that they got from me, I…
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Backstage Pass
What was the last live performance you saw? I have a buddy named Danny who is a professional musician. He occasionally takes me to his gigs for free. My wife and I went to see him in a local bar a few years back. That is probably the last live performance I’ve seen. There might…
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Hard Dirty Jobs
What’s a job you would like to do for just one day? I’m probably kind of old to be an oil rigger, or a deep sea fisherman, or a lumberjack. Even in my prime I don’t imagine I could have done any of those jobs very well. I’m just not that tough. But if I…
Latter Day Sinner 