Tag: music
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Disability Slurs
Stephanie and I have been arguing with a friend about the word retard. As someone who doesn’t believe in bad words just bad uses of all available words I find myself in a tough spot. I am convinced that the R word is almost universally a disability slur. Unless it’s being used in a musical…
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Tom Sawyer
My youngest has my phone and is watching YouTube on it again. It just started playing Tom Sawyer by Rush. “And his mind is not for rentTo any god or government” My mind is rented out to the god of The Book of Mormon and to the preservation of The United State’s Constitution. That actually…
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The Day I Was Born
Share what you know about the year you were born. I don’t know much about the year I was born. It’s not like I have any memories of the music or politics from when I was an infant. I’m pretty sure Simon and Garfunkel were still together and that the Vietnam War was in full…
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Not going back…
Is there an age or year of your life you would re-live? My senior year in highschool was at the time amazing. I truly believed that I was the center of the world. I had good grades in advanced classes, I was in music and theater so other students knew who I was, and I…
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Another World
Life without music? The idea that music would be gone from my life is a bizarre one. If perhaps I went deaf I could still read it and feel it. I could probably still have some experience of music even if I were blind as well. But today’s prompt isn’t anout if I went deaf…
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Laundry and Motivation
Now that I’m billing for the boys I don’t technically have days off. There’s always work to do for them around the house. I also need to do my laundry today. I don’t HAVE to get out of my pajamas for any of that, but it might give me more motivation to get dressed. There’s…
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Road Trip
Today I am spending most of my time riding in a car with my oldest son on our way to Indiana to see my granddaughter. His music is loud and the car smells like aerosol, so far only one piece has flown off the windshield. This is the farthest out I’ve been in months. I…
Latter Day Sinner 