ETC: Everyday Thoughts Collected

A documentary of the lone survivor
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Voiceover … “Tonight on Spider Survivor Stories …”
::: no intro ::: sudden close up of a lanky but still fierce Spider :::
::: Throwing four of his eight legs up in exasperation ::: “It all happened so suddenly! ”
::: camera change to right profile shot catching a nice reflection of the [...]

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Visit Wordle
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Of course this is a dynamic template, always shifting just a little but the gist is the same over and over again …
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Can you believe so and so said blah blah blah? I mean seriously… they said blah blah blah! Like, who do they think they are saying blah blah blah? If they really meant [...]

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I have spent the better part of two hours writing a post about Gay marriage in California. Normally I am all over this issue and full of opinions. Now … it is honestly and probably one of the most difficult “marriage” posts I have written. At least that’s what it feels like. In the rough [...]

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Amazing, and revealing, article by Emily Gould titled Exposed was featured in the New York Times Magazine.
Amy T. sent this to me saying that she thought I would enjoy the article and I did very much. Thank you Amy!
There is so much I want to quote from this article. There are many launching [...]

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I was in DC last week for a Pastor’s conference. It ended Friday around 2pm and our next meeting was really a birthday party at 6pm. In between I took a nap and then went to Barnes & Noble. While there I saw a book by Augusten Burroughs called A Wolf At [...]

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***UPDATE: At the end of the post***
When it comes to my blog you can reasonably expect that I will consistently change things.  Some say I am “erratic” and “unaccountable” for pruning my blog posts and taking blog sabbaticals that just don’t quite last as long as initially expected :).
Erratic?  Well, the biggest erratic thing I [...]

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It hasn’t been five months but only five days.  I am not back to blogging like I used to blog but I am thinking that I would like to leave the option of posting photos, art, fun videos I stumble across.  Like the following video … Phil is a great singer.

It has been awesome to [...]

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Last week a friend said something that really made me think.  I was remarking about how life has really drastically changed, time scheduling wise, in the past three weeks.  There has been a major re-prioritization of goals and objectives in my life both professionally and personally.  His response was, “welcome to the new normal.”  That [...]

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I figured out that I loved writing in the 4th grade. I wrote a story about a painting, and the teacher liked it so much she read it to all of her classes. That’s when I caught the bug. Every day, at the start of class, everyone had to read for 20 [...]

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