Tag: value
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The Value of Work
What were your parents doing at your age? My parents have worked hard all their lives. My dad has been a practicing Episcopal minister since around the time I was born. He technically retired a few years ago but still works as a “supply priest” filling in the gaps from the full time priests in…
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Value and Significance
What’s something you believe everyone should know. I think everyone should have an accurate assessment of their personal worth. Most people are more valuable and significant than they realize. A few people honestly believe that the world revolves around them. If I had a magic wand to correct that in people I would be using…
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People’s Worth
My personal calling and mission includes teaching people their worth. I believe in individual worth: that no two people are in any real sense equal. That is countercultural. Most of the people I interact with know Thomas Jefferson’s ‘self evident’ truth that all men are created equal. There is usually a lot of pushback from…
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The Value of Books
I recently purchased a medium sized lot of books. A friend is trying to get bills for her dog paid and is downsizing her possessions to do that. I was happy to help. Most of the books are old Wisconsin Supreme Court case law books that had been covered in cloth to use as decorations…
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Job Search
Walgreens is a good job but it’s just a job. I don’t like selling credit cards and I don’t like even the idea of handling abortion pills. But I need the structure of a job in my life, and this is the one I’ve got. I have in the past few months applied to a…