Connections: aren’t they what life is about—experiences, moments, depths shared with another? What is life absent meaningful engagement with the souls that surround us? Why are we struck differently by one than another? How do we learn if we do not seek, respond and act in affect to natural draws? Maybe the draw […]
Browsing Category: Quick Thought
Journal Pages / Quick Thought
OUR PART
“There is a responsibility that everyone can take up: we need to decide if we are going to collectively and individually tilt the world towards Heaven or tilt it towards Hell.”—Jordan B. Peterson There comes a point when we discern the most-wrong way to live is deference—putting off life and denying one’s perceived course […]
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MEMORIAL OF ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX
Today is the Memorial of St. Therese of Lisieux—“The Little Flower”—(only know because I saw it in last week’s bulletin). In coincidental (or divine) alignment of timing, I finished her autobiography this week. What I take from it, as have so many others, is the awareness that—however great or small—we all possess beauty to […]
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POST-RELIGIOUS AGE
POST-RELIGIOUS AGE:What do we live for? What is our daily existence? What raises us from the immanent? I served in Haiti in the aftermath of the January 2010 earthquake. What I found on the ground was not the despair reported in the news but kind villagers continuing in life. The best thing we, as Marines […]
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IF THE GLORY CAN BE KILLED
“This is what I am and what I am about. I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it […]
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WINNING
He no longer thought of winning. His youthful years of games were gone, and he no longer thought of life in such a way. That there must necessarily be fixed winners and losers in engagements, to him, was sophistry of small thought. To believe such did not mean life never played in contradiction to […]
Poetry / Quick Thought
THAT’S LOVE
I spoke with a friend yesterday, came to learn his five-year old son had been in the hospital with a fever for three days, made me reflect on what love is and how we show and give our care. I wrote this as a small beginning to that thought.
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ALCHEMIST GOLD
Everyday, the common is transformed to treasure. Often, the most difficult part is admitting when, and how, it shows.
Quick Thought / Short Story
POSSIBILITY
“Do you believe opportunities we are meant to live are ever truly lost? Does opportunity die, or only change? If we change our eyes with new perceptions, do possibilities reappear. In different time, condition, and space, does the opportunity remain if we will ourselves to act? How many times do we talk ourselves […]